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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 02-06-2006
In a study that supports a controversial theory that viruses may play a role in human obesity, University of Wisconsin researchers found that chickens infected with a particular type of human virus got fat. Scientists infected four groups of chickens...
Drug industry executives are voicing new hope that their companies are past the worst of the scientific, political and legal problems that dogged them through 2005. After a long drought in finding new medicines, drug companies are filling their early-stage...
Your chance of surviving a flu pandemic could depend on where you happen to live. The USA has a federal pandemic plan. But in an emergency, it will be the local response that matters the most, says Jeffrey Levi, senior...
A two-drug treatment may one day help restore healthy breathing in those with asthma and chronic bronchitis, according to a study at Washington University in St. Louis. . . The Washington Post - February 2, 2006 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/02/AR2006020200688.html...
A human antitoxin for babies with botulism allows them to leave the hospital weeks earlier than those who aren't treated and trims millions from their medical bills, researchers report Thursday. . . USATODAY.com - February 1, 2006 http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-02-01-toxin-botulism_x.htm...
drug to treat adult chronic constipation with no known cause won federal approval Tuesday. Lubiprostone works by increasing the secretion of intestinal fluids. . . FOXNews.com - February 1, 2006 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183516,00.html...
Scientists have produced a vaccine against deadly H5N1 strains of bird flu that has protected mice, using a genetic engineering technique that can be easily scaled up for stockpiling to prepare for a pandemic. . . CNN.com - February 2,...
By testing for four proteins in fetus-cushioning amniotic fluid, doctors can predict when pregnant women are at risk of delivering preterm and when their infants are at risk for severe infections, according to a presentation at the annual meeting of...
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...
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