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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 04-10-2006
Seeking to catch up with a trend of booming outpatient services, University of Maryland Medicine is completing plans for a $200 million, eight-story ambulatory care center on the western edge of downtown. The hospital sees the center as a way...
In state after state, statistics and anecdotes lead to the same conclusion: The nation has a serious, long-term shortage of child psychiatrists that is taking a toll on young people, their parents and their doctors. Wyoming is down to two...
. . .One of six healthy young men to receive TGN1412, a novel type of immune stimulant that had never before been tried in humans, Rob O. took part in a study that is sending shock waves through the research...
A new study of university scientists who received federal financing from the National Cancer Institute found that they generated patents at a rapid pace and started companies in surprisingly high numbers. The study, the authors say, suggests that the commercial...
The use of shock waves to pulverize kidney stones into sand-like material significantly increases the risk for diabetes and high blood pressure later in life, according to the longest follow-up study of the popular therapy. In the study, which is...
Assailed for its many missteps in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the American Red Cross is plunging into a daunting, two-track effort to overhaul its entire disaster response system and the often cumbersome way it governs itself. . . CNN.com...
Scientists have proven what patients in dentists' chairs have often thought: Drilling teeth is downright prehistoric. Dentists drilled nearly perfect tiny holes in the teeth of live patients between 7,500 and 9,000 years ago, according to carbon-dating of skulls unearthed...
Spending some time in the sun and eating hot peppers may help fight cancer. And using aspartame to sweeten your coffee probably won't cause the disease. Those are just a few of the conclusions announced this week at the 97th...
A half-century after a Johns Hopkins physician first described symptoms of Marfan syndrome, researchers there are planning a clinical trial of a drug that prevented a fatal complication in mice. The condition, which strikes more than 30,000 Americans, weakens the...
The Food and Drug Administration plans to strengthen how it monitors critical heart devices like defibrillators by appointing outside medical experts to help it review the safety of units already on the market, a top agency official says. The move...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it will review wireless phone safety following a recently published study that raised concerns about a heightened risk of brain cancer. Swedish researchers said last month the use of cellular phones...
Drug use among teens has dipped nationwide but underage drinking persists, with jumps in California and Wisconsin, according to a study released Thursday. The report by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, based on interviews of 135,500...
The FDA on Thursday approved the first skin patch to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children. The patch called Daytrana, designed to be worn for 9 hours, contains methylphenidate, which has been shown to help children with ADHD. ....
Government officials in Germany have reported what appears to be the first health-related recall of a nanotechnology product, raising a potential public perception problem for the rapidly growing but still poorly understood field of science. At least 77 people reported...
Five leading European scientists are criticizing officials involved in human and animal health in an article appearing today, saying the officials are not doing enough to monitor cats, dogs and other carnivores for their possible role in transmitting avian influenza....
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