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Headache / Migraine News
Migraine Relief From Bariatric Surgery For Morbidly Obese Individuals 90% of morbidly obese patients who suffered from migraines and underwent bariatric surgery achieved partial or total relief of their condition, researchers from the University of Iowa revealed at the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).	19 June 2011

Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News
Even With Insurance, Medical Debt Still Occurs Health insurance is not protecting Arizonans from having problems paying medical bills, and having bill problems is keeping families from getting needed medical care and prescription medicines, a new study has found.	19 June 2011

Heart Disease News
Heart Disease Beats Breast Cancer As The Biggest Killer, UK Breast cancer accounts for almost a third of all cancer cases reported in women. However advances in the treatment for breast cancer, and early detection, have improved the chances of survival from the disease.	19 June 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
'Scarless' Surgery To Be Advanced By $2.7 Million NIH Grant To Rensselaer Researchers Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have secured a $2.7 million grant to develop the first-ever virtual reality simulator for next-generation "scarless" endoscopic surgery.The four-year study, funded by the U.	19 June 2011
Imaging Cereals For Increased Crop Yields University of Adelaide computer scientists are developing image-based technology which promises a major boost to the breeding of improved cereal varieties for the harsher environmental conditions expected under climate change.	19 June 2011

Pharmacy / Pharmacist News
US Medicaid Drug Lists Cost More, Deliver Less The U.S. Medicaid program is likely paying far more than necessary for medications and not offering patients the most effective ones available, by ignoring international evidence-based lists of safe and effective medications, according to a new study by researchers at University of California, San Francisco.	19 June 2011
Pharmacists Needed For Successful Health Reform Pharmacists can play a greater role in the Australian health system, the Pharmacist Coalition for Health Reform (PCHR) announced at their official launch in Canberra today. Speaking at the launch of the PCHR, Mr Warwick Plunkett, President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia said pharmacists have the skills and depth of knowledge to contribute more to the healthcare system but are currently being remarkably under-utilised.	19 June 2011

Seniors / Aging News
International Collaboration To Address Wellbeing, Social Mobility And Growth For the first time researchers from South Africa and China will be working together on a joint data project with UK social scientists. This international collaboration between researchers in the UK, China and South Africa will use existing data to answer global issues facing all three countries.	19 June 2011
IOF Calls For Improved Strategies To Close The Treatment Gap And Reduce Future Burden Of Fractures It pays to prevent fractures. That's one of the main findings of a landmark report 'Osteoporosis - Burden, Healthcare provision and Opportunities in the European Union' newly published in the journal Archives of Osteoporosis.	19 June 2011
Proteins Used To Map The Aging Process Loss of muscle mass is not only associated with disease, such as HIV and cancer, but also with the normal aging process. Anabolic steroids are sometimes used to reverse loss of lean muscle tissue but they can have unwanted side effects.	19 June 2011

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