Health Care

Tired All The Time? It May Be Sleep Apnea

medicalnewstoday.com     7 hrs ago          

Repetitive blockages of the airway, called obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), can reduce airflow or cause breathing to stop. When this happens, frequent brief awakenings can leave a person feeling excessively sleepy during the day,...                    

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mailonsunday.co.uk: Shaun and Martina Simmons mailonsunday.co.uk

Nurse dies 'writhing in agony' after TWO HOUR wait for ambulance

mailonsunday.co.uk     1 hr ago   6 related          

A nurse suffering a brain haemorrhage died after waiting two hours for an ambulance. Martina Simmons, 36, collapsed in agony after arriving home from a late shift, and her husband Shaun phoned NHS Direct. A paramedic arrived...                    

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Deadly serious

newstatesman.co.uk     11 hrs ago          

The Private PatientP D JamesFaber & Faber, 416pp, £18.99From the moment that Rhoda Gradwyn appears in the blurb on the dust jacket of P D James's new novel, discussing the removal of a facial scar with a Harley Street surgeon,...                    

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ATS acquires majority shareholding in GANYMED

euroinvestor.co.uk     10 hrs ago          

August 21, 2008, Mainz - GANYMED Pharmaceuticals AG today announced the sale of a majority of the company shares to ATS. The shares that have been sold to ATS were formerly those GANYMED shares held by Ingro Finanz, KfW,...                    

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Work Begins on the Warwick Digital Laboratory

warwick.ac.uk     6 hrs ago          

Preparatory work is beginning on the proposed site of the Warwick Digital Laboratory (WDL). The £13 million building, which will be situated on the field opposite the International Manufacturing Centre, (view a map here) will...                    

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Pharmacogenomics-Based Drug Development Holds Promise for Pharma Industry's Decade-Long Slide

pharmiweb.co.uk     4 hrs ago          

Personalized Medicine Has the Potential for Good and Bad, According to a New Report from Decision Resources WALTHAM, Mass., August 21, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory...                    

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Logic-gate 'supermolecules' play noughts & crosses

theregister.co.uk     4 hrs ago          

Chemical nanobrains 'clever as kids' The Royal Society of Chemistry has awarded a Belfast-based boffin a prize for developing "intelligent supermolecules" which are on an intellectual level with (some) human children - able to...                    

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Hospira Announces New Contracts With Premier Purchasing Partners for Infusion Devices, Solutions...

prnewswire.com     1 hr ago          

Hospira Announces New Contracts With Premier Purchasing Partners for Infusion Devices, Solutions And Equipment LAKE FOREST, Ill., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hospira, Inc. (NYSE: HSP), a global specialty pharmaceutical...                    

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UCSF Faculty Receive $13.7M From CIRM For Stem Cell Research

medicalnewsblog.info     11 hrs ago   58 related          

Five UCSF stem cell scientists have received New Faculty grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, support that will allow them to pursue lines of investigation ultimately aimed at developing treatment...                    

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Insurance gap leads some elderly to forgo medicine

washingtonpost.com     6 hrs ago   8 related          

WASHINGTON -- Many people in Medicare with diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic conditions stop taking their medicine when faced with picking up the entire cost of their prescriptions, researchers say. About 3.4...                    

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