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Medical News Today: 12-26-2004
MSF is offering its services to the Indonesian Government to assist the affected population... click link for more info.
Latest reports indicate that over 7,000 people have died as a result of a devastating earthquake that hit Southeast Asia early this morning... click link for more info.
If you have diarrhoea and vomiting give the stomach a rest and abstain from food and alcohol... click link for more info.
Happy 15th Birthday BOTOX(R)! First approved by the FDA to treat two rare eye disorders in December 1989, then approved to treat a debilitating movement disorder affecting the head and neck and, most recently, approved to treat severe underarm sweating not managed with topical agents, BOTOX(R) (Botulinum Toxin Type A) is one of the world's most versatile medicines... click link for more info.
Media coverage of a British study on children and asthma wrongly links the use of cleaning products to asthma suffering -- and ignores the health benefits of responsible product usage, according to The Soap and Detergent Association (SDA)... click link for more info.
Cellegy Pharmaceuticals, Inc (Nasdaq: CLGY) announced that it received a communication from the U... click link for more info.
The Wellness Community(R) (TWC), an international, non-profit organization dedicated to providing free support, education and hope for all people affected by cancer, announced that its founder, Harold H... click link for more info.
A tidal wave that hit the East Coast of India killed scores of people and devastated property on Sunday morning, shortly after a strong earthquake hit Indonesia and sent tremors through the subcontinent... click link for more info.
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has set up a special hotline for people with relatives in South-East Asia and south Asia, where Tsunamis and earthquakes struck earlier today... click link for more info.
The Swiss president, Joseph Deiss, has sent a message of sympathy and solidarity to the victims of Sunday's disastrous earthquake in southeastern Asia... click link for more info.
Russia says it will send AID and personnel to help the international relief efforts after the tragic earthquake and tidal waves that have hit Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, The Maldives, Thailand and Bangladesh... click link for more info.
The European Union on Sunday committed 3 million euros (US$4 million) in emergency aid to help victims of the massive earthquake and tsunamis that hit coastal communities in several south Asian nations... click link for more info.
Pope John Paul II prayed Sunday for the victims of the earthquake and tidal waves in Asia, and called for international relief efforts... click link for more info.
Southern Asia experienced the fifth worst earthquake in 100 years - it sent tsunamis (tidal waves) that hit India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and even Bangladesh reported huge waves... click link for more info.
Australian Health experts are using the holiday period to remind people of the dangers of rubella infection... click link for more info.
UK Health Secretary John Reid today thanked the 2... click link for more info.
Novartis Pharma AG announced that the U... click link for more info.
Significant improvement of patient convenience by reducing pill count from 5 pills to 2 pills twice a day - Roche's new Invirase 500 mg formulation has received U... click link for more info.
More than 1,1 million Swiss Francs raised for HIV/AIDS projects - The "Roche AIDS Walk" mobilised 8000 employees around 60 sites on World AIDS day... click link for more info.
Wyeth (NYSE:WYE) announced today that the trial in the cases of Lorraine Gordon v... click link for more info.
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.
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