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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 12-20-2004
Surgeons have used stem cells from fat to help repair skull damage in a 7-year-old girl in Germany, in what's apparently the first time such fat-derived cells have been exploited to grow bone in a human. . . Foxnews.com -...
Pfizer said Friday it suspended use of its popular painkiller Celebrex in a long-term cancer study because patients who used it over an extended time showed an increased cardiovascular risk. . . CNN.com - December 17, 2004 http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/17/news/fortune500/pfizer/index.htm?cnn=yes...
The percentage of teenage girls who drink alcoholic beverages is rising faster than that of boys and, on average, the girls take their first drink at age 13, the American Medical Association said yesterday in reporting the findings of two...
Nearly 6 million American adults turn to herbal remedies and other complementary and alternative medicine because conventional medical treatment is too expensive, the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) reports . . . The American Hospital Association - December...
TFAH’s second annual study of preparedness against public health emergencies finds that, despite incremental progress, three years after September 11, 2001, there is still a long way to go to protect the American people from a bioterror attack. The report...
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) announced today that enrollment in entry-level baccalaureate programs in nursing increased by 10.6 percent in 2004 over the previous year. Though this increase is welcome, nursing colleges and universities denied 26,340 qualified...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the approval of Vision Blue (trypan blue ophthalmic solution). Vision Blue is the first product approved in the United States for staining the anterior lens capsule during cataract surgery. . . The...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved a new intravenous biologic product, palifermin (trade-name Kepivance) to help reduce the chance that certain cancer patients, those with blood cancers undergoing chemotherapy and radiation in preparation for bone marrow transplants, will...
A pregnant Tennessee woman who enrolled in federally funded research in hopes of saving her soon-to-be-born son from getting AIDS died last year when doctors continued to give her an experimental drug regimen despite signs of liver failure, government memos...
Confirming what many couples already knew, a government study concludes it's healthy to be married. Sure, the majority of husbands pack on some extra pounds. But overall, married people are sick less often and more active. They smoke and drink...
Federal officials backed away yesterday from the findings of two major studies on birth control pills, saying that the research was flawed and that a new analysis shows there is no evidence that oral contraceptives cut the risk of heart...
TFood and Drug Administration has approved a new sleeping pill that some specialists say could pave the way for longer-term use of such medications. . . The New York Times - December 16, 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/16/business/16sleep.html?oref=login...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University said Wednesday that early detection -- and not a pre-exposure vaccination -- is the key to limiting an outbreak of anthrax. . . CNN.com - December 15, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/12/15/anthrax.detect/index.html...
Every other year may be enough for women over 50 to have a mammogram, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. . . CNN.com - December 15, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/12/15/health.mammograms.reut/index.html...
The inability to identify 10 everyday smells - from smoke to soap - can be used to predict Alzheimer's disease, scientists have discovered. The smell test was as effective at diagnosis as a memory test and better than a brain...
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