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Medical News Today: 02-24-2005
An FDA advisory panel on Friday voted unanimously to advise the agency that all COX-2 inhibitors increase a person's risk for cardiovascular problems, yet a "substantial majority" of panelists recommended that despite the risks, the medications should remain on the market and be accompanied by strong warnings, the... click link for more info.
Hypnosis can serve as a valuable adjunct to certain kinds of psychotherapy, says Steven Lynn, professor of psychology at Binghamton University, State University of New York... click link for more info.
Although reports that mother-to-child HIV transmission has been "nearly wiped out" in the United States and Western Europe are "thrill[ing]," it could be "bad news for the rest of the world" because "with few children with AIDS in rich nations, [drug] companies will have little incentive to improve on current pediatric AIDS products, and governments will continue to make sick children an afterthought," a... click link for more info.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela on Thursday announced that he will attend next month's... click link for more info.
Health workers in every country in the Western Hemisphere are preparing strategies, purchasing vaccines, and coordinating logistics for the largest immunization drive in the Americas, targeting millions of children for Vaccination Week in the Americas, starting April 23... click link for more info.
New funds will help UNICEF fight malaria - Despite impressive advances made against malaria in Zimbabwe during the mid and late 1990s, UNICEF today warned that the country's children are once more under threat from the disease... click link for more info.
The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) enters into force on Sunday 27 February 2005... click link for more info.
Figures published today by the Office for National Statistics (UK) for 1999 to 2003 show that drug related deaths fell for the third year in a row to reach their lowest level since 1997... click link for more info.
Homicide is the second most common cause of injury-related death among pregnant women and new mothers, according to a... click link for more info.
The Montana House on Monday preliminarily approved 53-47 a bill... click link for more info.
Exercise therapy can improve muscle strength, mobility and other signs of fitness in people with multiple sclerosis, according to a recent review of studies... click link for more info.
The... click link for more info.
The number of deaths in South Africa increased by 57% from 1997 to 2002, in part showing that the country's HIV/AIDS epidemic is "cutting a swath through its working-age population," according to statistics released Friday by... click link for more info.
Health insurance that pays the full cost of smoking-cessation treatments can increase quit rates, compared to benefit plans that pick up only part of the tab or that offer no cessation benefits at all, according to a new review of studies... click link for more info.
Papua New Guinea is "clearly ... click link for more info.
More than 60% of doctors and the general public in the United States believe that mandatory, federally funded HIV testing would improve the overall health of U... click link for more info.
The rare, drug-resistant HIV strain recently detected in a New York City man appears to be "similar in some ways" to two HIV cases in Canada that first appeared in 2001 and did not lead to the spread of a "supervirus," the... click link for more info.
Palm Beach County, Florida Health Department statistician John Nolan on Thursday accidentally e-mailed to 800 other health department employees a confidential list of 6,500 people in the county who are living with HIV/AIDS, the... click link for more info.
Financial constraints under the fiscal year 2006 budget proposed by President Bush might require... click link for more info.
Surgeons at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago now offer laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, or LAP-BAND®, for weight loss in severely obese teens... click link for more info.
In a new study of breast milk and store-bought milk from across the United States, scientists at Texas Tech University found perchlorate in every sample but one... click link for more info.
Researchers identified a protein that might trigger kidney disease in diabetic patients, a condition that affects one in three people with type 1 and one in ten people with type 2 diabetes... click link for more info.
Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have developed a new laboratory method that rapidly identifies babies born with inherited forms of severe immune deficiency... click link for more info.
Physician-researchers at Emory University in Atlanta have shown an investigational medication, known as LEA29Y (belatacept), is effective in preserving transplanted kidney function while at the same time avoiding the toxic side effects that are common in the currently used long-term, immunosuppressive transplant medications... click link for more info.
People infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) have a higher risk of developing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and multiple myeloma, according to a recent study of the Swedish population... click link for more info.
Short-term use of selective COX-2 inhibitors may be safe for patients with cirrhosis of the liver, according to a recent study that compared the effects of celecoxib, naproxen, and a placebo on cirrhotic patients in a double-blind randomized controlled study... click link for more info.
The health care industry must agree to technical standards for electronic health records by this summer or the federal government likely will "put out a mandate," National Health Information Technology Coordinator David Brailer said at an industry conference on Wednesday, the... click link for more info.
An embarrassing medical problem that costs UK health services £50m each year is to be investigated in the biggest-ever study of the condition in the world... click link for more info.
NHS Greater Glasgow has written to the parents of 18 children, between the ages of one and five, to ask them to contact their GP to make arrangements for their children to receive an additional vaccination... click link for more info.
Engineers at Cardiff University, UK, are using their expertise to help create a device which could greatly increase the rate of recovery for stroke victims... click link for more info.
Problems with the brain - not just the ears - cause a great deal of the age-related hearing loss in older people... click link for more info.
Early diagnosis and treatment is important for children and adolescents with bipolar disorder, according to new treatment guidelines... click link for more info.
Leading cancer care charity Macmillan Cancer Relief expressed concerns that there is a lack of funding to back up recommendations made in the NICE Guidance on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Lung Cancer announced today... click link for more info.
A group of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and several other institutions has solved the structure of a rare human antibody that broadly neutralizes human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)... click link for more info.
Scientists have uncovered new information that may help guide design of vaccines for HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS... click link for more info.
Which? reveals today that 77 per cent of people think using kids' favourite cartoon characters such as Shrek, The Simpsons and Scooby Doo, on the packs of foods high in fat, salt and sugar makes it difficult for parents to say no to their children... click link for more info.
The Health Development Agency today cautioned against complacency in reaction to claims by the Social Issues Research Council (SIRC) that child obesity fears are being 'over-hyped'... click link for more info.
The world of advertising and public relations has brought physicians' namesto the public on a continuing basis... click link for more info.
FDA has approved Vaccinia Immune Globulin Intravenous (VIGIV) -- the first intravenous human plasma-derived product available to treat certain rare complications of smallpox vaccination... click link for more info.
EPA has established an official reference dose (RfD) of 0... click link for more info.
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