FDA approves meningitis vaccine
• Drug News • Jan 17 05
French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis has won U.S. approval to sell a new vaccine designed to give longer protection against meningitis, a potentially fatal bacterial infection.
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Best fitness routine may depend on personality
• Weight Loss • Jan 17 05
Before starting a new fitness program or exercise, men and women would do well to determine which activity best suits their personality, according to…
UK to publish adverse drug reaction data
• Public Health • Jan 17 05
Britain is to overhaul and open up its drug safety monitoring system, already viewed as one of the better schemes worldwide, in the…
Women’s groups pressure FDA on ‘morning-after’ pill
• Gender: Female • Jan 17 05
Women’s rights groups seeking easier access to emergency contraception are pressuring U.S. regulators as they try to decide whether to approve a non-prescription “morning-after”…
Public to view drug side effects
• Drug News • Jan 17 05
Patients will be able to examine data on the safety of different medicines, the government has announced.
Anonymised data on suspected adverse drug reactions…
Migraine linked to heart defect
• Migraine • Jan 17 05
Doctors are examining whether migraines are linked to a common heart defect.
One in four people have a valve-like hole, which can be closed…
Child cancer ‘link to pollution’
• Children's Health • Jan 17 05
Exposure to environmental pollution while in the womb might increase a child’s risk of cancer, a study suggests.
Children born near emission “hotspots” were…
Newport News Foundation Helps With Medical Costs
• Public Health • Jan 17 05
A Newport News nonprofit group is helping patients with macular degeneration to pay their medical bills.
The Patient Advocate Foundation is offering up to…
Air Pollution Probable Cause of Most Childhood Cancers
• Cancer • Jan 17 05
Exposure of preganant women to air pollution is the most likely cause of childhood cancers, suggests a British study published in the Journal of…
Georgia Receives More Flu Vaccine
• Public Health • Jan 17 05
Gerogia has received more flu shots, giving its residents an extra opportunity to get the shot.
“Demand is very low right now, but flu…
US advisers reject Merck non-prescription drug
• Drug News • Jan 14 05
A U.S. advisory panel on Friday urged regulators to reject over-the-counter sales of Merck & Co. Inc.‘s cholesterol-lowering drug Mevacor.
Merck’s research did not…
States look to Europe for prescription drugs
• Drug News • Jan 14 05
U.S. states looking to Canada for steep discounts on prescription drug prices are increasingly turning to Europe for deals now that the Canadian government…
Inhaled budesonide safe for infants with asthma
• Asthma • Jan 14 05
Budesonide inhalation suspension (BIS) is a safe asthma treatment for infants, according to a new study.
Although previous trials have shown that BIS can…
Electrical device promising for spinal cord injury
• Surgery • Jan 14 05
Early tests are raising hopes that a new device can help people who’ve injured their spinal cord.
Implantation of an oscillating field stimulator, which…
Carnitine compound eases diabetic nerve pain
• Diabetes • Jan 14 05
People with diabetes-related nerve damage may find pain is relieved by taking a compound related to the popular supplement L-carnitine - provided the treatment…
Douching not related to pelvic disease
• Infections • Jan 14 05
Contrary to some past reports, new study findings indicate that women who douche do not increase their risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, or genital…
UK science centre to probe mysteries of the mind
• Public Health • Jan 14 05
Can there be a predisposition for fundamentalism? Do the faithful cope more easily with pain? Are they faster to recover from illness?
Such are…
Physician-nurse team improves blood pressure control
• Heart • Jan 14 05
Success in achieving target blood pressure levels seems to be improved using home blood pressure measurements to guide treatment in a physician-supervised, nurse-managed…
Bird flu kills 35-year-old woman in Vietnam
• Flu • Jan 14 05
A 35-year-old woman has become Vietnam’s fifth fatality in two weeks from the bird flu virus, which is spreading again through the country’s poultry…
Global high blood pressure rates set to soar
• Heart • Jan 14 05
A third of the world’s adult population - more than one billion people - will have high blood pressure by 2025, scientists predicted on…
Viagra safe with blood pressure drugs, study shows
• Drug News • Jan 14 05
Men who take multiple blood pressure medications can also take Viagra without risking additional problems, according to a new study.
In the study, funded…
Disease still a threat in tsunami-stricken Aceh-UN
• Public Health • Jan 14 05
Aid agencies have prevented disease spreading through Indonesia’s tsunami-stricken Aceh, but the threat remained strong, the United Nations said on Friday as doctors reported…
Genes, low iron tied to restless legs in kids
• Genetics • Jan 14 05
Family history and iron deficiency appear to play important roles in childhood restless legs syndrome, according to a new study.
Restless legs syndrome (RLS)…
Sleep apnea linked heartbeat irregularities
• Heart • Jan 13 05
People with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome - in which airways become blocked periodically during sleep and breathing stops for brief periods - experience…
Tough seat belt laws can lower crash deaths - group
• Public Health • Jan 13 05
Traffic death rates dropped sharply in several states that have strengthened their seat belt laws to the toughest on the books, a leading highway…