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Reuters Health News: 11-23-2004
LONDON (Reuters) - A low-cost antibiotic which has performed well in tests should be given to all HIV children in developing countries to prevent infections such as pneumonia and reduce deaths, scientists said on Friday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A part of the brain involved in both drug craving and judgment appears to be smaller in cocaine addicts than in healthy people, researchers have found.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration reviewer who has accused the agency of being lax in monitoring drug safety on Thursday said five medicines on the market need closer scrutiny.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Hetero Drugs has withdrawn all six of its antiretroviral drugs from the WHO's list of approved drugs following concerns about their laboratory tests, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - An unexpectedly high number of U.S. soldiers injured in the Middle East and Afghanistan are testing positive for a rare, hard-to-treat blood infection in military hospitals, Army doctors reported on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Painkillers suspected of causing fatal heart disease may act by starting the process of hardening the arteries, researchers proposed on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration failed to protect the public from Merck & Co. Inc.'s MRK.N now-withdrawn painkiller Vioxx and is incapable of guarding America from dangerous drugs, a veteran FDA researcher told Congress on Thursday.
LONDON (Reuters) - First-time caesarean section births for women with no identified medical risks or complications have risen sharply in the United States, according to research published on Friday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Supplementation with antioxidants, zinc or copper has neither a beneficial nor harmful effect on cognition in elderly people, a new study indicates.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have had all or part of their stomach removed appear to have an increased risk of later developing cancer of the larynx, doctors in Italy report.
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