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Rare/complex diseases can be treated more successfully in dedicated centres, specialising in the treatment of these conditions.

Rare/complex diseases can be treated more successfully in dedicated centres, specialising in the treatment of these conditions.

A new ISO standard will help ensure that spinal disc prostheses meet requirements for wear resistance, particularly important as once implanted these will need to absorb the impact from the body's daily activities for years to come.

Many patients with a chronic disease or cancer have to contend with anemia - and the severe fatigue that accompanies anemia impedes the patient considerably in his or her daily activities. At present, the hormone EPO is administered to a large number of these patients to alleviate the anemia.

Comptroller General David Walker on Tuesday at a Senate Budget Committee hearing said that increased health care costs and an aging population have placed the federal budget on an "imprudent and unsustainable path" and that "passage of time only serves to worsen this situation," CongressDaily reports.

Nevada has shifted oversight of the J-1 visa program from another bureau of the state Health Division to the Health Planning and Statistics Bureau, and the new overseer of the program said she will aggressively enforce the program's guidelines, the Las Vegas Sun reports (Allen, Las Vegas Sun, 1/29).

"Health Characteristics of the Asian Adult Population: United States, 2004-2006" (.pdf), CDC: The report looks at data from the 2004-2006 National Health Interview Surveys to compare how non-Hispanic Asian subgroups fare with other racial and ethnic groups on various health indicators.

A new study of American women at high risk of premature labour showed that giving them an intravenous infusion of magnesium sulfate, commonly known as Epsom salts, just before delivery cut the rate of cerebral palsy in their babies by half.

Health care disparities remain between white and minority children, but the gaps narrowed over the past 20 years, according to a report sponsored by the Foundation for Child Development and released on Wednesday by the New America Foundation, CQ HealthBeat reports (Grimaldi, CQ HealthBeat, 1/29).

The governors of Delaware and Georgia recently released their fiscal year 2009 state budget proposals. Summaries of health-related budget issues appear below.Delaware: Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D) on Thursday proposed a $3.4 billion operating budget for the next fiscal year that includes additional spending on Medicaid, the Wilmington News Journal reports. The proposed budget is 3.