Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA articles from July 2003

Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA archives from July 2003

Smallpox vaccination recommended for those exposed to virus.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued interim guidance advising states that persons investigating monkeypox outbreaks and involved in caring for infected individuals or...

Human vaccine strain of lamb rotavirus (Chinese) NSP4 gene sequenced.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A human vaccine strain of lamb rotavirus (Chinese) NSP4 gene has been sequenced. According to recent research published in the journal Virus Genes, "A lamb strain of rotavirus has recently been...

WHO criteria for trypanosomiasis can be improved by measuring IgM in the CSF.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers propose a change to the WHO stage determination for African trypanosomiasis to new CNS involvement criteria that include IgM and exclude determination of trypanosomes. According to...

Pharmacology of topiramate and lamotrigine compared with phenobarbital.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The pharmacology of topiramate and lamotrigine was compared with phenobarbital, including efficacy and side effects, in a recent issue of the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. "Clinical...

Measles antibodies interfere with immune response in revaccinated adults.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Measles-specific antibodies interfere with the humoral immune response in adults re-immunized with measles vaccine. According to published research from Mexico, "The objective of this study was to...

Death rate lower in countries responding aggressively to initial outbreak.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Three months after severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) began its spread out of southern China, it is clear that a country's response to the epidemic can have a major impact on the percentage of...

Age-related differences found in the side effect profile of citalopram.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Age-related differences were found in the side effect profile of citalopram. "The authors evaluated the autonomic and cardiovascular side effects of citalopram with particular emphasis on their...

An amebic thiol-specific antioxidant prevents killing by host mononuclear ROS.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Amebic dysentery begins with attachment to host mononuclear cells with GalNAc lectin and attachment of a thiol specific antioxidant to its cytoplasmic domain to neutralize reactive oxygen species...

FDA clears IND for anthrax vaccine candidate.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- VaxGen, Inc., (VXGN) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Investigational New Drug (IND) application for its candidate anthrax vaccine. The effective IND...

Asthma in high percentage of North Carolina children undiagnosed, study shows.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new, first-of-its kind, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill survey of 122,829 children at 499 middle schools in the state has turned up disturbing information about asthma, now the most common...

Antitumor activity reported for ABI-007 in patients resistant to taxane.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- At the recent American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, American Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc., (APPX) said investigators reported on the early findings in a phase II metastatic breast...

Chronically infected individuals have an imbalance of cytokines to antioxidants.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Chronic Chagas disease sufferers have an imbalance of cytokines to antioxidants, a fact that may lead to alternate therapeutic approaches to disease. According to published research from France,...

U.S. Food and Drug Administration says problem is growing.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Undercover agents staked out a Florida Chevron station, watching as a man handed $36,500 to his partner in a car before they pounced. But this was no ordinary drug bust: instead of cocaine or heroin,...

Exposure to one, minimal erythema dose of UV damaged skin DNA of all subjects.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Exposure to one minimal erythema dose of UV damaged the skin DNA of all subjects. According to a study from the United States, "DNA damage induced by UV radiation is a critical event in skin...

Interleukin-6 promoter polymorphism associated with type 2 diabetes.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An association between the interleukin-6 (-174) G/C promoter polymorphism and type 2 diabetes has been found in Native Americans and Caucasians. "Chronic low-grade activation of the immune system...

Efforts underway to increase whole-grain consumption in the United States.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Efforts are underway to increase whole-grain consumption in the United States. "In response to the 1990 Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, the Food and Drug Administration approved seven health...

WHO underestimates HIV exposure from dirty needles, researcher says.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The World Health Organization's long-held position that dirty needles cause 2.5% of African HIV exposures is too conservative, according to a report by a researcher at the U.N. agency. This has...

Japanese kids gaining body fat, heart risks like Western counterparts.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Japanese children are getting fatter, thus increasing their heart disease risk, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's Second Annual Asia-Pacific Forum. Researchers at the U.S....

Race, ethnicity increase risk for STDs in those otherwise at lowest risk.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers conducted a study of the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and herpes simplex-2 (HSV-2) virus infections among a...

WHO: Concerted global action is the only answer to rising cancer deaths.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) are calling for action through concerted efforts by all sectors to prevent and treat cancer throughout the world....

Ratio of reported-to-expected cancer rates in family members approximately 0.7.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The ratio of reported:expected cancer rates in family members was approximately 0.7 when looking at data from a cancer screening trial. "The authors analyzed data from almost 150,000 subjects aged...

