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Apr 23rd 2008Drug InformationAid / Disasters
Conservative Senate Republicans should not “drag their feet and jeopardize” the reauthorization of the President’s Plan for Emergency AIDS Relief during the current congressional session, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) writes in a Politico opinion piece, adding, “Delay is not the friend of those suffering abroad or …
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Apr 23rd 2008Drug InformationAlcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs
An urgent review of the use of naltrexone (including implants) for opioid dependence is needed following reports of severe adverse reactions, according to two articles in the latest Medical Journal of Australia.
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Apr 22nd 2008Drug InformationAbortion
President Bush on Wednesday during a White House ceremony with Pope Benedict XVI said that U.S. residents “need” the pope’s message “that all life is sacred,” a reference to the pope’s opposition to abortion rights, the New York Times reports (Goodstein/Stolberg, New York Times, 4/17).
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Apr 22nd 2008Drug InformationAllergies
Researchers at National Jewish Medical and Research Center are conducting trials to evaluate a method to prevent allergic reactions to food. They are feeding peanut- and egg-allergic people increasing doses of an investigational protein extract from the foods to see if they can induce the participants’ immune systems to tolerate the food.
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Apr 22nd 2008Drug InformationAllergies
Title: AllergiesCanDigIntoGardening’sFun
Category: Health News
Created: 4/21/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/21/2008
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Apr 22nd 2008Drug InformationAbortion
A Yale University student who previously told the student newspaper that she had artificially inseminated herself several times and took drugs to induce miscarriages for an art project told school officials Thursday that the project was faked, the Washington Post reports.
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Apr 22nd 2008Drug InformationAllergies
Title: DustMites:IsResistanceFutile?
Category: Health News
Created: 4/17/2008
Last Editorial Review: 4/17/2008
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Apr 22nd 2008Drug InformationAllergies
Title: Itching
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 1/8/2001 7:58:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/21/2008
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Apr 22nd 2008Drug InformationAlzheimer's / Dementia News XML/RSS Feed
In a study in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the addition of Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium tablets) 80 mg to AriceptŪ (donepezil HCl) 10 mg showed no significant differences in cognition or global function (key measures of Alzheimer’s progression) compared to placebo plus Aricept 10 mg. Furthermore, no statistically significant differences were seen on various cognitive, behavioral and functional secondary endpoints.
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Apr 22nd 2008Drug InformationAnxiety
Nearly 20 percent of military service members who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan — 300,000 in all — report symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder or major depression, yet only slight more than half have sought treatment, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
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