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Topic: Health

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   Asthmatic children still not breathing easier
Posted by: Admin on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 01:33 AM (116 Reads)
Health "The bottom line is that there's much work that needs to be done in making sure that children with asthma receive appropriate and effective care; it's more complex than one might think."

 

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   CDC releases safety data on rotavirus vaccine RotaTeq
Posted by: Admin on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 01:16 AM (114 Reads)
Health The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released today new safety data on a recently licensed rotavirus vaccine given to infants that indicate the vaccine does not pose an elevated risk for intussusception, the most common cause of bowel obstruction in infants.

 

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   Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B cases at lowest levels ever reported
Posted by: Admin on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 01:13 AM (111 Reads)
Health The three most common forms of acute viral hepatitis in the United States -- hepatitis A, B and C -- declined dramatically between 1995 and 2005, with hepatitis A and B at the lowest levels ever recorded since the government began collecting surveillance data more than 40 years ago, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Hepatitis B and C are diseases that can lead to liver cancer and death.

 

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   15,595 meningitis cases this season in Africa
Posted by: Admin on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 01:11 AM (100 Reads)
Health Two months into the dry season in the African "Meningitis Belt", 15,595 cases including 1,670 deaths have been reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) from four countries: Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Uganda.

 

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   Dramatic increase of Type 1 diabetes in under fives
Posted by: Admin on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 01:07 AM (115 Reads)
Health Researchers are calling for more work in to the reasons behind a big increase of young children with Type 1 diabetes. A new study, led by Bristol University, has discovered that the number of children under five-years-old with Type 1 diabetes has increased five-fold over 20 years.

 

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   Blood pressure drug shows potential as lung cancer treatment
Posted by: Admin on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 01:05 AM (107 Reads)
Health A hormone that is important in the control of blood pressure also shrinks lung cancer tumors in mice, suggesting a new way to prevent or treat the deadly cancer, according to scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.


 

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   FDA approves Soliris (eculizumab), first treatment for paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
Posted by: Admin on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 01:02 AM (102 Reads)
Health The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Soliris (eculizumab), the first product for the treatment of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a rare type of blood disorder that can lead to disability and premature death.


 

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   FDA clears Xpert EV test for meningitis
Posted by: Admin on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 01:01 AM (95 Reads)
Health The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared for marketing a test that uses molecular biology to quickly detect the presence of viral meningitis.


 

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   Large trial demonstrates that the benefits of zinc supplementation for children
Posted by: Admin on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 12:59 AM (80 Reads)
Health A clinical trial conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public concluded that daily zinc supplements reduced the risk of death among children aged 12 to 48 months by 18 percent.


 

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   Promising new pain-killing drug
Posted by: Admin on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 12:58 AM (137 Reads)
Health A potential new pain-killing drug developed by medical scientists at the University of Leicester and Ferrara in Italy is to be discussed at a public lecture on 20th March.


 

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