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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 02-01-2006
Polio has been stamped out in Egypt and Niger, leaving just four nations in the world where the deadly disease is endemic, the U.N. health agency said Wednesday. The polio virus has not infected anyone in the two African countries...
Even women whose coronary arteries are free of major blockages could be heading toward a heart attack, scientists cautioned Tuesday. Roughly 12 million U.S. women are thought to have heart disease, and as many as 3 million of them have...
Although cancer patients usually receive good medical treatment, their care varies widely across the country and even within cities. In a study published in Wednesday's Journal of Clinical Oncology, breast and colorectal cancer patients were given nearly all of the...
An early warning system based on climate models, average rainfall and data on seasonal malaria can predict the risk of an epidemic of the killer disease five months in advance, scientists said on Wednesday. The system has been devised...
The amazing athletes of the National Football League -- bigger and stronger than ever before -- are dying young at a rate experts find alarming, and many of the players are succumbing to ailments typically related to weight. The heaviest...
Battered by rampant violence and political instability, a new threat in Iraq was confirmed Monday — the first case of the deadly bird flu virus in the Middle East. . . CNN.com - January 30, 2006 http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-01-30-birdflu-iraq_x.htm...
Hunters risk exposure to chronic wasting disease, a brain-destroying illness of deer and elk, by handling meat from infected animals, not only the high-risk brain and spinal tissue, a new study finds. Unlike mad cow disease, CWD has never been...
About 8 million children worldwide are born every year with serious birth defects, many of them dying before age 5 in a toll largely hidden from view, the March of Dimes says. Most birth defects occur in poor countries, where...
Along with smoking and chronic infections, alcohol consumption is an important cause of several types of cancer, researchers said on Monday. Excessive drinking raises the risk of cancer of the mouth, larynx, oesophagus, liver, colon and breast. It may also...
A program unveiled yesterday by the National Institutes of Health will provide nearly $400 million in grants over the next five years to help promising young scientists pursue independent medical research. Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, director of the federal government's...
Inhaled insulin, which could replace shots for millions of people with diabetes, won approval Friday from the Food and Drug Administration, making it the first new form of insulin since the hormone was discovered nearly 90 years ago. . ....
. . .At a meeting Friday in San Francisco of four leading medical societies, researchers noted that liver transplants can be lifesaving for some liver cancer patients. About 75% of patients who have transplants survive, compared with only 12% of...
A drug used worldwide to reduce bleeding during heart surgery can increase the risk of kidney failure, heart attacks and strokes, and should be abandoned, doctors are reporting today. They say other medicines are safer and cheaper, and should be...
An error in a single gene might cause many cases of Parkinson's disease in certain groups, including Ashkenazi Jews and Arabs, two studies report on Thursday. Previously, genes for Parkinson's disease have been identified only in rare cases. But findings...
In a surprise turn Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency moved to eliminate the production of a suspected carcinogen used in the making of Teflon and other non-stick and non-stain coatings. The EPA has asked eight manufacturers that use a family...
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