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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 02-28-2005
Health workers launched a massive Africa-wide polio vaccination campaign on Friday as the United Nations announced the crippling disease has spread into yet another country, dimming hopes for success of a global campaign aimed at stamping out the malady this...
Scientists fighting the ravages of AIDS in the Third World have shown convincingly that a short and relatively inexpensive combination of HIV drugs could reduce mother-to-baby transmission rates in Africa far more effectively than the single pill now used. ....
Public school students in Maryland may have to slog through their afternoon classes without a sugar boost after the state school board yesterday approved new guidelines on junk food to combat the rising number of overweight youths. . . The...
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health, rebelling against stringent new rules restricting their outside activities and finances, plan to meet today with agency director Elias A. Zerhouni to propose an alternative set of ethics regulations. . . The Baltimore...
The Bush administration predicted Wednesday that government would account for nearly half of all the nation's health care spending by 2014. . . The New York Times - February 24, 2005 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/24/national/24health.html...
A drug that keeps hemophiliacs from bleeding to death could also prove to be the first effective treatment for the most lethal and crippling type of stroke, the kind caused by a burst blood vessel in the brain, researchers are...
Scientists said they have discovered a key clue to how HIV mutates to evade the immune system -- a finding that could advance the search for new drugs and a vaccine. . . CNN.com - February 23, 2005 http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/02/23/aids.protein.reut/index.html...
The nation's top disease expert said Tuesday that the federal government has prepared a plan to stem a possible outbreak of avian flu among humans, although the danger of it is not high. . . CNN.com - February 23, 2005...
HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today released its second annual reports on the quality of and disparities in health care in America. The 2004 National Healthcare Quality Report finds both evidence of improving quality as well as...
new study about the genetics of breast cancer may help doctors decide how aggressively to treat a perplexing form of the disease that often never spreads beyond the milk ducts. . . The Washington Post - February 23, 2005...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that homicide is a leading cause of traumatic death among new and expectant mothers, with higher risks for women who are younger than 20 or black. It was the CDC's...
National Institutes of Health investigators have cleared up to 80 percent of its researchers suspected of secret deals with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, officials say. . . CNN.com - February 23, 2005 http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/02/23/nih.ethics.ap/index.html...
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...
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