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University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 09-18-2004
Eyeing a potential gold mine in the global obesity epidemic, the pharmaceutical industry has launched a massive drive to develop new diet pills and an intense campaign to persuade the government to make it easier to get weight-loss drugs onto...
Medicare will start paying for specialized brain scans in some patients to help determine if they have Alzheimer's disease, the federal agency that runs the reimbursement program announced yesterday. . . The Washington Post - September 17, 2004 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27275-2004Sep16.html...
A once-scarce vaccine that protects against a range of infections including meningitis is back in supply and small children should get four doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. . . CNN.com - September 16,...
The Food and Drug Administration decided Thursday that consumers can buy devices to jump-start failing hearts at home without a prescription. . . CNN.com - September 16, 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/09/16/home.defibrillator.ap/index.html...
India has the world's largest number of HIV-infected people, the head of a top international AIDS-fighting fund said Wednesday, dismissing official figures. . . The Washington Post - September 16, 2004 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25600-2004Sep16.html...
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced new measures to help seniors get the lowest price possible for their medicines by allowing them -- for the first time -- to compare prices for similar drugs used to treat common diseases...
Although the prevalence of underage drinking has decreased since its peak in the late 1970s, drinking by youth has stabilized over the past decade at disturbingly high levels. . . The National Institutes of Health - September 14, 2004 http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/sep2004/niaaa-14.htm...
. . .The researchers found that, for the seven languages studied, nouns comprise the greatest proportion of 20-month-old children’s vocabularies, followed by verbs and then adjectives. . . The National Institutes of Health - September 14, 2004 http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/sep2004/nichd-14.htm...
. . .the American Association for the Advancement of Science has created the AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy. As director of the center, which it established with a three-year, $2.25 million grant from the John D. and...
The mission is to fix Canada's much-vaunted, but ailing, health system for a generation, but federal and provincial governments looked hopelessly divided on Friday ahead of a summit next week that is supposed to come up with solutions. . ....
For years, mammography and manual breast exams have been primary tools for spotting breast cancer. But both tests are frustratingly imprecise and miss many cancers until the tumors have spread. Now another technique might offer better results for women at...
. . .The stream in Huangmengying is one tiny canal in the Huai River basin, a vast system that has become a grossly polluted waste outlet for thousands of factories in central China. There are 150 million people in the...
Antidepressants should come with the nation's strongest warning -- in a black box on the label -- that they can sometimes spur suicidal behavior in children and teenagers, the government's scientific advisers decided Tuesday. . . CNN.com - September 14,...
Search-and-rescue dogs deployed after the 9/11 terrorist attacks suffered cuts and scrapes but no serious short-term effects from exposure to the disaster sites, according to research by the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. . . CNN.com - September...
The number of people hospitalized in the United States because of the flu has climbed substantially over the past two decades to an average of more than 200,000 a year, in large part because of the aging of the population,...
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