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Reuters Health News: 09-23-2004
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Reuters) - The number of South Africans carrying the virus that causes AIDS rose in 2003 but the rate of infection especially among teenagers was stabilizing, the government said in a report released Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pro-Erex. Big Daddy. Suregasm. There is little doubt what these supplements are promising, but the evidence that they actually can enlarge a man's penis or enhance sexual performance falls short, consumer advocates said on Wednesday.
BETHESDA, Md. (Reuters) - A new Sanofi-Aventis meningitis vaccine aimed at protecting adolescents throughout their college years is safe and effective but should undergo longer-term studies if approved, a panel of U.S. experts concluded on Wednesday.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Fifty years after a string of U.S. nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, the western Pacific republic's people are still suffering lingering health problems, President Kessai Note said on Wednesday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. regulators said certain promotional materials for Johnson & Johnson's epilepsy drug Topamax fail to disclose serious risks linked to the medicine and asked the company to immediately cease using them.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Doctors need to develop a more organized team approach to prostate cancer, with a clear outline on how to screen for the disease and to treat it, a panel of cancer experts said on Wednesday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Electrical stimulation of a brain region called the subthalamic nucleus provides only modest benefits to patients with Parkinson's disease, according to a report in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kidney disease need not be severe to cause an increased risk of death and cardiovascular disease, according to the findings from two studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Both reports "reinforce the importance of early detection of chronic kidney disease, not only to slow the progression to end-stage disease but also in this case to identify risk factors for cardiovascular disease," notes an editorialist.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Genetic factors appear to play a role in the development of arthritis of the knee, according to a report in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
LONDON (Reuters) - The safety of herbal medicines, which are widely used on the basis of scant scientific evidence, is to be investigated by a new panel of European experts.
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