Health & Medicine Week articles from February 2003

Health & Medicine Week archives from February 2003

Dogs on fatty diet may give clues to human disease development.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Coonhound puppies on diets containing the type of fat found in deep-fried foods are furthering understanding of how these fats contribute to aging and development of human diseases such as...

Continuing use of mercury in vaccines questioned.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Parents and advocates met recently on Capitol Hill to ask the nation's leaders and pharmaceutical companies to stop using the mercury preservative thimerosal in all vaccines, to inform Americans about...

American women still having too many mastectomies.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Although there are 25 years of solid scientific evidence showing that breast-conserving therapy has the same survival rate as mastectomy, American women are more likely to have mastectomy than are women...

German study finds possible cause of high blood pressure.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The American Kidney Fund (AKF) is encouraged by a German study that indicates that some people may be born at risk for high blood pressure because they have fewer filters in their kidneys than normal....

New version of nutrition-monitoring program released.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- HealtheTech, Inc., (HETC), a Colorado-based company that develops and markets medical devices and software that measure and monitor important health parameters, announced the release of version 2.0 of...

Cleveland Clinic using new tool in laser eye surgery, making wheelchairs easier to use.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- For people with nearsightedness, it may be time to take a closer look at laser vision correction. New technology being used at The Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute allows doctors to check a...

New technologies spur renewed growth in HIV diagnostics and monitoring market.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The development of revolutionary techniques, such as viral load monitoring, genotyping, and phenotyping that enable better disease management, are stimulating renewed growth in the HIV diagnostics and...

Former WebMD executive producer joins NewsRx.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A former WebMD executive producer and medical editor has joined Atlanta-based NewsRx, along with three board-certified editors. Dominique Walton Brooks, MD, with WebMD until 2001, will serve as...

Pat Benner named CFO at The Beryl Companies.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Beryl Companies, a healthcare-exclusive customer interaction company, announced the appointment of Pat Benner as the company's new chief financial officer, effective immediately. Benner brings...

Taratec names Bruce Haislip CFO.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Taratec, a life-science consultancy that provides integrated business, information technology, and regulatory compliance services and products, announced the appointment of Bruce Haislip as CFO. ...

Intervention program launched with major inner city insurance carrier.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Critical Home Care, Inc., (CCLH News) announced the launch of an asthma intervention program with a major inner city insurance carrier. Asthma is a highly prevalent disease that affects the quality...

Weight loss program targets one change at a time.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- ChangeOne: The Breakthrough 12-Week Eating Plan: Lose Weight Simply, Safely, and Forever, is a new book that features Reader's Digest's first official diet. ChangeOne is an answer to the dismaying...

Advocate Health Care receives clinical excellence recognition from JCAHO.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Advocate Health Care (Advocate) is proud to announce that it has been awarded disease-specific care certification by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) for two of...

Drug users falling through healthcare net.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A social scientist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will examine cocaine and methamphetamine addiction and related mental illnesses in rural populations in the Arkansas Delta,...

Technology designed to improve medication safety.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) is making good on its claim "Innovative Health Care Designed Around You," by offering physicians access to its up-to-date drug formulary through...

Technology helps to deliver comprehensive infrastructure for clinical trials.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- eResearchTechnology, Inc., (eRT; ERES), announced that it has entered into an agreement with Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare (DF/PCC) to provide an integrated technology and services solution that...

Merge eFilm expands line of credit to $5 million.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Merge eFilm (MRGE), a global medical image and information management solutions provider, announced that it has signed an expanded $5 million line of credit agreement with Merchants and Manufacturers...

ProVox Technologies closes $5.8M series C financing.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- ProVox Technologies announced the closing of a $5.8 million series C financing round. The venture syndicate that provided the funding was led by McLean, Virginia-based ECentury Capital Partners and...

Smart releases accounting of disclosures product.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Smart Corp. announced the release of an accounting of disclosures solution, eDisclose. The newest addition to Smart's line of HIPAA-compliant products, eDisclose tracks nonauthorized disclosures in...

NorthView wins exclusive rights to market SpeechView's solutions for deaf.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- NorthView Enterprises announced that it has been granted exclusive rights to market SpeechView's products for the deaf/HOH (hard of hearing) in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and South America. ...

Lanier uses Pervasive.SQL to power digital dictation systems.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pervasive Software, Inc., (PVSW), a provider of data-management solutions, announced that the new digital dictation and document workflow systems launched in December by Lanier Healthcare are powered by...

Medix Resources names James Q. Gamble as chief operating officer.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Medix Resources, Inc., (MXR) announced that James Q. Gamble has joined Medix as chief operating officer. Gamble will be responsible for developing, implementing, and managing the infrastructure...

