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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 01-27-2005
President Bush laid out a plan yesterday for reducing the nation's spiraling health care costs, proposing tax credits to encourage expansion of health savings accounts and calling for allowing small businesses to pool together for health coverage across state lines....
In a novel attempt to extend health coverage to uninsured workers, 60 large employers are joining together to sponsor an array of low-cost health insurance options. The program, to begin in the fall, will be offered for at least two...
For decades, people with juvenile diabetes have been told that controlling their blood sugar is all they can do to prevent nerve damage that can lead to the amputation of a foot or leg. But a large new British study...
Production of a generic version of the most widely used combination of AIDS drugs could begin as early as March or April and expand treatment for patients in 13 African countries, the company said Wednesday. . . Foxnews.com - January...
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...
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