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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 02-13-2006
The deadly bird flu has reached Western Europe, with Italy and Greece announcing Saturday they had detected the H5N1 strain of the virus in dead swans, while the European Union confirmed the presence of the deadly strain in Bulgaria. ....
In a reversal of past trends, teenage girls are trying marijuana, alcohol and cigarettes at higher rates than boys, the White House drug czar said Thursday. The findings from a new government analysis come even as teen drug use is...
Ritalin and other stimulant drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder should carry the strongest warning that they may be linked to an increased risk of death and injury, federal health advisers said Thursday. . . CNN.com - February 10, 2006...
Within four years, a Maryland biotech company is hoping to turn smallpox from a terrible disease into a treatable illness. BioFactura Inc., a Rockville firm, is developing a smallpox therapy derived from the antibodies of a smallpox survivor that will,...
Some common noninvasive tests for breast cancer aren't accurate enough to routinely replace biopsies, a government review concluded Thursday. Current guidelines recommend that women get a biopsy — removing some suspicious cells or tissue for examination — when a mammogram...
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in two more Nigerian states, the Agriculture Ministry said Thursday, a day after the country reported the first known outbreak of the virus in Africa. The strain has been confirmed...
Women who take a common type of antidepressant during the second half of their pregnancy are about six times more likely to give birth to a baby with a rare but potentially fatal heart and lung condition, a study reports...
The drug nevirapine prevents the spread of the AIDS virus from mother to child time after time, a new study suggests, challenging earlier findings. The new research presented Wednesday at a scientific meeting in Denver found that in Ugandan women...
Twenty-five people died and 54 more suffered serious cardiovascular problems after taking drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder between 1999 and 2003, the government says. Children accounted for 19 of the deaths and 26 of the cases of nonfatal...
The war on cancer may have reached a dramatic turning point: For the first time in more than 70 years, annual cancer deaths in the United States have fallen. The number of cancer deaths dropped to 556,902 in 2003, down...
The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected on a large commercial chicken farm in Nigeria, the first reported outbreak in Africa, the World Organization for Animal Health said Wednesday. The outbreak appears to be restricted to birds, and...
. . .after spending $415 million trying to get nearly 20,000 mostly overweight postmenopausal women to radically change their eating habits in hopes of reducing cancer and heart disease, researchers are acknowledging less than spectacular results. After an average of...
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...
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