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 An international research team announced on Wednesday that a woman from Colombia has just received the first trachea transplant which was grown by seeding a donor organ with her stem cells as to prevent her body from rejecting it. The surgery was a total success and it was made back in June.The doctors used tissue from the woman’s own...
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 Peditricians called on ban on the cold medicinesand the over-the-counter coughs for young children, explaining that these could harm them. Still, a top government health official rejected the ban on Thursday even if the Food and Drug Administration also stated that they were a little concerned about those medicines since they have a lack...
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 U.S. and Canadian researchers said on Monday that the expensive advertising of the prescription drugs don’t increase the sales and don’t encourage it either. Companies spent $3 billion in 2005 on this kind of ads in the United States. Still, the drugs didn’t appear to result in more prescriptions.Excepting the United States and New...
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 Today it was announced that doctors, medical schools, hospitals, researchers and health organizations intend to create the world's largest online medical encyclopedia.Known as Medpedia, the medical encyclopedia will have Wikipedia as model, but it will be written and edited only by qualified professionals. Volunteers who would like to...
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 President Bush vetoed on Tuesday a bill through which doctors will be protected from a Medicare pay cut. But the Congress overrode the veto with majority, so the bill is now law. The Congress wants an elimination of a pay cut for doctors.Also the elderly who get health insurance through Medicare will observe some changes in their...
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 Members of the Food and Drug Administration’s panel of
outside experts voted on Thursday against attaching black-box warnings, the
organization’s strongest cautions, on the labels of epilepsy drugs, saying that
studies did not prove a sufficiently high risk of suicidal behavior as to apply
such tough warnings.
The Food and Drug...
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 The US Food and Drug Administration warned physicians
that certain types of antipsychotic drugs can boost the risk of death in
elderly people who have dementia. FDA also announced that they will now require
stronger warnings on antipsychotic drugs. Manufacturers of older antipsychotic
drugs, such as Haldol and Thorazine, are required...
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 The Food and Drug Administration will analyze the experimental
arthritis drug Actemra produced by Roche Holding AG and will consider whether
it should be approved or not.
Actemra is the first of a new class of drug created to
suppress the action of interleukin-6, a protein that acts as an activator for
the body's inflammatory...
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 Six people have died between May 22 and May 28 after being
injected with human immunoglobulin, proteins with features of antibodies. The
cases were registered in east China's
Jiangxi Province,
according to statements local authorities made on Sunday.
The immunoglobulin was produced by Jiangxi Yabo
Bio-pharmaceutical Co at a...
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 The Food and Drug Administration made a
proposal Wednesday to replace a 30-year-old system for classifying drugs. The new labels would
provide more detailed information about a medication's risks and benefits. The
measure was taken after more than ten years of analysis and aims to give
doctors a more precise view over the risks of...
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There 2,3 million teenagers using pots at
least once a month in the U.S.A.
Although the figure sounds alarming, it is actually encouraging, because it shows
a 25% decrease since 2001, according to the Center for Disease Control and
Prevention. Used since prehistory, marijuana, also known as cannabis, has
gained in popularity in...
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 There were some concerns that prescription drug
advertisements can sometimes mislead and that are not always truthful. Sometimes
the drug’s effectiveness is put into question and consumers and patients should
know about these studies. The balance between the risks and the benefits of a
drug shouldn’t be a secret for...
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 Six times more children in the U.S. than in the U.K. are prescribed anti-psychotic medicines, according to a study made in the U.K., which is to be released Monday in the May edition of the journal Pediatrics.
It is not that important that in the U.S. the rate is higher, but that it’s going up on both sides of the Atlantic....
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 Epilepsy, a frequent affection nowadays, is
a chronic neurological disorder that has recurrent unprovoked seizures as
manifestation. A team of researchers from the University College London has made
a clinical test with the purpose of finding a new technique for reducing the
number of seizures children suffering of this disease have,...
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After a few tragic cases in which people died after being
treated with heparin, the Food and Drug Administration requires the American
Congress to extend the sum it assigns to the activities necessary for
inspecting foreign drug shipments in the U.S., the Los Angeles Times reports.
Heparin is frequently used during kidney...
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 Knowing the country of origin, or the original source of a certain active ingredient of a food product, the place of manufacture, all these are considered vital information and all products' labels should show these details. The new rule came after Democratic lawmakers thought it might be a good thing for everyone to know where their...
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 Somewhat unexpectedly, a new study has found that hypertension drugs dramatically lower overall mortality in the elderly. Previously, it was thought that while treating hypertension had clear benefits, such as a reduction in the risk for stroke, it may actually increase the risk of death due to other problems.The new research presented...
