Medical News Today: Health News for Saturday 11 October 2008

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Saturday 11 October 2008

Risk Factors Outside Of AAP Guidelines Identify More Preemies Needing RSV Prophylaxis

Written by Jill Stein

New data have emerged regarding three risk factors which may help pediatricians better identify which preterm infants are at high risk of severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) disease and may thus benefit from palivizumab...
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Ranolazine Safe And Effective For Angina

Written by Peter M Crosta

Researchers from Syracuse Preventive Medicine, NY, USA discuss a new drug called ranolazine that has been deemed a safe and effective treatment for chronic stable angina. Drs Stephen Nash and David Nash discuss this new...
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GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology photo

Vitamins Are Necessary After Gastric Bypass Surgery

Written by Peter M Crosta

In a Case Report published in this week's edition of The Lancet, researchers study a woman who failed to take multivitamins after weight-loss surgery and subsequently developed a vitamin deficiency...
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UK Sees Increase In Psychiatric Admissions But Decrease In Available Beds

A Call To Combat Tobacco Smuggling

Woman Suffers Serious Vitamin Deficiency After Gastric Bypass Surgery

Other Medical and Health News for 11 October*

Small Intestine Can Sense And React To Bitter Toxins In Food

Clue To Genetic Cause Of Fatal Birth Defect

UNC Receives $8.5 Million For New Public Health Preparedness Research Center

NCAR Launches Intensive Study Into Future Hurricane Risk

Biological Alternatives To Chemical Pesticides

Natural Fingerprints In Coal Used To Track Mercury Emissions

Body Contouring: Selecting Appropriate Massive Weight Loss Patients Critical

Urban Earthquakes, Nuclear Bombs And 9/11: New York Seismologist Honored For Work Local And Global

Controversial Injections Examined At ASPS Annual Meeting

Scientists To Explore Chemical Reactions In Extreme Conditions

Heart Transplantation Programme At Harefield Hospital To Undergo Review

Maple Leaf Foods Update On Its Bartor Road Facility And Positive Test Results For Listeria

High Risk Offender Charged With Assaulting A Women In Her Home, Calgary, Canada

Pregnancy Does Not Affect Mother's Cognitive Function, New Study

Nobel Prize For Discovery Of Green Fluorescent Protein Won By MBL Scientist Osamu Shimomura

At ASPS Annual Meeting: Innovative 'No Breast Implant' Procedure

Patients Who Recover From Coma But Cannot Communicate Feel Pain

A New Improved Gene Therapy Can Be The First Treatment For Machado-Joseph Disease

Phase III Study Showed Rituxan In Combination With Chemotherapy Improved Progression-Free Survival In Patients With Relapsed Chronic Leukemia

Early Data Show Potential For Imatinib To Treat Life-threatening Form Of Pulmonary Artery Disease

Boston Scientific To Release Broad Range Of Clinical Trial Data On The Performance Of TAXUS(R) Coronary Stent Systems At TCT 2008

FDA Continues Review Of Takeda's New Drug Application For Alogliptin (SYR-322), A DPP-4 Agent For Type 2 Diabetes

When Nothing Else Works: Therapy Approved By FDA For Treatment-resistant Depression

American Society Of Hypertension Updates Guidelines To Address 7-Fold Mortality Increase In Hypertensive Patients With Diabetes

Article In The Journal Of The American Society Of Hypertension Warns Heart Disease Set To Triple In Obese Teens

Gene Hunt In Dyslexia

Antioxidants Could Help Huntington's Disease Sufferers

The Brain Still Awake, Even During Deep Sleep

Victims Of Political Violence: What Does It Mean To Those Who Treat Them?

Solvents May Cause Brain Disorders, But Rehabilitation Is Possible

Is Couple Therapy Better Than Individual Psychotherapy In Alcoholism?

Memory Improves If Neurons Are New

Reason For Body's Response To Borrelia Discovered

Gene Determines Rapidity Of Ejaculation In Men

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