Children with eczema have the same impaired quality of life as those with kidney disease
• Children's Health • Jul 18 06
Children with serious skin conditions feel their quality of life is impaired to the same extent as those with chronic illnesses such as epilepsy,…
IVIG Antibodies Provide Lasting Benefits to Alzheimer’s Patients
• Neurology • Jul 18 06
A purified mixture of human antibodies called intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) provides lasting benefits to patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), according to researchers at the…
S.Korea wants to strip stem cell scientist of medal
• Public Health • Jul 18 06
South Korea plans to strip disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk and six of his collaborators of state medals for their once heralded and now…
Airplane headaches may be caused by pressure changes
• Headaches • Jul 18 06
Severe headaches that develop during airplane travel appear to be the result of rapid changes in pressure, rather than the high altitude or other…
Growing spinal cord nerves after injury
• Neurology • Jul 18 06
In tests on rats, researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Michigan have developed a treatment that helps spinal cord nerves regrow after…
New hope for women with Alzheimer’s disease
• Gender: Female • Jul 18 06
Leuprolide acetate helps women with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease maintain functional capabilities for a longer period of time, according to data presented Monday by Voyager…
Executive function and Alzheimer’s disease
• Neurology • Jul 18 06
A new Mayo Clinic study finds that after memory begins to decline, executive function is the next brain function to deteriorate in the progression…
Multiple Myeloma Oral Therapy REVLIMID Approved by FDA
• Drug News • Jul 18 06
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved REVLIMID® (lenalidomide) as a treatment for multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer. The oral…
FDA approval for Gemzar for ovarian cancer
• Drug News • Jul 18 06
Eli Lilly and Company announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Gemzar (gemcitabine HCl) for use in the treatment…
FDA approves Implanon (etonogestrel implant) contraceptive
• Drug News • Jul 18 06
Organon announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Implanon (etonogestrel implant) 68mg, the first and only single-rod implantable contraceptive that…
New hope for patients with aggressive multiple sclerosis
• Neurology • Jul 18 06
A new combination treatment regime, for patients with aggressive forms of multiple sclerosis (MS), is offering new hope to a group of patients who…
Children Who Live with Smokers Have More Respiratory Complications During Surgery
• Children's Health • Jul 17 06
Children are especially vulnerable to the effects of secondhand smoking, both because they are small and still growing and because they’re often a “captive…
Smoking tied to excess deaths in disadvantaged men
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jul 17 06
Men of lower social class, income or education have twice the risk of dying during middle age compared with their counterparts with higher…
India says develops local bird flu vaccine
• Flu • Jul 17 06
India announced on Sunday it has successfully developed a vaccine against bird flu in poultry.
The country has culled hundreds of thousands of birds…
Tests confirm Indonesian child died of bird flu
• Flu • Jul 17 06
A three-year-old Indonesian girl who died this month has tested positive for bird flu according to tests by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control…
Men and women respond very differently to working long hours
• Public Health • Jul 17 06
Researchers in the UK say that women who work long hours are more likely than men to snack, smoke, drink coffee and exercise less.
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Quitting Smoking Improves Lung Function Considerably
• Respiratory Problems • Jul 14 06
For smokers with asthma, quitting smoking can improve lung function test scores by more than 15 percent in less than two months.
The findings…
What’s Wrong with Selling Kidneys?
• Public Health • Jul 14 06
Doctors in this week’s BMJ debate the issue of selling kidneys.
A personal view article, published earlier this month, asked what’s wrong with a…
People with Sweet Tooth Eat More Fruit
• Dental Health • Jul 13 06
People who like sweets eat more fruit than salty-snack lovers, and people who love fruit eat more sweets than vegetable lovers do, according to…
Bayer’s takeover offer for Schering AG complete
• Drug News • Jul 13 06
Bayer’s public takeover offer for Schering AG has been completed. Following expiration of the additional acceptance period, Bayer now has control of 92.4 percent…
Diuretic use implicated in gout attacks
• Arthritis • Jul 13 06
Taking a diuretic or ‘water pill’ for heart failure or to lower blood pressure seems to more than triple the risk of suffering recurrent…
Multiple mutations in Indonesian bird flu strain
• Flu • Jul 13 06
Multiple mutations have been found in the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed seven family members in Indonesia although scientists are unsure of their…
Roche wins rights to two Tamiflu Web sites
• Public Health • Jul 13 06
Swiss drugmaker Roche won the rights on Thursday to two Tamiflu-related Web sites in the 32nd dispute resolved by the United Nations on Web…
Online sexual enhancement products risky: FDA
• Drug News • Jul 13 06
Some sexual enhancement products sold on the Internet contain the same ingredients as prescription drugs such as Viagra and are not only illegal but…
Dietary fish oils may lower risk of eye disease
• Eye / Vision Problems • Jul 13 06
Contrary to some past studies, new research suggests that intake of fatty acids found in fish may help prevent age-related maculopathy, a deterioration of…