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 Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt introduced Google Health at a healthcare conference in Florida last week. The U.S. health care system has an expensive and old-fashioned record keeping system, as an estimated 90 percent of the medical records of patients are kept in cabinets in the doctors’ offices.The first pilot project of Google,...
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 The Food and Drug Administration decided that drug producers
should give more details about the side effects of the drugs they make.
For years, the agency has insisted that the public-health
advisories should inform them if any medical problem was linked to the use of
some drug, but they were often announced to late, after the...
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 Search giant Google has been working for months, in order to develop a new service in the field of consumer health. The service will give doctors and patients easy access to electronic medical records. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt introduced Google Health at a healthcare conference in Florida yesterday."The opportunity here...
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 Baxter International Inc. declared yesterday that it was
recalling all of its remaining heparin products, after the officials at the
Food and Drug Administration said there was sufficient capacity from other
suppliers.
“We have assurance from the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration that there is an adequate supply in the market...
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 A recent study
showed that antibiotics should be prescribed with much more attention,
especially when it comes about people suffering from dementia diseases, such as
Alzheimer’s disease.
For example,
Alzheimer’s disease is considered by many doctors and by the Alzheimer’s
Association to be a fatal brain disease, that is a...
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 Commenting on an investigation into the recalled drug
heparin, China’s
State Food and Drug Administration declared Wednesday that it strictly
controlled chemicals used in pharmaceuticals, but the importing countries
should be the ones responsible for ensuring the imported products are safe.
The Chinese FDA said that it usually...
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 The United States’ Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention announced on Friday that the flu season worsened, as the
disease reached no less than 49 states and had killed already 22 children. On
Thursday the United States’
Food and Drug Administration said that it should completely change the flu
vaccine mix for next year, as the...
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 It seems that Botox is toxic,
after all!
According to a governmental
warning, the popular anti-wrinkle drug and other two similar products have been
linked to dangerous symptoms of botulism in some cases. In some situations a
few children even died because of these problems.
So, because of these serious concerns,
the Food and...
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 Baxter International Inc., the major producer of heparin in the U.S., has stopped making the blood drug, due to several reports of allergic reactions coming from patients.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has received about 350 complaints from patients using injectable heparin, since the end of 2007. Patients reported side...
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 Scientists report that pre-chewing the baby’s food is another way of transmitting AIDS to infants. As this is a frequent custom in the less developed countries, health officials warn the mothers who practice it that there are great chances for the baby to be infected.
Indeed, the infection is transmitted through blood, not...
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 The findings of a recent major
government diabetes study are both surprising and disappointing and force the
medical experts to rethink the way in which diabetes patients should be
treated. The study found that lowering aggressively the blood sugar levels to reach
the normal values in high-risk diabetes patients could cause fatal...
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 2007 was a full year for the Food
and Drug Administration. The imports banned by FDA during the last year refer
to 11 types of foods and drugs which are not allowed in the US until they
are tested and approved by the above mentioned institution according to its
panel of rules, USA Today reports.
The import alerts cover...
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 The number of adults seeking medical help for cannabis
addiction has risen by 50% since Labour downgraded the drug, health authority
figures show.
Over 16,500 adults sought treatment for cannabis use in
England in 2006/7 compared with 11,057 two years earlier when the drug moved
from Class B to C.
Currently 500 adults and...
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 The Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday that there's
no evidence that so-called "bio identical" hormones mixed by
individual pharmacists to treat menopausal symptoms in women are any safer than
prescription hormones made by drug companies such as Wyeth.
The FDA warned seven pharmacy operators about...
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 U.S. researchers said on Wednesday they were able to block
the cancer's ability to spread by restoring tiny bits of genetic material
missing from breast tumors in mice.
The finding will help doctors make better treatment
decisions and may give rise to a new way of halting the advance of breast
cancer, said Dr. Sohail Tavazoie, an...
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 In an alert highlighting the previously known risk U.S.
officials stated on Monday that patients treated with widely used osteoporosis
drugs may develop severe and sometimes disabling pain in muscles, joints and
bones.
The warning applies to Merck & Co Inc's Fosamax, Roche
Holding AG and GlaxoSmithKline PLC's Boniva, plus all...
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 According to recent studies the number of Americans with
some sort of substance abuse or dependence is 22.2 million.
Researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine have developed
a vaccine that is currently in clinical trials that doesn’t fight what most
consider to be a real illness or disease like cancer or AIDS. Rather, this...
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 According to a new study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (American Thoracic Society), patients with severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) may benefit from a new treatment that includes the use of two drugs: salmeterol and fluticasone. This new treatment may be a better...
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 According to Safeway, US supermarket chain, some of its ground
beef may be tainted with Salmonella as the company was informed of the
potential threat by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
According to a company release, the ground beef in question
would have entered the supply chain between September 19 and November 5....
