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Reuters Health News: 09-26-2004
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new Purdue Pharma L.P. opioid-based drug that aims to provide "around-the-clock" relief to patients with moderate to severe pain.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Ten-year olds who spend more time engaging in activities typically associated with their gender tend to have more stereotypical academic interests, skills and characteristics two years later, new research reports.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Infusing patients with bone marrow cells can reinvigorate their dying hearts and grow tiny new arteries and heart muscle tissue, a treatment that may one day make many heart transplants unnecessary, Brazilian researchers said on Friday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Type 2 diabetic patients who take their oral medications only part of the time have an increased risk of being hospitalized within a one-year period, the results of a new study indicate.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Boston Scientific Corp BSX.N said on Friday it has recalled an ear implant the company acquired as part of its purchase of Advanced Bionics in June.
LONDON (Reuters) - Babies of teenage mothers and infants who have a low birth weight have a higher risk of committing suicide later in life than other children, Swedish scientists said Friday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Infection with simian virus 40 (SV40) plays little or no role in the development of mesothelioma, a cancer affecting the lining of the lungs that has been linked to asbestos exposure, according to a report in The Lancet.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There is no difference in survival between black and white patients with heart disease who undergo angioplasty, a procedure to open blocked heart blood vessels, new research shows.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's perpetually buff Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill on Friday barring children under 14 from going to tanning salons in his sunshine-filled state.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Alcohol abuse kills some 75,000 Americans each year and shortens the lives of these people by an average of 30 years, a U.S. government study suggested on Thursday.
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