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Reuters Health News: 03-13-2006
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A substantial number of teenagers with food allergies admit to "risk-taking" behavior such as not reading food labels or knowingly eating foods labeled "may contain" allergens, a survey shows.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - The cholesterol treatment Crestor has been shown to partially reverse the build-up of plaque in coronary arteries, the first time that a statin drug has proved effective in treating the condition, which can lead to a heart attack or stroke, researchers said on Monday.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Adding the blood-thinning drug Plavix to a daily dose of aspirin does not lower the risk of death, heart attack or stroke in high-risk patients, researchers said on Sunday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - More Americans are drinking a cup of coffee every day, putting Java virtually neck-and-neck with such soft drinks as cola, according to an industry report released on Saturday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc. on Monday said its Lipitor cholesterol medicine improved kidney function in patients with heart disease in a large clinical study.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Heart patients whose coronary arteries reclogged after treatment with a bare-metal stent can be treated by simply inserting a newer, drug-eluting stent inside the old stent, new data suggests.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A chicken stands proud in an Indian government newspaper advertisement, a speech bubble coming from its beak: "Chicken! Egg! Here we come again on the dining table!"
KAALOKOL, Kenya (Reuters) - Millions of children in drought-hit East Africa are threatened by a "lethal cocktail" of measles and malnutrition and urgently need vaccinations against the highly infectious disease, a U.N. official said.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Guidant Corp., which has been plagued by recalls of some of its pacemakers and other cardiovascular devices, on Monday said it is warning doctors of battery problems in two models of implantable cardiac defibrillators.
ISLA TIGRE, Panama (Reuters) - When Kuna Indian medicine man Mandiuliguina Flores speaks, everyone listens. For his dark-skinned indigenous audience, the albino shaman's milky white skin gives him special powers.
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