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 According to a new study conducted by the American Cancer
Society, people diagnosed with cancer who don't have health insurance are more
likely to die because they are less likely to get screening tests and so are
typically diagnosed with advanced disease.
The finding proffers strong evidence that differences in
cancer survival...
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 Although use of prohibited drugs by U.S. teenagers has
decreased in the past ten years, health authorities still have to worry about
the ever-growing use of MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine),
otherwise known as ecstasy, and the abuse of prescription medications.
Thirteen percent of eighth grade students reported using...
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 A recent scientific discovery has led scientist to believe
that they now hold the key to predetermining the type of chemotherapy needed
for each patient suffering from a different array of cancers especially women
diagnosed with breast cancer. The way doctors determine which cancer patients
are likely to benefit from chemotherapy is...
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 Researchers have discovered a key chemical switch that turns
a person's internal body clock on, and tells us when to wake, eat and sleep.
They say the findings could lead to treatments for jet lag
and other serious sleep disorders, and may also allow drugs to be developed so
night shift workers can adjust to their peculiar hours....
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 According to a study released on Tuesday by an Oakland
environmental group, the very chemicals used to keep hospitals squeaky clean
and to treat patients could be harmful to nurses who are exposed to them in
their daily duties.
Nurses are exposed to a wide range of chemicals on the job -
from heavy-duty cleaners and latex to...
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 According to a study scientists have discovered a protein
which could improve the success rate of one of the most common drugs used to
fight ovarian cancer.
Researchers funded by Cancer Research UK and the Medical
Research Council found that the loss of a protein called TGFBI caused
paclitaxel to fail.
The drug is a common...
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 After analyzing samples from drinking water in Britain,
chemists say that drinking water in Britain is under threat from drugs and
cosmetics being flushed down the drains in millions of households.
New contaminants have entered the water system after use by
the population in recent years, such as drugs used to treat...
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 Health officials say that the NHS in Cumbria is being
drained of £2million every year because medication is being wasted.
Patients who order repeat prescriptions they simply do not need or use are
being blamed for contributing to the problem.
Health bosses at Cumbria’s Primary Care Trust are now drawing up plans for an
awareness...
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 According to two new U.S. studies of gay and bisexual men
who know they are infected with HIV, amore than one-third have recently had
unprotected intercourse.
In many cases, these men are engaging in unprotected sex
with other HIV-infected men -- a practice called "serosorting," where
partners with a similar,...
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 Researchers say that a commonly-prescribed drug for type 2
diabetics may increase the risk of brittle bone disease.
Tests on mice found that rosiglitazone (Avandia), which is
used to boost the effects of insulin, could be interfering with new bone
formation.
But Californian scientists, writing in Nature Medicine, said
it...
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 The link between high cholesterol and heart disease is clear
to most in the medical community, but a new British study finds the connection
between cholesterol levels and stroke is a bit more murky.
In fact, for people in their 70s and 80s, the review found
that high cholesterol actually lowered stroke risk, even as it boosted the...
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 Days before the international observance of World AIDS Day
December 1, a new report by the government of Washington, D.C., offered
some grim statistics. One in 50 people in the nation's capital has AIDS. One in
20 is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The city has the highest
HIV infection rate in the nation. City...
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 Shortly following World AIDS Day on Saturday, charity and
health officials are asking Long Islanders to wear red ribbons all week to help
put the word out further.
At a news conference scheduled for this morning in Deer
Park, Nassau and Suffolk health officials, along with the United Way, will kick
off an Islandwide effort to...
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 Iressa is a new pill designed to cure lung cancer. Researchers reported on Thursday that Iressa has shown incredible results when it comes to cure the lung cancer by itself. Even if the disease is advanced, the pill can easily replace the standard chemotherapy. Iressa is released by AstraZeneca and its treatment is a daily one. The...
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 Doctors from Bay Area have announced that a new low-cost test will be available for the patients who have problems with their hearts. The test will be part of a regular medical exam that will also include with blood pressure and cholesterol screenings. A recent study presented at the meeting of the American Heart Association in New...
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 Researches show that circumcision really protects men from HIV. This kind of surgery cuts a man’s chances to get HIV from a woman through sexual contact by up to 60%. Still, a new U.S analysis has tracked down 53,567 men who have sex with other men. The researchers concluded that there were no significantly lower HIV rates among those...
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 Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate are two supplements used to treat arthritis and joint pain. Still, recent studies have shown that these two popular drugs don’t work properly or don’t do enough to cure neither arthritis, nor joint pain. But the researchers added that their study needed to be revised as some findings were confusing.Dr....
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 On Monday, a guidelines released by the American Heart Association showed that heart patients should be checked for depression because the heart disease can mix up a common complication of depression which can easily produce a second heart attack. Depressed heart patients are more likely to die of a second heart attack and as the...
