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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 10-25-2004
A Maryland manufacturer will provide an additional 1 million doses of its FluMist vaccine, making a total of 3 million doses of the nasal spray available, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said Thursday, as officials tried to...
. . .Men who weigh too much are more likely to have poor sperm quality, research on nearly 1,600 young Danish men has found. Being too thin is a problem, too. . . CNN.com - October 22, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/10/21/diet.sperm.ap/index.html...
The number of applicants to U.S. medical schools increased for the second year in a row, according to data released today by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Almost 36,000 individuals applied to attend medical school in the 2004-2005...
Increasing mammography screening rates and investing in research to improve breast cancer detection technologies should be top priorities, according to authors of a study published in the October 20, 2004, Journal of the National Cancer Institute. . . The National...
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...
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