(Media-Newswire.com) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first nucleic acid test for hepatitis B virus ( HBV ) that measures the amount of viral DNA ( viral load ) in a patient’s blood. Assessing a patient’s viral load provides health care professionals with a highly sensitive method for gauging the progress of antiviral therapy in patients with chronic HBV infections.
The COBAS TaqMan HBV Test extracts and then amplifies Read the rest of this entry »

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If the allegations are correct, if Stewart Parnell really did repeatedly order his company to ship peanut products that he knew were tainted with deadly salmonella, current law may not be sufficient to deliver the punishment he deserves.
But at the very least, his family business, Peanut Corporation of America, is now defunct. The criminal and civil consequences of contributing to the deaths of at least nine people ensure that it will never produce Read the rest of this entry »

The Matheny Medical and Educational Center has been at its location in the Peapack section since 1954, and center leaders say demand for its extremely specialized services, along with the need to update, is the reason the facility is seeking to expand.
But at least some of the 80 or so residents who attended a Wednesday, Sept. 29 land use board hearing on Matheny’s application to add on 49,000 square feet at its Highland Avenue campus said such Read the rest of this entry »

“We all think that we should be taking vitamins because it makes us more healthy, and yet we can’t prove that.”
The new research involves preliminary findings from the U.S. Physicians’ Health Study II. Researchers tracked 14,641 doctors, aged 50 and older. Each was given either 400 IU (international units) of vitamin E every other day, 500 milligrams of vitamin C daily, or placebos.
After an average eight years of treatment and followup, about Read the rest of this entry »

Medical facilities have been provided to displaced civilians in
welfare centres and persons living in the uncleared areas of Mullaitivu,
said Health Ministry Secretary Dr. Athula Kahandaliyanage.
Dr Kahandaliyanage who personally toured welfare centres and
hospitals in Vavuniya with a team of officials from Colombo, quoting a
doctor formerly attached to the Kilinochchi hospital and now serving in
Pudukudirippu, said hospitals Read the rest of this entry »

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Lucy C. Félix knows about the life of migrant workers firsthand: her father is a migrant farmworker who brought the family to South Texas from Mexico in 1997. Félix had been a social worker in Mexico; when she saw what life was like for many women in rural Texas, especially those without documentation, she knew she had found her calling.
A decade later, Félix is a leader in the community-based reproductive justice movement. In 2000, she joined Read the rest of this entry »

During the child-bearing years, women tend to use more health services than men — and on the individual market, women often pay far higher premiums for health insurance, the
.
This isn’t a new development, but the discrepancy is worth noting at a time when more people are moving from employer-sponsored insurance, which typically has standard prices for both genders,
, where prices can fluctuate widely.
Even for policies that don’t Read the rest of this entry »

PARIS (AFP) — France plans to rebuild a hospital in Gaza that was bombed by Israel last month, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Tuesday during his visit to Paris.
“France has approved a project to rebuild the Al-Quds hospital in Gaza and this is an extremely important humanitarian project,” Abbas told reporters following a lunch meeting with Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.
“We hope that it will be implemented as quickly as possible.”
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