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A furore over tailor-made menopause medication

...d breast cancer, after which many women sought the refuge of these products sold by the compounding pharmacies. Wyeth has requested the FDA to restrain these pharmacies with seizures, injunctions, and warning letters, as some of them could be cheating women with products that may cause serious health risk...

European Medicines Agency (EMEA) Recommends Herceptin For Early Stage Breast Cancer

...inued to refuse the drug, forcing patients to seek refuge in court. Ann Marie Rogers of Swindon, Wiltshire won a case earlier this month ruling forcing her local primary care trust to fund Herceptin. The news of Herceptin's approval by the EMEA was welcomed by charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer, "Not only d...

Japanese Flower Art Helps Calm a Frantic Moscow

...e ancient secrets of Ikebana with students seeking refuge from the frantic pace of the booming capital. "The city drains your energy and this creativity revives you. It allows you to defend yourself, to become a normal person again," said Dina Gorodetskaya, 47, a student at a Moscow school. Popular when ...

Ostracized HIV-affected Widow Turns to Begging

...in-laws, a villager said, Sukanti and her son took refuge in a deserted grain storehouse. "The villagers did not allow her to use the common tube well and stopped their own children from playing with her infected son," Parida told IANS. She also became an object of disdain at her own parents' house at N...

No Clear Link Between Conflict, Rape and HIV: UN Study

... conflict and the host communities where they find refuge in order to fully explain the nature of HIV transmission in such environments, they concluded. -AFP...

Parking Garages Unsafe During Hurricanes

... using parking garages for the general public as a refuge of last resort and at what wind speeds it is safe for emergency vehicles to continue responding to emergencies during hurricanes. Schmidlin has studied severe weather including hurricanes, tornadoes, storms and lightning for more than 15 years....

Domestic Abuse a Curse to Public Health

...d mental illness. It calls for a Government-funded refuge building programme to deal with it. Professor Feder said abused women had a much higher risk of heart disease but the most likely effect was on mental health, where rates of depression were three or four times higher than normal. The report calls...

Kate Moss Takes Refuge With Pal After Break-up With Doherty

A distraught Kate Moss has taken refuge at a pal's home after her break-up with troubled rocker Pete Doherty. The Croydon-born supermodel is staying with celebrity hairdresser and close friend James Brown, after learning about the Babyshambles frontman's infidelity. Moss has avoided t...

Gays and Lesbians can Obtain asylum in US on Grounds of Harassment and Abuse

...omosexuals can be harassed to the point of seeking refuge abroad. Brazil, for example, has a huge population of gays and transvestites, and last month's annual gay pride festival in Sao Paolo drew 3 million people, according to Gay Life, a Baltimore newspaper. Yet J.C., a District man from Rio de Janeir...

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