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• Health 2009: A Year in Review

  
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  Well, it’s time to bid adieu to 2009. It was an interesting year bringing us closer to the end of what some consider “the worst decade in American history.” From the historical inauguration of President Obama, to the most elaborate Ponzi scheme this country has seen, to the bailouts, failed stimulus packages, ...
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• TLS Rec: Icyou

  
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  Icyou Health Videos. A large number of videos on a wide variety of health topics.
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• Famous thoughts on manuscript reviews

  
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  from Edward Ross (Division of Nephrology, Hypertension & Transplantation, UFla) in The Lancet today … To die while awaiting the review… alone . Ernest Hemingway It is the nature of reviews to be late . Aristotle I invented slow manuscript reviews . Al Gore There is more to life than simply ...
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• 6 Fast Food Health Effects

  
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  Fast Food ‘Super Size Me’ has an apt tag line of “a film of epic portions”. This 2004 documentary was directed by Morgan Spurlock. Mr Spurlock was followed for a 30 day period during which he only dined at McDonald’s. The average calorie consumed daily was 5000 calories. The documentary focuses on the ...
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• Do Medical Editors Discriminate Against Poor Authors?

  
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  Do medical editors have different quality standards based on the authors geographic location?
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• ADVANCED MELANOMA AND IPILIMUMAB

  
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  Ipilimumab elicited a dose-dependent effect on efficacy and safety measures in pretreated patients with advanced melanoma, lending support to further studies at a dose of 10 mg/kg. Ipilimumab is a human monoclonal antibody that blocks cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 and has shown promising ...
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• Blood

  
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  He takes a lancet and dips it into his finger. Blood flows, it looks so red. He feeds it to the machine, looks at the resulting number– 400. ‘It’s too high, time to take out the needle’ he tells me with a wry smile. It breaks my heart seeing my dad inject himself with insulin everyday. He says it’s ...
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• Lancet: Climate Change is Passive Smoking on a Global Scale

  
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  passive smoke.jpg In a comment piece entitled Climate Policy: Lessons from Tobacco Control, the medical journal The Lancet, Maria Nilsson, et al, point out the similarities between tobacco and climate change: "In addition to causing huge damage to population health, both cause substantial ...
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• TLS Rec: Medsin in Copenhagen

  
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  Medsin report on their delegation at the COP15 UN climate change negotiations live at www.medsin.org/cop .
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• ARTs Safe Without Routine Lab Tests, Lancet Study Finds

  
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  A Lancet study published online Tuesday validates the safety of administering first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) to patients with HIV without routine toxicity and efficacy lab tests, “[b]ut tests of immune-system function might still be a good idea to monitor the progression of the disease and guide the second ...
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• TLS Rec: Darfur Petition

  
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  A followup to UCL and MSF Darfur Week, a petition to the UK Prime Minister to support the Darfur peace process.
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• HPV Vaccine: Continuous Protection Beyond Six Years

  
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  An article published Online First and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet reports that the ‘Cervarix’ human papilloma virus ( HPV ) vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline offers continued protection beyond six years from infection against the types of HPV most commonly associated with cervical cancer ( HPV -16 and ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
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  The Autumn 2009 issue of the American Medical Students’ Association’s journal Global Pulse
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• !!NEWSFLASH!! Inhaling Misted Pig Brains May Make You Sick !!NEWSFLASH!!

  
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  “Between November 2006 and May 2008, two dozen slaughterhouse workers in Minnesota and Indiana took ill with a variety of neurological and physical illnesses. Now, researchers think they know why.” “The medical journal Lancet Neurology describes what happened this way: “An outbreak of neurological ...
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• Studies Measure Climate Change’s Impact on Public Health

  
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  Just in time for the opening of the United National Climate Change conference in Copenhagen next week, the London-based medical journal The Lancet has published the findings of a number of studies that examine the links between climate change and public health.There are six separate reports in the series. They explore ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mayo Clinic Publishes First Comprehensive Report of Pork Processing Plant Illness

  
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  Journalists:  For links to web-video and audio files, see the bottom of this post.The first complete report of Mayo Clinic physicians’ initial assessment of pork processing plant workers with a unique neurological disorder has been published online in Lancet Neurology. It includes the detailed results of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Turf kicked up in government U-turn

  
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  Grass-fed livestock… animals that the Lancet forgot! A government u-turn was swiftly undertaken yesterday, following a report published in The Lancet. Embarrasing conflicts of opinion emerged from different UK goverment departments.  The health department funded a study which proposed we should eat less ...
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• Exciting model: AIDS treatment at home by lay counsellors gets good results

  
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  A new Ugandan study offers great hope for people with AIDS in rural areas in Africa needing antiretroviral treatment. The trial tested a model in which lay-trained counsellors, not doctors or nurses, treated people at home – and they were as healthy as the patients being treated in clinics. The cluster randomised ...
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• Also In Global Health News: Home HIV Treatment; Voluntary Testing In Kenya; Women/HIV Scorecard; Global Fund Zimbabwe Grant; Contraceptives In Tanzani

  
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  Home Vs. Clinic Treatment of HIV In Uganda The New York Times reports on a Lancet study that found treating Ugandan HIV patients at home is cheaper and just as effective as treating them in a clinic. Source: Also In Global Health News: Home HIV Treatment; Voluntary Testing In Kenya; Women/HIV Scorecard; Global ...
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• Yearly influenza vaccinations: a double-edged sword?

  
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  Influenza vaccinations Summary - Yearly vaccination against seasonal influenza viruses is recommended for certain individuals at high risk of complications associated with influenza. It has been recommended in some countries, including the USA, that all children aged 6—59 months are vaccinated against seasonal ...
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