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Eating Disorders :: Patient’s Worldwide Bill of Rights for Eating Disorders Demands Proof of Results

An international professional society has issued a patient?s bill of rights for the treatment of eating disorders, conditions that affect an estimated 30 million Americans, most of them young women. For 2 million, symptoms will progress to full-blown anorexia nervosa and approximately 10 percent will die from the disease. Treatment is often complex and typically involves not only the patient, but friends and family as well.

Health :: Dr Margaret Chan nominated to be WHO Director-General

Dr Margaret Chan of China was nominated today by the Executive Board of the World Health Organization for the post of Director-General. The Director-General is WHO’s chief technical and administrative officer.

Ovarian Cancer :: Younger women survive ovarian cancer better

Younger women with ovarian cancer have better survival rates than older patients, even if they have surgery to conserve their fertility, added family history of the illness is the most important risk factor and it is influenced by hormones.

Leukemia :: The Edd Griffith trust fund

The family of a 17-year-old boy who died at the Royal Free of leukaemia has set up a trust fund in his memory. Edward Griffith, better known as Edd, died at the end of the summer following a two year battle against the disease.

Health :: Rampant increase in sexual harassment in health sector – Study

Even as a more stringent law against sexual harassment of working women is in the pipeline, a study here has exposed rampant increase in such cases in the health sector.

Chikungunya :: Chikungunya declared notifiable disease – India

The Tamil Nadu government’s health department had declared Chikungunya as a ‘notifiable disease’ under the public health Act, 1939.

ADHD :: Study Evaluates Two Medications for ADHD

University of Illinois at Chicago researchers are comparing two drugs commonly used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder to determine if genetic factors predict which children will respond to either or both drugs.

Eating Disorders :: Eating Disorders Organization Calls on Insurers to Cover Treatment

The Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) has drafted the Worldwide Charter for Action on Eating Disorders, an international bill of rights for people with eating disorders and their families, that seeks an end to discrimination against people with eating disorders by insurance and treatment providers.

Health Care :: Allied Health Professions Week Highlights Workforce Shortage Crisis

The first baby boomers are turning 60 this year. Some question whether there will be enough health care professionals to take care of them. An aging society and increased cases of chronic conditions like diabetes and obesity are straining an already fragile health care workforce. Now, the University of Missouri-Columbia is looking at ways to write a prescription for one of the major ailments facing today?s society, according to Richard Oliver, dean of the MU School of Health Professions. MU recently spearheaded the creation of FuturePoint Summit, a national coalition of academic and business leaders in the health care field, to find solutions for the allied health workforce shortage.

Health :: Colorado Company to Sell Medical Food Products Based on Wake Forest Discovery

A Colorado-based company is launching a line of ‘medical- food’ products for the dietary management of asthma, eczema and other allergic conditions based on discoveries by Floyd H. ‘Ski’ Chilton, Ph.D., of Wake Forest University Health Sciences (WFUHS).