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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 12-07-2004
. . .The Center for Pediatric Bioethics, the first of its kind, will receive $340,000 a year in federal funds plus $1 million in startup money from Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, which is affiliated with the University of...
British regulators recommended on Monday that physicians restrict the use of the anti-depressant Efexor from drugmaker Wyeth because its use could have side effects for heart health and pose other potential risks that require more careful monitoring than other drugs...
The American Medical Association is weighing support of importing prescription drugs from outside the United States as the nation's physicians address pleas from patients over the high cost of medicines. . . The Baltimore Sun - December 6, 2004 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.ama06dec06,1,147126.story?coll=bal-health-headlines...
A next-generation leukemia pill designed to help patients not cured by the successful drug Gleevec works even better than doctors had hoped, researchers said Sunday. . . CNN.com - December 5, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/12/05/leukemia.pill.reut/index.html...
The federal government will announce a plan this week to purchase additional flu shots to help relieve the nation's shortage. . . CNN.com - December 6, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/12/06/cdc.flu.vaccine.ap/index.html...
Chinese researchers have developed a SARS vaccine that has passed the first stage of human trials, state media has reported, raising hopes for the prevention of a virus that killed some 800 people since it emerged in 2002. . ....
A study aimed at determining if some children with sickle cell anemia could be weaned off blood transfusion therapy has been halted because two young patients who stopped getting the procedure suffered strokes and others developed a high chance of...
Blood changes, including a steep decline in disease-fighting white cells, have been found in workers persistently exposed to low levels of benzene, a common industrial chemical known to pose a leukemia risk at high concentrations. . . CNN.com - December...
One in 10 American women takes an antidepressant drug such as Prozac, Paxil or Zoloft, and the use of such drugs by all adults has nearly tripled in the last decade, according to the latest figures on American health released...
In a move that could chill excitement about experimental drugs to treat female sexual dysfunction, federal advisers refused to endorse a new testosterone patch for women. . . CNN.com - December 3, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/conditions/12/03/sexual.disfunction.ap/index.html...
The Nation’s medicine cabinets are more crowded than ever, with almost half of all people taking at least one prescription medicine and one in six taking three or more medications, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’...
Health care immigration experts warn that the number of registered nurses from the Philippines and India - major RN exporters to the United States - will drop off significantly next year, because those countries have exceeded their per-country quotas for...
U.S. hospitals provided $24.9 billion in uncompensated care in 2003, up from $22.3 billion in 2002, according to the latest AHA Annual Survey of Hospitals. The survey measure includes charity care and bad debt, valued at the cost to the...
Despite the government's promise to "break the back" of the AIDS epidemic by 2005, about 40,000 Americans test positive for the HIV infection every year -- the same number as a decade ago. . . CNN.com - December 2, 2004...
A hospital in the Netherlands — the first nation to permit euthanasia — recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering...
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