Parents have been given new instructions about how much pain-relief medicine they can give their children.

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Sports medicine specialists call for mandatory PE tests in schools to create an Olympic legacy of fitness.

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Call for PE tests in UK schools

The British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine (BASEM) is calling for mandatory ‘physical literacy’ tests in schools, alongside reading and maths.

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VIDEO: School ‘PE tests’ on trial

A department chair at George Washington University’s medical school resigned last month, and the university is investigating allegations that she did not teach some of her classes but gave all of those students As. Venetia Orcutt, an associate professor and chair of the Department of Physician Assistant Studies, is accused of not teaching two out of three semesters of a evidence-based medicine course during the 2009-10 school year, according to the Associated Press, which first reported the news. Read full article > >

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GWU professor resigns, accused of not teaching

Some sports medicine specialists are taking a stand against overreliance on M.R.I.’s, saying they are easily misinterpreted and can result in misdiagnoses and unnecessary, even harmful, treatment.

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Whenever I took a tumble or scraped my knee as a child, my mother typically assessed the situation and then promptly tickled me, counseling, “Laughter is the best medicine.” This trick remains remarkably effective with my own boys and, to this day, YouTube videos of laughing babies or cats playing with printers still have the power to make me feel a bit better when I’m under the weather. Read full article > >

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Laughing may help ease blood pressure, boost mood and enrich health in other ways

The  Cleveland Clinic  is best known for providing excellent health care. A bustling, brisk medical campus, the clinic has been ranked the top hospital in the country for cardiac care for 16 years. It treats Saudi sheiks — and funds itself, at least in part, through their grateful, post-operation donations — and is constantly toured by campaigning politicians looking to associate themselves with the best of American medicine. Read full article > >

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The promise and peril of wellness

Two of the holy grails of medicine – stem cell technology and precision gene therapy – have been united for the first time in humans, say researchers.

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Gene therapy and stem cells unite

Three men whose work helped uncover how the immune system works, and in so doing identified three milestones in an evolutionary path extending two billion years into the past, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday. This year’s award, however, is unique in the 110-year history of the world’s most famous prize in that one of the recipients — Ralph M. Steinman of Rockefeller University — was dead when the award was announced. Rules for the prize stipulate that recipients must be living. Read full article > >

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Three win medicine Nobel Prize for helping unlock secrets of the immune system

The Nobel Prize committee said it would stick with its decision to award a Nobel in medicine to Dr. Ralph M. Steinman for advances in immunology, even though he died on Friday.

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One of 3 Chosen for Nobel in Medicine Died Days Ago

STOCKHOLM — Rockefeller University in New York says Ralph Steinman, co-winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine, has died. It says Steinman was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer four years ago and died on Sept. 30, three days before the announcement. Nobel Prizes are typically not given out posthumously. Nobel committee member Goran Hansson said the Nobel committee didn’t know Steinman was dead when it chose him as a winner and was looking through its regulations. Read full article > >

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A Red Cross team visits the Libyan city of Sirte, still held by Gaddafi loyalists, and reports a desperate need for medicines as fighting continues.

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Sirte medical needs ‘desperate’

Michael Jackson’s doctor told the performer’s bodyguard to pick up vials of medicine before phoning for help on the day he died, his trial hears.

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Murray ‘concern at Jackson drugs’

Watson, the IBM supercomputer that defeated the world’s best “Jeopardy!” players this year, has found a job in medicine . It won’t be consulting with patients, but a version of the game-show champion could appear in examination rooms, offering assistance to flesh-and-blood physicians. But how soon might you see Dr. Watson? And could Dr. Watson be better than your doctor? Read full article > >

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Dr. Watson: How IBM’s supercomputer could improve health care

The structure of the enzyme which breaks down some of medicine’s most powerful antibiotics has been determined by UK researchers.

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Superbug enzyme ‘photofit’ taken