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...h toll of deaths related to tobacco is expected to reach 8.4 million in 2020. The authors suggest that as well as encouraging people to give up smoking as an essential public health measure, this may also contribute to the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes....Institute of Medicine advisory: Drug safety news conference September 26
... the safety of prescription medications after they reach the market. THE FUTURE OF DRUG SAFETY: PROMOTING AND PROTECTING THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC, a new report from the Institute of Medicine, assesses the system's strengths and shortcomings and offers a plan for improving the evaluation of medications on a...Arctic summer ice anomaly shocks scientists
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...eed to increase sharply during the next 5 years to reach MDG4 The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) should redistribute its resources to countries with the lowest vaccine coverage Speakers at the September 18th meeting include: Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet Jens Stolten...Access to science enhanced by new NIH-ASH agreement
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... the University of Pennsylvania. "Our goal is to reach cardiologists and other physicians around the globe who don't currently have resources available to help treat their patients suffering with advanced heart failure," said Edoardo Gronda, M.D., ISHLT task force chair and Director of Clinical Cardiolog...Molecular medicine comes to the rescue
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...y found the usual time taken for a flu epidemic to reach peak levels across the US was about two weeks, and that the national peak date was within two days of the average date February 17. Flu spread more slowly in years when the number of domestic air travelers was lower. However, the most striking findi...Amateur boxing linked to brain cell injury
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...her specialized tissues anywhere on the body." To reach this goal, Tung has been researching transplantation of hindlimbs to mice from unrelated donors - but here's the twist - without giving the mice immunosuppressive drugs. At this time, Tung is the only researcher in the United States investigating lim...Katie Lee Joel joins Kidney Friendly Comfort Foods program
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... eight days before alcohol withdrawal, in order to reach steady levels in patient plasma, and continuing for 15 days following withdrawal, researchers administered either acamprosate (two tablets of 333 mg) or a placebo. Polysomnographic assessments were recorded during acute withdrawal (the first two nig...