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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 04-03-2006
A rise in autism cases is not evidence of a feared epidemic but reflects that schools are diagnosing autism more frequently, a study said Monday. Children classified by school special education programs as mentally retarded or learning disabled have declined...
A mumps epidemic is sweeping across Iowa in the nation's biggest outbreak in at least 17 years, baffling health officials and worrying parents. As of Thursday, the latest report available, 245 confirmed, probable or suspected cases of mumps had been...
Researchers have identified a genetic cause for epilepsy, which could lead to the development of medicines to treat epilepsy and autism, the Translational Genomics Research Institute announced Thursday. "This is the first step" in finding a cure for the childhood-onset...
. . .Today, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is urging doctors to spare the knife unless there is a clear medical reason to intervene. Study after study, the group says, show that routine episiotomies can lead to more...
In a rare piece of good news about AIDS, the prevalence of new H.I.V. infections has fallen significantly in southern India, the region of that country where the disease has occurred most often, scientists reported yesterday. Many health officials have...
The brains of very intelligent children appear to develop in a distinctive and surprising way that distinguishes them from less intelligent children, a federal study reported yesterday. The study is the first to try to measure whether differences in brain...
Maryland will become the fourth state to authorize tax dollars for embryonic stem cell research when the governor signs a bill approved yesterday by the General Assembly. Supporters hailed the plan as a boost to the hopes of the chronically...
Providing insurance coverage for mental illness equal to that for physical illness does not drive up the cost of mental health care as many insurers feared, a new study of health benefits for federal employees says. . . The new...
An independent panel convened by the National Institutes of Health concluded Wednesday that the scientific evidence is insufficient to compare the risks and benefits of vaginal deliveries vs. C-sections that are performed purely because the mother wants one. The rate...
. . .In recent days, researchers heartened by a study in monkeys said they would expand tests of the pill Truvada as a possible preventive for use in healthy people who may be at high-risk for HIV. But instead of...
An experimental bird-flu vaccine for humans has been deemed safe, but it provides only partial protection from the H5N1 strain of the virus, according to a study published this week. The vaccine, which the United States already is stockpiling in...
Pennsylvania patients who contracted an infection during a hospital stay in 2004 rang up charges that were seven times higher than patients who did not develop an infection, complications that cost insurers and individuals an extra $614 million, according to...
The United Nations' attempt to put 3 million HIV-infected people around the world on antiretroviral drugs by last year fell far short of its goal, but it saved hundreds of thousands of lives nonetheless, the U.N. health agency said Tuesday....
Twenty-five years after the first AIDS cases jolted the world, scientists think they soon may have a pill that people could take to keep from getting the virus that causes the global killer. Two drugs already used to treat HIV...
Scientists in Germany said yesterday that they had retrieved easily obtained cells from the testes of male mice and transformed them into what appear to be embryonic stem cells, the versatile and medically promising biological building blocks that can morph...
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