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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 10-16-2004
A federal panel of medical experts studying illnesses among veterans of the 1991 war in the Persian Gulf has broken with several earlier studies and concluded that many suffer from neurological damage caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, rejecting past...
. . .The experimental drug, specifically designed to prevent the virus, H.I.V., from entering vaginal cells, is not ready for human testing. But it provided potent protection to female monkeys exposed to large amounts of a simian version of the...
For the first time, researchers say, a vaccine against malaria has shown that it can save children from infection or death. . . The New York Times - October 15, 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/health/15malaria.html?oref=login...
A study in dogs confirms that ephedrine weight loss supplements can kill, U.S. researchers said Thursday, supporting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's action to ban them. . . CNN.com - October 14, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/10/14/ephedra.risks.reut/index.html...
A Swedish study suggests that people who use a cell phone for at least 10 years might increase their risk of developing a rare benign tumor along a nerve on the side of the head where they hold the phone....
Don't expect imports of flu shots from Canada or other countries to ease the crippling shortage, the nation's health secretary cautioned Thursday. . . CNN.com - October 15, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/10/14/flu.vaccine.ap/index.html...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) in conjunction with other Federal agencies, private companies and organizations today launched a $60 million, 5-year public-private partnership — the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative — to test whether serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron...
. . .These awards will provide insight into how best to use health information technologies to improve patient safety by reducing medication errors; increasing the use of shared health information between providers, laboratories, pharmacies and patients; helping to insure safer...
. . .The agency is directing manufacturers to add a "black box" warning to the health professional labeling of all antidepressant medications to describe this risk and emphasize the need for close monitoring of patients started on these medications. FDA...
Harvard researchers said yesterday they have asked the university's ethics boards for permission to create cloned human embryos for medical research, marking the first push to conduct such experiments at a U.S. academic institution since a failed attempt in 2001....
Americans once had the world's safest system for distributing prescription drugs, but now that system is undercut by a growing illegal trade in pharmaceuticals. . . The Washington Post -- October 19-22, 2004 (advance appearance at website) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/health/specials/pharmaceuticals/...
With many health care facilities struggling to find flu vaccine, some small suppliers have capitalized on the acute shortage by demanding as much as 10 times the usual price. . . The Washington Post - October 14, 2004 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31177-2004Oct13.html...
Half of all older Americans will have bone-thinning osteoporosis or be at high risk of getting it by 2020 - unless they start strengthening their bones now with a boost of calcium, vitamin D and exercise, the surgeon general warned...
. . .Medicare announced that it will start paying for PET scans for some patients suspected of having the brain disease. How the agency came to that decision is a quintessential Washington tale of politics and persuasion -- and of...
Merck & Company, the drug maker that recalled its painkiller Vioxx because of a link to heart disease, said yesterday that short-term studies had shown its planned successor, Arcoxia, to be safer. . . The New York Times - October...
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