Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA articles from May 2002

Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA archives from May 2002

CDC develops global strategy.(United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)(Brief Article)
May 12, 2002... 2002 MAY 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a new global strategic plan to help prevent the emergence and spread of infectious diseases in the United States. The plan,...

CDC releases study on nontraditional risk factors for nearly lethal suicide attempts.(United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)(Brief Article)
May 12, 2002... 2002 MAY 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Employing an innovative approach to studying suicide attempters who either used a highly lethal method or would have died without medical help, researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...

CDC estimates cost of smoking.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2002... 2002 MAY 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Each pack of cigarettes sold in the United States costs the nation $7 in medical care and lost productivity, the government says. The study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put the...

Study: U.S. falls short in caring for diabetes patients.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2002... 2002 MAY 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Millions of Americans with diabetes haven't received the kind of care they need, according to a paper in the April 16, 2002 edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine. Researchers who analyzed...

Vaccine shortage threatens world's immunization programs.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2002... 2002 MAY 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The world is experiencing a serious vaccine shortage that threatens to jeopardize children's immunization programs in both developing and industrialized countries, the head of UNICEF has warned. ...

Bioterrorism bill stalls over food safety.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2002... 2002 MAY 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Legislation aimed at giving the government more power to prevent bioterrorist attacks has been delayed amid efforts by food manufacturers to loosen new safety measures. Bills passed by the Senate...

FDA warns about infection associated with powdered formula.(United States. Food and Drug Administration)(Brief Article)
May 12, 2002... 2002 MAY 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hospitals should not feed powdered infant formula to most premature or sick newborns because the powder isn't sterilized and could cause a rare but dangerous infection, the U.S. government has warned....

Michigan governor asks for $31.2 million from feds.(Brief Article)
May 12, 2002... 2002 MAY 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Michigan has asked the federal government for $31.2 million to beef up its response to bioterrorism, Gov. John Engler said. "This crucial funding and our comprehensive strategy will enable us to...

CDC promotes campaign to prevent antimicrobial resistance in healthcare settings.(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)(Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance campaign)
May 19, 2002... 2002 MAY 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced during the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Atlanta, Georgia, a campaign aimed at clinicians to prevent...

High altitude works against development of fat cells.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2002... 2002 MAY 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that a staggering 61% of adults in America are clinically obese, and therefore at increased risk of developing other serious illnesses...

FDA changes rules on testing drugs for children.(Food and Drug Administration)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2002... 2002 MAY 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is suspending a rule that lets the government require safety testing of adult medicines commonly given to children, a move that has drawn the ire of some...

Product Quality Research Institute issues first recommendation to FDA.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2002... 2002 MAY 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Product Quality Research Institute (PQRI) forwarded its first recommendation to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for review. The recommendation proposes that in-process dosage unit...

U.S. panel backs first heart pump for long-term treatment.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2002... 2002 MAY 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A heart pump long used to keep people alive as they awaited heart transplants works well enough to be implanted permanently in certain terminally ill patients too sick to get a new heart, U.S....

Consent decree over failure to comply with FDA manufacturing practices dissolved.(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
May 19, 2002... 2002 MAY 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Able Laboratories, Inc., (ABRX, ABRX) announced that the consent decree the company was subject to and entered by the United States District Court (District of New Jersey) on April 8, 1992 has been...

CDC: Tuberculosis cases down again.(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 19, 2002... 2002 MAY 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Tuberculosis cases fell to an all-time low in the United States last year, but the decline appears to be leveling off, federal health officials say. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...

Lilly, CDC teaming up to boost overseas bioterrorism preparedness.(Eli Lilly and Co. )(National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
May 19, 2002... 2002 MAY 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Eli Lilly and Co. is committing more than $2 million in a venture with the federal government to train overseas scientists to combat infectious diseases spread through bioterrorism and natural causes....

New vaccine requirement met with resistance.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2002... 2002 MAY 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- College officials may have to needle students into getting a required vaccination. About 6000 of the 10,000 students who plan to live on the University of Connecticut campus in Storrs next year...

World Food Program plans food aid for Asian AIDS sufferers.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2002... 2002 MAY 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) will launch a food donation campaign in four Asian nations aimed at easing the plight of HIV/AIDS sufferers, officials say. The campaign will provide...

Foreign travel is common cause of resistant Campylobacter infections.(Brief Article)
May 26, 2002... 2002 MAY 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers and scientists from Harvard and other world-renowned institutions studying the causes of Campylobacter infections, a common form of food borne illness, concluded that foreign travel, unsafe...

Disease on its way to global eradication.(polio)(Brief Article)
May 26, 2002... 2002 MAY 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- With a sense of a mission accomplished, in September 1994 the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) announced that polio had been eradicated from the Americas, bringing to an end a saga of thousands...

Doctors say bacteria suddenly becoming resistant to common antibiotic.(Brief Article)
May 26, 2002... 2002 MAY 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Amid growing concern that overuse of antibiotics is making some bugs immune, doctors have documented the first large outbreak of antibiotic-resistant strep throat, at a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...

Olympic bioterrorism and disease surveillance system worked well.(Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance )
May 26, 2002... 2002 MAY 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Twice during the period encompassing the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, University of Utah physician Per Gesteland received an automatic alarm signal through his pager. He rushed to his home...

World Health Organization includes antiretrovirals on essential medicines list.(Brief Article)
May 26, 2002... 2002 MAY 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a move to battle the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the World Health Organization has issued treatment guidelines suitable for poor countries, and for the first time put AIDS drugs on an international list of...

CDC: Annual emergency room visits top 108 million.(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention )(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 26, 2002... 2002 MAY 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Americans made 108 million visits to hospital emergency rooms in 2000, a 14% increase from 95 million visits in 1997, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said April 22, 2002. ...

U.S. pledges to help Caribbean beat back spread of HIV/AIDS.(Brief Article)
May 26, 2002... 2002 MAY 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The United States will send health experts to help Caribbean governments fight the regional spread of HIV/AIDS, Health Secretary Tommy Thompson has announced. "We are here today to extend to you...

Reports posted on abortion pill.(Brief Article)
May 26, 2002... 2002 MAY 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A 21-year-old woman had a heart attack 3 days after using the abortion pill mifepristone, but there is no way to know if the pill played a role, health officials say. In a letter to doctors, the...

MDMA proposes formation of FDA funding task force.(Medical Device Manufacturers Association)(Brief Article)
May 26, 2002... 2002 MAY 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA) sent a letter to representatives at the Advanced Medical Technology Association (Advamed) and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association...

FDA advisers call for return of bowel drug.(Brief Article)
May 26, 2002... 2002 MAY 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A once-popular drug for irritable bowel syndrome appears headed back to the U.S. market with tough new restrictions aimed at mitigating risks that forced the manufacturer to stop selling it 17 months...