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Rogue Clinics Deceive Patients With Unsafe Stem Cell Therapies
Stem cell therapy has become one of the main points of
interest in medicine today, thanks to its...
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Generic Heart Drugs As Effective As Brand-Name Counterparts
Brand-name drugs used to treat heart
disease aren’t better than generics, a new analysis shows....
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Doctors Urge HIV Tests for All Patients Over 13
On the very same day the world was celebrating the World
AIDS Day, the American
College of...
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Post-heart-attack angst can hurt your heart, German experts warn
Hamburg - A patient who receives an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICDs) after a heart attack...
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HIV Protection: Could Pills Work Wonders Against HIV?
New York /Bethesda, Maryland - Anti-HIV medicines have rescued tens of thousands or perhaps even...
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Doctor Accused of Favoring J&J Over Patient Safety
The Johnson & Johnson Center for the Study of Pediatric Psychopathology was run by a child...
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New Drug Set To Solve Mutation Problem
The bavituximab drug was tested on lab animals and it has shown remarkable success in tackling two...
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Banzel Approved by the FDA to Treat Severe Epilepsy
A new drug called Banzel (rufinamide) has
been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
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Early HIV Treatment Cuts Babies’ Death Risk
A study in the Nov. 20 issue of the New England Journal of
Medicine reveals that, for infants with...
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Ginkgo Biloba, a Pseudo Drug against Dementia
According to a clinical trial reported Tuesday, the elixir of eternal mental acuity, the herbal...
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Avastin Drug Linked to Blood Clots
Research
conducted by United States scientists has revealed that the
Avastin cancer drug...
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Avastin Linked to Blood Clot Risk, New Analysis Finds
Genentech’s cancer drug Avastin was linked
to a significantly increased risk of blood clots in the...
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Vitamin C, E Supplements Fail To Reduce Cancer Risk
A series of studies have lately shown that vitamins don’t reduce
cancer risk. Just two weeks ago,...
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Gardasil Prevents Genital Warts In Males, Study Concludes
In 2006, Merck & Co.’s Gardasil made headlines when it was approved by the Food and Drug...
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Intel Releases Its First Home Medical Device
Intel has initiated pilot programs to examine a home health laptop, application, and database...
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Pfizer, Sanofi-Avensis End Studies on Diet Drugs
Pfizer Inc.and Sanofi-Aventis on Wednesday separately announced their
decision to cancel further...
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More Migraines Could Mean Less Chances Of Developing Breast Cancer
Women who confront with migraines stand less chance of developing breast cancer, according to...
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Pfizer Halts Phase III Trial On Obesity Drug Over US Rejection Fears
Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drugmaker, on Wednesday
said it abandoned an obesity drug known...
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Consumer Group Urges FDA to Ban Glaxo’s Avandia over Liver Failure
Consumer group Public Citizen on Thursday asked the Food and
Drug Administration to ban...
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FDA Issues Warning over Aspirin to Bayer
Tuesday,
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned Bayer that two of their aspirin
medicines...
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Placebos Are Regularly Prescribed by Doctors without Patients’ Knowledge
About half of the American doctors responding to a nationwide survey say they regularly prescribe...
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New Zealand Approves Pig Cell Transplants for Diabetes
Wellington - New Zealand has approved trials of pig cell transplants to patients with Type 1...
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Prescribing Placebos - A Common Practice Among US Doctors
More than half of American doctors prescribe placebos to make their patients feel better, according...
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More Exercise and Less Alcohol
In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a lot of reports and studies linked to breast...
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Vitamin B Supplements Show No Benefit in Alzheimer’s Study
A new study by researchers at the University of California,
San Diego, found
no difference in the...
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Vioxx’s Heart Risk Persists for One Year after Use
Merck & Co’s arthritis pill Vioxx was pulled from market
shelves over health risks in 2004,...
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QVC's Shoe Sales to Help Breast Cancer Research
With
October being the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, many are trying to find ways
to help raise...
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Seroquel XR Approved By The FDA For Usage Beyond Schizophrenia
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug for treatment for disorder and...
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Update: LabCorp Doesn’t Have FDA’s Approval to Sell Ovarian Cancer Test
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
posted a warning letter on its Web site, saying that...
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Study: Oregon Death with Dignity Act Not Very Effective
A recently-conducted survey revealed that the Death with Dignity Act enacted in Oregon in 1997...
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A New Treatment Could Prevent HIV
A recent discovery might help people with HIV. A combination of universal voluntary HIV testing and...
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Many People Don’t Get Tested For HIV
A large number of people close their eyes when it comes to getting tested for HIV, even though two...
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Ginkgo Biloba, A Pseudo Drug Against Dementia
According to a clinical trial reported Tuesday, the elixir of eternal mental acuity, the herbal...
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March Of Dimes Gives U.S. A “D” In Terms Of Premature Birth
In an assessment of premature births in each U.S. state, the
March of Dimes gave the nation a D on...
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Gardasil Prevents Genital Warts In Males, Study Reveals
In 2006, Merck & Co.’s Gardasil made headlines when it was approved by the Food and Drug...
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Chip Giant Intel Corp. Releases New Home Medical Monitor
Intel Corp., the biggest computer chip
maker, took a big step forward into health care Monday when...
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Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Crestor Benefic for Healthy People As Well
Statins of cholesterol-lowering drugs have been known to
reduce heart risk in people with...
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Talk Therapy Plus Antidepressant - Best Treatment For Child Anxiety
Separation anxiety, social phobia and generalized anxiety in
children can be effectively treated...
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Angioplasty Overused in Heart Patients
Percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI is the clinical
name for angioplasty and cardiac...
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Scrap Pink Supports the Mission to End Breast Cancer
Scrap Pink events were held all across the nation in the past week to raise funds to support breast...
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High Blood Pressure Conference: Learn To Deal With Your Blood Pressure
The American Heart Association’s Conference of the Council
for High Blood Pressure Research held...
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Botox Could Help Chronic Migraines
Who would have thought that the popular Botox injection
usually used for beauty purposes might...
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Update: Study Questions Common Knee Surgery For Osteoarthritis
If people suffering from osteoarthritis were looking at arthroscopic knee surgery as their...
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MRI Efficiency in Breast Cancer Patients Questioned
The latest study on breast cancer appears to question the efficiency
of an MRI or magnetic...
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Update: FDA Reveals List Of Drugs Posing Health Risks
The US Food and Drug Administration is planning to raise
awareness on possible side effects of...
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Could Soy Foods Affect Male Fertility?
Although many previous studies have shown that soya is good
for humans by lowering cholesterol,...
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AIDS Vaccine Trial Suspended
Plans for a large-scale human trial of a prospecting HIV
vaccine in the United States
were...
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Father Of Modern Cardiovascular Surgery Dr. DeBakey Dies
The medical world has lost a great man on Friday night in the person of Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, a...
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Immunotherapy Proved Efficient in Melanoma Patient
An article in the New England Journal of Medicine describes
how immunotherapy helped a 52-year-old...
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A Glass of Red Wine May Hold the Secret to Longevity
Researchers may be closer than ever to discover the secret to
longevity, as new research by...
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Genome Institute’s Renowned Director, Francis Collins, to Resign
The National Human Genome Research Institute is losing one
of its prestigious researchers in the...
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More Women Facing Alcohol Problems than Men
It turns out that alcohol consumption and alcohol dependence
do not affect only men, with a new...
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Ibuprofen Found to Decrease Alzheimer’s Risk
Taking ibuprofen for more than five years may decrease the
risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease,...
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