PocketScript alliance lets physicians execute secure electronic prescriptions.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Medix Resources, Inc., (MXR) announced an alliance with PocketScript and Research In Motion (RIMM) to enable physicians to execute secure electronic prescriptions using their BlackBerry wireless...

QRS Diagnostic launches MedicSync for instant data synchronization.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- With its release of MedicSync, QRS Diagnostic enables users of its Office Medic and Pocket Medic software to synchronize databases of patients' physiological data collected with QRS computer card...

PlanetRx.com changes name, begins trading under PGNF.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- PlanetRx.com, Inc., now known as Paragon Financial Corp., announced that it is now trading under the ticker symbol PGNF. This change was required as a result of the company's name change to Paragon...

Manapol material certified Kosher.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Carrington Laboratories, Inc., (CARN) announced that its freeze-dried Manapol nutraceutical material produced and packaged in Carrington's Costa Rica facilities has been certified to be "Kosher Parve,"...

Elderly dietary supplement users may not need them.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More than half of all Americans ages 65 years and older took a multivitamin, an extra dose of calcium, or a more exotic substance like ginkgo biloba or shark cartilage in 2002, hoping to maintain or...

New U.S. patent granted for skin cholesterol technology.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Predictive medicine company IMI International Medical Innovations, Inc., (IMI) announced that it has received a notice of allowance for a new U.S. patent that strengthens the company's intellectual...

Consumers taking control, seeking more information.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Prescription drug advertisements often trigger consumers to seek more information, says the National Consumers League (NCL), releasing data from a national survey commissioned to investigate American...

Alliance supports IOM report on actions to improve healthcare quality.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) has welcomed and supported the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) January 7, 2003, report "Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Care Quality."...

AMA supports new bill to stop physician medicare cuts.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The American Medical Association (AMA) supports House Joint Resolution 3 introduced by Rep. Bill Thomas (R-CA) that will halt implementation of the CMS Medicare payment rule and stop another cut in...

Many states fail to protect public against second-hand smoke.
February 3, 2003... 2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Four years after securing more than $240 billion in tobacco settlements, most U.S. states have squandered the unprecedented opportunity to fund comprehensive tobacco initiatives proven to help protect...

Researcher designs more accurate measure of risk for elderly.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Functional impairment and laboratory abnormalities, combined with diseases, offer the most accurate prediction of which elderly people are most likely to die within 1 year after being hospitalized, a...

Molecule helps pupils respond to light.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers are reporting progress in understanding whether a second light-sensing pathway in mammals indeed contributes to the detection of ambient light for controlling body functions. In an...

Male college students may suffer more depressive disorder than females.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers in the United States have completed a study of depression among male and female undergraduates. According to a study from the United States, "two studies tested for gender differences...

Essay on genes and behavior prompts culture clash in academic journal.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Advocates of genetic determinism square off against two prominent Stanford University scientists in a lively and surprisingly acerbic debate over "nature vs. nurture". The often contentious...

Study explains why hands-free phones are just as bad as hand-held when driving.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Motorists are more accident-prone and slower to react when they talk on cellular telephones - even hands-free models - because "inattention blindness" makes the drivers less able to process visual...

Family heritage and transition to adulthood factor into partner violence.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The way men and women are treated as children and how they transition into adulthood can significantly influence the way they act with respect to violent behaviors later on. According to a study...

HIV/AIDS is leading cause of death for African American, Latinas women in Pennsylvania.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Philadelphia AIDS Consortium (TPAC) announced the release of their recent study "The AIDS Crisis in Pennsylvania: The Hidden Epidemic Among African American and Latina Women." The study calls...

Most pathophysiology changes are reversible on rewarming.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from England, "Accidental hypothermia is an uncommon problem that affects people of all ages, but particularly the elderly. This review briefly outlines the etiological...

Mouse model links alcohol intake to marijuana-like brain compounds.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Brain molecules similar to the active compound in marijuana help to regulate alcohol consumption, according to new reports by scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism...

Tryptophan and serotonin depletion appears to regulate impulsive behavior.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "This study investigated the effects of acute serotonin depletion on two measures of impulsive behavior in healthy men with a family history of alcoholism. Serotonin has been implicated in several...

Alpha-1 Foundation president named to National Health Council board.(John W. Walsh)
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The National Health Council named John W. Walsh, founder, president and CEO, Alpha-1 Foundation, to serve on its board of directors. The National Health Council is the premier membership...

Iron supplements help children even if they have colds.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a recent study, giving iron supplements to anemic children when they have a cold or other upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) significantly improved their iron status without increasing stomach...

