Reports of ’swine flu parties’ have British health officials warning parents of “seriously flawed thinking”, even as the country shifts its policy on treating the pandemic in the face of the virus’ rapid spreadWhy British Health Officials Say Swine Flu is Nothing to Party About (Time Magazine)
One of the Alaska’s top public health officials says she was forced out of office because Gov. Sarah Palin felt she wasn’t in step on social issues.Alaska’s Health Director Says She Was Forced Out By Gov. Palin (Free Internet Press)
Community health centers receive funding (Kinston Free Press)Twenty-seven community health centers in North Carolina will be receiving a combined total of $20 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. “With record number of North Carolinians out of work, our community health centers are more important
CenterPoint Human Services has called for a high-profile meeting Tuesday to discuss an increasing public concern — how to better handle mental-health patients in the emergency room.Group seeks issue input (Winston-Salem Journal)
Exercise requires the integrated activity of every organ and tissue in the body, and understanding how these respond to the decreased oxygen levels present at moderate to high altitude is the focus of the current special issue of High Altitude Medicine & Biology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The entire issue is available free online at http://www.liebertpub. profile health
Some people who take the fast-acting sleep-aid zolpidem (Ambien) have been observed walking, eating, talking on the phone and even driving while not fully awake. Many often don’t remember doing any of these activities the next morning. Similarly, this drug has been shown to awaken the minimally conscious into a conscious state. A new study by Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) researchers may help explain why these “awakenings” occur. profile health
Theory and evidence show that egg size evolves to optimise offspring and maternal fitness. However, an additional theory invokes sperm limitation as an important force, if increasing egg size acts as a bigger target for fertilization when gamete encounter rate is diluted. We test this theory using in vitro fertilization experiments in externally-fertilizing sockeye salmon, where there is considerable variation in ovum size. profile health
When plaques coating blood vessel walls rupture and expose collagen, platelets spring into action to form a blood clot at the damaged site. Now, a new report in the April 17th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, reveals how those life-threatening clots – a leading cause of death in the United States, Europe and other industrialized countries – get an early grip. profile health