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A new study shows that drug-coated stents are safe enough for the heart-attack patients. The research was made on 7,217 patients and it was necessary to show that the new drug-coated stents don’t increase the risk of death and can be used instead of the older-bare stents. And the new drugs turned out to be even safer than the older ones....
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 According to researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the energy drinks available on the market contain so much caffeine that they should have many warning labels on them, which, of course, they don’t. Some of the energy drinks contain 14 times the caffeine of a normal soda. This might the equivalent of 7 seven cups of...
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 A new study made by the National Institute of Mental Health found out that the new drugs for childhood schizophrenia, called Zyprexa from Lilly and Risperda from J&J, have no better effect than the older ones. In addition, the older drugs were cheaper and less likely to provoke side effects.According to the New York Times, the new...
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A study has recently showed that diabetes who control their blood sugar levels even if only in the first ten years since they were diagnosed, have lower risks to heart attacks, death or any other complications 10 years or more. The most common type of diabetes linked to obesity is Type 2 diabetes. Researchers want to teach the newly...
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 U.S. researchers have stated on Monday that pain relievers like aspirin and ibuprofen can lower the levels of a protein that is found in man’s blood and that doctors use to screen for prostate cancer. Still, it is still unknown if this means that men who take these pain relievers have a lower risk for developing prostate cancer or these...
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This “good” brown fat is a protein which helps the bones to grow. Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston have recently discovered that this protein could fight against obesity by burning calories. The protein, called BMP-7, is said to be able to prevent overweight.Researchers said that their study began from the fact that...
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Diabetes sufferers could do something as not to give up the food and sweets they used to enjoy before. Diabetics who lost weight in the 18 months since they were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes got benefits even if they regained the lost weight.American Diabetes Association made some recommendations for the newly diagnosed diabetics as...
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PET scans are usually used by doctors to help detect cancer, damages after heart attacks, brain abnormalities and cardiac problems. But a new study led by Dr. Ville Leinonen at the University of Kuopio in Finland showed that these PET scans could detect Alzheimer's.The PET scans are somehow an imaging method that could be used to...
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 According to a study published in the Aug. 5 edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine, one out of every three uninsured Americans has a chronic illness and isn’t receiving the required medical treatment.Despite the fact that the study didn't particularly focus on the health consequences of lack of insurance and lack of access to...
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Doctors should stop making so many useless tests on elderly men when they check for prostate cancer. These tests bring the men to unnecessary anxiety and sometimes to useless surgery and complications. A federal task force is investigating whether the screening is worth for elderly men.Men age 75 and older are more at risk to be harmed...
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 A team of scientist has discovered that people taking cholesterol-lowering statins are less likely to develop dementia and have memory loss than those who do not take statins. According to the Alzheimer's Research Trust, the findings of the research are "encouraging". The study, published in the July 29 edition of Neurology,...
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The 'unwanted' side-effects
of certain medications can provide clues to new uses of those
medications which otherwise could go unnoticed, according to a team of
German researchers. The classic example is the anti-impotence
drug Viagra, which started out as a treatment for angina - pain caused
by too little blood reaching the...
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 According to government researchers, an increasing number of older U.S. children are diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, while diagnoses among younger children have stable levels.The findings of a recent report, which was carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, show that ADHD diagnoses in...
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 You’ve probably heard the rumor saying that eating soya drops sperm counts. Well, a new study suggest than men can almost carelessly eat the aliment because "there's no reason to panic at this moment,” says lead researcher Jorge Chavarro, at Harvard School of Public Health. It’s too early to determine whether there is a link between...
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 Since 1996, the life expectancy of people infected with HIV in developed countries taking antiviral therapy has risen with no less than 13 years and mortality among them has decreased by almost 40 percent, said this week's special HIV/AIDS edition of the journal Lancet.However, life expectancy continues falling short by an estimated 20...
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 British scientists have discovered that a gene mutation is a
major cause of severe muscle pain related to cholesterol-lowering drugs
statins.
They hope that a simple gene test would allow them in the
future to detect patients who are at risk for the rare and dangerous reaction
to the drugs taken by millions of people...
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 Treating Alzheimer’s disease may be problematic, according
to researchers. Although an older drug proved to be very efficient in improving
the health condition of people who suffer from Alzheimer, an experimental
vaccine din not succeed in putting off the evolution of the disease, in spite
of the fact that it cleared amyloid plaques...
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 Since highly active anti-retroviral drug
therapy was made available to people infected with HIV living in developing
countries, the HIV death rate has dropped in the first five years after infection
to the point where it is equal to the normal death rates in the developing
countries, a new report found.
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 So-called “noxious” anesthesia drugs, which
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