BOSTON (MedPage Today) — Sometimes the simplest solutions are best — high school wrestlers may be able to reduce skin infections picked up during matches by cleaning exposed skin with a soap and water wipe after matches, a researcher said here.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — An FDA advisory panel is meeting Tuesday to vote on whether to reclassify the active ingredient in more than 125 over-the-counter cough medicines as a controlled substance in order to curb abuse.
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(MedPage Today) — The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that a proposed state constitutional amendment exempting Floridians from part of the new healthcare reform law cannot be put on the state’s November ballot because the proposed summary of the amendment is too confusing.
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(MedPage Today) — Banishing pharmaceutical representatives from the clinic and eliminating free samples leads to modest reductions in the prescribing of heavily promoted drugs, a single-center study shows.
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(MedPage Today) — Publicly available data about doctors appears to bear little relationship to how well they practice medicine, researchers reported.
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(MedPage Today) — For readers of medical journals, chances are hit-or-miss that they’ll learn that study authors are being paid by medical device makers — especially when the authors earn $1 million or more as consultants, according to new research.
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(MedPage Today) — Although less harmful than cigarette smoking, smokeless tobacco products are not safe as a smoking cessation tool and carry a number of potentially fatal health risks, an American Heart Association scientific statement said.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — An FDA advisory panel is meeting Tuesday to vote on whether to reclassify the active ingredient in more than 125 over-the-counter cough medicines as a controlled substance in order to curb abuse.
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TenX Biopharma, Inc. announced today that data from a Phase II trial of zanolimumab (HuMax-CD4®) in peripheral T-cell Lymphoma were published in the British Journal of Haematology (Sep 2010: 150(5):565-73). The Hx-CD4-109 trial was designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of zanolimumab in patients who have relapsed or refractory non-cutaneous peripheral T-cell lymphoma.
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Gentium S.p.A. today announced that two posters and one oral presentation on defibrotide will be presented at the 33rd World Congress of International Society of Hematology to be held at the ICC Jerusalem International Convention Center in Jerusalem, Israel, October 10-13, 2010.
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