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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 01-20-2005
For the first time, cancer has surpassed heart disease as the top killer of Americans under 85, health officials said Wednesday. The good news is that deaths from both are falling, but improvement has been more dramatic for heart disease....
The government has decided to expand its coverage for surgically implanted heart-shocking devices for people with weakened hearts, in what could be the most expensive single decision in Medicare's history, federal officials said yesterday. . . The Washington Post -...
Patients taking Plavix, a popular and expensive antistroke drug, experience more than 12 times as many ulcers as patients who take aspirin plus a heartburn pill, a study to be published today in The New England Journal of Medicine found....
Government officials are now tracing six cows shipped into the United States from the same Canadian herd as an animal with mad cow disease. . . CNN.com - January 19, 2005 http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/01/19/madcow.ap/index.html...
A newly discovered virus related to the SARS virus may cause several mysterious childhood ailments, including Kawasaki disease, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. . . CNN.com - January 19, 2005 http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/01/19/health.virus.reut/index.html...
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...
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