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Reuters Health News: 02-11-2005
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Teen-agers and preteens should be routinely immunized against meningitis using Sanofi-Aventis's newly approved Menactra, U.S. vaccine advisers agreed on Thursday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Medical device maker Medtronic Inc. on Friday said it has begun warning doctors about some faulty batteries installed in a line of its implantable heart defibrillators.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Black women are known to have higher bone mineral density, associated with stronger bones, than white women. New findings suggest that one reason for this may be due to the slower rate of bone loss among elderly black women.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African President Thabo Mbeki vowed Friday to step up the battle against HIV/AIDS, saying his government's program was among the world's best.
GENEVA (Reuters) - A campaign to halt the spread of polio by year-end is on track despite a new case in Saudi Arabia that sparked fears it could be carried by Muslims going home after the haj, the World Health Organization said on Friday. A Nigerian boy living in Mecca, Islam's holy city, came down with the disease in mid-December despite being vaccinated, but has recovered from temporary paralysis, WHO officials said.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned that people with heart problems should not take the hyperactivity drug Adderall, and studies may be done to see if it raises risk in others, a top official at the agency said on Thursday.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - The number of toddlers vaccinated against influenza in the United States has jumped during the current flu season, but fewer older Americans are lining up for the shots, federal officials said on Thursday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Over-prescribing of antibiotics in Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal and France is causing high rates of antibiotic resistance," researchers said on Friday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Heart disease is Britain' biggest single killer disease but more people are more worried about developing Alzheimer's or cancer, according to a survey released on Friday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Thursday claimed major successes in reducing illegal drug use among teens, but lawmakers from both parties criticized its proposed budget that would cut several anti-drug programs.
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