Medical News May 8th, 2008
Posted on May 8, 2008
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$271 Million for Research on Stem Cells in California
LOS ANGELES — California has awarded $271 million in grants to build 12 stem cell research centers in the state, even as one of the political rationales for the building program might soon disappear.
The awards, announced here Wednesday, represent the largest chunk of money awarded at one time by California’s taxpayer-backed stem cell program, which is slated to spend about $3 billion over about a decade.
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Medical device group expands
In phase one, he worked on his own in the basement, doing engineering consulting.
Phase two had David Dorner moving the business into its own facility, winning contracts to do project work and growing to more than 30 employees.
As DornerWorks Ltd., an electronics consulting company in Grand Rapids, enters phase three of its business plan, it aims to begin developing its own products, perhaps through alliances with other companies around western Michigan that are involved in the medical sector.
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Quick Benefit to Smoking Halt, With a Caveat, Study Finds
Women who stop smoking can enjoy major health benefits within five years, but it can take decades to correct respiratory damage and shed the added risk of lung cancer, researchers reported on Tuesday.
Those who stopped had a 13 percent reduction in the risk of death from all causes, including heart and vascular problems, within the first five years, the study found. After 20 years, the risk of death from any cause was the same for those who quit as for those who had never smoked.
Mich. high court says gay partners can’t get health benefits
Local governments and state universities in Michigan can’t offer health insurance to the partners of gay workers, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
The court ruled 5-2 that Michigan’s 2004 ban against gay marriage also blocks domestic-partner policies affecting gay employees at the University of Michigan and other public-sector employers.
The decision affirms a February 2007 appeals court ruling.
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Parents’ Mental Disorders Linked to Child’s Autism
Researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC), have just released their findings on the association between a parent’s history of mental disorders when the parent also has an autistic child. It seems parents of autistic children are hospitalized for issues of mental distress at double the rate of parents without autistic children.
Breast Cancer Tends to Grow Faster in Younger Women
While the rate at which breast cancer tumors grow varies among patients, that growth tends to be faster among younger women, Norwegian researchers report.
These findings may help in planning and evaluating screening programs, clinical trials and other studies, the researchers say.
Using a new mathematical model, the scientists were also able to estimate the numbers of breast cancers detectable by mammography. This is a new approach to estimating the growth rate of tumors and the ability of mammograms to find them.
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Too much, too little sleep tied to ill health in CDC study
People who sleep fewer than six hours a night _ or more than nine _ are more likely to be obese, according to a new government study that is one of the largest to show a link between irregular sleep and big bellies.
The study also linked light sleepers to higher smoking rates, less physical activity and more alcohol use.
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Meningitis Vaccine Boosts Immune Response
Swiss drug maker Novartis AG said its experimental meningitis vaccine performed well in a large clinical trial and that the company expects to file for regulatory approval in the U.S. and Europe this year.
Novartis said the vaccine, called Menveo, helped trigger a strong immune response in a greater percentage of adolescents against several types of meningitis bacteria than did the currently used vaccine, Sanofi-Aventis SA’s Menactra.
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