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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 03-20-2006
More than 15,000 U.S. medical school seniors applied for residency positions through the NRMP this year, the highest number in more than 20 years. . . The American Association of Medical Colleges - March 16, 2006 http://www.aamc.org/newsroom/pressrel/2006/060316.htm...
Karen Feury has wintered in Florida and summered on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Jennifer Meyer enjoyed the warm weather near the beach in North Carolina and may someday enjoy a rent-free gig in sunny Arizona. When Tammy Long and her husband...
Soaring numbers of American children are being prescribed anti-psychotic drugs — in many cases, for attention deficit disorder or other behavioral problems for which these medications have not been proven to work, a study found. The annual number of children...
Eleven patients have died while taking Alzheimer's disease drug Aricept during a clinical trial, Japan's Eisai Co., which makes the medicine, said Thursday. There were no deaths among patients who were taking a placebo, said Eisai, which markets Aricept with...
Kids who try to get high by sniffing glue, lighter fluid and other chemicals are more likely to be white and come from families that make more than double the poverty level, according to a federal study. The study of...
Blacks and Hispanics tend to receive slightly better day-to-day medical care than whites when they see a doctor, a large and surprising study has found. . . The study, the most comprehensive examination of the quality of primary care in...
For elderly people who suffer bouts of depression, drugs work surprisingly better than psychotherapy at keeping these black spells from returning, suggests the longest study ever in patients so old. The findings from the two-year study may encourage some doctors...
Researchers studying anorexia in twins conclude that more than half a person's risk for developing the sometimes fatal eating disorder is determined by genes. Most experts already believe there is a strong genetic component to the disorder, which mostly affects...
Nanotechnology has restored the sight of blind rodents, a new study shows. Scientists mimicked the effect of a traumatic brain injury by severing the optical nerve tract in hamsters, causing the animals to lose vision. After injecting the hamsters with...
Sweden recorded its first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain on Wednesday, saying European laboratory tests confirm two wild birds found dead in the southeast were infected with the virus. Afghan authorities, meanwhile, said preliminary test results from...
The first large-scale attempt to avert high blood pressure by temporarily treating borderline patients stalled rather than prevented the potentially deadly disease, researchers said Tuesday. The 772-patient study was designed to test whether two years of treatment with the drug...
Federal regulators, working with patients, academics and pharmaceutical companies, are listing dozens of potential research projects they believe would help shorten the time it takes for new drugs to reach patients. . . CNN.com - March 15, 2006 http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/03/15/drug.development.ap/index.html...
Azerbaijan reported three people killed by bird flu, after Myanmar announced its first outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain in poultry and officials cited a strong threat that the disease also struck Afghanistan. . . The Washington Post - March...
Pregnancy can be the most wonderful experience life has to offer. But it can also be dangerous. Around the world, an estimated 529,000 women a year die during pregnancy or childbirth. Ten million suffer injuries, infection or disability. To David...
An implanted device that repairs a congenital heart defect can reduce the frequency and severity of migraine headaches, but does not prevent the migraines altogether, according to preliminary results from the first rigorous clinical trial of the device for migraine...
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