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FDA may speed review of new drugs

...e Prescription Drug User Fee Act, or PDUFA. At the same time, it is costing more to review ever more complex drugs - and companies are discovering fewer of them, meaning the FDA is getting fewer industry payments. The result is a shortfall that reached $30 million this yer....

Identifying bacteria made amiable

...All this comparative sequence data emerging at the same time as the emergence of the DNA chip technology m...e in different locations have been infected by the same strain or by two different strains coincidentally. Comparative techniques that are currently being...

Elevated Ozone Levels Hurt Sperm Count

...d by 30 men from Northern California during the same time period. The donors' average age was about 20, and most were college students. The researchers also analyzed data on air quality in both regions. The greater the increase in ground level ozone--popularly known as smog--the greater the drop in sp...

Microwave radiation has no hazards

...ther highly exposed veterans would demonstrate the same increased risk. They suggest the increased risk is more likely to do with occupational exposures other than radar, lifestyle factors that are specific to this group, or simply chance. The results, published in the May issue of the American Journal o...

Elevating Manganese Levels hold back HIV

... first step will be to do a study in mice. At the same time, researchers also can look at people infected with HIV and see if they can detect any with a defect in the PRM1 gene. If they do find a defect, they can determine if they are protected from HIV infection or have a slower progression of disease....

Sleepy drivers increase road death toll

...urthe r400 drivers using the region's roads in the same period were used as a control group. Drivers reporting sleepiness were eight times more likely to be involved in a serious car smash, while those who reported five hours or less of sleep during the previous 24 hours had a threefold increased risk. ...

Healthy snacks improve nutrition of kids

...ase much, she pointed out that the outcome was the same as seen with other, more expensive and time-consuming interventions. For example, a 3-month education program was found to lower the percentage of calories youngsters got from fat by only 1.5%--less than this study achieved. Sullivan said she though...

Grapes, Melons Implicated in Outbreaks

... tests showed the strain of S. senftenberg was the same among samples taken from people infected in California, Colorado and New Mexico. Cronquist suggested the bacteria may have infected the fruit during harvesting or in storage before it was distributed. In another case reported at the meeting, epidemi...

Anorexia in boys is common too

...--allowing them to catch up with their peers. The same effect has been observed in female adolescent anorexics, although studies indicate that female adult anorexics are unable to fully regain bone mass after recovering a normal weight. Castro said that since anorexia is relatively rare in boys, it can ...

Mild Depression may guard aged women

... at a rate only 60 percent of that of women of the same age showing either no signs of depression or suffering more severe depression, according to the findings. Changing levels of depression and seemed to have no effects on the mortality of the study's male subjects. Dr. Dan Blazer, professor of psychia...

Men happy to take contraception

... initiative of controlling fertility to see if the same men who were enthusiastic about vasectomy were also enthusiastic about taking male hormonal contraception," explained Dr Weston. "We found it was a significant statistical indicator." The Australian research was inspired by a recent international s...

Gene therapy restores sight

...ects in different genes, or different parts of the same gene, and this varies from one continent to another," he said. He was confident, nevertheless, that geneticists could achieve this....

A high carbohydrate diet good for health

... up to 300 less calories per day, while eating the same amount of food. In addition, members of this group had the lowest average BMI. Results show high-carbohydrate diets contain many more nutrients than low carbohydrate diets. Subjects in the high-carbohydrate group had increased levels of essential nu...

Hormone replacement therapy improves sexual function

...ies. The oral form of HRT is not known to have the same effect. This was a very small study, so now it needs to be repeated on a larger scale to see if patch HRT can help restore women's libido....

A new genetic label for stroke

...were compared with those of 120 healthy people the same age. Results showed people who had a stroke were four times more likely than healthy individuals to carry one of the abnormalities. This risk factor was a stronger predictor of stroke than traditional stroke risk factors such as smoking and diabetes....

Heart may pull Cells from Body to Self-repair

...ople who received a transplant from a donor of the same sex. In biopsies of 6 of the 12 men who had received female hearts, heart cells from the male recipient were found, Bohm's team reports. Out of a total of 30, 200 heart cells studied, the team found that 0.4% were from the recipient. He felt that th...

High Levels of Protein Linked to Brain Shrinkage

...been established. A second study published in the same journal included 36 healthy elderly people who underwent homocysteine testing and brain scans to detect brain atrophy. Participants with more extensive brain atrophy were more likely to have higher blood levels of homocysteine, according to a team le...

Hypertension drugs could lower Disability

...age. The next step will be to find out whether the same results are obtained from a non-disabled population, to see whether people who use these common medications might actually delay the onset of disability in old age....

Fish rich diet lowers leptin

...ly significant because the people studied have the same genetic makeup but simply eat different diets. Somers observed that leptin levels usually increase as people gain weight but in the new study people who ate fish continued to have low leptin levels even as they gained weight. Heart researchers have ...

Gene glitches connecting pot with Schizophrenia

...they compared this gene in schizophrenics with the same gene in 130 normal men and woman of the same average age, they found distinct abnormalities in DNA sequences called nucleotides among the schizop...

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