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The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and an arm of the National Institutes of Health, announces the addition of Hanaoka Seishu’s Surgical Casebook to its growing collection of virtual books and manuscripts available for thumbing through online via Turning the Pages. The virtual volume is also available on kiosks in the Library’s Visitor Center (Building 38A, first floor) and the History of Medicine Division Reading Room (Building 38, first floor), and marks the continued collaboration of the Library’s Lister Hill Center and the History of Medicine Division… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

A pair of industry-funded multicenter studies has contributed to the growing call for infant vaccination against severe rotavirus gastroenteritis in the developing world.

The use of antiepileptic drugs does not appear to raise the risk of suicide beyond the increased risk already associated with the underlying conditions for which patients take these medicines, according to a report in the Aug. 5 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Daily B vitamin supplementation is no more effective than is placebo for reducing the incidence of major vascular events in patients who have had a recent stroke or transient ischemic attack, according to findings from the Vitamins to Prevent Stroke () trial.

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Provisions of the new Affordable Care , coupled with other payment changes, will save Medicare nearly $8 billion over 2 years and extend the solvency of the Medicare Trust by 12 years, according to a new report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Newest postings (July 26, 2010): Manager, Health Sciences Library, Sacramento, California; Clinical Research Librarian, Jefferson College of Health Sciences (JCHS), Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, VA; Health Sciences Reference and Instruction Librarian, Jefferson College of Health Sciences (JCHS), Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, VA; Project Archivist (One-Year, Non-Renewable Appointment), Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. The MLANET job page is updated weekly on Wednesdays. Jobs appear chronologically, with the most recent postings at the top of the page, and then alphabetically by state. (Source: Medical Library Association News)

The Food and Drug Administration has approved influenza vaccines for the 2010-2011 flu season that protect against three influenza strains, including the 2009 H1N1 virus, the agency announced July 30.

ADELPHI, Md. (EGMN) A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on July 29 voted 7 to 6 that a specific hemodynamic measure of response to drugs approved for pulmonary arterial hypertension in adults could be used to demonstrate the drugs efficacy in children with the disease, and to determine dosing in children.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (EGMN) The Food and Drug Administrations Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee on July 28 voted 7-1 to recommend approval of the platelet inhibitor ticagrelor to treat nonST elevation myocardial infarction and ST-elevation myocardial infarction in patients intended to receive primary coronary intervention or who would be managed medically.