Medical News Today: Health News for Friday 4 January 2008

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Friday 4 January 2008

Written by Catharine Paddock

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it is reviewing new data on the risks of a type of anemia drug called ESAs, erythropoiesis-stimulating agents. The evidence comes from two studies that found patients with...
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Placebo Works Equally Well As Antipsychotics For Aggression In The Intellectually Disabled

Written by Catharine Paddock

A new UK study found that placebo was just as effective at treating aggressive challenging behaviour in intellectually disabled patients as antipsychotic drugs and the researchers recommended antipsychotics no longer be...
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Written by Catharine Paddock

A survey of doctors practising in Chicago, USA, found that forty five per cent of them recommended placebos to patients in clinical practice and believed in the mind-body connection...
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Severe Pneumonia In Children Can Be Treated Safely And Effectively At Home

Hospitalizations Due To GERD Rose 103% Between 1998 And 2005, USA

£100m Spent Annually On Pointless Indigestion Drugs By NHS

Banning Doctors' Wristwatches Could Be Potentially Dangerous In A Clinical Setting

Stop All Obesity Studies And Act Now

Surgery Has No Clear Benefit For Sleep Apnea

Shortage Of Pathologists Causing Unlawful Transportation Of Children's Bodies, UK

Other Medical and Health News for 4 January*

Few San Francisco Residents Enroll In Health Care Program After City Increases Income Eligibility Limits

Librarians In Los Angeles, San Francisco Catalogue HIV/AIDS Materials

Insured, Wealthier Patients More Likely To Receive No-Cost Prescription Drug Samples From Physicians, According To Study

Washington, D.C., To Invest $650,000 In Needle-Exchange Programs

Hospitals Do Not Deliver Defibrillation Shock Within Recommended Two Minutes In 30% Of Cardiac Arrests, Study Finds

Opinion Pieces Discuss Health Care Proposals From Presidential Candidates

Majority Of Neb. Senators Would Support Law To Ban Abortions If Roe Is Overturned, Poll Finds

Recent Studies Indicate Lack Of Health Insurance 'Seriously Harmful' To Health, Editorial States

Report Gives California C Grade For Children's Health, Education, Shows Racial Health Disparities

Ore. Laws Requiring Contraceptive Coverage; Accommodations Fo Breast-Feeding Women Go Into Effect

California Receives C Grade For Children's Health, Education In Annual Report

University Of Florida's Health Science Center Works To Improve Number Of Minority Students, Faculty Members

U.S. Health Officials Optimistic About Reducing Mortality Rate At Women's Hospital In Kabul

Massachusetts Department Of Revenue Releases Draft Regulations That Would Increase Penalties For Uninsured Residents

Indian Railways Considers Offering Fare Concessions To HIV-Positive People To Facilitate Travel To NACO Treatment Centers

Society For Assisted Reproductive Technology To Create Egg, Sperm Donor Birth Outcome

Tools To Help Consumers Compare Health Care Services' Cost, Quality Have Little Impact On Market, Oregonian Reports

Saudi Arabian Human Rights Society Calls On HIV-Positive People To Report Discrimination

Proposed Mont. Amendment That Would Define Person As Beginning At Fertilization Cleared For Signature Gathering

Congressional Democrats, White House Officials Dispute Whether President Bush Can Pocket Veto Defense Authorization Bill

Kenya's National AIDS Control Council Says That Recent Violence, Sexual Assaults Will Reverse Gains Made Against HIV/AIDS

Additional Dosage Strengths Of Vyvanse Approved By FDA

Magnetic Field Shown To Reduce Swelling

Helping Kids Cope With A Sibling's Diagnosis

ESP Study Employs Neuroimaging

Acid Reflux Study Looks At Lifespan Of Sufferers

Fitness Predictions For 2008 - American Council On Exercise

Using Newly Approved Device, Doctors Do "incision-less" GERD Surgery

Encouraging Women To Walk 10,000 Steps Each Day

Research Results Of Novel Anticancer Strategy

Remarkable Editing System For Protein Production Discovered By Scripps Research Scientists

Treatment With NAC Is Associated With Better Outcomes For Children With Liver Failure

Biomedical Applications For Shape-Memory Polymers

Madigan's Simulation Center Is First In DoD To Earn Accreditation, USA

Women Who Smoke At Increased Risk Of Lung Disease

Study Analyzes Hormone Therapy In Younger Menopausal Women

Enhance Healing Through Guided Imagery

Moderate Exercise Yields Big Benefits

Ways To Reduce Gassiness

Sibling Support Program Cares For Brothers And Sisters Of Cancer Patients

Protein's New Role Discovered In Autoimmune Disease

Osteoporosis: Eight Tips For 2008

Kosan Opens TIME 1 Pivotal Phase 3 Trial In Multiple Myeloma

GlaxoSmithKline And Theravance Announce Start Of Large Phase 2B ICS And LABA Studies For Asthma In The Horizon Program

AmpliMed Corporation Announces Promising 1-year Survival Data From Phase I/II Study Of Amplimexon(R) In Metastatic Malignant Melanoma

QuatRx Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Phase 3 Results For Study Of Ophena(TM) (ospemifene) To Treat Postmenopausal Vaginal Syndrome

Tengion Launches Third Phase 2 Clinical Trial Of Regenerated Human Bladder

NicOx Announces Pfizer Initiates Phase 2 Clinical Development For PF-03187207 In Japan

Escalon(R) Announces FDA 510(k) Clearance For Sonomed MASTER-VU(TM) B-Scan System

EntreMed Announces FDA Acceptance Of IND Application For Aurora Kinase/Angiogenesis Inhibitor, ENMD-2076

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