http://medheadlines.com Medical news updated 24 hours Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:19:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It took five months for researchers at England's Bristol University to grow the 60 million stem cells needed for the breakthrough windpipe transplant recently performed on a Colombian woman in Barcelona, Spain, in order to replace her tuberculosis-ravaged trachea with a transplanted one.  Once the stem cells left the British ... http://medheadlines.com/2008/11/20/ground-breaking-stem-cell-surgery-almost-sidelined-by-airline-scientist-infuriated/ Almost all doctors in the United States say they've spent too much time on paperwork lately, so much so that many of them are forced to spend more time with paperwork than with their patients, according to a report just released by the Physicians Foundation, founded in 2003 as the ... http://medheadlines.com/2008/11/19/us-doctors-disillusioned-60-wouldnt-recommend-medical-profession/ In conjunction with the upcoming 2008 Great American Smokeout (November 20), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a status report of the national effort to reduce smoking to no more than 12% of the population by 2010.  While progress is evident, the progress is coming ... http://medheadlines.com/2008/11/18/smoking-on-very-slow-decline-in-us/ In spite of help from the entire world, the United States' soon-to-be First Family's quest for a hypoallergenic dog may best be settled in educated compromise because all dogs emit allergens, to one extent or the other.  Perhaps the best approach for President-elect Barack Obama and his family is to ... http://medheadlines.com/2008/11/18/sorry-malia-all-dogs-allergenic-but-these-tips-help-clear-the-air/ Pet food, baby formula, milk and milk products, candy, breaded shrimp, vitamins, protein supplement powders, yogurt, chocolates, biscuits, snacks, cookies.  Many of these products are made in China and imported to the United States in massive number.  And many of them are thought to be contaminated with the industrial chemical, ... http://medheadlines.com/2008/11/17/will-melamine-import-alert-shanghai-new-fda-offices-in-china/ Surviving a heart transplant seems to be easier when the new heart comes from a donor the same gender as the patient. Men getting male hearts fare the very best of all, according to a new study unveiled at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association, in progress ... http://medheadlines.com/2008/11/17/matched-genders-improve-heart-transplant-survival-rate/ The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston is reducing its workforce by almost one-third, a move that will leave the teaching hospital with too few patient beds to accommodate its medical students' educational needs.  Reduced patient capacity, and the students' required clinical rotations that depend on those patients, ... http://medheadlines.com/2008/11/16/3800-utmb-jobs-swept-to-sea-in-hurricane-ike-aftermath-med-school-clings-to-accreditation/ That's the question abuzz in the medical community as doctors around the globe discuss a bone marrow transplant, performed in Berlin, that is said to have cured the patient of AIDS. Twenty months after the transplant, some critics suggest the outcome is merely a fluke but even they do ... http://medheadlines.com/2008/11/14/did-marrow-transplant-cure-aids/ No doubt about it, alcohol consumption is controversial business.  Does it protect the heart or destroy the liver?  Wine OK but hard liquor a "no no"?  Abstinence better than moderation?  There's one new finding about alcohol consumption that seems rather undisputed, in spite of so much controversy.  When alcohol costs ... http://medheadlines.com/2008/11/13/where-booze-costs-the-most-fewer-people-die/ In the United States every year, more than 530,000 babies are born before reaching the 37th week of gestation. That's about 12.7% of all births in the US, District of Columbia (DC), and Puerto Rico, a rate that the March of Dimes gives a 'D' grade. Some individual ... http://medheadlines.com/2008/11/13/too-many-premature-babies-earns-us-d/