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Medical News Today: 12-24-2004
For physicians practicing in a group setting, good business health is a strong predictor of the quality of the physician partners' lives and the quality of care they provide... click link for more info.
New Canadian research shows that application of the topical anaesthetic gel amethocaine half an hour before injection reduces the pain of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination... click link for more info.
Alcohol use during pregnancy is associated with health problems that adversely affect the mother and fetus; no level of alcohol consumption during pregnancy has been determined safe... click link for more info.
Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) causes approximately 38,000 deaths among nonsmokers each year in the United States... click link for more info.
Rabies is a viral infection of the central nervous system, usually contracted from the bite of an infected animal, and is nearly always fatal without proper postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) (1)... 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.
Gastric surgery is a more effective way to fight severe obesity than dieting, according to a Swedish study... click link for more info.
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has weighed into the debate on water fluoridation in Queensland, saying it should be added to drinking supplies... click link for more info.
The UK Department of Health today advised the NHS that there is a supply problem with the opiate painkiller, diamorphine, and that stocks may rapidly reach a critical level in the next few weeks... click link for more info.
There is a connection between exposure of domestic cleaning products and wheezing in toddlers, which is an early sign of asthma, according to new research... click link for more info.
Regular exercise alone is not enough to cut the risk of death from obesity, according to new research... click link for more info.
New Proposed Coverage For Counseling as Medicare Shifts Focus to Prevention - HHS Secretary Tommy G... click link for more info.
Previous Sudafed formulation remaining available also, as Pfizer responds to meth-manufacturing challenges... click link for more info.
The National Governors Association on Wednesday sent a letter to congressional leaders urging the federal government not to shift additional federal Medicaid costs to states in an effort to lower the national deficit, the AP/Las Vegas Sun reports... click link for more info.
Bush administration officials on Wednesday announced plans to expand a program launched in 2002 to improve nursing home quality that "has so far had mixed results," the Boston Globe reports... click link for more info.
If you want to avoid allergies or asthma, scientists at the University of Michigan Medical School suggest you start paying more attention to what's in your gut... click link for more info.
Birds that migrate early in the season may have a distinct advantage when it comes to attracting the opposite sex, say researchers from Queen's University and the Smithsonian Institution... click link for more info.
Findings could shed new light on malignant melanoma - - Few things about growing older are as inevitable and obvious as "going gray," yet scientists have been unable to explain the precise cause of this usually unwelcome transformation... click link for more info.
New research by investigators at Duke University Medical Center has provided insight into a fundamental cellular control mechanism that governs tissue regeneration, stem cell renewal and cancer growth... click link for more info.
Despite critics who say patients' bills of rights laws are actually designed to protect health care providers, new research published in the current issue of the American Journal of Medicine found just the opposite... click link for more info.
Scientists link gene 'switches' to specific brain locations - Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have compiled the first atlas showing the locations of crucial gene regulators, or switches that determine how different parts of the brain develop - and, in some cases, develop abnormally or malfunction... click link for more info.
Sudden cardiac death from emotional stress may be triggered by uneven signals from the brain to the heart, according to a study by University College London (UCL) scientists published in the January issue of Brain ... click link for more info.
By alternating the flow of fluid through tiny plastic pipes, a team of mechanical engineers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has discovered a new and speedier way to mix liquids, which in turn will someday produce better and safer medications... click link for more info.
As a result of a worldwide cooperative movement, the absolute driving ban for people with epilepsy (PWE) has been lifted in Japan... click link for more info.
For the first time, scientists have found that bacteria can use a Sonar-like system to spot other cells (either normal body cells or other bacteria) and target them for destruction... click link for more info.
The FDA has asked makers of Crestor to stop publishing an ad aimed at patients... click link for more info.
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.
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