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Medical News Today: 10-07-2004
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly two million patients in the United States get an infection in a hospital each year, and 90,000 of those patients die as a result of their infection... click link for more info.
Levothyroxine product should be taken with full glass of water... click link for more info.
Children who have problems breathing during sleep tend to score lower on tests of mental development and intelligence than do other children their age, according to two studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)... click link for more info.
Rofecoxib (Vioxx) is, or was, Merck and Co's leading drug for control of acute pain, and pain associated with osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and menstruation... click link for more info.
Robert M Hayes, president of the Medicare Rights Center, made the following statement regarding the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposed regulations on the Medicare Part D drug benefit scheduled to take effect in 2006: "The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposed regulations do nothing to address the major shortcomings in the Medicare drug benefit... click link for more info.
The New Yorker in its October 11 issue examines HIV/AIDS in Russia, where the disease is "spreading more rapidly than anywhere else in the world... click link for more info.
The UK Health Protection Agency welcomes the publication of the Department of Health's Action Plan "Stopping Tuberculosis in England"... click link for more info.
Elderly patients should be embraced by the health service and treated as equals rather than singled out, the policy director of charity Help the Aged has said... click link for more info.
The UK Chief Medical Officer has attempted to play down the possibility of a shortage of flu vaccines... click link for more info.
UK - Shadow home secretary David Davis has promised to make the battle against hard drugs his top priority in a Conservative government... click link for more info.
Today the UK Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, announced new measures to tackle and ultimately eliminate tuberculosis in Britain... click link for more info.
Leptin is an appetite suppressing hormone which, according to recent research, could also help treat infertility and eating disorders in women and... click link for more info.
ST LOUIS, MO - October 7, 2004 - GenoMed, Inc (Pink Sheets: GMED), a Next Generation DM? (Disease Management) company that uses its expertise in genomics to improve clinical outcomes, announced today that it will offer its patent-pending broad spectrum viral antidote to the nation during the coming flu season this fall and winter... click link for more info.
A new camera, created at The University of Tennessee, USA, gives the health professional an enhanced image of the veins under the skin, and facilitates super accurate injection attempts... click link for more info.
If you live in Santa Cruz, California, and need marijuana for medical use, the local authorities will allow you to possess up to 3 pounds' worth... click link for more info.
John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, yesterday said she did not think American's seemed healthy... click link for more info.
A food extract could be used to improve the effects of an established cancer drug, scientists report in the British Journal of Cancer today*(1) (Tuesday)... click link for more info.
OTTAWA - Health Canada is informing Canadians of the worldwide voluntary withdrawal of Vioxx® by Merck & Co... click link for more info.
OTTAWA - Today the Public Health Agency of Canada released Young People in Canada: Their Health and Well-Being, which highlights the importance of young people being well-integrated socially and having supportive relationships and environments at home and at school... click link for more info.
Men who drink red wine may reduce their risk of prostate cancer, according to a new study published in the International Journal of Cancer... click link for more info.
The British Dental Association has welcomed today's announcement of the Conservatives' Action plan for dentistry... click link for more info.
UK - Plans to allow GPs to commission care services for their patients and control their own budgets have been outlined by the health minister... click link for more info.
UK - The Health Protection Agency (HPA), together with colleagues in the NHS and Local Authorities, are blaming lettuce for a national outbreak of salmonella... click link for more info.
Many teenage girls want to be fitter and lose weight, but fewer than half do any exercise once a week because they are too embarrassed, according to new research... click link for more info.
Japan - Specialists have discovered that depression may be an important factor in truancy... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - Chugai Pharmaceutical (TSE: 4519) has announced that its CHS13340 intranasal PTH therapy being co-developed by Chugai and Daiichi Suntory Pharma in Japan possesses an osteogenic effect, and has been regarded as a promising treatment for osteoporosis... click link for more info.
Childhood predictors of self-reported chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis in adults: national birth cohort study BMJ Online FirstSedentary children have a higher risk of developing chronic fatigue syndrome in later life than children who regularly play sport in their spare time, finds new research published on bmj... click link for more info.
New system can treat very small lesions quickly and with unprecedented precision ATLANTA, GA, USA - Emory University School of Medicine's Department of Radiation Oncology has become the first cancer treatment center in the world to use the new Trilogy(tm) system from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR), for treating cancer with image-guided radiosurgery... click link for more info.
Dr Sarah Jarvis, RCGP (Royal College of General Practitioners), UK, spokesperson, said: "This confirms long-running concerns over HRT drugs... click link for more info.
Dr Graham Archard, RCGP (Royal College of General Practitioners), UK, spokesperson, said: It is clear that diabetes and the related problem of obesity is now a major health concern in the UK and it looks like its only going to get worse before it gets better... click link for more info.
The American Society of Pain Educators (ASPE) has announced that it is developing a pain-education training program for pharmaceutical sales representatives as a result of recent events concerning analgesic medications... click link for more info.
UK - The MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) suspended Chiron Vaccines manufacturer's licence for influenza vaccine on 5 October 2004 for a period of three months with immediate effect... click link for more info.
UK Health minister, John Hutton today announced that an extra £30 million was being given to the NHS to help the implementation of Agenda for Change... click link for more info.
New statistics revealed today show that there are now 1,800,000 million people with diabetes in the UK - 3% of the population, equivalent to the combined population of Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester... click link for more info.
A team of US scientists have demonstrated how miniscule changes to a current, relatively harmless flu virus can transform it into a disease as devastatingly deadly as the 1918 flu virus (Spanish Flu) which destroyed millions of human lives... click link for more info.
Professor Garret A FitzGerald, an eminent cardiologists, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, says doctors should be cautious about using Vioxx type medicines, especially if the patient is at risk of heart disease... click link for more info.
The United States will face "a significant shortage" of flu vaccine this year following the suspension Tuesday by British regulatory authorities of California-based Chiron's license to manufacture the vaccine at its Liverpool, England, plant, the AP/Las Vegas Sun reports (Ross/Marchione, AP/Las Vegas Sun, 10/5)... click link for more info.
Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen... click link for more info.
Argos Therapeutics, which on Tuesday changed its name from Merix Bioscience, in conjunction with the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, is set to test the safety of an experimental HIV/AIDS vaccine, which the company hopes will become the first personalized vaccine, the Raleigh News & Observer reports... click link for more info.
The cortex is made up of tightly organized layers of neurons, each with a distinct function... click link for more info.
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