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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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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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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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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Title: AllergiesCanDigIntoGardening’sFunCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/21/2008 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/21/2008
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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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Title: DustMites:IsResistanceFutile?Category: Health NewsCreated: 4/17/2008Last Editorial Review: 4/17/2008
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Title: ItchingCategory: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 1/8/2001 7:58:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/21/2008
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In a study in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the addition of Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium tablets) 80 mg to Aricept® (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 […]
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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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