3M and VaxInnate Partner to Develop Flu Vaccine Patch.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-22 October 2008-3M and VaxInnate Partner to Develop Flu Vaccine Patch(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com 3M Drug Delivery Systems has entered into an agreement with VaxInnate to develop, as noted by the company, a flu vaccine patch for use against a pandemic flu outbreak....

Virus hunters.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [4] STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- By 1983, AIDS was becoming a deadly epidemic. No one knew what was causing it, and there was no treatment. Then, French scientists Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi discovered an unusual virus in the blood of an AIDS patient. The virus...

Wrestling with an insidious illness: chronic pain costs the workers' compensation system hundreds of millions of dollars every year, yet a coherent approach to the disease appears lacking.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On any given day in the United States, about 500,000 injured workers are being treated for chronic pain, experts estimate. Many of these workers have already gone on to the permanent disability ranks. But the story doesn't quite end there. Every year, in...

Adult obesity rates rose in 37 states.
Adult obesity rates increased in 37 states in the past year, according to a recent report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. "F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America, 2008" found rates rose for a second consecutive...

ImmunoVaccine's DepoVax Showing Positive Results for Cancer and Infectious Diseases.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-3 October 2008-ImmunoVaccine's DepoVax Showing Positive Results for Cancer and Infectious Diseases(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com ImmunoVaccine Technologies' (IVT) patented depot vaccine formulation, DepoVax is showing positive pre-clinical results, with single-dose efficacy achieved in therapeutic cancer and several infectious disease vaccine models. ...

Influenza planning remains a mess.
Panic, staffing issues, and geographic boundaries are some of the challenges that public health specialists need to address as they plan for a possible influenza pandemic, entreats a report from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. "Most public health experts who are leading planning efforts for an influenza outbreak are...

A society in transition.
Medical practice in Arabia and here in the United Arab Emirates provides interesting scenarios, and ones that are very different compared with South Africa. Whereas in South Africa HIV/AIDS is considered in most differential diagnoses, here it is diabetes that is the main topic of conversation. This is because...

Chinese government issues stricter media guidelines for political reporting.
The Central Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is trying to rein in the country's media and to stop the indiscriminate selection and sensational presentation of news stories gotten from the Internet. According to a story in Hong Kong's Ming Pao Daily News on February 23, 2002,...

Clostridium difficile: the not so sporadic spore.
Infection with Clostridium difficile is increasing in both incidence and severity and is becoming more difficult to treat. Recent reports of a more virulent and more resistant strain of C. difficile causing epidemics in both North America and Europe have increased awareness of the importance of early recognition of...

Family Physicians Laud Court Order Overturning Medi-Cal Payment Cuts.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-23 August 2008-Family Physicians Laud Court Order Overturning Medi-Cal Payment Cuts(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Family physicians this week commended Monday's order by a federal district judge that overturned the State of California's 10 percent cut in fees to physicians who see the 6.5...