Community HealthCorps members assist in youth HIV/AIDS prevention education.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Community HealthCorps members were utilized to assist in youth HIV/AIDS prevention education programs. "One-half of all new infections with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and cases of...

Enfuvirtide is first fusion inhibitor for treating patients with HIV.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Enfuvirtide is the first fusion inhibitor reported for the treatment of patients with HIV-1 infection. According to recent research from the United States, "Enfuvirtide (Fuzeon, Roche/Trimeris) is...

Epidemiologic data for 2002-03 flu season reported.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The National Center for Infectious Diseases, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reported that, overall, the 2002-03 U.S. influenza season was mild, though various regions of the country...

Influenza surveillance in Europe and its future reviewed.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A report on the evolution of influenza surveillance in Europe and prospects for the next 10 years has been published in the journal Vaccine. "This report traces the evolution of surveillance...

Bed nets dramatically reduce malaria exposure in Kenyan infants.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Bed nets dramatically reduced malaria exposure in infants in an area of intense perennial malaria transmission in western Kenya. According to published research from the United States, Kenya, and...

Malaria reduced in pregnant women by permethrin-treated bed nets in Kenya.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Malaria was reduced in pregnant women by permethrin-treated bed nets in an area of intense perennial malaria transmission in western Kenya. "The impact of insecticide (permethrin)-treated bed nets...

Permethrin-treated bed nets reduce local population of malaria vectors.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Permethrin-treated bed nets reduced the local population of malaria vectors. According to recent research published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, "The effect of...

Permethrin-treated bed nets reduce mortality in young children in Kenya.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Permethrin-treated bed nets reduced mortality in young children in an area of high perennial malaria transmission in western Kenya. "A group-randomized controlled trial of insecticide...

Home care feasible in Guinea Bissau.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Home care is feasible for pediatric malaria patients in Guinea. In a study there, "children with symptomatic malaria in Bissau were randomly assigned to treatment with chloroquine 25 mg base/kg...

Criteria defining antimanic drugs discussed.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The criteria defining antimanic drugs is discussed in the journal Encephale - Revue de Psychiatrie Clinique Biologique Et Therapeutique. According to recent research from France, "The question as to...

Eradication of measles in the Western Pacific Region close to reality.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Accelerated measles control in the Western Pacific Region has brought eradication of the disease in the area close to realization. According to a study from Philippines, "By the 1990s, an...

Measles eradicated in Haiti after outbreak in 2000.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Measles was eradicated in Haiti after an outbreak occurred in 2000. "On 8 March 2000 a case of laboratory-confirmed measles was detected in Haiti. Over the ensuing months, an explosive epidemic...

Case of possible human-to-human transmission under investigation.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A Wisconsin nurse may have contracted monkeypox from a patient in what would be the first known case of the disease spreading from one person to another in the United States, officials said on June 12,...

First outbreak of human infection in Western Hemisphere reported.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Public health officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana have reported the first outbreak of human infections with a...

Respiratory tuberculosis mortality risk evaluated by job type.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) researchers recently listed occupations and industries with higher incidence of deaths due...

Immune cell testing used as adjunct to drug monitoring in transplantation patients.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Immune cell function testing can be used as an adjunct to therapeutic drug monitoring in transplantation patients. "Each year, 55,000 organ transplants are performed worldwide. Cumulatively, the...

Government statistics underestimate neonatal mortality in rural western Kenya.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Government statistics underestimate the actual neonatal mortality in rural western Kenya. According to published research from Kenya, "Estimates of mortality in children less than five years old...

Permethrin-treated bed nets reduce morbidity in young children in Kenya.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Permethrin-treated bed nets reduced morbidity in young children in western Kenya. "Information on the impact of insecticide (permethrin)-treated bed nets (ITNs) from randomized controlled trials in...

Permethrin-treated bed nets reduce sick child visits for malaria.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Permethrin-treated bed nets reduced the number of sick child visits to peripheral health facilities for the treatment of malaria. According to recent research published in the American Journal of...

Eradication efforts should continue in southern Africa, report says.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Although wild poliovirus circulation appears to have been interrupted in the Southern part of Africa polio eradication activities should be sustained until global eradication is certified, officials...

