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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 02-23-2005
U.S. funding for AIDS vaccine research is tightening, the government's top HIV expert warned yesterday, and scientists still must overcome a big hurdle in the hunt: how to harness the body's first defenders to repel infection. . . The Baltimore...
It's an image enshrined in popular culture: the wise old doctor who knows how best to treat patients because of his years of clinical experience. Or does he? Not according to a team of researchers at Harvard Medical School, who...
. . .Around the country, doctors in pediatric sports medicine say it is as if they have happened upon a new childhood disease, and the cause is the overaggressive culture of organized youth sports. . . The New York Times...
Reports that a New York man may be carrying a rare and possibly virulent strain of H.I.V. have focused new attention on the biological relationship between the virus and methamphetamine, a drug that has become increasingly entwined in the spread...
A bird flu virus may mutate to a human form that becomes as deadly as the ones that killed millions during three influenza pandemics of the 20th century. . . CNN.com - February 22, 2005 http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/02/22/bird.flu.ap/index.html...
Adults taking popular antidepressants such as Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft are more than twice as likely to attempt suicide as patients given sugar pills, according to an analysis released yesterday of hundreds of clinical trials involving tens of thousands of...
The challenges in eradicating a virus now entrenched in a region crowded with both people and poultry will be the focus of a regional bird flu conference that opens this Wednesday in Ho Chi Minh City. . . Foxnews.com -...
Vioxx should be allowed to return to the market, an expert FDA panel recommends. And Bextra and Celebrex should remain on the U.S. market despite their link to heart attacks and strokes. . . Foxnews.com - February 18, 2005 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148085,00.html...
Because half of all children with autism or similar developmental disorders aren't diagnosed until age 4 to 6, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday was launching a campaign to make doctors and parents aware of the need...
If every woman aged between 50 and 79 got a mammogram every year, it would reduce deaths from breast cancer by 37 percent, according to a new statistical tool. . . CNN.com - February 21, 2005 http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/02/21/breast.cancer.tool.reut/index.html...
That hot cup of coffee may do more than just provide a tasty energy boost. It also may help prevent the most common type of liver cancer. . . CNN.com - February 16, 2005 http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/02/15/coffee.cancer.ap/index.html...
The Food and Drug Administration promised prompt action Wednesday on recommendations from advisory committees probing the safety of popular painkillers, but urged the advisers to balance the risks and benefits of the drugs. . . CNN.com - February 16, 2005...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it was creating an independent drug safety board after the agency's monitoring of drugs already in the marketplace was criticized amid the withdrawal of arthritis drug Vioxx. . . The Washington Post...
A new study has linked painkillers Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra to increased cardiovascular risk, reinforcing findings of other trials that have already sparked concern over the safety of a popular category of drugs. . . Foxnews.com - February 15, 2005...
The flu vaccinations that doctors hoped would save the lives of elderly people have apparently failed to lower death rates, according to a study by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. CNN.com - February 15, 2005 http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/02/15/flu.vaccine.reut/index.html...
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