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Medical News Today: 12-23-2004
GlaxoSmithKline on Wednesday announced that it has received marketing approval from the European Commission for its antiretroviral drug Kivexa, which is a once-a-day tablet that combines the company's Epivir and Ziagen, known generically as lamivudine and abacavir, respectively, Reuters reports... click link for more info.
Repetitive training can help patients with Parkinson's disease deal with the postural instability that often leads to falls and even fear of walking, according to new research... click link for more info.
The latest vaccine uptake data from the Health Protection Agency shows that over 94% of all children in the UK reaching 2 years of age are being protected against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) by vaccination... click link for more info.
The milk of the camel has traditionally been used to treat diabetes... click link for more info.
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) received summary data on 21 December 2004 from 2 clinical trials (APC and PreSAP trials) relating to celecoxib and is actively reviewing these and other data... click link for more info.
AMA (Australian Medical Association) President, Dr Bill Glasson, has today written to the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) urging it to revise its guidelines on alcohol consumption by mothers during pregnancy... click link for more info.
Researchers from Bristol University, UK, have indicated that household chemicals such as bleach, paint stripper, carpet cleaners are causing childhood asthma and wheezing... click link for more info.
Five NHS treatment centres named as centres of training and innovation - UK Health Minister John Hutton today named five NHS centres as leaders in the field of innovation and training in short stay elective care... click link for more info.
Aromatherapy oils could be an effective weapon in the fight against MRSA, according to new research... click link for more info.
BMA Cymru Wales is calling on doctors across Wales to write to their members of parliament to support a ban on smoking in public places... click link for more info.
Closing university science departments is threatening the future of medicine in the UK, the British Medical Association has warned today (23 December 2004)... click link for more info.
We know many of our youth are having sex and will have sex in the future... click link for more info.
What's a person stuck living in chronic pain to do? All the best anti-inflammatory drugs including some found over the counter, have now also been found to cause heart attacks and possibly strokes... click link for more info.
State Rep Don Walko, D-North Side, said Pennsylvania should join a prescription drug importation program despite a negative report that the Bush administration issued Wednesday... click link for more info.
Access Pharmaceuticals, INC (Amex: AKC) announced today that it has filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the Food and Drug Administration for AP5346, the Company's lead DACH polymer platinate compound... click link for more info.
Akzo Nobel and the ICCO (the Dutch Inter-Church Organization for Development Cooperation) have officially signed a cooperation agreement to jointly support two HIV/AIDS projects in the Johannesburg area of South Africa... click link for more info.
"The American Public Health Association is very disappointed in the findings released today by the Department of Health and Human Services Task Force on Drug Importation that oppose importing drugs from other countries to reduce health care costs and improve access to therapies... click link for more info.
HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in partnership with the Council of State Governments, today released Diabetes Care Quality Improvement: A Resource Guide for State Action and its companion workbook, both of which are designed to help States assess the quality of diabetes care and develop quality improvement strategies... click link for more info.
Increasing number of deaths occurring during holiday season - Christmas is the deadliest day of the year, say researchers who examined records of 53 million deaths from natural causes over a 26-year period (1973-2001)... click link for more info.
The UK could not effectively tackle foot and mouth disease using emergency vaccination if there was an outbreak tomorrow, according to a report published by the Royal Society today (Tuesday 21 December 2004)... click link for more info.
Costs of ensuring safety of imported drugs would likely outweigh savings; APhA applauds analysis - In the newly released Report on Prescription Drug Importation, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Task Force on Importation expressed concerns over the viability of maintaining the high standards of safety and effectiveness of the U... click link for more info.
A new set of standards has been compiled by the Japan Council for Quality Health Care in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, an incorporated foundation that objectively assesses the safety and quality of hospitals and certifies them... click link for more info.
The Boston Globe on Tuesday examined the recent "retooling" of clinical trials by pharmaceutical companies to help "make it faster and cheaper" to obtain regulatory approval for experimental medications... click link for more info.
Many of us think that the terminally ill can postpone their deaths so that they can see a relative, experience their last birthday or enjoy a special holiday - sadly, this is a myth, according to a new study... click link for more info.
A new study shows the eating disorder anorexia nervosa causes great harm to the health of adolescent girls and affects many of the body's most important systems... click link for more info.
People suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, may also be at higher risk for developing osteoporosis, report researchers who studied 81 patients with the lung disease and 38 healthy people who served as controls... click link for more info.
Safety information regarding selective COX-2 inhibitor NSAIDs: Vioxx®, (rofecoxib), Celebrex® (celecoxib), BextraTM (valdecoxib), Mobicox® (meloxicam) and generic forms of meloxicam... click link for more info.
Better management of asthma has resulted in a fall in the number of deaths in Australia from the disease... click link for more info.
The Chinese government on Tuesday defended its one-child-per-family policy against U... click link for more info.
This document about Medicaid's Reimbursements to Pharmacies for Prescription Drugs was made by The Congress of the United States Congressional Budget Office - In recent years, the Medicaid program has experienced a rapid increase in spending for prescription drugs... click link for more info.
At least six drug manufacturers have issued internal alerts about filmmaker Michael Moore's plans to create a film about FDA, health insurers and drug manufacturers, the Los Angeles Times reports (Dutka, Los Angeles Times, 12/22)... click link for more info.
The Washington Post on Wednesday profiled the Nigerian arm of an ongoing clinical trial that is testing the antiretroviral drug Viread -- which is known generically as tenofovir -- to determine if it can reduce the risk of HIV infection... click link for more info.
San Francisco public health officials on Monday issued a warning about a rare and "potentially debilitating" sexually transmitted disease -- called lymphogranuloma venereum, or LGV -- that has appeared in the city in four men who have unprotected sex with men, the San Francisco Chronicle reports (Russell, San Francisco Chronicle, 12/21)... click link for more info.
By impaling individual chromosomes with glass needles one thousandth the diameter of a human hair, a Duke University graduate student has tested their "stickiness" to one another during cell division... click link for more info.
A new option for non-invasive colorectal cancer testing may encourage some people who avoid screening for the deadly disease to be tested... click link for more info.
A team led by Johns Hopkins scientists has found the first clear evidence that the process behind the human immune system's remarkable ability to recognize and respond to a million different proteins might have originated from a family of genes whose only apparent function is to jump around in genetic material... click link for more info.
The US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), culminating a 16-year effort, has completed its share of the Human Genome Project with the publication of the DNA sequence and analysis of chromosome 16 in the Dec... click link for more info.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Fit, well-fed male field crickets die young because they spend too much time courting members of the opposite sex, according to research by Australian scientists in the latest edition of Nature... click link for more info.
Flu... click link for more info.
Researchers at McMaster University have developed the first assessment tool of its kind for evaluating risks faced by Canadians suffering from a rare and often fatal bleeding disorder... click link for more info.
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