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Medical News Today: 12-03-2004
More than 11 million children in developing countries die every year from preventable illness, while as many as 500 000 women don't survive during pregnancy or childbirth... click link for more info.
The European Commission is seeking input from the public on the measures to be included in a new comprehensive European action plan to reduce air pollution... click link for more info.
Diovan® (valsartan), a powerful, first-line high blood pressure agent, has received its first European marketing authorization from the Medical Products Agency (MPA) of Sweden to treat patients at high risk following a recent heart attack... click link for more info.
Supporting Data Show Significant Reduction of Joint and Skin Symptoms in Psoriatic Arthritis - Centocor, Inc, announced today that the U... click link for more info.
Over the years, GlaxoSmithKline has supported many trials conducted by the Paediatric AIDS Clinical Trial Group (PACTG), one of the pre-eminent organizations in the world for evaluating treatments for HIV -infected children and adolescents... click link for more info.
AstraZeneca today announces two new business milestones for SEROQUEL (quetiapine), an atypical antipsychotic for the treatment of schizophrenia and acute manic episodes associated with bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness)... click link for more info.
Doctors have warned that urgent action is needed to deal with rapidly rising rates of tuberculosis in the UK... click link for more info.
Sustained improvement is being delivered across the NHS with waiting lists falling at record levels, continued falls in the number of premature deaths from the big killer diseases and increasing patient satisfaction rates for health services, NHS Chief Executive Sir Nigel Crisp reported today... click link for more info.
A disturbing new trend in suicide pacts involving strangers meeting over the internet (cybersuicide) is emerging, warns a consultant psychiatrist in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
Guidance about the use of chaperones for intimate examinations is difficult to implement fully in general practice, according to a study published on bmj... click link for more info.
The level of medication errors in sick children might be substantially higher than previously estimated, according to a study in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
Five years after accident and emergency departments were found to be lacking in essential services for children, many still fail to meet the minimum standards, says a study on bmj... click link for more info.
The current system for determining medical negligence is "secretive, unaccountable and unregulated", according to an opinion piece in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
Frequent cannabis use during adolescence and young adulthood increases the risk of psychotic symptoms later in life, according to a new study published on bmj... click link for more info.
Results of a study from Honduras in this week's issue of THE LANCET (pp 1996, 2030) show how direct cash payments from government to poor families improves the takeup of antenatal and infant health services... click link for more info.
Results of a study from Australia in this week's issue of THE LANCET (p 2038) provide reassurance to the safety of repeated ultrasound examination during pregnancy... click link for more info.
300 million people in the developing world are seriously ill from intestinal worms... click link for more info.
The Independent Advisory Group on Teenage Pregnancy has told Government it must intensify its efforts and be bolder if it is to meet its goal of halving the under-18 conception rate by 2010... click link for more info.
UCB, a leading biopharmaceutical company, informed on three new positive developments in its Research and Development pipeline during an analysts and investors meeting hosted today... click link for more info.
Responding to the announcement of a scheme to help people on incapacity benefit return to work in the Chancellor's pre-budget report today, Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the BMA's General Practitioners Committee, said: "GPs will welcome practical measures to help their patients back to work where appropriate... click link for more info.
Researchers will examine whether new surgical techniques work better than traditional methods - SALT LAKE CITY - Learning whether or not one method of surgery works better than another for patients with chondrosarcoma, a cancer of the cartilage, is the goal of a new clinical study opening this week at multiple sites around the US and Canada, with Huntsman Cancer Institute as the study's lead institution... click link for more info.
A decade of neglect has weakened UNICEF and threatened the future of child survival - As a high-level forum assessing the progress on global health in relation to the millennium development goals concludes its meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, today, the rhetoric of success repeated by those charged with ending the needless deaths of millions of the world's children masks their own deep-seated failure to grapple with critical institutional weaknesses in their own ranks... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - Leading Japanese cosmetic manufacturer Shiseido (TSE: 4911) announced December 1 that it has discovered a hair-growth property of adenosine, one of the in vivo substances that exist in the human body... click link for more info.
Patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) or unstable angina benefit from statins within 24 hours of the onset of symptoms, according to new research... click link for more info.
A new study shows that nurses working in hospital A&E departments are not suitably trained to treat children despite a five year drive to impose minimum standards for paediatric emergency services... click link for more info.
HIV testing rates are higher among CDC-recommended groups than general population - Rates of HIV/AIDS diagnoses in the United States stayed steady for the years 2000-2003, but sharp racial disparities remain, according to an analysis of data from 32 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today... click link for more info.
While travel by motor vehicle has become steadily safer in the United States, motorcycles remain the most dangerous type of motor vehicle to drive... click link for more info.
The USA's medicine cabinets are more crowded than ever, with almost half of all people taking at least one prescription medicine and one in six taking three or more medications, according to the U... click link for more info.
Statement by Alma Golden, MD, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs, Office of Public Health and Science Regarding Abstinence Education Report of the House Committee on Government Reform... click link for more info.
Scientists in Australia say that a pregnant woman can have many ultrasounds without harming her baby - they say the scans will not undermine the baby's growth or development in early life... click link for more info.
The Federal Government has moved to broaden the supply of flu vaccine for the next three years... click link for more info.
A new research method that quantifies people's quality of life -- beyond how much money they make - could lead to a recognised index of well-being, similar to key measures of economic health... click link for more info.
Current benzene level safety limits in the USA are too high to protect people who work in such place as petrochemical plants from blood cell problems, says a new study... click link for more info.
Some federally funded abstinence sex education courses tell youngsters that 50% of all American teenage gay men are HIV positive, touching someone's genitals can make you pregnant and abortion can lead to sterility and suicide, says the Washington Post... click link for more info.
An FDA advisory panel voted unanimously not to approve Protcer & Gamble's testosterone patch, Intrinsa, for the female treatment of low sex drive (libido)... click link for more info.
An additional £100 million of funding to support older people's social services was announced today by Health Secretary John Reid... click link for more info.
Professional group also supports need for future research on female sexual dysfunction - The Endocrine Society, which represents more than 12,000 endocrinologists who are specially trained to diagnose, treat and conduct basic and clinical research on complex hormonal disorders, today called for new clinical guidelines on the use of androgens in women/female sexual dysfunction... click link for more info.
In a collaboration that blends biology and robotics, researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland are unraveling the circuitry in an eel's spinal cord to help develop a microchip implant that may someday help paralyzed people walk again... click link for more info.
Research done in the last decade has suggested that limiting energy availability, for example, by dietary restriction, may extend the lifespan of different organisms... click link for more info.
The type of fat ingested may create the conditions for or, on the other hand, prevent the development of obesity... click link for more info.
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