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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 01-19-2005
A 20-year follow-up of a breast-cancer treatment trial shows that radiation, given in addition to surgery and chemotherapy, can increase women's survival prospects. . . The Washington Post - January 18, 2005 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18418-2005Jan18.html...
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is often inadequately performed by doctors, paramedics and nurses, two studies of resuscitation efforts during cardiac arrest have found. . . The New York Times - January 19, 2005 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/19/national/19cpr.html...
Few dispute the need to move America's costly, fragmented health system from paper records and prescriptions into the computer age. . . The New York Times - January 19, 2005 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/19/technology/19health.html...
Blaming a computer software error, the government Wednesday admitted overstating the nation's weight problem in a widely reported study last year that said obesity was about to overtake smoking as the No. 1 cause of death in the United States....
Scientists have discovered a new gene mutation that could account for Parkinson's disease in as many as 10,000 Americans. The finding, confirmed in a series of studies published today in the online version of the British journal Lancet, could lead...
Two studies released yesterday have turned up new evidence that all of the popular arthritis painkillers known as COX-2 inhibitors may put users at greater risk of heart attacks and strokes. . . The Washington Post - January 18, 2005...
The Food and Drug Administration approved a new vaccine to protect people age 11 to 55 against bacterial meningitis, which is rare but potentially deadly and debilitating. . . Foxnews.com - January 17, 2005 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,144642,00.html...
A common screening test failed to detect potentially cancerous colon growths 95 percent of the time, falsely reassuring patients and doctors, according to a new study. . . CNN.com - January 18, 2005 http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/01/18/colorectal.screening.ap/index.html...
. . .Dr. Art Papier saw a growing need for a technological answer to the question, "What am I looking at?" as the ranks of medical dermatologists were steadily depleted in the 1990s by a shift to cosmetic surgery. ....
Last year was an especially bad one for the pharmaceutical industry, which experienced controversies over how drug studies are disclosed and the implosion of the painkiller Vioxx. Now, as a result of the recent publication of an article about the...
Federal health advisers recommended against over-the-counter sales of a cholesterol drug, saying that patients need medical guidance in treating a condition that has no symptoms and requires drugs for life to stay healthy. . . CNN.com - January 14, 2005...
Alternative therapies ranging from Chinese herbs to high-dose vitamins and dietary supplements should be more rigorously tested to ensure that they're safe and actually work, a national panel of experts said yesterday. . . The Baltimore Sun - January 13,...
The government is considering whether a drug for a serious chronic condition — high cholesterol — should sit on drugstore shelves alongside medicines for headaches, allergies and athlete's foot. . . Foxnews.com - January 13, 2005 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,144225,00.html...
The number of worldwide polio cases last year rose by almost one-third after a vaccine boycott in Nigeria spawned a resurgence of the disease across Africa, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. . . CNN.com - January 12, 2005 http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/01/12/un.polio.ap/index.html...
Overworked, sleepy doctors-in-training who hit the road after work are as much a hazard as drunk drivers, a finding that could unleash a wave of lawsuits against U.S. hospitals, a researcher warned on Wednesday. . . CNN.com - January...
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