Researchers who tracked breast cancer rates in Norwegian women proposed the controversial notion on Monday that some tumors found with mammograms might otherwise naturally disappear on their own if left undetected. . . .
Reuters - November 25, 2008
Older diabetics who took GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia to control their blood sugar had a higher risk of death and heart failure while on the drug than those who took Takeda Pharmaceutical's Actos, a drug in the same class, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
They said the head-to-head comparison confirms prior analyses finding Avandia carries greater risks than Actos, particularly in older diabetics. . . .
Reuters - November 24, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE4AO0Q620081125?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews
About 5 million Americans attend meetings of self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous for alcohol and drug abusers, and nearly half of them reported remaining clean, a federal study released on Monday showed.
The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration examined the popularity of meetings like those run in many communities by AA and Narcotics Anonymous. . . .
Reuters - November 24, 2008
Consumers who rely on the user-edited Web resource Wikipedia for information on medications are putting themselves at risk of potentially harmful drug interactions and adverse effects, new research shows. . . .
Reuters - November 24, 2008
Babies born four months before the peak cold and flu season have a 30 percent higher risk of developing asthma, U.S. researchers said on Friday, suggesting that these common infections may trigger asthma. . . .
Reuters - November 21, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE4AK1PK20081121?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews
Two years after the government urged that HIV tests become as common as cholesterol checks there are small gains but still one in five people infected with the AIDS virus don't know it, scientists said Thursday. . . .
USATODAY.com - November 20, 2008
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-11-20-hiv-testing_N.htm?csp=34
Sooner is better when it comes to treating infants born with the AIDS virus, HIV, researchers reported on Wednesday.
A South African study of 377 babies found that giving newborns drug therapy right away, and not waiting until conventional tests showed a higher risk of becoming ill, cut the death rate by 76 percent. . . .
Reuters - November 19, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE4AI8UX20081119?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews
A Colombian woman has received the world's first tailor-made trachea transplant, grown by seeding a donor organ with her own stem cells to prevent her body rejecting it, an international research team reported on Wednesday. . . .
Reuters - November 19, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE4AI03420081119?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews
Stem cells from tiny embryos can be used to restore lost hearing and vision in animals, researchers said Tuesday in what they believe is a first step toward helping people. . . .
Reuters - November 19, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE4AI02220081119?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews
As diabetes is rapidly becoming one of the world's most common diseases, its financial cost is mounting, too, to well over $200 billion a year in the U.S. alone.
A new study, released today exclusively to The Associated Press, puts the total at $218 billion last year -- the first comprehensive estimate of the financial toll diabetes takes, according to Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk A/S, which paid for the study. . . .
baltimoresun.com - November 18, 2008
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-diabetes1118,0,3860877.story?track=rss