Exposure to PCB may alter brain chemicals such as protein kinases.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Exposure to polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs) may alter brain chemicals such as the protein kinases. According to recent research published in the journal Molecular Brain Research, "PCBs have been...

GSK, ABC Radio, and DHHS to improve health among communities of color.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced it is joining with the ABC Radio Networks and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in sponsoring "Closing the Health Gap," a public awareness initiative...

Impact of violence and prevention strategies discussed at symposium.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) hosted a June 2003 symposium in Washington, DC, that focused on the public health impact of violence and strategies to reduce it. The meeting, "Alliances...

Pool inspection data could be used more effectively.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Swimming is one of the most popular activities in the U.S. and a healthy way to spend leisure time. Over the past decade, however, there has been an increase in the reported number of swimming-related...

New rules speed generic drugs to market in U.S.
July 6, 2003... 2003 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cheaper generic versions of pricey medications could reach consumers more quickly under U.S. federal rules announced June 12, 2003, but not as quickly as the Senate hopes to speed them. The goal is...

Spatial prediction of counts and rates.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from the United States, "In this paper we provide both theoretical and empirical comparisons of marginal and conditional methods for analyzing spatial count data. We focus...

Glucose metabolism in Trichinella spiralis nurse cells reported.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Investigators have described the unique nature of glucose uptake and metabolism in Trichinella spiralis nurse cells. "Isolated Trichinella spiralis nurse cells transport a significantly greater...

LPS inflammatory response different in swine than in rodents and humans.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The inflammatory response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was different in swine than those reported in rodents and humans. According to a study from the United States, "The inflammatory response in...

Arsenic limit in drinking water set at 10 micrograms/liter.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The limit of arsenic in drinking water has been set at 10 micrograms/liter by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "Humans can be exposed to arsenic (As) through the intake of air, food, and...

Report says WHO guidelines on SARS should be refined.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for diagnosing suspected severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) may not be sufficiently sensitive in assessing patients before admission to...

Pakistani injection drug users twice as likely to donate blood.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Thirty percent of injection drug users in Pakistan are paid to donate blood, which could contaminate the global blood supply and increase the spread of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B and C, according to a...

Presence of 22-hydroxycholesterol inhibits chemokine receptor function.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Oxysterols do not antagonize binding, but may inhibit chemokine receptor function if in cell membranes. According to a study from the United States, "Cell membrane exposure to oxysterols, such as...

Catalase negative Haemophilus species can be virulent.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Catalase negative Hemophilus species can be virulent for patients with chronic granulomatous disease. "Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a rare inherited disorder in which phagocytes are...

Epitopes of Borna disease virus p10 protein identified.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Two major histocompatibility complex class I-restricted epitopes of the Borna disease virus p10 protein have been identified by cytotoxic T lymphocytes induced by DNA-based immunization. According...

Dengue virus NS1, NS2A, NS3, and NS5 mutant proteins restrict replication.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Temperature-sensitive mutations in the genes encoding the NS1, NS2A, NS3, and NS5 nonstructural proteins of dengue virus type 4 restricted replication in the brains of mice. "Using reverse...

Trial on efficacy of botulinum toxin for crow's feet conducted.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Results from a double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial on the safety and efficacy of myobloc (Botulinum toxin type B)-purified neurotoxin complex for the treatment of crow's feet have been published...

Researchers use lowess to remove systematic trends over time.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers demonstrate the use of lowess to remove systematic trends over time in predictor variables prior to logistic regression with quantile categories in a recent issue of the journal Statistics...

Health-promoting compounds in broccoli lost during transport.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Health-promoting compounds in broccoli are lost during transport and retail storage. "Total aliphatic and indole glucosinolates, phenolic compounds (flavonoids and hydroxycinnamoyl derivatives),...

Deep-frying fish increases risk from mercury.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Deep-frying fish increases the risk from mercury consumption. According to a study from the United States, "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and many states have issued advisories to...

Dioxin risks decrease over past 30 years.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The level of background dioxin exposure has decreased over the past 30 years. "The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and other U.S. and international agencies have focused...

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers found in fish and shellfish.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Polybrominated diphenyl ethers were found in food, especially fish and shellfish, in Spain. According to published research from Spain, "Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are used as flame...

Ehrlichiae and spotted fever rickettsiae are found in Indonesia.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Gag Island residents in Indonesia have a higher prevalence of ehrlichiae and spotted fever rickettsiae and very low infection rates with organisms common to the rest of Indonesia. According to a...

