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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 04-17-2006
Under a compromise approved yesterday by state rate-setters, Maryland hospital charges will rise by more than 5 percent a year for the next three years - about four-tenths of 1 percent a year below the expected national rate increase. The...
Two infected airline passengers may have helped spread Iowa's mumps epidemic to six other Midwestern states, health officials said Wednesday, the latest example of how quickly disease can spread through air travel. . . The mumps epidemic is the nation's...
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co. recently funded five studies that compared its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa with Risperdal, a competing drug made by Janssen. All five showed Zyprexa was superior in treating schizophrenia. But when Janssen sponsored its own studies...
Research offers hopeful news to women whose breast cancers are typically more difficult to treat: Modern chemotherapy means more of them will survive than previously thought. . . FOXNews.com - April 11, 2006 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191392,00.html...
The source of a spike in dangerous fungal eye infections linked by federal health officials to a contact lens solution sold by Bausch & Lomb Inc. remains a mystery, the eye-care products maker said Wednesday. . . "Every additional test...
Even if bird flu does arrive on U.S. shores on the wings of a migratory bird, the virus is unlikely to makes the inroads in poultry -- or in people -- that it has in less developed countries, the nation's...
Researchers have found a way to target cancer cells by injecting tiny particles that will attack only the diseased cells while leaving healthy cells unscathed, according to a study released on Monday. A team of researchers working at MIT and...
Estrogen pills raise older women's risk of blood clots, but not as much as supplements that also contain progestin, according to new data from a landmark government study of more than 10,000 women. The study is the most rigorous to...
Health officials said Monday they have ruled out the abortion pill RU-486 in one of two deaths in women who had taken the drug. The second remains under investigation. The one death was unrelated to either abortion or use of...
It's like an angioplasty to clear out clogged sinuses. A new procedure lets doctors snake a balloon up the noses of chronic sinusitis sufferers, stretching their sinus passages to help them breathe easier with less pain than the standard sinus...
Bausch & Lomb voluntarily suspended shipment of a contact lens solution after federal health officials linked it Monday to a fungal eye infection that can cause temporary blindness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating 109 reports of...
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...
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