Archive for October, 2007
Tuesday 30 October 2007 @ 6:10 am
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Parkinson's Tie to Impulsiveness Studied
FOX News - By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON - Your brain is supposed to fire a "hold your horses" signal when faced with a tough choice. Deep Brain Stimulation Makes Parkinson's Patients More Impulsive Comment by Michael J Frank, PhD, Asst Prof., for Neural Computation and Cognition |
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Tuesday 30 October 2007 @ 5:10 am
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FDA: Heart Drug May Boost Risk of Death
FOX News - By AP WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that accumulating evidence suggests a Bayer AG drug used to prevent excessive bleeding during heart bypass surgery increases the risk of death when compared with other drugs. Roche's CellCept raises birth defect risks: FDA FDA: CellCept Linked to Birth Defects |
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Tuesday 30 October 2007 @ 5:10 am
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County mental health board names new director
Chronicle-Telegram - LORAIN - The Lorain County Board of Mental Health called on one of its own when it named Charles Neff as its new executive director. Mental health help Board may end Moundbuilders contract |
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Tuesday 30 October 2007 @ 5:10 am
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Food Allergies
Washington Post - About 6 to 8 percent of children younger than 3. Most will outgrow them by age 7 but some never do. About 11 million people in the United States have food allergies; 3.3 million are allergic to peanuts or tree nuts. Good Question: Are Allergies Now Worse For Kids? Food allergies on the rise |
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Tuesday 30 October 2007 @ 5:10 am
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Rheumatoid arthritis patients' mortality unchanged
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The decline in mortality seen in the US population over the past four decades has not extended to patients with rheumatoid arthritis, despite innovations in rheumatoid arthritis treatment, according to a report in the … Rheumatoid Arthritis Death Rate Unchanged Arthritis Patients Don't Share in Life Expectancy Gains |
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Tuesday 30 October 2007 @ 4:10 am
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Laura Bush Defines Her Policy Role
Voice of America - By Paula Wolfson First Lady Laura Bush is taking an increasingly public role on foreign policy matters - from the status of women in the Middle East, to repression in Burma. First lady stakes out own issues Our World: Laura Bush's embrace of tyranny |
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Tuesday 30 October 2007 @ 4:10 am
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Behind The Ghoulish Lead Inquiry
CBS News - Jeffrey Weidenhammer comes across as a mild-mannered, matter-of-fact chemistry professor from Ashland University in Ohio, but get him started on the amount of lead in products on store shelves today, and you'll begin to hear a combination of the … Lead Recalls Make Halloween Scary Halloween Pails Recalled After Unsafe Lead Levels in Paint Discovered |
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Tuesday 30 October 2007 @ 4:10 am
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FDA OKs Novartis Cancer Drug
TheStreet.com - By Elizabeth Trotta Novartis (NVS - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) said Monday afternoon that the Food and Drug Administration approved its second-line treatment for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), a life-threatening blood cancer that's one of the four … UPDATE 1-Novartis says US approves Tasigna cancer drug New — and Expensive — Hope for Incurable Leukemia |
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