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Reuters Health News: 02-06-2006
PANABAJ, Guatemala (Reuters) - Doctors fear that overcrowding and septic water could lead to a rash of illness among survivors of a landslide that swept away their Maya Indian village this month.
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian authorities slaughtered poultry and sent in doctors on Sunday after the deadly strain of bird flu was confirmed in the Danube delta, and officials elsewhere in Europe prepared for a possible pandemic.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government should allow imports of generic versions of patented medicines such as Roche AG's Tamiflu to help the country prepare for a possible bird flu pandemic, a consumer group said on Friday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The feared avian influenza virus is showing signs it can evade the drug considered the first line of defense against bird flu, researchers said on Friday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Mold and dampness can cause coughing and wheezing, but there is little evidence to support the existence of the so-called toxic mold syndrome, according to a report by researchers at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Long-term rates of illness appear to be higher among children conceived after in vitro fertilization (IVF) than for other children, Swedish researchers report. However, this might be influenced by parents of such children being more likely to seek medical advice.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories Inc. on Friday said it is notifying U.S. users of its blood glucose meters to make sure the device is displaying the correct unit of measure each time they test.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For children with kidney failure who require dialysis, performing it at home at nighttime seems to improve their overall sense of well-being, a study shows.
ANKARA (Reuters) - A senior veterinarian was quoted on Sunday as saying that early tests on 1,000 chickens that died in Turkey did not point to bird flu, but officials stopped poultry transportation in the province where the chickens died.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two alternative methods for making embryonic stem cells work in mice and might lead to a less controversial way to grow them, researchers reported on Sunday.
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