Tobacco sponsorship of Formula One must stop, say health experts
...ly responsible for the deaths of one in ten adults worldwide (about 5 million deaths each year). If current smoking patterns continue, it will cause 10 million deaths each year by 2025. Half the people that smoke today - that is about 650 million people - will eventually be killed by tobacco 2 , and most of th...MRI scans could be 'acceptable alternative' to x-rays
...easing awareness of the hazards of radiation and a worldwide fall in autopsies has prompted a search for a minimally invasive alternative, and MRI provides high quality, three-dimensional images of the inside of the body without using x-rays or other radiation. Whole body MRI is a valuable addition to clinical...UCSD partners with Peru in NIH grant to battle malaria, world's number 2 killer
...ainst malaria the second largest killer of people worldwide will be undertaken by an international team of researchers led by tropical disease specialist Joseph Vinetz, M.D., from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine. The team will also study a variety of other tropical infectio...Two landmark studies show Taxotere (R) significantly improves survival in men with prostate cancer
...atients live longer." Prostate cancer ranks third worldwide in cancer incidence and sixth in cancer mortality among men. In the United States, more than 230,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year, and more than 29,900 will die of the disease. "The results of these studies mark a significant...Handwashing program decreases incidence of diarrhea among children in Pakistan
...Club in Washington, D.C. Nearly 2 million children worldwide die annually from diarrheal disease, according to background information in the article. Previous studies have estimated that handwashing promotion interventions could prevent 1 million child deaths per year. Washing hands with soap prevents diarrhea...Incentive-based intervention with nutritional component improves health status of children in Mexico
....8 million deaths of children younger than 5 years worldwide are attributed to malnutrition. Malnourished children who survive have a high risk of impaired health and function throughout life, which contributes to the intergenerational continuation of poverty. In developing countries more than one-quarter of ...UT Southwestern's Dr. Charles Pak receives international award for kidney-stone research
...ulminated in the development of several drugs used worldwide including Citracal for the prevention of osteoporosis and Urocit-K for the control of kidney stones as well as widely recognized diagnostic methods for measuring the risk factors for kidney stones. "I've known and worked with Dr. Pak for more than ...Serono receives FDA approval for Gonal-f RFF Pen to treat infertility
...ing development projects. In 2003, Serono achieved worldwide revenues of US$2,018.6 million, and a net income of US$390.0 million, making it the third largest biotech company in the world. Its products are sold in over 90 countries. Bearer shares of Serono S.A., the holding company, are traded on the virt-x (S...New data demonstrates that Benicar(R) and Benicar HCT (TM) achieve JNC 7 blood pressure goals
...an's largest pharmaceutical companies, with annual worldwide sales of $4.5 billion. Sankyo has a long history of discovering new classes of drugs, including the statin class of lipid-lowering drugs, with its discovery of the first statin, mevastatin, and the co-discovery of lovastatin, the first statin to be ...The worldwide prevalence of glaucoma is increasing
...ness. Glaucoma affects more than 66 million people worldwide and is the second leading cause of blindness. In the USA, health costs from glaucoma-related blindness have been estimated to be in excess of US $1.5billion a year, and the magnitude of the problem will increase as the population ages. Robert N. Wein...Zinc therapy accelerates recovery from pneumonia
...ics and lessen the health complications and deaths worldwide caused by severe pneumonia. The study appears in the May 22, 2004, edition of The Lancet. "Our study shows that adding zinc to the standard antibiotic treatment significantly reduces the recovery time and overall hospital stay of children with severe...Different methods of adjuvant chemotherapy for colorectal cancer have similar outcomes
...er Institute . Each year, about one million people worldwide are diagnosed with colorectal cancer and about half that number dies from the disease. After colon tumors are removed surgically, many patients are treated with fluorouracil-based adjuvant chemotherapy. Whether the chemotherapy should be delivered vi...Advances emerging in hepatitis management
... and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a major worldwide public health problem. Researchers in the VA Healthcare System examined the proportion of chronic HCV-infected patients who had been tested for HIV and related risk factors and found that improved screening programs are needed. Data was prospecti...Who wants to talk about premature ejaculation?
.... According to published research, 20%-30% of men worldwide are commonly affected by premature ejaculation (PE...indications, including premature ejaculation, on a worldwide basis. ALZA and Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development are developing dapoxet...Seroquel: New data show efficacy and tolerablity in bipolar depression
...ar depression. 1,2 SEROQUEL is currently approved worldwide for the treatment of mania associated with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The results of the study show that SEROQUEL was superior to placebo in reducing depressive symptoms, as measured by MADRS scores, in patients with bipolar disorder. Pati...Iron-deficient infants score worse on cognitive and motor tests as teens
...iciency anemia affects about 25 percent of infants worldwide and twice as many have iron deficiency without anemia. Many poor and minority children in the United States are also affected. During development, iron performs a variety of important roles. Iron is required to build myelin, which covers nerves and h...FDA approves Enbrel to treat psoriasis
...ns and has been used in more than 234,000 patients worldwide across indications." "My psoriasis was devastatin...ENBREL has been used by more than 234,000 patients worldwide across indications. ENBREL acts by binding TNF, one of the dominant inflammatory cytokines or regula...Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist use Botox to treat CP
...ith CP. In 1998, Koman and his team were the first worldwide to use Botox to treat muscle spasticity in CP patients. Koman injected 73 cerebral palsy patients with either Botox or a placebo to see if Botox injections would help the muscles in a patient's upper extremities relax, allowing them to grasp objects...Presence of gene mutation tightly linked to drug effectiveness in lung cancer
...ing cause of cancer death in the United States and worldwide for both men and women. "This is another example of successfully exploiting our ever-increasing understanding of the genetic aberrations of cancer," said Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., director, NCI. Understanding how to maximize the benefits of ......chlear implants. There are more than 60,000 people worldwide with these implants, which work by providing direct electrical simulation to the auditory nerve. The microphone, speech processor and transmitter are placed on the outside of the ear similar to a hearing aid. The microphone picks up sounds from the e...