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Anti-depressants Do Not Increase the Overall Risk of Most Birth Defects

... show how important post-market surveillance is in assessing the safety of medications in pregnancy. During pre-approval, drugs are tested on relatively few subjects and only side effects with a large frequency are detected. Once approved, many people take the medication and even very rare side effects surface...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...mental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), tasked with assessing greenhouse gases and their impact on the climate. In 1992, the Rio Summit delivered the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which in turn fathered the Kyoto Protocol on tackling greenhouse gases. The IPCC has issued four reports s...

Inaccuracies in Cardiac PET-CT Scanning

..., or PET, is nuclear cardiac imaging for optimally assessing blood flow in the heart. When paired with CT, or c... be an accurate, noninvasive tool for detecting or assessing severity of heart disease, said Gould, executive director of the Weatherhead P.E.T. Center. However,...

Exercise Reduces Inflammation

... parasympathetic tone in this case, determined by assessing heart-rate recovery after exercise on circulating levels of C-reactive protein (CRP). Parasympathetic tone and its inverse function sympathetic tone are components of the autonomic nervous system. CRP, which is secreted by the liver, circulates in...

Single Drug to Check Both Glucose and Cholesterol in Diabetics on the Cards

... The US Food and Drug Administration is currently assessing an application for the commercial production and sale of the drug. As per the recommendations of the American Diabetes Association, patients with type 2 diabetes should control their glucose levels, and keep their blood sugar level at less than se...

BioCryst Receives Special Protocol Assessment for Fodosine

...gimen of Fodosine(TM). Secondary endpoints include assessing the safety and tolerability of extended daily treatment with oral Fodosine(TM), assessment of the time to objective response and the duration of objective response. "We are pleased to have reached agreement with the FDA in a timely manner. Receipt ...

Nodal Status is the Best Predictor in Esophageal Cancer

...es when viewed under a microscope---in addition to assessing prognosis using the traditional TNM method of stag... revised TNM system or that traditional methods of assessing prognosis should be altered. However, they added, histomorphological response might be a surrogate...

Highway Robbers-Stealing Your Hearts Health

...be considered when planning new buildings and when assessing patients with coronary artery disease....

New Analysis Puts Cot Death Under Scrutiny Once Again

...ld encourage professionals to keep an open mind in assessing unexplained infant deaths, to be aware of the difficulties in diagnosis, and to try to keep a balance between the need to support parents and the need to protect children, they conclude....

FDA Approves INTUNIV (guanfacine) for the Treatment of ADHD

.... ADHD-RS-IV is a standardized, validated test for assessing symptoms of ADHD in children and for assessing their response to treatment. This scale, which contains 18 items, is based on the ADHD diagnostic...

Abbott's RealTime Hepatitis B Viral Load Test Receives CE Marking in Europe

...an indicator of disease prognosis and as an aid in assessing a patient's response to antiviral treatment. With the addition of the HBV test, the m2000 offers the broadest menu of molecular tests available on a single instrument platform. The m2000 menu includes real-time PCR tests for HIV-1, hepatitis C, chlam...

Australian Grape Glut Dries Up as Drought Bites

...stionable)." But Strachan is circumspect, saying assessing the impact of climate change is a major priority for the industry but one which will only be done once a comprehensive research programme has been completed. "Climate change is going to have a profound impact on our industry but just because you're...

INVEGA Receives Marketing Authorization In EU For Treatment Of Schizophrenia

...and another double blind, placebo controlled study assessing safety and tolerability in 114 elderly patients suffering from schizophrenia.(iii). The primary measure of efficacy was the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), a tool commonly used in schizophrenia research that measures the severity of p...

INVEGA(TM) Gets Marketing Authority from EU to Treat Schizophrenia

...and another double blind, placebo controlled study assessing safety and tolerability in 114 elderly patients suffering from schizophrenia.(iii) The primary measure of efficacy was the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), a tool commonly used in schizophrenia research that measures the severity of po...

Disease Outbreak Claims Trout From Idaho Hatchery

...uld make up for the losses. He says scientists are assessing just what went wrong. One possible change to avoid future outbreaks, he suggests, might be to reduce the number of fish raised at the Nampa hatchery and increase it elsewhere. Says Frew:"The parasite multiplies very rapidly. By the time we see sym...

Dont Worry- Be Good To Your Heart

...redict negative patient outcomes, "suggesting that assessing anxiety regularly over the long-term is necessary. The authors also suggest that randomly assigned clinical studies are now needed to see if treatment to reduce anxiety, can improve the outcome of patients with coronary artery disease....

Saliva Helps to Identify Child Victims of Chronic Bullying

... evaluate its validity as a reliable biomarker for assessing effects of precursors to bullying. This hormone is responsible for regulating various behavioral traits, such as the fight-flight response and immune activity, which are connected to sensory acuity and aspects of learning and memory. 'A lot of kid...

VA Should Revise Its Methods for Evaluating PTSD in Ex-military Personnel

...bout the effectiveness of the VA's current ways of assessing and rating this condition, and whether some veterans are getting payments that are too low, too high, or unmerited. The agency should develop new evaluation methods and rating criteria specific to PTSD to replace current standards that yield a crud...

Risk of Bladder Cancer Reduced by Broccoli and Cauliflower

...n Cancer Center report on an epidemiological study assessing the connection between ITC consumption and bladder cancer risk. The group included 697 patients with recently diagnosed bladder cancer and 708 healthy controls matched by age, sex, and race. The participants were asked to complete a dietary questio...

DNA-damage Test Could Aid Drug Development

...d Institute have developed a cell culture test for assessing a compounds genetic toxicity that may prove dramatically cheaper than existing animal tests. This assay would allow genetic toxicity to be examined far earlier in the drug development process, making it much more efficient. Like the current FDA-app...

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