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Medical News Today: 02-27-2005
New Delhi - Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (RLL) announced today that the Company has received tentative approval from the U... click link for more info.
Professor Mike Kelly, Director of Evidence and Guidance for the Health Development Agency said: "Longer, healthier lives for the rich; shorter, unhealthier lives for the poor: the ONS report focuses much needed attention on the stark impact of health inequalities... click link for more info.
A groundbreaking outreach program for frail elderly who need psychiatric services in their homes - believed to be the first of its kind in the United States -- is being launched by the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center... click link for more info.
Ninety-percent of California communities' emergency medical services response and patient transport falls to private ambulance operations during a natural disaster, act of terrorism or other large scale incident... click link for more info.
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month - People know to get their cars tuned up every 10,000 miles, change the batteries in the smoke detector once a year and rotate their mattress every month or two... click link for more info.
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Nigerian Health Minister Eyitayo Lambo on Wednesday announced that the government plans to expand its antiretroviral drug program to provide low-cost drugs to 100,000 HIV-positive people by the end of this year,... click link for more info.
Warmer weather will soon be here and that means spending more time in the sun's dangerous rays, which cause about 85 percent of premature aging... click link for more info.
Experts on Thursday at the... click link for more info.
Botswana President Festus Mogae and Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur on Wednesday in Bridgetown, Barbados, signed an agreement to cooperate in the fight against HIV/AIDS, the... click link for more info.
The Food Standards Agency (UK) has announced that the vast majority of products contaminated with the illegal dye Sudan I have been removed from sale... click link for more info.
Smith & Nephew's Orthopaedics business (NYSE: SNN, LSE: SN) announced the introduction of its PERI-LOC° Periarticular Locked Plating System... click link for more info.
A new center, unique in Europe, will be established in Oss, The Netherlands, providing facilities and expertise for the development and production of new biopharmaceutical medicines... click link for more info.
The federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation granted motions by several parties, including Merck, to transfer all VIOXX® shareholder suits pending in federal courts nationwide into one consolidated Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) for coordinated pre-trial proceedings... click link for more info.
Data Show 42% Reduction in the Risk of Disability Progression and Sustained 67% Reduction in Relapse Rate - Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) and Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE: ELN) announced today that the Phase III TYSABRI® (natalizumab) AFFIRM monotherapy trial achieved the two-year primary endpoint of slowing the progression of disability in patients with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS)... click link for more info.
Members of FDA Committees Support Safety of Naproxen, Active Ingredient in Aleve® - Bayer HealthCare's Consumer Care Division said today it was pleased that discussions by the U... click link for more info.
Donation Expected to Assist Hundreds of People Living with Hemophilia in 13 Countries - Bayer Healthcare LLC, Biological Products Division (Bayer BP), announced it is donating 2... click link for more info.
AstraZeneca today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) ATACAND® (candesartan cilexetil) for the treatment of heart failure (New York Heart Association Class II-IV and ejection fraction less than or equal to 40 percent) to reduce the risk of death from cardiovascular causes and reduce hospitalisations from heart failure... click link for more info.
Amgen Inc announced that data from the largest randomized placebo-controlled study to date for Neulasta(R) (pegfilgrastim) has been published in the February 20 issue of The Journal of Clinical Oncology... click link for more info.
Antiretroviral drug combination therapy might be more effective in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission and less likely to foster drug resistance among pregnant women than single-dose nevirapine, according to data presented this week at the... click link for more info.
People at high risk of diabetes know very little about the condition, delaying diagnosis and leaving them vulnerable to developing serious complications... click link for more info.
Fewer than 25% of states can respond at all times of the day to hospital alerts about patients who might have experienced bioterrorist or chemical attacks, William Raub,... click link for more info.
The Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report features recent developments related to medical malpractice insurance in five states... click link for more info.
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HMO enrollment in Illinois decreased by 6... click link for more info.
Bush administration officials this week sought to address concerns among some conservative Republicans that President Bush would veto any legislation aiming to alter the new Medicare law, ... click link for more info.
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The Arkansas Senate on Wednesday voted 26-4 to approve a... click link for more info.
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Sixty-five percent of US residents support more federal regulation of prescription drug prices, and 51% support additional regulations on prescription drug advertisements, according to a... click link for more info.
Almost one-third of the members on the... click link for more info.
The South Dakota House State Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved 10-1 a bill... click link for more info.
The Idaho Senate Health and Welfare Committee on Wednesday approved 8-0 a bill... click link for more info.
The Georgia House on Wednesday voted 139-35 to approve a bill... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - NTT (TSE: 9432) has developed an innovative human area networking technology called RedTacton (red implies a warm color; tacton is coined with "touch" and "action") that turns the surface of a human body into a data transmission path... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - GSI Creos (TSE: 8101) has announced that it has prototyped Carbere, a new cell culture incubator, using its proprietary cup-stacked-type carbon nanotubes (CSCNT)... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - Toray Indsutries (TSE: 3402) has announced that it has prototyped a plastic chip designed for protein analysis... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - Rohto Pharmaceutical (TSE: 4527) has announced that the company has discovered an unique property of alpha lipoic acid and amino acid... click link for more info.
Ankle sprains may predispose a patient to osteoarthritis according to a study presented at the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society's Annual Winter Meeting in Washington, DC, today... click link for more info.
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