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Medical News Today: 01-22-2005
Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc confirmed that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has informed the Company that it is unable to complete its review of the Company's Supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) to market the Plan B(R) (levonorgestrel) emergency contraceptive Over-The-Counter (OTC) by the January 21st Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date... click link for more info.
For most of the growing number of women who go out to work, organising childcare for young children is a highly complicated process in which the slightest disruption is likely to cause a crisis, according to new research sponsored by the ESRC... click link for more info.
Even before making the connection between drugs such as Vioxx and heart attacks, many doctors were becoming concerned that the heavily advertised drugs known as COX-2 inhibitors were being over-used, often by patients unlikely to benefit from this costly but innovative pharmaceutical class... click link for more info.
University of Michigan researchers have developed a faster, more efficient way to produce a wide variety of nanoparticle drug delivery systems, using DNA molecules to bind the particles together... click link for more info.
While large-scale genomic sequencing technologies over the past decade have given scientists databases filled with the complete genomes of hundreds of organisms, not enough is being done to interpret all that data by assigning functions to sequenced genes (annotation), according to a report released today by the American Academy of Microbiology... click link for more info.
Brenner Children's Hospital, part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, was recently invited to participate in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pediatric Heart Network... click link for more info.
As the death toll from the Dec... click link for more info.
General news and science reporters, editors, broadcasters and photographers are invited to The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Friday, Jan... click link for more info.
Timing is everything, it seems, even in science... click link for more info.
A new study on the determination of how livers are allocated for transplants examined the relationship between liver disease severity and quality of life, and found that the commonly used model for liver allocation is not a reliable indicator of general quality of life... click link for more info.
Females on top: Three Steps to Emancipation Classical polyandry occurs when a female breeds with several males who will raise their offspring alone... click link for more info.
To identify the best treatment for recurrent ovarian cancer, researchers at Yale School of Medicine are studying a technology called the Yale apoptosis assay in combination with another technology called the ChemoFX assay, which could double the response rate to existing drugs... click link for more info.
Major developments in biotech, genomics and stem cell research now offer exciting and far-reaching new opportunities for health care in conditions ranging from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease to genetic disorders... click link for more info.
The Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (JRRD) has compiled a compendium of articles describing advances in limb loss and prosthetics research published in 2004... click link for more info.
New survey results released January 18th indicate that employers who give their workers more health information may see a decrease in sickness absence with nearly two thirds of people (64%) agreeing that if they had more information about managing common ailments they would be less likely to take time off work... click link for more info.
Older women who drink a moderate amount of alcohol each day may be helping to keep their minds sharp, according to researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues... click link for more info.
Many rivers and streams in the United States are believed to contain a toxic antimicrobial chemical whose environmental fate was never thoroughly scrutinized despite large scale production and usage for almost half a century, according to an analysis conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health... click link for more info.
Businesses rarely draw up written policies to tackle HIV/AIDS until 20% of the country's population is infected, according to a global survey on the impact of the disease on business... click link for more info.
As new child rights legislation enters into force in Romania, a report finds that babies are just as likely to be abandoned in the country's maternity and pediatric hospitals as they were three decades ago... click link for more info.
The NHS recommends regular medication reviews for older patients, yet a study published on bmj... click link for more info.
Invasive procedures, often given to patients as soon as they are admitted to hospital with a life-threatening heart condition, do not necessarily improve survival, finds a study published on bmj... click link for more info.
Mums to be have known for some time that what they eat when pregnant affects their unborn child but now researchers at the University of Nottingham believe that our mothers' diet during pregnancy may affect our predisposition to illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure in late life... click link for more info.
AMA (Australian Medical Association) Vice President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, said today the AMA has advised doctors to check contracts with their software providers... click link for more info.
Second year London medical student Bala Karunakaran hoped a trip to Sri Lanka would widen his outlook and help prepare him for a career as a doctor, but nothing prepared him for the tsunami... click link for more info.
More than eight out of ten doctors think the loss of university departments such as physics and chemistry will have a bad effect on medicine... click link for more info.
Second annual report published on National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England - The suicide rate for young men has fallen to its lowest level for almost 20 years, having dropped almost 30 percent from its peak in 1998, according to the second report published today measuring the progress of England's national suicide prevention strategy... click link for more info.
In research published on 19th January this year1, scientists from Broom's Barn Research Station2 conclusively show how to use GM herbicide tolerant (GMHT) crop technology for environmental benefit... click link for more info.
Why is it that when you go on vacation some members of your family always seem to get bitten more than others? Scientists at Rothamsted Research in Hertfordshire think they may have found the answer and their work could lead to the development of novel insect repellents... click link for more info.
A University of Edinburgh study has found that patients from minority ethnics groups who have asthma have a higher chance of having to go to hospital for treatment than the rest of the population... click link for more info.
Data Published in the Journal The Breast Shows Cryoablation to be an Excellent Non-Surgical Option for Treatment of Benign Breast Tumors - Sanarus Inc, a developer of minimally invasive diagnostic and treatment tools for breast disease, announced today twelve-month follow-up data from a peer-reviewed, prospective multinational study demonstrated that cryoablation is an excellent minimally invasive treatment option for eradicating benign breast tumors... click link for more info.
With support from the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), Melissa Resnick of Merrick, New York, will become the first blind nursing student at Nassau Community College (NCC)... click link for more info.
Idebenone, Allergan's Latest Wrinkle Fighter Gets January 2005 Release - Allergan, the makers of Botox Cosmetic, have announced the January 2005 release of the highly anticipated, breakthrough, anti-wrinkle cream "Prevage... click link for more info.
Immunomedics, Inc (Nasdaq: IMMU) today announced that the Biologics and Genetics Therapies Directorate at the Health Products and Food Branch of Health Canada has approved the marketing and use of LeukoScan(R) (sulesomab) for the detection of osteomyelitis... click link for more info.
Scientists at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, have found that young males who have a high score in IQ tests have a lower probability of committing suicide, when compared to young men with low IQs... click link for more info.
European Union Health and Consumer Affairs Commissioner, Markos Kyprianou, says the EU may place a ban on junk food advertising if junk food producers to not reduce ads aimed at children... click link for more info.
KOBE - "With exceptionally generous help from Japan and other donors, no child who survived the Asian tsunami should die from hunger... click link for more info.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, today announced new federal guidelines for the use of antiretroviral drugs to prevent HIV infection after exposure to HIV through sexual intercourse, sexual assault, injection drug use, or accidents... click link for more info.
Whether it is barn-raising or crafting a business plan, humans are among the few creatures that are able to work well cooperatively... click link for more info.
Poor women who are physically or sexually abused at some point in their lives are less likely to maintain stable intimate relationships, according to a new study of more than 2,500 women by sociologists from The Johns Hopkins University and Penn State University... click link for more info.
Just one cellular pathway produces the raw ingredients plants use to make thousands of compounds, from molecules with anticancer properties to the active ingredient in catnip, according to a team of researchers at Purdue University and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology... click link for more info.
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