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Oh La La: Chocolat! with Brigitte Mars

The genus name of chocolate, Theobroma derives from the Greek theos, “god,” and “broma,” “food,” thus meaning “food of the gods.” The common name chocolate derives from an Aztec name for this plant, chocolatl. Cocoa was the “love tonic” of Montezuma II, who is reputed to have drunk some [...]

Battelle, IBM, Merck Join UPMC’s Effort To Produce Vaccines To Protect Public Health

Building on its extensive efforts to establish a flexible vaccine development and production facility to strengthen the nation’s biosecurity, UPMC announced today that it has been joined by Battelle, IBM and Merck & Co. Inc. in this first-of-its-kind initiative. These industry and non-profit [...]

Minister For Older People Highlights Important Information For Nursing Home Residents, Ireland

The Minister for Older People, Ã�ine Brady, T.D, has urged nursing home residents and their families, to inform themselves about nursing home services and supports, particularly the new Nursing Homes Support Scheme. “The year 2009 was a time of fundamental change in the nursing [...]

Minister For Older People In Face-to-face Meeting With Older People And Service Providers In The Northwest, Ireland

“The expected increase in the numbers of older people in the population in the years ahead will present great opportunities for Irish society”, the Minister for Older People and Health Promotion, Ã�ine Brady TD said yesterday in Sligo (Thursday, [...]

Statement By The Minister For Health And Children, Mary Harney, T.D.- Tallaght Hospital Services, Ireland

The central and over-riding priority in all aspects of health care, in every hospital, at every meeting and in every last detail of administration is the interest of patients. Patients’ interests and standards of care must come first. For that [...]

100 Percent Of Primary Care Doctors In Denmark Use Electronic Medical Records

All primary care doctors in Denmark use electronic medical records and 98 percent have the ability to electronically manage patient care-including ordering prescriptions, drafting notes about patient visits, and sending appointment reminders. In addition, almost all medical communication between primary care doctors, specialists, and [...]

Safely Lowers ‘Bad’ Cholesterol In Statin-Treated Patients

People whose “bad” cholesterol and risk of future heart disease stay too high despite cholesterol-lowering statin therapy can safely lower it by adding a drug that mimics the action of thyroid hormone. In a report published in the Mar. 11, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Johns [...]

Johns Hopkins Doctor And Disaster Expert Says Resource Problems In Haiti Required Difficult Ethical Decision-Making

In an essay published in this week’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, a Johns Hopkins emergency physician outlines how he and other physicians who worked in Haiti after the earthquake had to make emotionally difficult ethical [...]

Third Set Of 2009 Pesticide Residue Figures Released, UK

The Pesticide Residues Committee today published its third quarterly report for samples collected in 2009. The report found that the majority of foods had no detectable residues and those that did contain pesticides were not likely to be harmful to health. Tests found that 656 [...]

UNICEF To Provide Support To Nearly One Million Children Affected By Earthquake In Chile

UNICEF will provide assistance to the estimated one million children and their families affected by the earthquake in Chile which struck on 27 February. It is unclear how much more damage the second quake today has caused, but the first quake followed [...]