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FDA closes contract drug manufacturer
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it obtained a permanent injunction preventing the production of drugs by Scientific Laboratories Inc.
New Role Found For A Cardiac Progenitor Population
In a discovery that could one day lead to an understanding of how to regenerate damaged heart tissue, researchers have found that parent cells involved in embryonic development of the...
Common Bacteria Activating Natural Killer T Cells May Cause Autoimmune Liver Disease
A bacteria commonly found in soil and water triggered autoimmune symptoms in mice similar to those found in an incurable liver disease called Primary Biliary Cirrhosis. Injecting laboratory mice with...
Prostate Cancer Increases The Risk Of Bone Fracture, Study Shows
As unlikely as it sounds, scientists have shown that there is a link between prostate cancer and a higher risk of bone fracture. Men with prostate cancer face a 50%...
Mothers' Depression Linked To Young Children's Injuries
Infants and toddlers whose mothers are severely depressed are almost three times more likely to suffer accidental injuries than other children in the same age group, according to a new...
Chemistry Of Airborne Particulate: Lung Interactions Revealed
Exactly how airborne particulates harm our lungs still puzzles epidemiologists, physicians, environmental scientists, and policy makers. Now California Institute of Technology researchers have found that they act by impairing the...
Endocrine Disruptors In Common Plastics Linked To Obesity Risk
Exposure during development either in the womb or during infancy to chemicals used to make products such as baby bottles, the lining of food tins and some plastic food wraps...
Vancouver researchers discover missing link between TB bacteria and humans
Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute have discovered how tuberculosis (TB) bacteria hide and multiply in the human body and are working toward...
Estimated 3.2 Million Burmese Potentially Affected by Cyclone
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Lehman College, CUNY have developed geographic risk models, which indicate that as many as 3.2 million people in Burma...
Exercise May Protect Girls From Future Breast Cancer
New research shows exercise during the teen years — starting as young as age 12 — can help protect girls from breast cancer when they’re grown.
F.D.A. Chief Writes Congress for Money
The Food and Drug commissioner has written Congress that the agency needs an immediate infusion of $275 million to ensure that imported foods, drugs and medical devices are safe.
Michael Sokolove on ‘The Uneven Playing Field’
The author responded to selected readers’ questions and comments about his cover article on girls’ sports injuries.
For the Disabled, Age 18 Brings Difficult Choices
As medical advances have allowed patients who might have died as children to survive into adulthood, the health care system has yet to develop institutions for them.
Office Initiative Reduces Headaches And Neck And Shoulder Pain By More Than 40 Percent
When office staff took part in a workplace educational and physical initiative, headaches fell by 41 percent, neck and shoulder pain fell by 43 percent and painkiller use fell by...
Rescuers in Desperate Race to Find China Earthquake Survivors [News]
SHANGHAI, China--Rescue workers are using microphones and fiber-optic cable to probe rubble, searching for people trapped in Monday's devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province. Specially trained dogs are being used to...
Research examines factors in delaying or declining total knee replacement surgery
A study led by Dr. Ann F. Jacobson, associate professor in Kent State`s College of Nursing, unveils the reasons why people may initially choose to postpone but ultimately undergo total...
Scientists are building database of bite marks
(AP) -- It has sent innocent men to death row, given defense attorneys fits and splintered the scientific community. For a decade now, attorneys and even some forensic experts...
Doctors told to check up on heart device patients
People with implanted heart devices need closer follow-up care, an international panel of heart specialists recommended Wednesday in the first guidelines for monitoring this rapidly growing group of patients....
Bird flu pandemic seen needing multiple drugs
LONDON (Reuters) - Governments need to stockpile different sorts of flu drugs -- not just Roche's Tamiflu -- to counter the danger of resistance in a pandemic triggered by bird...
Learning from death
Vishva Dixit's study of cellular demise led to the discovery of a new molecular-signalling mechanism #20; one with implications for inflammation and perhaps much more, reports Melinda Wenner.
MDs, patients stay to side as Williams decries inquiry
Danny Williams maintains his concern for physicians and patients is motivating his criticism of the breast cancer inquiry, although he is not getting much support from either group.
Overworked, unsupported nurses more likely to report drug errors
Nurses who worked in hospitals that were understaffed or had inadequate resources were most likely to report medication mistakes, a new survey finds.
New research helps ostriches orgasm
Scientists have developed a safer method of manually collecting ostrich sperm, a procedure that previously involved significant risk from the powerful males.
Charles Meyer Goldstein, 87; dentist, USC faculty member organized free dental clinics
Charles Meyer Goldstein, a dentist and USC faculty member who advocated community service and organized free dental clinics that treat thousands of poor people each year, died Sunday at his...
When It Comes To Living Longer, It’s Better To Go Hungry Than Go Running
A study investigating aging in mice has found that hormonal changes that occur when mice eat significantly less may help explain an already established phenomenon: a low calorie diet can...
Fibromyalgia: The Invisible Disease
"Drug approved. Is disease real?" "Does it really exist or is it all in women's heads?" "The doctors are in. The jury is out. " The New York Times headlines...
Tooth loss strongly linked to risk of esophageal, head and neck, and lung cancer
Studying thousands of patients, Japanese researchers have found a strong link between tooth loss and increased risk of three cancers - esophageal, head and neck, and lung. They suggest...
Researchers fine-tune clot-busting treatment for bleeding in brain
A multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins doctors has fine-tuned the dosage and timing for administering clot-busting tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) to patients with strokes caused by bleeding within the...