United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger in a speech at the start of the union’s two-day national bargaining convention in Detroit said that union officials are prepared to fight companies, including the Big Three automakers, at the bargaining table this year, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports....
UAW President Discusses Contract Negotiations, Health Care Benefits
Value Of Stent-coating Drugs Questioned
Patients admitted to the hospital with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are often treated with a catheter-based procedure known as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), during which a stent is inserted into an occluded or narrowed coronary artery to restore blood flow to and from the heart. Previous...
Pediatricians Raise Concerns About Childhood Immunization Cost
The New York Times on Saturday examined the “soaring cost and rising number of new vaccines” for children, a problem that pediatricians maintain will “make it increasingly difficult … to buy the shots they give their patients.” The cost of childhood immunization has increased...
Drug Does Not Reduce Risk Of Death For Heart Attack Patients With Refractory Shock
The medication tilarginine, a drug that was believed could be beneficial for patients who develop cardiogenic shock (low blood pressure due to impaired cardiac function) after a heart attack, did not reduce the risk of death up to six months after a heart attack, according to a JAMA study published online...
Drug-Eluting And Bare-Metal Stents Equal In Risk Of Blood Clots, Heart Attacks And Death
Although the use of stents to treat coronary artery disease has soared during the past decade thanks to novel equipment and new implant techniques, clinical data has recently raised concerns around the safety of drug-eluting stents (DES) and their risk of post-procedure complications. A study presented...
MRI Scan Improves Detection Rate Of Breast Cancer In Second Breast New Study Says
MRI scans can vastly improve detection rates of breast cancer in the other breast for women who have been recently diagnosed with it in the first breast, a new Canadian and US study suggests. Following the study the American Cancer Society have recommended that women with cancer in one breast should...
Zinc Found To Be A Link In Age-Related Macular Degeneration
An international research team including scientists at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and the Galveston-based spinoff Neurobiotex, Inc. has found high levels of zinc in deposits in the eye that are an indication of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) - the leading cause...
Quality Of Early Child Care Makes A Difference But Good Parenting Matters More, US Study Finds
A new US government study on children’s development up to the age of 12 shows that quality of pre-kindergarten child care makes a difference but quality of parenting makes a much bigger difference. The study, which was funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), is published in the journal...
Inhibiting Blood To Save The Brain
A fibrous protein called fibrinogen, found in circulating blood and important in blood clotting, can promote multiple sclerosis (MS) when it leaks from the blood into the brain, triggering inflammation that leads to MS-related nerve damage. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)...
Life Cycle Assessment Essential To Nanotech Commercial Development
Life cycle assessment (LCA) - a cradle-to-grave look at the health and environmental impact of a material, chemical, or product - is an essential tool for ensuring the safe, responsible, and sustainable commercialization of nanotechnology, U.S. and European experts conclude in a new report. With the...