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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 10-04-2004
There was a time not long ago when psychiatric hospitals doled out cigarettes as rewards for good behavior. Outpatient clinics were thick with smoke, and patients smoked butts down to yellow-stained fingers. . . The Baltimore Sun - October 4,...
U.S scientists Richard Axel and Linda Buck have won the 2004 Nobel prize for medicine for research explaining how the human sense of smell works. . . CNN.com - October 4, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/10/04/nobel.medicine/index.html...
. . .The girl's death brings the region's human toll from the disease to 31, with 11 victims in Thailand and 20 in Vietnam. . . CNN.com - October 4, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/10/03/thailand.birdflu.ap/index.html...
About a quarter of U.S. women who stopped taking hormone replacement therapy after it was found to raise the risk of heart disease and some cancers have gone back on it. . . CNN.com - October 4, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/10/04/hormones.reut/index.html...
Mothers who smoke during or after pregnancy increase their babies' risk of developing colic, those vexing, inconsolable crying spells that affect up to 20 percent of U.S. babies in their first few months of life. . . CNN.com - October...
Now that Merck has removed its arthritis painkiller Vioxx from the market after tests found that it increased the risk of heart attacks and strokes, its rival Pfizer is taking a surprising stance. Pfizer says it is looking into whether...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed several bills on Thursday that would have made the state the middleman in large-scale consumer purchases of prescription drugs from Canada. . . The New York Times - October 1, 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/national/01calif.html?oref=login...
National Institute on Drug Addiction - September 30, 2004 http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/sep2004/nida-30.pdf...
. . .AHRQ's Quality Indicators are measurement tools that were originally developed by AHRQ and researchers at the University of California at San Francisco and Stanford University to help individual hospitals use their own discharge data to better understand and...
Pharmacists stopped dispensing Vioxx and patients began asking their doctors about alternatives to the popular anti-pain drug after Merck & Co. pulled it from the market because new data found it doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes. ....
The arthritis drug Vioxx, used by millions of people around the world, is being pulled off the market after a study confirmed long-standing concerns that it raises the risk of heart attack and stroke. . . CNN.com - September 30,...
A study published in the October 1, 2004, issue of the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy finds that ongoing drug shortages are having far-ranging, negative effects on patient care and hospital costs. . . The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists...
A pair of new epidemiology studies confirms that chronic kidney disease independently increases the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, even among people with early kidney disease and after considering other risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol. ....
The U.S. government Tuesday proposed expanding Medicare coverage for costly, potentially life-saving implanted heart devices. . . CNN.com - September 30, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/09/29/defibrillators.reut/index.html...
Schools, food makers, government agencies and families themselves must work together to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity, a panel of scientists said Thursday. . . CNN.com - September 30, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/09/30/child.obesity.ap/index.html...
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