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Debate Rages over firing of HIV infected health care workers

...afely rather than based on stereotypes or inflated concerns or irrational fears," Scarborough said. Among those supporting Waddell is Dr. Donald Marianos of Northern Arizona University, a participant in the development of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1991 protocol concerning the managemen...

Pregnancy Blues

...ysiological effects on the foetus. There are some concerns about the use of antidepressant medications during pregnancy, but Evans and colleagues say the benefits may outweigh the risks for women with severe depression, and non-drug treatments exist for mild to moderate depression....

Relieve hot flashes

... Estrogen relieves hot flashes in most women, but concerns remain over its use in breast cancer survivors because the hormone may stimulate breast cancer growth.// The herb black cohosh seems to alleviate hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, and is approved for this purpose in Germany. Vitamin E, ...

Wishes of unspoken patients

...tients. They filled in a questionnaire about their concerns before and after a physician visit. And 30 physicians were asked to rate the visit itself. Nine per cent of patients reported there were requests they wanted to make of the doctor, but had not. These included asking for a referral to a specialist, ...

Wonder drug - could end in disaster

...y have dangerous side-effects. There has long been concerns that the drug is prescribed to patients who suffer only mild symptoms of depression, and who are not clinically ill. The research was conducted by Dr David Healy, of the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine. Dr Healy found that 2 out of 2...

Stop smoking and reduce weight

...treatment program that focuses on reducing women's concerns about weight is the first treatment to significant...ion is not correct, and that directly reducing the concerns about weight, rather than the weight gain itself, is what will help these women quit smoking.// Th...

Nobel laureates in chemistry

...products. // This year Nobel Prize in Chemistry concerns the way in which certain chiral molecules can be used to speed up and control important chemical reactions. In the early sixties it was not known whether catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation was feasible. The breakthrough came in 1968 when William S. K...

Fluoride Found Effective in Osteoporosis

...ride is known to stimulate new bone formation, but concerns about its safety have limited its use in the elderly, according to Dr. Craig D. Rubin from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, and others who contributed to the research.// There is no FDA-approved drug for osteoporosis that in...

Safe for people with asthma

...s like a sensible thing to do. But there have been concerns that the flu jab can make people's asthma worse. To find it this out researchers at Cleavland University School of Medicine did a thourough study in over 1000 patients, aged from 4-50. One group got the flu injection while the other got a placebo inj...

Ritalin May Lower Cocaine Abuse

...nts' attention and calm behavior. But there remain concerns about the long-term effects of ADHD medications, including whether they might make kids more prone to taking illegal drugs with stimulant effects. Researchers say the findings support studies of children with the disorder that showed those treated ...

The henna allergy

...ch is of course socially quite uncomfortable if it concerns parts of the body which are very visible such as the hands or the fingers. A spokeswoman said: "With the growing rate of allergies that are affecting people we would say to people to proceed with extreme caution and if they think they are slightly ...

Smallpox Would Spread Rapidly

...tions.// Recent fears of bioterrorism have ignited concerns that these stockpiles could be used to introduce the potentially deadly disease into the population, which is at present ill-prepared to deal with a potential outbreak. If introduced into America or Europe, smallpox would spread rapidly at first, inf...

Babies Need Vaccination

...infants were not being vaccinated early because of concerns that some shots had a mercury-containing preservative called thimerosal, which has since been removed from most vaccines, said Dr. Louis Cooper, AAP president. While there's been no known increase in infants infected with hepatitis B, vaccinating th...

Status of some prescription drugs

...cholesterol medications. However, they cite safety concerns in objecting to making other drugs, such as birth control pills, more readily available....

FDA fish warning criticized

...roup (EWG), an organization best known for raising concerns about pesticides, obtained 1,036 pages of FDA transcripts from focus group meetings with consumers conducted 2 years ago to test safety messages about mercury and fish. Some women in the focus groups said they ate a can of tuna daily while pregnant. ...

FDA panel refuses anti-viral cold remedy

...'s Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee cited safety concerns of the drug pleconaril, which it said were not balanced by the drug's "modest" benefits in treating an illness that is not life-threatening. // Pleconaril prevents the infection of cells by a group of germs called picornaviruses, which are the most...

Developing HIV fighter

... were interesting but he said ``there are a lot of concerns as to how it would be applicable.'' Mansky said there have been difficulties in getting similar strategies to work in clinical settings. In lab tests, the RNA reduced, but did not eliminate, the virus, and thus Mansky said it might be useful in addi...

What makes young girls smoke

...bacco-related causes.// A new study reveals weight concerns and a desire to be thin are among the driving forc...y (5 or fewer days). Also, for black girls, weight concerns and a desire to be thin at ages 11 and 12 were the most important factors leading to daily smoking a...

Abortion made easy pill causes alarm in state

...atives, they claim, and even as the pharmaceutical concerns treat the city gynaecologists to five-star meals ostensibly to introduce them to “the revolutionary approach to medical abortion”, the tribe is clearly a worried lot. In a state which has at least 40 per cent of abortions carried out by quacks, this ...

Eczema patients lack natural antibiotic in skin

...nfections especially in light of recent widespread concerns that they can develop severe infections after receiving a smallpox vaccination. Interestingly, these antimicrobial peptides are also needed to combat viral infections and therefore could account for the susceptibility of atopic dermatitis patients to...

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