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Medical News Today: 01-15-2005
Kindey dialysis and cancer patients have been warned by Amgen that its anemia drug, Aranesp, can cause blood clots (and even death) when doses are high... click link for more info.
An FDA advisory panel said 'no' to Merck's request that its statin, Mevacor, become an OTC (over-the-counter) drug... click link for more info.
UNICEF Says Getting Children Back in Classrooms Is Key To Larger Recovery Effort - Children in some of the areas affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami began returning to school this week even though the disaster destroyed or damaged over one thousand schools and killed thousands of teachers... click link for more info.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a joint public meeting of the agency's Arthritis Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee to be held February 16, 17 and 18, 2005... click link for more info.
Researchers at New York University have developed a model of the intra-cellular mammalian biological clock that reveals how rapid interaction of molecules with DNA is necessary for producing reliable 24-hour rhythms... click link for more info.
For many years, DNA and proteins have been viewed as the real movers and shakers in genomic studies, with RNA seen as little more than a messenger that shuttles information between the two... click link for more info.
A training program in mental health and deafness at the Wright State University School of Professional Psychology (SOPP) that is unique in American higher education is planning to expand to other locations in Ohio, according to Miami Valley clinical psychologist Robert Basil, Psy... click link for more info.
Mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) play an important role in the development of prostate cancer, according to research by scientists at Emory University School of Medicine and the University of California, Irvine... click link for more info.
It's a pretty safe bet you won't hear this request from your kids: "More liver, please... click link for more info.
An article appearing in the January 2005 issue of Brain, Behavior and Immunity suggests that developing depression while on interferon-alpha plus ribavirin may impact how well the medications work... click link for more info.
Imagine an entire chemistry laboratory reduced to the size of a postage stamp... click link for more info.
How do you remember your own name? Is it possible ever to forget it? The memory trace, or engram, "feels" like it is stored permanently in the brain and it will never be forgotten... click link for more info.
A fatal case of infant botulism may have been contracted from household dust, say researchers from Finland and California... click link for more info.
Researchers from Hong Kong have identified a novel coronavirus in patients suffering from pneumonia... click link for more info.
The addition of llama antibodies to shampoo could be a new strategy for fighting dandruff, say European researchers... click link for more info.
Sequence may contain genes controlling stature and tumor development - Scientists report today in the journal Genome Research that they have successfully cloned and characterized a previously intractable DNA sequence: a 554-kilobase-pair genomic segment near the centromere of the human Y chromosome... click link for more info.
Tobacco smoke triggers the production of COX-2, a cellular protein linked to the development and progression of cancer, according to research published in the January 15 issue of the journal Cancer Research... click link for more info.
If you eat lots of red and processed meat over the long term you may be significantly increasing your chances of developing cancer of the colon and rectum, says Dr Michael J Thun, American Cancer Society, USA... click link for more info.
An FDA panel is debating whether to approve changing the status of Mevacor, a statin, so that it can be bought over-the-counter (without a prescription)... click link for more info.
According to an article in The Lancet, one third of the world's population will be suffering from high blood pressure (hypertension) by the year 2025, that is, 1... click link for more info.
In the 2000 census, 36... click link for more info.
There is an alarming ignorance about cancer and how to reduce the risk of the disease which is Britain's biggest killer - a special survey reveals today... click link for more info.
Canadian Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh today released details of the new Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS in Canada... click link for more info.
The BDA (British Dental Association) today gave 'in principle' backing to the Government's decision to delay further the implementation of a new contract for NHS dentistry... click link for more info.
Later this month, millions of Muslims around the world will journey to Mecca for Hajj... click link for more info.
New figures published by Dr Foster in this week's BMJ (British Medical Journal) outline drug and alcohol related harm in the population of England... click link for more info.
The Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, today reminded those travellers leaving for the annual Hajj Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca to get their quadrivalent meningitis jab before they leave if they haven't already done so... click link for more info.
UK Health Secretary, John Reid, publishes new guidance for the NHS - Millions of people with asthma, diabetes and other long-term conditions could soon be receiving information by text messages and emails on how to stay fit and healthy, or even picking up health advice at their local barbers... click link for more info.
B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) is the most common leukemia in adults and is characterized by the progressive accumulation of mature B lymphocytes in the blood, bone marrow, and lymphatic tissues... click link for more info.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have discovered the molecular sequence of events in mice that turn a juvenile heart into an adult heart capable of responding to increased workloads... click link for more info.
Researchers have discovered that deletion of a specific gene permits the proliferation of new hair cells in the cochlea of the inner ear -- a finding that offers promise for treatment of age-related hearing loss... click link for more info.
A class of anti-seizure medications slows the rate of aging in roundworms, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St... click link for more info.
Following a long-term collaborative effort, scientists have deciphered the genomes of two strains of a fungus that can lead to brain swelling and death in those with compromised immune systems... click link for more info.
Finding how the fowl-borne bacteria Campylobacter jejuni makes at least a million Americans miserable for a week each year is on the plates of two Medical College of Georgia microbiologists... click link for more info.
The Georgia Medicaid program reduced its prescription-drug costs by $20... click link for more info.
More efficient ways of managing triage, scheduling and routing of patients through Los Angeles County/USC Hospital could trim delays dramatically and relieve overcrowded conditions, according to a team of engineers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering... click link for more info.
After Delay In Planned Announcement - In a letter sent Tuesday to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director, Dr... click link for more info.
USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center oncologists are testing the effectiveness of a new drug against pancreatic cancer that targets the cancer from two directions... click link for more info.
Professor Ricardo Azevedo's research on the simplicity of cell lineages explained in Nature magazine - Shedding light upon evolution, a University of Houston professor studying cell lineages now finds surprising simplicity in the logic of animal development... click link for more info.
Researchers at Brown Medical School and Rhode Island Hospital have shed new light on the activation of a protein key to the development of cancers, particularly breast and prostate cancer, the most commonly diagnosed cancers in the United States... click link for more info.
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