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Reuters Health News: 09-17-2004
LONDON (Reuters) - Adults eat twice as many fruits and vegetables as they did when they were children and take in less fat and sugar, according to a new study.
LONDON (Reuters) - Non-profit groups developing new drugs and vaccines for neglected tropical diseases urgently need more than $1 billion in additional funding, according to a report on Friday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it "generally supports" an advisory panel's conclusion this week that antidepressants sometimes raise the risk of suicidal behavior in youth.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A soil-borne bacterial infection called melioidosis has killed 24 people in Singapore this year, making it more deadly than SARS or bird flu, the health ministry said on Friday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research from a survey conducted in Israel suggests that doctors often give inactive "placebo" pills to their patients and, in most cases, tell them they're getting a real drug.
LONDON (Reuters) - Whether it's ice cream and chips, garlic on crackers or brown sauce on everything, nearly 60 percent of pregnant women in Britain admit to having weird cravings.
VILNIUS (Reuters) - A lack of information and public funding is helping fuel the spread of HIV/AIDS in several recent European Union entrants and threatens to become pandemic across the bloc, a panel of experts said on Friday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women awaiting surgery to relieve severe stress urinary incontinence may gain significant relief with the drug, leading some to reconsider surgery, a study indicates.
LONDON (Reuters Health) - Rates of Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) infection in the UK have increased in recent years, despite the fact that England and Wales have been routinely vaccinating infants against the disease since 1992, researchers report in the British Medical Journal.
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Medical researchers will start trials of an HIV vaccine in Sweden in October and expect to extend the program to Tanzania next year, a senior member of the research team said on Friday.
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