In what could be one of the first of many volleys in the 2010 governor’s race, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard slammed a possible budget deal between Gov. Jan Brewer and Republican legislative leaders.

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A major feature of the annual Pharmacy Australia Congress is the Poster Session which will attract a great deal of interest and provide unprecedented exposure for their authors. This year’s PAC will focus on the theme of Securing Your Practice Advantage and PAC organisers are inviting submissions for the Poster Displays at this year’s Congress to be held at the Sydney Hilton 15 - 18 October 2009.
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A shocking 1 in 10 people say they have had unprotected sex because they were too embarrassed to buy condoms from a pharmacy. This disconcerting statistic is the finding of latest research by new online pharmacy http://www.mastersdirect.com, revealing people’s opinions about their most embarrassing health problems.
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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has published its fourth Pharmacy Workforce Census, reflecting the working patterns of pharmacists registered in August 2008. The reports findings reveal changes in workforce patterns since the last census in 2005, together with new and emerging trends in the workforce. Census forms were sent out to all pharmacists with a registered address in Great Britain. The survey achieved a high response rate of 69.6%.
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Nanoparticles are being developed to perform a wide range of medical uses — imaging tumors, carrying drugs, delivering pulses of heat. Rather than settling for just one of these, researchers at the University of Washington have combined two nanoparticles in one tiny package. The result is the first structure that creates a multipurpose nanotechnology tool for medical imaging and therapy.
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Evidence buried in the chromosomes of animals and plants strongly suggests only one group — mammals — have seen their genomes shrink after the dinosaurs’ extinction. What’s more, that trend continues today, say Indiana University Bloomington scientists in the first issue of a new journal, Genome Biology and Evolution.
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Overconsumption of fatty, sugary foods leads to changes in brain receptors, according to new animal research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The new research results are being presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), July 28 - August 1, 2009, the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior. The results have implications for understanding bulimia and other binge eating disorders.
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Government health officials from 13 African countries today launched the first-ever push for accreditation of the continent’s medical laboratories, starting a process that the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Government believe will be an historic step to strengthen health systems and lead to better care for patients. Just a handful of Africa’s laboratories are now accredited, in part because the existing international accreditation process is so time-consuming.
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Switching off a key DNA repair system in the developing nervous system is linked to smaller brain size as well as problems in brain structures vital to movement, memory and emotion, according to new research led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists.
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Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), July 28 - August 1, 2009, the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, shows that exposing rats to a context associated with eating chocolate activates a part of the brain’s reward system known as the orexin system. This finding helps explain why eating can be triggered by environmental cues even in the absence of hunger.
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