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Reuters Health News: 09-15-2004
BETHESDA, Md. (Reuters) - Antidepressants such as Paxil and Prozac should come with strong warnings that they raise the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in some children and teen-agers, a U.S. advisory panel concluded on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treating high blood pressure would save lives and pay for itself, experts said on Tuesday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Women with a high genetic risk for breast cancer run a better chance of having it detected with magnetic resonance imaging than with mammography and other methods, researchers said on Tuesday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Influenza is sending more people to the hospital in the United States each year and the flu season appears to be getting longer, a government study said on Tuesday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When added to conventional hormone replacement therapy (HRT), testosterone may reduce the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, results of a small study suggest.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Influenza-related hospitalizations have increased dramatically in the US in the last two decades, in part because of the aging population, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia may place an entire state under quarantine if an outbreak of bird flu blamed for the deaths of 29 people in the region worsens, officials said on Wednesday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Simian virus 40 (SV40), which contaminated polio vaccine widely distributed between 1955 and 1962, does not seem to have increased the likelihood of an exposed person developing the blood cancer non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), according to a report from the National Cancer Institute.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Treatment with a beta-blocker drug -- usually for high blood pressure or heart failure -- significantly reduces the risk of bone fractures, according to findings from a large population-based study. The effect was seen whether or not the beta-blocker was taken with a diuretic "water pill."
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's leading AIDS treatment lobby is taking the government to court, accusing the authorities of falling behind their own targets to give drugs to people with HIV, the group's lawyer said on Wednesday.
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