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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 11-16-2004
. . .The project will help researchers understand how flu viruses evolve, spread and cause disease. According to its leaders, it has the potential to minimize the impact of annual flu outbreaks and to improve scientific knowledge of the emergence...
In a small, initial clinical trial led by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, doctors found that up to 75 percent of people with Crohn's disease responded to an experimental...
The birth rate among young adolescents aged 10 to 14 has fallen to the lowest level since 1946 according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. . . The Centers for Disease Control -...
. . .But for Latino patients, the biggest obstacle is cost. A survey of 468 Hispanics conducted last summer revealed that about 70 percent had no health insurance, even though the majority of them were working. . . The Baltimore...
A pill that helps you lose weight and quit smoking? That was amazing enough to capture headlines last week. But scientists say the experimental drug might be even more versatile, providing a new tool to help people stop abusing drugs...
Viagra, Pfizer Inc.'s top-selling impotency drug, soon will carry radio transmitters to prevent counterfeiting, the company said Monday. . . CNN.com - November 15, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/11/15/drug.fingerprinting.ap/index.html...
The Environmental Protection Agency has suspended a controversial study aimed at exploring how infants and toddlers absorb pesticides and other household chemicals, officials said yesterday. . . The Washington Post - November 10, 2004 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37931-2004Nov9.html...
A major maker of generic AIDS medicines voluntarily removed all its antiretroviral medications from the World Health Organization's list of approved drugs yesterday, a move that could potentially affect tens of thousands of AIDS patients in poor countries who have...
As part of a crackdown on false and deceptive diet claims, the Federal Trade Commission sent letters to nine media companies yesterday, reminding them to stop publishing ads for bogus weight-loss products. . . The Washington Post - November 10,...
Severe alcohol and drug abuse by teenagers may be easily missed during routine and urgent-care medical visits, particularly in girls. In a study published in the November issue of Pediatrics, researchers highlighted not only how often clinicians fail to notice...
New insights into how nicotine behaves in the body are paving the way for better drugs to help smokers beat their addiction, researchers reported this week at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists' annual meeting in Baltimore. . . The...
Parting company with the findings of a Clinton administration panel on Gulf War illnesses, a new study concludes more must be learned about the effects of toxic substances on those who fought there. . . CNN.com - November 12, 2004...
It's a lesson children learn even before their ABCs -- say you're sorry when you hurt someone. But it's now being taught in the grown-up world of medicine as a surprisingly powerful way to soothe patients and head off malpractice...
An advisory committee to the World Health Organization for the first time has recommended that Russian and American scientists be allowed to manipulate a gene in the smallpox virus to speed the development of drugs that could treat the disease,...
A new IOM report warns that rural health care providers and institutions could fail to benefit from quality improvement and performance measurement programs that are designed to boost health care quality. . . The American College of Physicians - November...
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