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Medical News Today: 01-03-2005
Researchers from the University of Radboud, Netherlands, have found that gastric-acid suppressive drugs raise the risk of developing pneumonia... click link for more info.
The Medicines (Child Safety) Regulations 2003 number 2317 reclosable packaging - These Regulations came into force on 1 October 2003 and require products containing aspirin, paracetamol and more than 24mg of elemental iron to be packaged in containers which are child resistant... click link for more info.
Migraine sufferers have more genes that produce platelets, say researchers from Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, USA... click link for more info.
In response to last Sunday's catastrophic tsunami, UNICEF is seeking $81 million to support urgent humanitarian aid for the estimated 1... click link for more info.
INDONESIA-- WFP has begun distributing food aid in Aceh province, among the hardest hit areas in Asia... click link for more info.
OpusDuoTM Er:YAG is First Laser System Cleared for Contact Thermal Mechanical Ablation of Bone - Lumenis® Ltd LUME... click link for more info.
The Government of the Republic of Indonesia will be organizing Special ASEAN Leaders' Meeting on Aftermath of Earthquake and Tsunami in Jakarta on 6 January 2005... click link for more info.
Johns Hopkins researchers, using a novel birthing simulator designed by biomedical engineering faculty, staff and students at the University, have identified what may be the least forceful way to deliver a baby whose shoulders are stuck in the birth canal... click link for more info.
A survey of mothers in the January issue of Pediatrics found that physicians remain overwhelmingly negative in communicating a diagnosis of Down syndrome in newborn infants... click link for more info.
Children who appear to have higher levels of shyness, or a particular gene, appear to have a different pattern of processing the signals of interpersonal hostility, according to a study in the January issue of The Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals... click link for more info.
Impaired driving will affect one in three Americans during their lifetime... click link for more info.
China has sent a team of 14 doctors to Sri Lanka to help the country's tsunami victims... click link for more info.
A 15-year-old girl, Jeanna Giese, USA, is back home after surviving rabies without getting immediate treatment - the first person ever to survive rabies without a vaccine... click link for more info.
As new information provides a clearer picture of the full extent of the Indian Ocean disaster Australia will continue to increase its support for the international relief effort... click link for more info.
A Defence chartered Antonov 124 will land at Sydney International Airport this afternoon, load overnight and depart tomorrow (Monday 3 Jan 05)... click link for more info.
As a first line response to the disaster caused by the tsunami on December 26, medicines donated by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) are being airlifted to the affected countries across Asia... click link for more info.
International health and care group BUPA has given £100,000 to the Disasters Emergency Committee and launched an internal fundraising campaign to support the relief of the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster... click link for more info.
Shire Pharmaceuticals Group plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY, TSX: SHQ) announces the signing of a non-binding initial agreement to globally develop and commercialize a new Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) compound from New River Pharmaceuticals Inc... click link for more info.
In response to the British Medical Journal article dated January 1, 2005, entitled "FDA to review missing drug company documents," Eli Lilly and Company has issued the following statement: To our knowledge, there has never been any allegation of missing documents from the Wesbecker trial or any other trial involving Lilly... click link for more info.
WHO has received informal reports of a laboratory-confirmed case of H5N1 infection in Viet Nam... click link for more info.
WHO is mobilizing emergency health kits to cover essential medical needs of two million people for three months... click link for more info.
INDONESIA-- Two US C-130 cargo planes carrying nearly WFP 10 tons of rice, biscuits and noodles flew today from the capital city Jakarta to Banda Aceh in one of the regions of Indonesia hardest hit by the tsunamis... click link for more info.
The earthquakes and tidal waves in South and Southeast Asia have had a devastating impact on the region... click link for more info.
Evidence-based medicine resource to help improve treatment, reduce costsA new Web-based tool will be available January 1, 2005 to help clinicians determine the best medication for patients with schizophrenia... click link for more info.
During week 50 (December 12-18, 2004), influenza activity continued to slowly increase, but overall remained low in the United States... click link for more info.
UNESCO and OPEC FUND have concluded an agreement to create a two-year Project on Reducing the Impact of the HIV/AIDS Crisis in and through Education... click link for more info.
At the end of a year marked by tragic humanitarian crises ranging from conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan to the carnage caused by a Tsunami in Asia, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme paid tribute today to donors' generosity but cautioned that even more support was vital for the coming year... click link for more info.
UNICEF is launching a fleet of mobile vans across three disaster-hit districts of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry this New Year's weekend to help families in relief camps prevent and treat any outbreak of diarrhoea, especially among children... click link for more info.
UNICEF said today it is concerned that children throughout the tsunami-devastated region have been orphaned or separated from their families and are in critical need of basic care and support... click link for more info.
A report published by the American Heart Association says one tenth of all American children aged 2-5 were obese in 2002... click link for more info.
Radon in homes and risk of lung cancer: collaborative analysis of individual data from 13 European case-control studies, BMJ Online First The effects of natural radon gas escaping the earth's surface into our homes is causing 9% of all deaths from lung cancer across Europe, and smokers are most at risk, according to a paper on BMJ... click link for more info.
Switching of prescription drugs to over the counter availability is increasingly common, but what are the motives behind this trend, ask US researchers in this week's BMJ? Generally, a prescription drug becomes a candidate for over the counter availability if it is used for a non-chronic condition that is relatively easy to self-diagnose and has low potential for harm from abuse... click link for more info.
The BMJ (British Medical Journal) has turned over confidential drug company documents that went missing from a 10 year old murder case to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for review... click link for more info.
A five-part series about clinical trial data and its applicability to individual patients begins in this week's issue of THE LANCET (pp 13, 82)... click link for more info.
The most comprehensive epidemiological study to date into recurring sudden unexplained infant death syndrome (SIDS) is published in this week's issue of THE LANCET (pp 3, 29)... click link for more info.
American Lung Association's Freedom From Smoking® Online Program Provides Support Via the Internet - With New Year's resolutions in mind for many people across the country, there's no time like the present to join the 46 million Americans who have already become quitters... click link for more info.
The American Public Health Association (APHA) today announced that Linda Young Landesman, DrPH, MSW, a Columbia University faculty member and author of the newly published second edition of "Public Health Management of Disasters: The Practice Guide," is available to discuss the public health response to disasters, such as the recent tsunami that ravaged parts of South Asia... click link for more info.
Released by American Academy of Neurology and Child Neurology Society - Both ibuprofen and acetaminophen are safe and effective for treating migraine headaches in children and adolescents, according to the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society, whose new practice guideline is published in the December 28 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology... click link for more info.
American Heart Association year-end report - DALLAS, Dec... click link for more info.
Saying that the scale of the disaster is far beyond is first estimates, the British Government has increased its aid pledge for the Asian tsunami victims to £50 million ($95 million)... click link for more info.
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