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Reuters Health News: 02-19-2005
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (Reuters) - Merck & Co. Inc.'s MRK.N withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx is safe enough to rejoin Pfizer's rival pain relievers Celebrex and Bextra on the U.S. market, an advisory panel said after concluding that all three medicines posed some level of heart risk.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Millions of people in nations devastated by last year's tsunami remain vulnerable to deadly diseases but only scattered outbreaks have been reported so far, the chief of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lead left in paint, water, soil and elsewhere may not only be affecting children's intelligence but may cause a significant proportion of violent crime, a U.S. researcher argued Friday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Only about half of women with cardiovascular disease are taking aspirin, investigators report, and rates of use are particularly low among black women and patients on Medicaid.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The gentle, flowing movements of tai chi may offer older women an exercise program they can live with, researchers said Friday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with diabetes run a greater risk of dying from heart disease than do men with diabetes, Australian researchers report.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using a high tech process to modify an ancient drug called artemisinin, researchers have created a compound that is highly lethal to cancer cells, but causes little harm to normal cells, according to a report in the journal Life Sciences.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A product taken from the blood of people who have been vaccinated for smallpox was approved on Friday to use to treat reactions from the shot, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A link between body mass index (BMI) -- a measure of weight in relation to height -- and a hospital or death certificate diagnosis of dementia has been identified in a Swedish study.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with a bladder condition called interstitial cystitis can find immediate relief with a solution developed by a doctor at the University of California, San Diego.
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