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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 03-27-2006
The narcolepsy drug modafinil should not be approved as a treatment for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children until more is learned about a possible link to a serious skin disease, federal advisers said yesterday. A Food and Drug Administration advisory...
Johns Hopkins Medicine took the unusual step yesterday of announcing that one of its physician researchers has canceled a planned report about a controversial blood substitute at a scientific meeting next month. Dr. Edward Norris, the university said, did not...
Tuberculosis cases in the United States fell to historic lows last year, public health authorities said yesterday. At the same time, doctors said, there was a small but worrisome increase in the number of cases resistant to several drugs. The...
Government limits on fluoride in drinking water aren't protecting the public from possible tooth and bone damage, a prestigious advisory panel says. The Environmental Protection Agency allows so much fluoride that some children in areas with unusually high natural fluoride...
The percentage of physicians who provide free care to the poor has dropped over the past decade, signaling a growing problem for the uninsured, a survey suggests. About three-quarters of physicians provided charity care in the mid-1990s, compared with about...
The largest study ever done on treating depression has found that patients who didn't get well with the first medicine they tried had a good chance of succeeding the second time around. Up to one-third of those who added or...
Scientists say they have found a reason bird flu is not spreading easily from person to person: The virus concentrates itself too deep in the respiratory tract to be spewed out by coughing and sneezing. But the virus could change...
A new study suggests that low doses of aspirin may help prevent heart attacks in women at risk for cardiovascular disease, challenging the theory that aspirin helps men's hearts more than women's. "Women are clearly benefiting from taking aspirin and...
The widely used genetic test for breast cancer risk can miss mutations that help cause the disease, according to a new study, a finding that is likely to increase the pressure to develop more thorough testing methods. The test, which...
The human death toll from the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu reached 103 after five people died from the disease in Azerbaijan, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. . . FOXNews.com - March 21, 2006 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,188635,00.html...
A month after advisers told the government some attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drugs should bear stronger warnings of cardiovascular risks, officials are asking a second panel whether to add warnings about psychosis or mania. . . CNN.com - March 22,...
The H5N1 strain of bird flu in humans has evolved into two separate strains, U.S. researchers reported on Monday, which could complicate developing a vaccine and preventing a pandemic. One strain, or clade, made people sick in Vietnam, Cambodia and...
The Food and Drug Administration reported yesterday that two more women have died after taking the RU-486 abortion pill, bringing to seven the number of fatalities associated with the drug since it was approved for use in 2000. The agency...
. . .In a statement on its website, the Agriculture Ministry said the flu had been found in birds at two communal farms in southern Israel and at a farming community in central Israel. Fearing the worst, Israel had gone...
B vitamin deficiencies can cause a range of serious health effects, including spinal defects in children born to women with below-normal levels of folic acid and anemia in people not getting enough B12. That's why a two-step method of...
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