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Medical News Today: 11-30-2004
The World Health Organization (WHO) is reinstating two antiretrovirals manufactured by Cipla Ltd... click link for more info.
To mark World AIDS day on 1 December, this background note summarises legislative actions and programmes financed by the European Union to increase understanding and awareness of HIV/AIDS issues... click link for more info.
The new generation of Europeans face an unprecedented risk of catching HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to Markos Kyprianou, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection... click link for more info.
This evidence-based report by Medact, analyzes, from a public health perspective, the impact of the 2003 war in Iraq on health, the health system, and relief and reconstruction... click link for more info.
Next month while the United States and countries around the world prepare to celebrate the holiday season, a group of dedicated volunteers and organizations dedicated to children's health will bring the gift of life to nearly a million children in Togo as a part of a massive measles vaccination and malaria prevention campaign... click link for more info.
UK Health Secretary, John Reid, today published the implementation framework for the review of Department of Health's Arm's Length Bodies (ALB's), setting out the first steps in reducing the number of bodies from 38 to 20... click link for more info.
The possible health risks associated with mobile phone masts is to be investigated in a new study... click link for more info.
Researchers have raised concerns over government plans to adopt a US scheme for the NHS, which identifies older people at risk of needing hospital treatment... click link for more info.
Bethesda, Md -- The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced today it will provide more than $1 million over three years to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to further develop and make more widely available a Genome Fingerprint Scanning (GFS) program... click link for more info.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 29 November 2004 - On 1 December, World AIDS Day, the Medical Knowledge Institute (MKI) and the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) launch a global AIDS initiative starting April 2005... click link for more info.
Primary care nurses can take on a key role managing one of the UK's fastest growing killers1 - New guidelines on the role primary care nurses can play in COPD, based on the recommendations of leading UK experts on the condition, have been launched today... click link for more info.
Roche and Genentech, Inc, announced today that Avastin (bevacizumab, rhuMAb-VEGF), a new innovative anti-angiogenesis drug, has shown for the first time that it significantly increases survival in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer when used in combination with a standard oxaliplatin-containing chemotherapy regimen... click link for more info.
Abbott's patent claims for solvent free drug held invalid - Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Ranbaxy (UK) Limited (RUKL), successfully overcame a court action brought in the UK by Abbott Laboratories (Abbott) to prevent Ranbaxy from selling immediate release Clarithromycin (tablets, 250 mg and 500 mg and suspension 125mg/ 5ml & 250mg/5ml) in the UK market... click link for more info.
The initiation of Phase 2/3 studies announced by Organon today marks the development of a innovative non-hormonal approach to the treatment of hot flushes and (night)sweats in menopausal women... click link for more info.
Novartis Pharma AG announced today that it has withdrawn the application for the EU Mutual Recognition Procedure for Prexige® (lumiracoxib) to await the outcome of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) review of all selective COX-2 inhibitors, which is expected to be completed in 2005... click link for more info.
AstraZeneca today announced that the European Mutual Recognition Variation Procedure (MRP) evaluating the use of Atacand® (candesartan cilexetil), a selective angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) in the treatment of chronic heart failure (CHF) has been completed... click link for more info.
AstraZeneca today announced that a new indication for its prescription proton pump inhibitor Nexium® (esomeprazole magnesium) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)... click link for more info.
Amgen Inc announced a call for nominations for its 14th annual Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence... click link for more info.
At this time, Allergan, Inc (NYSE: AGN) cannot determine whether the stories involving patients treated at the Advanced Integrated Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida have anything to do with Allergan's product BOTOX® (botulinum toxin type A)... click link for more info.
Marijuana helps many seriously ill people cope better with unimaginable pain and discomfort, it is recommended by most doctors... click link for more info.
Over 34,000 people receiving ARV treatment - In less than three years, the Government of Botswana has successfully rolled-out ARV therapy nationwide... click link for more info.
If you have a lot of stress, say researchers at the University of California, your cells will age faster, you will be at higher risk of age related diseases earlier in life - put simply, you will get old faster and more likely die earlier... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - Ajinomoto Co... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) has announced that it has discovered a new mechanism that relates to how a biological clock oscillates, in collaboration with Nagoya University Professor Takao Kondo... click link for more info.
Russia is experiencing "remarkably low" birth rates and "terrifyingly high" death rates, which have caused the country's population to decline by more than four million people, or 3%, in the 11 years since the fall of the Soviet Union, according to a report from the National Bureau of Asian Research, a Seattle-based not-for-profit research organization, the Washington Times reports... click link for more info.
The New York Times on Monday examined how "more and more" hospitals are banning vaginal birth after caesarean-section procedures and insisting that women who previously had caesareans undergo the procedure again in subsequent pregnancies... click link for more info.
China has approved human testing of a locally developed potential AIDS vaccine, the state-run Xinhua news agency announced this week... click link for more info.
Health is the biggest concern in old age, according to a poll conducted by BBC News Online... click link for more info.
Bird flu could be more deadly than the SARS virus, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)... click link for more info.
London and Liverpool, UK, are to petition Parliament to pass smoking bans in the two cities... click link for more info.
The much criticised hospital star ratings system is to be scrapped in favour of a new method of regulating hospital performance under proposals announced today... click link for more info.
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has now released its new research into food labelling, which claims that people would like simple signposts to help them make healthier and informed food choices... click link for more info.
The New York Times on Monday examined pharmaceutical companies' research contracts with academic institutions, which often give drug makers control over self-financed research data by guaranteeing the companies the rights to the information... click link for more info.
Fighting a "massive global shortage" of health care workers through the "mobilization and strengthening of human resources for health ... click link for more info.
The third European Patent Office's epoline® Annual Conference has taken place in Salzburg on 23 and 24 November 2004... click link for more info.
Findings are disappointing, but some changes and more time could improve results - A new UCLA study released Nov... click link for more info.
Using computed tomography (CT)and 3-D modeling, radiologists are assisting in the restoration and display of a 5,300-year-old Egyptian mummy mask... click link for more info.
Vieux Boulogne, a soft, yet firm French cheese made from cow's milk and matured by washing with beer, tops a list of the smelliest cheeses reveals scientists today... click link for more info.
A drug withdrawn from pharmacy shelves over 20 years ago may point the way to a new treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, a muscle-wasting and often life-threatening childhood disease... click link for more info.
Four years ago in Science, Stuart Kim, a Stanford University developmental biologist, made the case for describing the broad strokes of a complex physiological process before defining its mechanisms... click link for more info.
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