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Medical News Today: 12-13-2004
President Bush on Monday nominated Michael Leavitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and former Republican governor of Utah, to replace Tommy Thompson as secretary of HHS... click link for more info.
Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (RLL) announced today that the Company has received tentative approval from the U... click link for more info.
Allergan, Inc announced today that a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) affidavit filed in the U... click link for more info.
Free PSA And Total PSA Tests Measure Levels Of Prostate-Specific Antigen And Aid In The Early Detection Of Prostate Cancer And Other Prostate Diseases - Today, Abbott introduced four prostate cancer tests in the United States for its ARCHITECT® family of analyzers and its AxSYM® automated immunoassay instrument system: ARCHITECT® Free PSA, ARCHITECT® Total PSA, AxSYM® Free PSA and AxSYM® Total PSA... click link for more info.
According to recent findings researchers say the risks and benefits of using CT scanning for young children need to be re-evaluated... click link for more info.
The Mental Capacity Bill is going to report stage tomorrow in the House of Commons... click link for more info.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Tuesday in the State Department's Treaty Room will host a group of U... click link for more info.
Home exercise programmes may improve survival in cystic fibrosis, according to a new study... click link for more info.
Consumers are failing to adhere to the UK Government's healthy eating message, according to the latest industry figures... click link for more info.
Chief executives of foundation trust hospitals are concerned that Government plans to award NHS hospitals foundation status by 2008 are unworkable... click link for more info.
The department of health is proposing that the NHS should be able to claim-back the cost of treating individuals involved in personal injury claims... click link for more info.
A vaccine for diabetes type 1 sufferers could be on the market in ten years' time, say researchers... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - Mochida Pharmaceutical (TSE: 4534) has announced that it has set up Utuban... click link for more info.
The Health Development Agency has suggested that a National Consumer Council report on healthy eating and supermarkets is 'timely... click link for more info.
An Australian-developed obesity drug is set to undergo final human trials next year... click link for more info.
Risk of ischaemic stroke in people with migraine: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies - BMJ Online First... click link for more info.
Five years of tamoxifen after surgery for breast cancer is no longer optimal for large groups of women with breast cancer... click link for more info.
Demand for flu shots is cooling in some parts of the USA... click link for more info.
If you suffer from migraines your risk of suffering a stroke is double, it is greater still if you suffer from migraines and take birth control pills, say researchers from the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Canada... click link for more info.
Congressional investigators say that Medicare's toll free telephone line is giving the wrong advice 29% of the time... click link for more info.
A nurse who was selling and administering flu shots at Augsburg College, USA, without authorization was using proper vaccines, although some of them were mixed with saline, say authorities... click link for more info.
A key to preventing asthma might be found in a lemon, a rose or a pine tree... click link for more info.
Obesity is increasingly common in American workers and is associated with sharply increased cardiovascular risk factors and work limitations, reports a study in the December Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM)... click link for more info.
According to results gathered by the Second National Registry of Myocardial Infarction (heart attacks), winter was the top season for heart attacks, followed by fall, then spring, then summer... click link for more info.
Beat the Flu, a community health campaign of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, is spreading the word about flu prevention... click link for more info.
A study under way by researchers at UAB aims to identify factors that might be preventing parents from buying and preparing fruits and vegetables for their children... click link for more info.
A recent study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests what many women claim they already knew: high-intensity exercise makes them eat more... click link for more info.
UCSF scientists have found that the brains of rats can be trained to learn an alternate way of processing changes in the loudness of sound... click link for more info.
Protein-encapsulated single-walled carbon nanotubes that alter their fluorescence in the presence of specific biomolecules could generate many new types of implantable biological sensors, say researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who developed the encapsulation technique... click link for more info.
New find may be future target for medications to relieve common skin condition - Researchers at The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center simultaneously have resolved a controversy over the cause of psoriasis and developed the first mouse model that fully mimics the human disorder... click link for more info.
Every year, millions of people try to look younger by taking injections of Botox, a prescription drug that gets rid of facial wrinkles by temporarily paralyzing muscles in the forehead... click link for more info.
A new study conducted in rats by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School suggests that the misdiagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) combined with prescription drug use in children may lead to a higher risk of developing depressive symptoms in adulthood... click link for more info.
WHAT: Hundreds of new studies on brain and behavior from the world's most renowned scientists will headline the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology's 2004 Annual Meeting... click link for more info.
The first detailed structure of a botulism toxin attached to its target protein reveals that the toxin snakes the protein around itself - a sort of "reverse anaconda" - to recognize the receptor... click link for more info.
Results of a preliminary study in this week's issue of THE LANCET (pp 2076, 2122) suggest a step forward in our understanding of the processes behind narcolepsy; there appears to be an underlying autoimmune process for people with a certain genetic profile... click link for more info.
Research from 19 European countries in this week's issue of THE LANCET (pp 2074, 2097) documents how childhood cancer, while still rare, has been slowly increasing over the past 3 decades... 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 concluded in Abuja, Nigeria, last week, 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.
'Dioxins' refers to a group of chemical compounds that share certain chemical structures and biological characteristics... click link for more info.
Scientists at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, LLC, have identified a novel anti-tuberculosis (TB) compound that works better and faster than the current standard of care in mouse models of TB infection... click link for more info.
Australia's drugs regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), is aware that a media statement issued by the Complementary Healthcare Council of Australia on 8 December 2004 states that the Therapeutic Goods Administration has required the withdrawal from the Australian market of celecoxib ("Celebrex")... click link for more info.
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