One in three Americans born in 2000 will develop diabetes.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- One in three Americans born in 2000 will develop diabetes, according to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report presented at the American Diabetes Association's 63rd Annual...

FDA opts against further biotech review.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genetically engineered foods from crops that have already been reviewed and approved by two government agencies shouldn't have to jump through a third regulatory hoop at the U.S. Food and Drug...

Women's coalition on HIV/AIDS launched in Ethiopia.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ethiopia's prime minister Meles Zenawi urged a major change in his countrymen's sexual behavior patterns to tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic. He said relying on protective measures like condoms was...

CDC threatens program over workshops.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- U.S. federal health officials have warned an HIV/AIDS prevention program that its federal funding will be cut if it does not stop offering classes that "encourage or promote sexual activity." The...

New genetic pathway of HIV resistance to stavudine found.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have discovered a novel genetic pathway of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 resistance to stavudine, which is mediated by the K65R mutation. "Stavudine (d4T) and zidovudine (AZT) are...

Fasting and 2-deoxy-D-glucose supplementation reduce heart disease risk.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Intermittent fasting and dietary supplementation with 2-deoxy-D-glucose improved functional and metabolic cardiovascular risk factors in rats. According to recent research from the United States,...

Capsaicin induces reactivation of latent herpes simplex virus type 1.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Capsaicin induced reactivation of latent herpes simplex virus type 1 in sensory neurons in culture. According to recent research from the United States, "Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1)...

Endemic sites in New England have B. microti rates on the rise, nearing borreliosis.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In New England, U.S.A., human babesiosis is on the rise, approaching the rate of infection of borreliosis. "Human infection due to Babesia microti has been regarded as infrequent and a condition...

FDA approves first nasal mist flu vaccine.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Most people who avoid flu shots because they fear needles will not have that excuse this season. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a flu vaccine that is delivered by a...

Study reports some 32 million Americans had an episode in last 12 months.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Approximately 16% of the U.S. adult population will have major depression at some time in their life, and about 32 million Americans had an episode of major depression in the last year, according to an...

Animal groups commend federal agencies for appropriate response to outbreak.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The recent outbreak of monkeypox in several states has been traced back to prairie dogs who were captured from the wild for sale as "pets" and subsequently exposed to a sick African rodent housed...

Smallpox vaccine to prevent infection draws few.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Some people eligible for smallpox vaccinations offered by the state of Wisconsin declined to roll up their sleeves after learning of potential side effects, a state health official said. Herb...

Point mutations accumulate in mitochondrial DNA of aging mice.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Point mutations accumulate in the mitochondrial DNA of aging mice. "Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) exists in a highly genotoxic environment created by exposure to reactive oxygen species, somewhat...

New guidelines for occupational exposure to blood-borne virus released.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New guidelines for occupational exposure to blood-borne viruses have been released. "The U.S. Public Health Service recently updated its guidelines for managing health care workers exposed to blood...

Guidelines for workplace TB control activities issued.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- On the occasion of the World Economic Forum Africa Summit, a new effort to protect the health of millions of workers was launched June 12, 2003, by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the...

CDC issues diabetes warning for children.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- One in three U.S. children who were born in 2000 will become diabetic unless many more people start eating less and exercising more, a scientist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

FDA cites possible suicide link to Paxil in children under 18.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- No one under age 18 should be prescribed the drug Paxil (GlaxoSmithKline) for major depression because the adult antidepressant may increase a child's risk of suicide, the U.S. Food and Drug...

New negotiations lower prices of HIV drugs in 10 countries of the Americas.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, praised 10 Latin American countries on June 12, 2003, for their successful negotiation to reduce the prices of...

Lowering age for preventive vaccine could save lives, money, study says.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vaccinating everyone 50 or older against a bug that can cause pneumonia, meningitis, or a blood infection would save lives and money, a new study suggests. Current guidelines call for vaccinating...

FDA seizes dietary supplement claimed to cure diseases, including AIDS, cancer.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. government has seized more than 132,000 bottles of a dietary supplement promoted with allegedly deceptive claims it could cure hundreds of diseases, including AIDS and cancer, federal...

Recall expanded for cholesterol drug.
July 13, 2003... 2003 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Two pharmaceutical distributors have expanded the recall of the cholesterol drug Lipitor to include Lipitor products repackaged by a Nebraska company, pending a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...