Approval of new sleeping pill delayed
Federal health officials held off Tuesday approving a new sleeping pill, telling Neurocrine Biosciences Inc. they need more time to review its application. The FDA said it could not yet approve a 15 milligram, extended-release tablet version of the drug known formally as indiplon, Neurocrine...
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Bird flu strikes Indonesia
According to local tests, a fifth member of an Indonesian family has died of bird flu. The other four died from the disease early last week. In all, eight members of the family in Tanah Karo village on Sumatra are suspected of having contracted the virulent H5N1 bird flu virus. Officials pay...
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Changes in climate could kill millions in Africa
Disease spread by global warming could kill an extra 185 million people in sub-Saharan Africa by the end of the century and turn millions more into refugees unless rich nations take action now.. Christian Aid said rich developed countries have to help poorer nations ride out the worst impacts of...
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Assisted suicide law blocked by British Parliament
The upper house of Britain's parliament blocked a controversial law on Friday to allow doctors to help terminally ill patients end their lives. The assisted dying bill would let doctors prescribe lethal drugs to patients suffering unbearably and have less than six months to live. The patients...
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Work conditions influence the infants’ weight
Many occupational conditions which pregnant women have gone through can increase the possibility of having a small infant. One of the main risk factors is having an irregular or shift-work schedule. It is good news that eliminating these factors before the 24th week of pregnancy can bring the odds...
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Sports drink impact teeth
Energy drinks and citrus-flavored beverages -- like many sports drinks -- are more abrasive on tooth enamel than tea or even cola drinks, von Fraunhofer reported in a recent issue of the journal General Dentistry. In the study, he exposed enamel from teeth that had been extracted due to cavities or...
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Surgery to separate twins has begun
On Friday, a team of doctors began working to separate the Carlsen twin sisters, who were born five months ago joined at the abdomen and chest. The surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester was expected to take 10 to 12 hours. The Carlsens have separate hearts but share a pericardium, a membrane...
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Anti-smoking pill soon in sales
When varenicline goes on sale later this year, it will become the first new prescription drug for smoking cessation approved by the Food and Drug Administration in nearly a decade and only the second stop-smoking drug that is nicotine-free. The New York company plans to market the twice-daily...
Simple test emerges eye disease
Scientists say they have invented the first cheap, simple and accurate test for trachoma, the eye disease that ravages parts of Africa. Nearly six million people have been blinded by trachoma, caused by a bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis. Infection causes the eyelid to fold inward and make the...
Soda cut back at schools
It is reported that Regular sodas will disappear from many US schools under a new agreement announced Wednesday by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. Cafeterias and vending machines will stock only low-calorie soft drinks, in addition to various types of water, juice, tea, and milk. The...
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