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Medical News Today: 11-25-2004
FDA on Tuesday announced a new plan to strengthen efforts to prevent pregnant women from taking Roche's acne drug Accutane and generic versions of the drug, known as isotretinoin, USA Today reports (Rubin, USA Today, 11/24)... click link for more info.
Tokyo, Japan, Nov 25, 2004 - (JCN Newswire) - As of November 25, 2004, Tanabe Seiyaku Co... click link for more info.
BMA Scotland today (Thursday 25 November 2004) expressed concerns over plans by the Scottish Executive to engage with the private sector for health care delivery in Scotland... click link for more info.
Important questions about the government's patient choice agenda in England remain unanswered, the British Medical Association said today (Thursday 25 November... click link for more info.
UK Health Minister John Hutton today announced that Alan Burns, chief executive of Trent Strategic Health Authority, has been appointed to a new role leading the service implementation of the National Programme for IT into the NHS... click link for more info.
Proposed dentistry reforms may fail to improve the service, according to the National Audit Office (NAO)... click link for more info.
A quarter of the 53,000 people living with HIV in the UK do not know they are infected, a new report has revealed... click link for more info.
The Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services sponsors a mobile health care van -- known as Care-A-Van -- that offers teenagers at some schools and people at area homeless shelters testing for and information about sexually transmitted diseases at no cost, the Sacramento Bee reports... click link for more info.
The Chinese government, which has been criticized for not addressing HIV/AIDS in the country, has begun promoting the use of condoms to prevent transmission of the virus and has allowed condom advertisements in advance of World AIDS Day on Dec... click link for more info.
Nearly half of the 37 million HIV-positive adults ages 15 to 49 worldwide are women, and the number of HIV-positive women in all regions of the world has been increasing over the past two years, according to a report released on Tuesday by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization in advance of World AIDS Day on Dec... click link for more info.
High-quality care for depression can improve productivity at work and lower rates of workplace absenteeism, according to a new report... click link for more info.
A stray hair, or a spatter of blood or saliva, is all it takes to prove that a suspect was at the scene of a crime... click link for more info.
Many community pharmacists are not opposed to importing drugs to lower patients' costs as long as those drugs are channeled through U... click link for more info.
Phase III Trials at One Year Demonstrate New Level of Efficacy - 66% Reduction in Rate of Relapses Seen in AFFIRM Monotherapy Trial - Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) and Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE: ELN) announced today that the U... click link for more info.
A protein that the heart produces during its development could be redeployed after a heart attack to help the organ repair itself, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have found... click link for more info.
According to the vast body of research presented in the new book, International Perspectives on Family Violence and Abuse (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004), the term conjures quite different descriptions from individuals throughout the world... click link for more info.
Agricultural pesticide workers are not only exposed to pesticides from inhalation, but also through their skin... click link for more info.
Patients with cancers previously next to untreatable may have new hope because of a license agreement between Isotron of Norcross, Ga... click link for more info.
Discovery offers hope for a pharmaceutical intervention to treat some forms of retinitis pigmentosa - Gene mutations that impair the ability of photoreceptor cells to properly dispose of waste - and as a result cause the blinding eye disease retinitis pigmentosa - have been identified by vision researchers at the University of Utah's Moran Eye Center... click link for more info.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tried to discredit one of its own experts after he told a US Senate hearing that the FDA had failed to protect the public over rofecoxib (Vioxx), according to two articles published online by the BMJ today... click link for more info.
Chairman of the BMA's Welsh Council Dr Tony Calland said: "Today's high figures makes all health professionals working in NHS Wales weep in despair... click link for more info.
Plaid Cymru's Shadow Health Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM expressed his shock that one in ten people in Wales is on a waiting list... click link for more info.
Refugee and asylum-seeking doctors are playing an increasingly important role in the NHS, new figures show today (Thursday 25 November 2004) as the number listed with the BMA tops 1000 for the first time... click link for more info.
Using massage therapy to aid children with cancer and taking Cold Fx to fight the winter sniffles are two of the complementary and alternative therapies that will come under the microscope at the first annual Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research (IN-CAM) symposium, Dec... click link for more info.
Almost five million people across the globe were killed by smoking in 2000, a new survey shows... click link for more info.
New guidelines have been issued to help reduce the number of older people suffering falls... click link for more info.
The Queen has outlined UK Government plans to reform the UK's current legislation on mental health... click link for more info.
Cases of the sexually-transmitted disease Chlamydia increased by 39 per cent in one year in Scotland, according to the latest figures... click link for more info.
UK Health Secretary John Reid today welcomed the collective decision by the NHS unions to endorse Agenda for Change, the new pay reform package for more than 1... click link for more info.
The US teen birth rate declined in 2003 for the 12th straight year, while the proportion of births to unmarried women, births to women ages 40 to 44 and births by caesarean section increased over the same period, according to a new CDC report, the Washington Times reports (Wetzstein, Washington Times, 11/24)... click link for more info.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on Tuesday announced that agents on November 16 at John F Kennedy International Airport seized about 8,000 doses of unapproved and potentially contaminated flu vaccine intended for sale on the black market, USA Today reports (Leinwand, USA Today, 11/24)... click link for more info.
Several government and public health experts on Tuesday responded to an internal CDC investigation that determined a widely quoted agency study on obesity that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association inflated the number of deaths related to obesity by tens of thousands because of statistical errors, USA Today reports... click link for more info.
At MEDICA 2004, the medical trade fair taking place in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 24-27 November 2004, the European Space Agency will introduce highly progressive methods in space medicine and their application on Earth... click link for more info.
Stem cell source is disposable umbilical cord blood - A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine confirms that stem cells derived from the umbilical cords of newborn babies are a viable and effective transplant source for thousands of leukemia patients who have no other treatment option... click link for more info.
Drinking tomato juice on a daily basis can reduce the risk of heart disease in people with Type 2 diabetes, scientists from the University of Newcastle in Australia have found... click link for more info.
Preliminary birth data for 2003 indicate that the birth rate for women aged 40-44 increased in 2003 while the rate for women aged 45-54 remain unchanged, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... click link for more info.
The President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Mr Nicholas Wood, said: "The Society welcomes the news that contractors in England and Wales have voted "yes" to a new contract for NHS community pharmacy services... click link for more info.
Adults with and without diabetes have benefited similarly from the decline in cardiovascular disease (CVD) rates over the last several decades, according to a study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)... click link for more info.
There appears to be an association between obesity and the risk of developing the heart rhythm disorder atrial fibrillation, according to a study of participants in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's (NHLBI) Framingham Heart Study... click link for more info.
Japanese government researchers have found the DNA of the hepatitis E virus in wild boars trapped in four prefectures, Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry research groups have reported... click link for more info.
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