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In a long-term fight to combat cancer by improving medical treatment, scientists are currently hoping to discover the cure by means of mapping it. In an attempt to prove the presumption may be part of reality, researchers use powerful gene-sequencing machines in order to find which genetic changes trigger which form of cancer. Their aim is to provide distinguished treatment to people suffering from the disease, based on their distinct tumor profiles, because "if you have 100 patients, you have 100 different diseases," said Dr. Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University in...
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The Oregon Department of Human Services said Thursday that Sprouters Northwest brand voluntarily recalled one of its products responsible for at least 13 salmonellosis cases. The latest outbreak of salmonella bacteria contamination from alfalfa sprouts sickened nine people in Washington and four in Oregon. Sprouters Northwest has taken responsibility for the consequences, and the ones who purchased the label, which is sold in a variety of package sizes or in mixed varieties, should discard or return to the store any such products. Salmonella is a bacterium which causes intestinal illnesses...
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A 58 year-old Atlanta man was hospitalized for about a week after experiencing West Nile virus infection symptoms. Five cases of people infected by the potentially deadly virus have been diagnosed in Bridgeport, Greenwich, Sherman and two in Stamford.3,630 cases of people infected by the West Nile virus were reported last year, according to federal statistics. A total of 413 cases of West Nile virus have been reported in the state this year. Most people who are infected with the virus show no symptoms, but about 20 percent of those infected experience symptoms similar with those of flu:...
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Food and Drug Administration officials announced Friday that
they will begin posting a list of drugs that present the risk of giving strange
“adverse events." The list includes adverse events reported between Jan. 1
and March 31, 2008. FDA officials say it will be "weeks or months"
before more recent reports are made. The unveiled list has 20 drugs that are
currently under investigation.
Warnings have already been sent out by the FDA. Drugs such
as Insulin U-500 (Humulin R) or Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) Blockers are among
the ones from the list. The first is...
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The rate of U.S. children getting their recommended
vaccinations against childhood diseases has remained high over the past years. The
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007 National Immunization
Survey, which tracks vaccination rates for children between the ages of 19 and
35 months, found that 77.4 percent of children have been fully vaccinated with
all the recommended vaccines.
Ninety percent of children got all but one
of the six individual vaccines in the series, the CDC said. 84.5 percent of
toddlers received the four doses of diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis...
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One of the advisory panels of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has postponed its planned...
Doctors at London’s Royal Free
Hospital say people with
advanced pancreatic cancer still have a...
A week after suffering a heart attack, State Sen. Vincent J.
Fumo, D-Phila, was released from a...
The American Cancer Society (ACS) recommended two additional
tests made by a Marlborough
company...
Have you ever wondered what is that you like so much about water? Personally, I don’t think there...
U.S. researchers said on Thursday that high estrogen levels are directly linked with a higher risk...
Giant drug maker Wyeth announced Thursday that it would appeal court’s decision to pay about $27...
The death of a Loras
College student in Dubuque has brought people attention to
bacterial...
Workers who were exposed to a chemical called PFOA (perfluorooctanoic
acid) at 3M’s factory in...
Brigham and Women’s Hospital was given permission by the New
England Organ Bank to be the first...
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