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Medical News Today: 12-25-2004
With her prescription drugs totaling more than $550 a month, 70-year-old Virginia Norman often had to choose between taking her medications and paying her bills... click link for more info.
As the snowflakes start to fall, many emergency rooms become busy with injuries specific to the winter months... click link for more info.
A new material that fuses biological and synthetic substances at the molecular level speeds bone and cartilage repair... click link for more info.
Some 30 original articles are featured in the December 2004 edition of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation... click link for more info.
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.
The Food Standards Agency (UK) has issued a follow-up Food Alert for information after it was notified of more products with levels of erucic acid that breach the regulations... click link for more info.
AMA President, Dr Bill Glasson, today reactivated the AMA's long-running campaign to change Australia's alcohol tax system to a system that taxes wine and other alcohol products according to their alcohol content, not their price... click link for more info.
For over five years, doctors in India have been recommending chicken pox vaccination for children, even though it does not figure in the list of mandatory vaccinations, and no comparative study has ever been conducted... click link for more info.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry confirmed Wednesday that one of five people suspected of having been infected with bird flu at a chicken farm in Kyoto Prefecture was the first person discovered to have carried the virus in the country... click link for more info.
"Fevered reaction" to the preliminary results of a study released this week that indicated the pain medication naproxen might increase patient risk for heart attack and stroke by 50% "may be overblown," and safety risks of the medication remain "unclear," according to the lead author of the study and other medical experts, the Wall Street Journal reports (Regalado/Winslow, Wall Street Journal, 12/23)... click link for more info.
Although the number of diabetes-related deaths increased in 2003 in New York City, the number of HIV/AIDS-related deaths in the city decreased and fewer teenage girls gave birth last year, according to an annual vital statistics summary released Wednesday by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the New York Times reports... click link for more info.
Agency Requires Evaluation of Prevention Studies Involving Cox-2 Selective Agents - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued a Public Health Advisory summarizing the agency's recent recommendations concerning the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug products (NSAIDs), including those known as COX-2 selective agents... click link for more info.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today cleared for marketing the first laboratory test system that will allow physicians to consider unique genetic information from patients in selecting medications and doses of medications for a wide variety of common conditions such as cardiac disease, psychiatric disease, and cancer... click link for more info.
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.
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