Preventing Occupational Exposures to Antineoplastic Drugs in Health Care Settings

guohong submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (caonline.amcancersoc.org)

The toxicity of antineoplastic drugs has been well known since they were introduced in the 1940s. Because most antineoplastic drugs are nonselective in their mechanism of action, they affect noncancerous as well as cancerous cells, resulting in well-documented side effects. During the 1970s, evidence came to light indicating health care workers may be at risk of harmful effects from antineoplastic drugs as a result of occupational exposure

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Bad air raises heart risks in young adults

sharkboy submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.reutershealth.com)

Writing in the second August issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the researchers described how they observed changes in 76 students living on campus at the Fu-Jen Catholic University in Taipei.

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Attention: flood-related cholera kills 49 in east Sudan

007RA submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.reutershealth.com)

A World Health Organisation (WHO) official said on Tuesday. A cholera outbreak in eastern Sudan, which has spread due to devastating floods across the region, has killed 49 people and affected some 710 others.

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Who Has The World’s Best Medical Care?

saury submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.nytimes.com)

Though many Americans are under the delusion that we have “the best health care system in the world, the obesity epidemic in US is the worst in the world.

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Insurance bill puts Reichert on spot

sharkboy submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

dilemma as the U.S. House prepares this week to debate the expansion of a federal program that funds health care for needy children.

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From UF and IBM, a blueprint for 'smart' health care

bianjie submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.eurekalert.org)

What people have come to expect in cell phones and personal communicators, may soon become common in health-care devices, products at home and in medical offices. This is due to a new technology announced today by the University of Florida and IBM.

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More U.S. children suffer chronic health problems

captainclaw submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.reutershealth.com)

Researchers said on Tuesday,the number of U.S. children with chronic health problems, such as obesity, has soared in the past four decades, foreshadowing increases in adult disability and public health-care spending.

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U.S. Health Care Deemed 'Dysfunctional'

badboy submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (hosted.ap.org)

"The U.S. health care system is "a dysfunctional mess" and politicians who insist otherwise look ignorant, according to a medical journal essay by a prominent ethicist at the National Institutes of Health."

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Halving salt intake would cut hypertension: study

captainclaw submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.ctv.ca)

The study is the first to investigate the contribution that excess consumption of dietary salt is making to the development of hypertension in Canadians.It is estimated that one in four adults has high blood pressure. As well, nine of 10 Canadians who live to age 80 will develop the condition.

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