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Medical News Today: 10-08-2004
Osaka, Japan, Oct 7, 2004 - (JCN Newswire) - Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502; NYSE: TDCHF) announced today that it has entered into an alliance agreement with U... click link for more info.
Wilmington, DE - Further evidence that the safety and tolerability of CRESTOR® (rosuvastatin calcium), is in line with the other marketed statins was published on October 1st in the American Journal of Cardiology... click link for more info.
Upcoming researchers discover new mechanism of action for acetylsalicylic acid Dresden - Dr... click link for more info.
Studies Show That Taxotere®-Based Regimens Significantly Improved Survival in Men with Hormone Refractory Metastatic Prostate CancerAventis, part of the sanofi-aventis Group (EURONEXT: SAN), announced today that The New England Journal of Medicine has published the results of two landmark phase III studies, which demonstrate that Taxotere (docetaxel) Injection Concentrate-based regimens significantly reduce the risk of death by 24 percent and 20 percent, respectively, in men with androgen-independent (hormone-refractory) metastatic prostate cancer... click link for more info.
Sustained Efficacy of Rebif® Further Demonstrated in Long Term Data from PRISMS Study Presented at the 20th ECTRIMS Congress Patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) who were on placebo and then treated with Rebif® in the PRISMS study showed substantial clinical benefits with a 54% relative reduction in relapse rate, Serono announced at the 20th congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research In Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) meeting in Vienna, Austria... click link for more info.
Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France - Johnson & Johnson Consumer France S... click link for more info.
British and American drug regulators met yesterday to see what could be done about the stopped batches of flu vaccines at Chiron's Liverpool production plant, UK... click link for more info.
One million polio vaccinators, 80 million children, 23 countries: Africa launches largest ever immunization campaignAfricans unite across borders in massive effort to combat epidemic and get polio eradication effort back on trackMore than one million polio vaccinators in 23 African countries today embark on a massive immunization campaign, aiming to immunize 80 million children across sub-Saharan Africa against polio over just four days... click link for more info.
With Goal of Two-Thirds Reduction by 2015, 98 Countries Are Off the Mark; AIDS and Conflict Send Some Nations Spiralling in Wrong DirectionNew country-by-country data reveals alarmingly slow progress on reducing child deaths despite the availability of proven, low-cost interventions, a UNICEF survey revealed today... click link for more info.
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children are calling on Angela Smith, the Northern Ireland Minister for Health, to ensure that any guidelines issued to doctors makes clear that illegal abortions will not be tolerated... click link for more info.
As Public Comment Period Closes, Seniors Call for More Access to Medications, Informed Appeal Process Seniors want doctors and pharmacists to decide what medications are to be covered under the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, not Medicare government officials and insurance company representatives, according to a survey released today by the Lupus Foundation of America in association with multiple patient and consumer organizations... click link for more info.
Circumcision and regular condom use reduce the risk of penile human papillomavirus (HPV) in men, including oncogenic viral types, according to new research... click link for more info.
Cigarette smoking during pregnancy adversely affects the health of both mother and child... click link for more info.
The European Commission has published a proposal for a Regulation on medicines for children... click link for more info.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has decided to allow specialists in the treatment of breast cancer to advertise their medical expertise... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - The Q'SAI Analysis & Research Center (TSE: 2596) announced October 7 that it has developed Issei Bunseki 210 Pesticides, a multi-pesticide residue analysis service, and begun accepting orders... click link for more info.
A report reviewing the performance of EPER, the European Pollutant Emission Register, which was recently published by the European Commission, highlights the completeness and punctuality of the data submitted by the old 15 Member States, Hungary and Norway... click link for more info.
These NHS Waiting List Figures To Prepared By The Government Statistical Service Main Points This MonthWaiting times• The number of patients, for whom English commissioners are responsible, waiting over 9 months at the end of August 2004 was 156... click link for more info.
A group of Japanese researchers has discovered that a substance found in the brains of many animals plays a key role in suppressing the appetite... click link for more info.
CDC has awarded $21,700,000 in grants focused on research to 1) develop effective health promotion and prevention programs at the workplace, 2) support projects that foster researcher and institutional training in public health research; and 3) fund two "Centers of Excellence" that will explore economic solutions to developing, evaluating and implementing health promotion programs and policies and assessing their cost effectiveness... click link for more info.
OTTAWA - One in ten women who are pregnant will experience depression and approximately 13 per cent of new mothers experience postpartum depression... click link for more info.
Women should aim for half an hour's gentle exercise three times a week to aid their recovery from breast cancer, according to early results revealed at a University of Bristol conference on Exercise and Cancer Rehabilitation today... click link for more info.
Commenting on Mr Justice Hedley's ruling this afternoon, Dr Michael Wilks,the Chairman of the BMA's Ethics Committee, made the following statement:"This case has been incredibly difficult and emotional for everyoneconcerned... click link for more info.
A Viewpoint in this week's issue of THE LANCET (p 1371) discusses the complex issues concerning the provision of humanitarian relief in the Iraq conflict... click link for more info.
Provision of air rather than 100% oxygen for babies requiring ventilation after delivery could reduce infant mortality, suggests a study in this week's issue of THE LANCET (pp 1293, 1329)... click link for more info.
Doctors and other health-care professionals should be more aware of the association between infant crying and potentially abusive parental behaviour, conclude authors of a research letter in this week's issue of THE LANCET ((pp 1295, 1340)... click link for more info.
The use of anti-inflammatory drugs to treat patients with severe head injuries-common practice worldwide for the past 30 years-is actually dangerous and associated with around a 20% increase in death within two weeks of hospital admission, conclude authors of an international study in this week's issue of THE LANCET (pp 1291, 1321)... click link for more info.
Two new studies have shown that men with advanced prostate cancer who are not responding to hormone therapy can live longer if they take Taxotere (docetaxel), a breast cancer drug... click link for more info.
American Public Health Association (APHA) Calls Loss of Provision to Grant FDA Authority to Regulate Tobacco a Huge Missed Opportunity to Save Lives Statement by Georges C... click link for more info.
Allowing medical students to interact with patients earlier in their medical course would better prepare them for their future role as a doctor, suggest researchers in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
The General Medical Council, Britain's regulatory body for doctors, is right to appeal against a high court ruling that its current guidance on withholding and withdrawing life prolonging treatment is unlawful, says a professor of medical ethics in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
Labelling cigarette packets with tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide measurements is misleading and should be stopped, argue cancer experts in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
Radiological examinations, such as chest x-rays and CT scans, confer a definite (albeit low) long term risk of cancer, but patients undergoing such examinations often receive no or inaccurate information about theses risks... click link for more info.
Child heart deaths at the Bristol Royal Infirmary have fallen markedly, to below the national average, finds a study in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
A gene mutation causes Childhood Leukemia (T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia), say researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA... click link for more info.
The FDA reports that the five to six million banned flu vaccine doses warehoused in the USA (made by Chiron Corp) have not been moved and none has been used or given to the public... click link for more info.
Researchers into a common iron disease say a study has found clear benefits in genetic testing... click link for more info.
EU health regulators reviewing long-term data for all COX-2 inhibitors; U... click link for more info.
A 13-member federal task force on prescription drug reimportation has found that "if patients will shop around, they, very often, can beat the Canadian price" for medications, FDA Associate Commissioner for Policy and Planning William Hubbard said on Tuesday, the AP/Austin American-Statesman reports (Henderson, AP/Austin American-Statesman, 10/6)... click link for more info.
The AP/Memphis Commercial Appeal on Wednesday examined the health care plans of President Bush and Democratic presidential nominee Sen... click link for more info.
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