World / Health & Beauty
A 'drug drought' for pregnant women
03.06.2008 23:39
usatoday.com
A lack of drugs meant to treat common pregnancy-related conditions limits doctors' options.
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Health & Beauty
Cities move to teach all employees CPR
03.06.2008 23:39
usatoday.com
A heart association survey found that 89% of American adults are willing and able to help a cardiac arrest victim, but only 21% ...
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Health & Beauty
Group petitions FDA to ban some food colorings
03.06.2008 23:39
usatoday.com
A consumer advocacy group called on the Food and Drug Administration Tuesday to ban the use of eight artificial colorings in ...
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Health & Beauty
Drug companies drain scientific brains from FDA
03.06.2008 23:39
usatoday.com
As drug companies siphon off FDA's most experienced scientists, they leave an increasingly leaner, less confident staff that ...
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Health & Beauty
Five percent of Mass. taxpayers uninsured, some fined
03.06.2008 23:39
usatoday.com
Nearly 100,000 Massachusetts taxpayers have been fined for failing to obtain health insurance, even as a major survey concludes ...
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Health & Beauty
Drug-resistant bug kills young and healthy in U.S.
03.06.2008 19:02
reuters.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A germ that usually causes pimples or skin rashes caused fatal pneumonia in at least 24 otherwise young and healthy people during the 2006-2007 flu season and doctors need to watch for it, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Health & Beauty
Microsurgery On The Brain Of The Fruit Fly Leads To New Insights Into Irreparable Nerve Injuries
03.06.2008 18:13
medicalnewstoday.com
Every year, one million Europeans are confronted with potentially irreparable brain or spinal cord injuries resulting from traffic accidents. Because the nerves in a damaged spinal cord cannot, or cannot fully, be repaired, the patient remains (partially) paralyzed. Now, VIB scientists connected to the K.U.Leuven have become the first to successfully develop a simple model that enables the study of injured brain tissue.
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Neurology
Hurricane Survivors Experience Long-Term Mental Health Distress
03.06.2008 17:20
medicalnewstoday.com
As the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) works to close the last trailer parks that many Gulf-area hurricane survivors call home this weekend, the findings of a new study suggest that displacement affects survivors' mental health. More than half of the study participants reported significant long-term mental health distress, even as they moved back to their original communities.
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Mental Disorders
Determining What Outcomes Are Important In Diabetes Trials
03.06.2008 17:19
medicalnewstoday.com
According to a study published in the June 4 issue of JAMA,only about 20% of ongoing randomized clinical trials (RCTs) indiabetes consider primary outcomes that patients find important-notably illness, pain, effecton function, and death.Gunjan Y. Gandhi, M.D., M.Sc., and M. Hassan Murad, M.D., M.P.H. (MayoClinic, Rochester, Minn.) and colleagues wonder if diabetes trials willbe more informative to both patients and clinicians.
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Diabetes
Ischemic Heart Disease Not Associated With Low HDL Levels From Gene Variation
03.06.2008 17:19
medicalnewstoday.com
A paper published in the June 4 issue of JAMA hasshown that patients who have lower levels of high-density lipoprotein(HDL) cholesteroldue to a gene mutation do not have an increased risk of ischemic heartdisease.Low plasma levels of HDL - also known as the "good" cholesterol - havebeen linked to an increased risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD) inseveral previous studies.
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Cardiology
Heart Failure Patients Optimistic About Life Expectancy
03.06.2008 17:19
medicalnewstoday.com
An article published in the June 4 issue of JAMAreports on the discordance between the clinical predictions and patientexpectations of life expectancy and survival of heart failure patients.Larry A. Allen, M.D., M.H.S. (Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham,N.C.) and colleagues find that younger patients and those with moresevere disease significantly overestimate their remaining life span.
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Cardiology
Prognosis For Colorectal Cancer Patients Improved If Family Members Have Had Disease
03.06.2008 17:19
medicalnewstoday.com
According to a paper published in the June 4 issue of JAMA,patientswith advanced colon cancer who receive chemotherapy and who have afamily history of colorectal cancer have a significantly lowerlikelihood of cancer recurrence and death. Jennifer A. Chan,M.D., M.P.H., (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,Boston) and colleagues also note that the risk is reduced further inpatients who have more first-degree relatives who have been affected bythe disease.
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Cancer
Study finds colon cancer puzzle
03.06.2008 17:04
reuters.com
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Colon cancer patients with a family history of the disease may live longer once treated than those without the family link, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Health & Beauty
Delegates Agree To Focus On HIV/AIDS, Other Issues Hindering African Development At Close Of Tokyo Conference
03.06.2008 16:15
medicalnewstoday.com
Delegates at the close of the fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama, Japan, on Friday agreed to focus on health issues, including HIV/AIDS, on the continent, the Kyodo News/TMCnet reports.
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HIV/AIDS
Senate Democrats To Move Forward With Bill That Would Halt 10.6% Medicare Physician Payment Cut Despite Veto Threat
03.06.2008 15:15
medicalnewstoday.com
Despite a veto threat from the White House, Senate Democrats plan to move forward in the next two weeks with a bill (S 1951) that would reduce payments to Medicare Advantage plans to offset delaying a 10.6% cut to Medicare physicians' payments, CQ Today reports. The physician payment cut is scheduled to take effect July 1. The bill, sponsored by
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Critical Care Medicine & Anesthesiology
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