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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 10-21-2004
The Drug Enforcement Administration has reversed its support for a set of negotiated guidelines designed to end a controversy over the arrests of hundreds of pain specialists who prescribed powerful narcotics for their patients. The agency took the document off...
One-fifth of women of childbearing age have mercury levels in their hair that exceed federal health standards, according to interim results of a nationwide survey being conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. . . The...
Fighting traffic can triple the risk of heart attack in people who are already susceptible. But don't blame the stress that comes with stalled freeways and missed appointments. The likely culprit, scientists said yesterday, is the hefty dose of particulate...
Birth control pills reduce the incidence of heart attacks and other forms of cardiovascular disease and lower the incidence of certain types of cancer, including ovarian and endometrial cancer, researchers said yesterday. . . The Baltimore Sun - October 21,...
The flu vaccine shortage has set off a scramble to find ways to prevent any repetition of this year's calamity, which has restricted shots to those most at risk. . . CNN.com - October 21, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/conditions/10/21/flu.vaccine.ap/index.html...
. . .Hospitals have always strived to incorporate the latest technologies into their operations. Yet emergency rooms have often lagged. In an unpredictable environment of constant stress, perhaps the most difficult element has been making technology useful to doctors and...
A study on emergency rooms disputes the common wisdom that the poor and uninsured are filling them up. More than 80 percent of patients seen in emergency rooms have health insurance and a usual source of health care, such as...
More than a quarter of the phenomenal growth in health care spending over the past 15 years is attributable to obesity, Emory University researchers reported yesterday. . . The Washington Post - October 20, 2004 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46123-2004Oct19.html...
A group of legislators - including Republicans and Democrats, senators and delegates -threw their weight yesterday behind a malpractice reform package backed by MedChi, the state medical society, adding momentum to the drive to find a solution to soaring insurance...
Drug maker Aventis-Pasteur has found an additional 2.6 million doses of flu vaccine that it will deliver to the United States in January, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said Tuesday. . . CNN.com - October 20, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/19/bush.flu/index.html...
A Denver hospital abruptly changed course on Tuesday and agreed to perform a kidney transplant that would be the first such procedure in the United States using an organ found on a private Web site. . . CNN.com - October...
Menopausal women had more sex and were happier about it when using an experimental hormone patch hailed by some as a possible female equivalent of Viagra. . . CNN.com - October 19, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/10/19/femaleviagra.ap/index.html...
With concern growing that a popular new class of arthritis medicine might increase a patient's risk of heart attack and stroke, the maker of Celebrex -- one of the most widely sold drugs in the world -- announced yesterday that...
. . .Logue volunteered for an experiment designed to test whether taking a pill immediately after a terrorizing experience might reduce the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The study is part of a promising but controversial field of research...
Canada might have more than 2 million doses of surplus flu vaccine to help the United States battle a serious shortage, health officials said yesterday, although U.S. officials have cautioned that imports were unlikely to be licensed in time for...
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