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Medical News Today: 02-18-2005
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The lack of natural growth factors in the fluid in which IVF embryos are grown could have lifelong effects on people conceived this way... click link for more info.
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A typically innocuous virus found in 90 percent of people worldwide is the key to a new treatment for a cancer particularly common in North Africa and Southeast Asia... click link for more info.
UCB Pharma Inc has been granted a priority review for the supplemental new drug application (sNDA) seeking approval of its leading anti-epilepsy drug (AED) Keppra®* (levetiracetam) as add on therapy in children and adolescents with partial seizures in the USA... click link for more info.
The Royal College of General Practitioners' (RCGP) Disability Care Award 2004 has been won by a GP practice in Liverpool... click link for more info.
The federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation today granted motions by several parties, including Merck, to transfer all VIOXX® product liability lawsuits pending in federal courts nationwide into one consolidated Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) for coordinated pre-trial proceedings... click link for more info.
Developers of / experts in health risk assessment methods are herewith informed of a procurement procedure under EU law for health risk assessment methods (see: Publication of Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union New NHS disciplinary rules - a fair process for doctors, employers and patients, UK
Commenting on the newly agreed disciplinary procedures for NHS hospital doctors in England, Dr Alan Russell, Deputy Chairman of the BMA's Consultants Committee, made the following comments: "We think the new process offers hospital doctors, employers and patients a fair deal... click link for more info.
Three commonly used drugs -- Prozac, Xenical and Meridia -- may help type 2 diabetes patients lose small amounts of weight, although long-term benefits are not clear, a new review of 22 studies suggests... click link for more info.
A little-known drug called naltrexone provides a "meaningful benefit" in helping alcoholics moderate their drinking, according to the latest review of evidence from 29 studies on four continents... click link for more info.
Drawing on an understanding of how slugs, leeches and earthworms traverse their environments and grasp objects, a team of Case Western Reserve University biologists and engineers has developed two flexible robotic devices that could make invasive medical procedures such as colonoscopies safer for patients and easier for doctors to administer... click link for more info.
Married women who avoid conflict with their spouses have an increased risk of dying from any cause, researchers report today at the Second International Conference on Women, Heart Disease and Stroke... click link for more info.
UC Irvine researchers have uncovered significant differences in the brain activity of men and women when engaged in a broad range of activities and behavior - differences that are even more acute during impulsive or hostile acts... click link for more info.
Henry Ford Hospital has launched a safety study using the drug Viagra to determine if it can help patients recover from a stroke... click link for more info.
A piece of the topical puzzle of how estrogen goes from protecting women from heart disease to apparently increasing their risk later in life may have been found... click link for more info.
A typically innocuous virus found in 90 percent of people worldwide is the key to a new treatment for a cancer particularly common in North Africa and Southeast Asia... click link for more info.
When Laura Bush visited an inner city Baltimore classroom earlier this month, she observed first-grade students playing a game that promotes good behavior as they worked on a reading assignment... click link for more info.
Columbia University Medical Center researchers have identified a protein that may provide a powerful new therapeutic tool for fighting kidney failure... click link for more info.
A new book from ASM Press highlights the codependent relationship that has evolved between mammals and microbes in the mucous membranes... click link for more info.
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Health Minister John Hutton today announced measures aimed at tackling the cost of long drawn-out disciplinary procedures and staff suspensions within the NHS... click link for more info.
A single gene variant may increase a man's risk of prostate cancer by 50%, according to a new study led by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and published this week in Cancer Research... click link for more info.
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Bush administration officials on Wednesday "rebutted claims" that legalizing prescription drug reimportation and allowing the federal government to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies would lower the... click link for more info.
A clinical trial is underway at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) to study the safety and effectiveness of an endovascular medical device to treat life-threatening thoracic aortic aneurysms... click link for more info.
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The history of hormone therapy drugs - once thought of as almost magic pills to keep women healthy, vital and young - shows why it is so important to conduct research studies to identify the risks and benefits of drugs, say researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center... click link for more info.
The Conservative Party, the main opposition party in the United Kingdom, on Monday proposed immigration guidelines that would require people from non-... click link for more info.
Some HIV/AIDS experts have "questioned why such an uproar has emerged" over the detection of a rare, drug-resistant HIV strain and expressed concern that the public health alert issued in New York City last week might have been "premature," the... click link for more info.
The European Vaccine Effort against HIV/AIDS, today announced that a phase I clinical trial of novel investigational vaccines comprising DNA-HIV-C and NYVAC-HIV-C for the prevention of HIV infection has started in Lausanne and London in February 2005... click link for more info.
The discovery that zinc contained in the hemoglobin of deep-sea tubeworms is used to bind and transport nutrients to symbiotic bacteria will be published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science during the week of 14 February 2005... click link for more info.
Global healthcare spending exceeds $3 trillion of which pharmaceuticals account for approximately $250 billion... click link for more info.
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President Bush on Monday resubmitted to the Senate 20 judicial nominees, including seven federal appeals court nominees who during the last Congress were blocked by Democratic filibusters because of concerns about their records on issues such as abortion rights, the... click link for more info.
Flu vaccinations for individuals ages 65 and older might not reduce flu-related mortality rates as much as previously thought, according to a study published on Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the http://www... click link for more info.
Previous research suggests that older doctors tend to provide lower-quality care than younger doctors who recently graduated from medical school, according to a "provocative"... click link for more info.
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An increasing number of middle-class families are declining employer-sponsored health coverage for their children and enrolling them in public health insurance programs, the... click link for more info.
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