Governments must help stop fake drugs
• Drug Abuse • Oct 19 05
Governments must cooperate to stop the global spread of counterfeit drugs, most of which come from India and China, two of the world’s biggest…
Dietary fat intake linked to dry eye syndrome in women
• Eye / Vision Problems • Oct 19 05
More than eight million people in the United States, predominantly women, suffer from Dry eye syndrome, a painful and debilitating eye disease. In the…
China reports new outbreak of bird flu
• Flu • Oct 19 05
China on Wednesday announced its first reported outbreak of bird flu in more than two months, saying 2 600 birds had died from the…
Antipsychotics for dementia may raise death risk
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 19 05
Atypical antipsychotic drugs used to treat Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia for relatively brief periods, less than 8 to 12…
Childhood Conduct Problems Predict Age of First Drink
• Children's Health • Oct 18 05
Behavior problems are better predictors of when children will have their first drink than a family history of alcohol dependence, according to researchers here.
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Second-hand smoke tied to asthma severity
• Asthma • Oct 18 05
Exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke appears to increase Asthma severity and might even influence the risk of hospital admission, according to a new report.
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EU Convenes Emergency Avian Flu Session
• Flu • Oct 17 05
Alarmed by the relentless westward migration of bird flu from Asia, European animal health and food safety experts met in crisis session today…
Remicade Shows Efficacy for Moderate to Severe Psoriasis
• Skin Care • Oct 17 05
Remicade (infliximab) has shown significant efficacy for the treatment of moderate-to-severe psoriasis involving the skin, researchers here reported. The drug is already approved for…
Bush urges Libya to free condemned Bulgarian nurses
• Public Health • Oct 17 05
President George W. Bush on Monday urged Libya to free five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death on charges of infecting hundreds of Libyan children…
Chinese herbal medicine effective against asthma
• Alternative Medicine • Oct 17 05
A plant-based compound using extracts of three herbs, dubbed the anti-Asthma herbal medicine intervention (ASHMI), significantly improves lung function in patients with moderate to…
Big babies at risk of obesity later
• Children's Health • Oct 14 05
Large infants or those who grow rapidly during infancy are at increased risk of Obesity during childhood and adulthood, according to a report…
Arthritis drug effective against psoriasis
• Arthritis • Oct 14 05
A drug for Rheumatoid Arthritis can relieve the suffering of patients with moderate to severe psoriasis for a year, researchers said on Friday.
They…
Taiwan builds stockpiles of influenza drug
• Flu • Oct 13 05
Taiwan is building up stockpiles of Tamiflu, the antiviral influenza drug, and aims to have enough to treat 4 percent of its 23 million…
Menstruation doesn’t greatly affect asthma
• Gender: Female • Oct 13 05
Women with Asthma are not at greatly increased risk of having an Asthma attack or visiting the emergency department (ED) for Asthma care immediately…
No quick fix for bird flu, experts caution
• Flu • Oct 12 05
If vaccines and drugs are available too late to stop bird flu, then what can be done to battle H5N1 avian influenza if it…
Paying doctors to hit goals yields mixed results
• Public Health • Oct 12 05
Paying doctors to reach clinical targets, a hot trend in the push to improve health care quality, may not lead to hoped-for improvements in…
Pneumonia Shot Succeeds With Five-Vaccine Combo for Kids
• Children's Health • Oct 11 05
Giving children a pneumococcal vaccine along with a combo vaccine for five other childhood diseases was found safe and effective for both vaccines, according…
Bird flu vaccine could take months, U.N. says
• Flu • Oct 11 05
Drug firms could take six months to manufacture adequate stocks of bird flu vaccine, far too long to stem damaging fallout if the virus…
Fish may aid fetal brain development
• Brain • Oct 11 05
New research suggests that fish may indeed be brain food, at least those varieties that have low levels of mercury.
In a study of…
IBM won’t use genetic info for hiring, benefits
• Public Health • Oct 11 05
IBM, the world’s largest computer maker, on Monday pledged not to use genetic data to screen employees and applicants in what it said was…
Pakistan Kashmir faces disease after quake
• Public Health • Oct 11 05
Malaria and other diseases are breaking out in Pakistani Kashmir where health services are in ruins after an earthquake wrecked hospitals and killed many…
Bird flu vaccine may be too late for pandemic
• Flu • Oct 11 05
Drug companies may not be able to produce enough bird flu vaccine in time to combat a human pandemic, a top United Nations official…
MRSA Infections in Newborns Are On the Rise
• Infections • Oct 11 05
Community-acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are cropping up with surprising frequency in newborn boys, and mom could be involved, researchers reported here.
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A Scribbled Antibiotic Prescription Can’t Buy Patient Satisfaction
• Infections • Oct 11 05
The notion has been challenged that a patient with an acute respiratory tract infection (URI) won’t go away happy without an antibiotic prescription.
Indeed,…
Britain’s upper house to discuss euthanasia bill
• Public Health • Oct 10 05
Britain’s House of Lords is to debate a bill on assisted suicide on Monday that would allow doctors to prescribe, but not administer, lethal…