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(Virginia Tech) The National Institutes of Health has renewed a five-year research grant for a total of $2.5 million to an international biodiversity group lead by natural-product chemist David G. I. Kingston, who will share a portion of any royalties generated by sales of pharmaceuticals developed from this work with Madagascar, where the research is [...]
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The FDA has approved revisions to the safety labeling for perindopril erbumine tablets (Aceon), methylphenidate HCl extended-release capsules (Metadate CD), and atazanavir sulfate (Reyataz). Medscape Medical News
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued updated recommendations for partner services programs for HIV infection, syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydial infection. Medscape Medical News
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In a study, elderly patients with a rapid decline in kidney function had an increased risk for cardiovascular and all-cause mortality independent of baseline estimated glomerular filtration rate. Medscape Medical News
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Some physicians and abortion-rights advocates are raising concerns that a federal law that requires physicians to provide adoption and medical information to women who receive prenatal diagnoses of Down syndrome or other genetic conditions “could pry open the door of privacy” between patients and physicians, the St.
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(University of South Florida Health) Medical Simulation Corp. announces a new partnership with the University of South Florida to provide simulation training and education for health professionals, with the aim of reducing medical errors and promoting patient safety.
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(American Gastroenterological Association) Inflammatory bowel disease is a term that refers to both ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. IBD occurs most frequently in people in their late teens and twenties. There have been cases in children as young as two years old and in older adults in their seventies and eighties; men and women have [...]
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“If the U.S. Supreme Court were in the business of compensating victims of medical error because of the poignancy of their plight, Diana Levine wouldn’t be in suspense about whether the justices would rule in her favor,” but the court “usually doesn’t take cases out of sympathy for — or hostility toward — an individual,” [...]
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(University of Miami) Cherie L. Stabler, Ph.D., assistant professor in the University of Miami College of Engineering and director of the tissue engineering program at the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine won the Type 1 Diabetes Pathfinder Award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney [...]
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(University of Chicago Medical Center) Heightened cultural sensitivity and communications from physicians and caregivers could influence African-American women at high risk for breast cancer to get screened.
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