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Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (NASDAQ: SCMP, Sucampo Pharmaceuticals) and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4502, Takeda) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc., announced that the U.S.

BK Medical, a wholly owned subsidiary of Analogic Corporation (NASDAQ:ALOG), and Varian Medical Systems (NYSE:VAR) announced a global collaboration to improve and streamline prostate brachytherapy procedures through a new, digital interface between BK Medical's Pro Focus ultrasound scanner and Varian's VariSeed 8.0 planning software.

The South African diabetes market is growing rapidly, primarily as a result of higher diagnosis rates. This is due to increased access to healthcare. Many type 2 diabetics are shifting towards the use of insulin along with their oral treatment. In 2006, 43.0 per cent of type II diabetics were using the more expensive insulin in addition to the oral treatment.

The senior doctors from Association of British Hujjaj (UK) have expressed their great concerns about the widespread ignorance amongst British overseas travellers of the necessity of taking health precautions before and during their visit abroad. They are risking their health by not taking the proper preventative measures against the potentially life-threatening diseases.

The senior doctors from Association of British Hujjaj (UK) have expressed their great concerns about the widespread ignorance amongst British overseas travellers of the necessity of taking health precautions before and during their visit abroad. They are risking their health by not taking the proper preventative measures against the potentially life-threatening diseases.

The senior doctors from Association of British Hujjaj (UK) have expressed their great concerns about the widespread ignorance amongst British overseas travellers of the necessity of taking health precautions before and during their visit abroad. They are risking their health by not taking the proper preventative measures against the potentially life-threatening diseases.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Monday at a health care symposium sponsored by Siemens said that the Bush administration and Congress should do more to implement electronic health records nationwide, the Baltimore Sun reports.

More than half of California voters are worried about the state's health care system and nearly three-quarters said they would have approved a health system overhaul proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) last year, according to a Field Poll survey released on Monday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports (Yi, San Francisco Chronicle, 4/28).

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and London's Guardian recently published an editorial and an opinion piece about bills (S 2731, HR 5501) that would reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Summaries appear below.

For every one point rise in the U.S. unemployment rate, the number of uninsured is projected to increase by 1.1 million people, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured analysis released Tuesday, the New York Times reports (Sack, New York Times, 4/29).