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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 01-26-2005
Microsoft founder Bill Gates's foundation and the government of Norway yesterday gave grants of more than $1 billion to immunize children in poor countries against common diseases -- a blockbuster philanthropic gesture intended to save hundreds of thousands of lives...
A majority of the patients who were persuaded to use prescription arthritis drugs such as Celebrex and Vioxx would have done just as well on older, cheaper medications and would have avoided the potential risks of heart attack and stroke...
Top Democratic lawmakers blasted Maryland's insurance regulator yesterday for allowing HMOs to pass a 2 percent tax increase on to consumers without a close examination of industry finances. . . The Baltimore Sun - January 26, 2005 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-md.insure26jan26,1,6035184.story?coll=bal-health-headlines...
Eight of the nation's largest technology companies, including I.B.M., Microsoft and Oracle, have agreed to embrace open, nonproprietary technology standards as the software building blocks for a national health information network. . . The New York Times - January 26,...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration tentatively approved on Tuesday a generic and less costly version of one of the most widely used combination of AIDS drugs, an action that is expected to expand AIDS treatment in the developing world....
Medical sleuths puzzling over three related bird flu cases in Thailand last fall now strongly believe that two women who cared for a sick child both caught the virus from the girl. . . CNN.com - January 24, 2005 http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/01/24/bird.flu.ap/index.html...
. . . A hidden epidemic is gaining momentum in America, experts say. Children as young as fourth-graders are deliberately inhaling the fumes of dangerous chemicals from a variety of household and office products. Inhalants, as they are known, are...
Viagra may aid in the treatment of enlarged hearts that can result from high blood pressure, tests on animals indicate. . . CNN.com - January 24, 2005 http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/01/23/viagra.hearthealth.ap/index.html...
A new study suggests a man's weight may affect the accuracy of a common test to detect prostate cancer, leading researchers to warn that doctors could be missing the dangerous cancer in obese men. . . CNN.com - January 24,...
The human embryonic stem cells available for research are contaminated with nonhuman molecules from the culture medium used to grow the cells, researchers report. . . CNN.com - January 23, 2005 http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/01/23/stem.cells.ap/index.html...
An international team believes it has found a master switch for cancer with the discovery of a gene that they dubbed Pokemon. Like the electronic game figures -- tiny monsters with bad tempers -- the cancer-triggering gene apparently instigates the...
The bird flu virus endemic in Asia appears to be evolving in ways that increasingly favor a deadly human influenza outbreak, the World Health Organization warned yesterday. The situation "may resemble that leading to the 1918 pandemic," which killed more...
Mad cow disease has long been thought to occur in just the brains and nervous systems of infected animals. But scientists are reporting today that the proteins thought to cause the disease can travel to other organs as well. ....
The government recommended for the first time Thursday that people exposed to the AIDS virus from rapes, accidents or occasional unsafe sex or drug use be given potentially lifesaving medications that can keep them from becoming infected. . . CNN.com...
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....
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