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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 02-27-2006
Pancreatic cancer is relentless: Nearly all of the 30,000 Americans diagnosed annually with the disease die within 12 months. The early symptoms, back pain and indigestion, are so vague that most patients have no idea that they have cancer. By...
The announcement on Saturday that the deadly strain of bird flu was discovered in domesticated turkeys in France has disrupted the country's $7 billion poultry market and raised fears among the French that they could be vulnerable to the disease....
For years, millions of Americans have spent billions of dollars on alternative remedies with unproven effects. Now, rigorous science is starting to test those treatments and mostly finds them lacking. Last week, major government-funded research indicated that two wildly popular...
America's largest companies expect the federal government to pay them about $4 billion over the next four years to help keep their retiree health plans alive at a time when such benefits are increasingly on the chopping block, according to...
A registry program intended to prevent use of the acne drug Accutane by pregnant women will begin next week as planned following an earlier delay, federal regulators said Thursday. The iPledge system will start Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration...
Within a decade, an aging America will spend one of every five dollars on health care, according to government analysts who see no end to increases in the cost of going to the doctor and taking medicine. The nation's total...
In a surprising discovery, researchers say they have found a virus in some prostate cancer patients, a finding that opens new research avenues in the most common major cancer among men in the United States. The virus, closely related to...
An antibiotic and a muscle-related compound are leading candidates for a major government study of whether certain compounds could slow the worsening of Parkinson's disease. A pilot study, unveiled Thursday, suggests the two _ the antibiotic minocycline and creatine, a...
The committee that sets federal immunization policy recommended yesterday that children 2 to 5 years old be vaccinated against influenza every year, expanding the "target population" for flu shots and inching toward the day when they will be recommended for...
With a crucial personal-injury trial over Vioxx set to begin in New Jersey next week, the debate heated up again yesterday about whether Merck understated the drug's risks in a journal article in November 2000. In an letter published online...
For many arthritis sufferers, there has been a long and frustrating search for the best and safest pain relief. For some, the quest seemed to lead to a health store for unregulated supplements. But the largest and most rigorous study...
. . .MRI scans can help spot when cancer in another part of the body sends seedlings into the brain, but few patients get routine checks. Neurology specialists say it's time to change that: More patients are surviving initial tumors...
Health care officials applauded new federal regulations announced Tuesday that provide national standards for Medicare coverage of obesity surgery. . . CNN.com - February 22, 2006 http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/diet.fitness/02/22/obesity.surgery.ap/index.html...
. . .Health care spending now represents about 16 percent of the economy. But in a decade, it will make up about 20 percent of the economy. The increase is gradual, consistent and unyielding, said analysts for the Centers for...
One day, perhaps in the distant future, stem cells may help repair diseased tissues. But there is a far more pressing reason to study them: stem cells are the source of at least some, and perhaps all, cancers. At the...
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