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Insomnia :: Doctors neglect insomnia in older patients

The sleep problems of older people are often not addressed by their doctors, even though treatment of those sleep disorders could improve their physical and mental health and enhance their quality of life. A new study from Northwestern University found when patients 60 years and older visited their doctors, physicians did not note sleep problems in the patients’ charts. This was significant because many of those patients suffered from insomnia and were not being treated.

Healthcare :: Race impacts professional lives of physicians of African descent

A new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine offers a unique and detailed view of race and discrimination in the health-care workplace and the negative impact on job satisfaction, career advancement and minority physician retention.

Homesickness :: Homesickness – Helping kids avoid or cope with homesickness

A new report urges parents and children’s doctors to change their thinking about homesickness among children, to see it as a nearly universal, but highly preventable and treatable phenomenon — rather than an unavoidable part of childhood.

Headaches form over a possible new form of aspirin

New scientific insights into the packaging of molecules in solids may tempt jokesters to add a second line to that old medical axiom, “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.” Insiders familiar with an unfolding controversy about aspirin — more than 100 billion tablets of which are produced worldwide each year — might quip, “Well, doctor, should I take Form I or Form II?”

Sleep :: Narcolepsy caused by environmental exposures

A comprehensive review published in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal Sleep finds that, as with other diseases characterized by selective cell loss, narcolepsy may be caused by environmental exposures before the age of onset in genetically susceptible individuals.

Down Syndrome :: Down syndrome screening test for younger pregnant women

All pregnant women should be offered screening for Down syndrome in their first trimester, according to new practice guidelines to be issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. This is applicable to younger pregnant women regardless of their age.

Hepatitis :: Hepatitis scare at Auckland McDonalds

Auckland health authorities are on high alert for a possible outbreak of infectious hepatitis A after a sick McDonald’s worker handled food at one of Auckland’s busiest restaurants. The worker may have exposed hundreds of customers to the virus during an evening shift at the Greenlane restaurant just over a fortnight ago.

HIV :: Spy link in Libya’s HIV case – Gaddafi

“Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi expressed his doubts suggesting spy link in HIV case” a Reuters report from Tripoli revealed. Gaddafi defended the court’s decision to sentence five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for infecting more than 400 children with HIV.

Meningitis :: Southwyck Mall Santa carrying meningitis bacteria – Toledo

A man found positive for a bacteria that causes meningitis. The man portrayed Santa Claus at the Southwyck Mall in Toledo on Dec. 15 and Dec. 18-20.

HIV :: UNAIDS concerned over Libyan verdict – the alleged transmission of HIV by health care professionals

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) expresses deep concern over the verdict delivered yesterday by a Libyan court sentencing six health care professionals to death for the alleged intentional transmission of HIV, and strongly urges that the verdict be reviewed by the higher courts.