Study shows how the brain pays attention.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- With so many visual stimuli bombarding our eyes - cars whizzing by, leaves fluttering - how can we focus attention on a single spot - a word on a page or a fleeting facial expression? How do we filter...

Diagnosis of ADHD highly controversial, but growing.(attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Decision Resources, Inc., finds that even though diagnosing adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is still highly controversial in the world's seven major pharmaceutical markets...

Gene could have important role in human wasting disorder.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A gene regulating muscle formation in fruit flies could play an important role in a wasting disorder in humans, researchers at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have...

Auditory center may contribute to maintenance of equilibrium.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "A long-lasting dizzy sensation is a common complaint in elderly subjects. The pathogenesis and effective treatment of such chronic dizziness (CD), however, have not yet been fully elucidated because...

Wave prevalences decreased overnight, distribution over motor patterns preserved.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "The purpose of this study was to develop a computer program for fully automated analysis of all presently known motor patterns in human colonic motility recordings," researchers in Netherlands report....

CME credit offered for use of decision-making support tool.(continuing medical education)
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Physicians who use handheld computers to access evidence-based medical information while caring for patients will now have the opportunity to earn continuing medical education (CME) credit for their...

E.U. grant will be used to develop drugs for S. aureus infections.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- 4SC AG, a cheminformatics-based drug discovery company, announced that the European Union has supported a research consortium established to identify and develop potent new drugs to combat...

Cannabinoid receptor activation reduces information transfer, could be promising.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from the United States, "Lower esophageal sphincter (LES) tone is decreased during swallowing, during transient LES relaxations (TLESRs), and before emesis, and this decrease is...

Tension receptor activation important stimulus for transient relaxation.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers from Netherlands "compared the effect of graded gastric barostat distension and meal-induced fundic relaxation on the elicitation of transient lower esophageal sphincter relaxation (TLOSR)....

Financial conflicts of interest can influence biomedical research.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Financial ties among industry, scientific investigators, and academic institutions can influence research outcomes, Yale researchers have found in a comprehensive study of financial conflicts of...

New framework on biomedical research fraud is toothless.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New proposals for tackling biomedical research fraud and misconduct in the U.K. lack sufficient clout to make any real difference, says the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). An account of...

Orthodontic Centers of America announces favorable IRS ruling.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Orthodontic Centers of America, Inc., (OCA) announced that it has received a favorable letter ruling from the Internal Revenue Service, which permits the company to change its method of accounting for...

Adding benzodiazepine to proton-pump inhibitor therapy may control symptoms.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from the United States, "eight patients with refractory gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) symptoms were controlled over a mean of 15.4 years only by the addition of a...

Impaired egress is an important independent predictor of erosive esophagitis.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from the United States, "Esophagitis severity is related to total esophageal acid exposure, which is in turn dependent upon both the number reflux events and the rate of refluxate...

Proton-pump inhibitors are used widely in treatment.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from the United States, "Proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) are used widely in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease. On-demand therapy with PPIs has been shown to be...

MedAire to provide inflight medical support to Helios Airways.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Helios Airways, an airline out of Larnaca, Cyprus, is ensuring that its passengers and crew are able to properly respond to an inflight medical situation by providing them with immediate access to...

Ileal manometry in children has four distinctive features.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Our aim was to analyze the patterns of ileal contractions in children. We reviewed the charts of 23 children who had ileal manometry studies (16 boys), mean age 7 years (range 2 months to 17 years),"...

Stress at work increases the chance of acute common infections.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Stress at work and fatigue increase the chance of acute infections such as common colds, flu-like illnesses, and gastroenteritis. This was discovered in research carried out by Danielle Mohren at...

Scientists discover how to grow cells that suppress immune responses.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered how to grow a little-understood type of human immune cell. The cells, known as T-regulatory cells type 1 (Tr1), are...

Flu deaths exceed AIDS-related deaths each year.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported an estimated 36,000 Americans die from flu-related complications each year. When compared to AIDS-related deaths, an...

ACS expands outsourcing services agreement.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- ACS, a provider of business process and information technology outsourcing solutions, announced a $48 million expansion of their outsourcing contract with Anthem, Inc. Under the 3-year agreement,...

Organ donor program leads nation in number of transplants.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- On December 20, Ora Frisby, a 53-year-old grandmother from Philadelphia, received the greatest gift a person could get - a second chance at life. Now Ora no longer has to endure the kidney dialysis...

Recurrence of IgA nephropathy short time post-transplant may lead to loss.(immunoglobulin A)
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "The recurrence of immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) after renal transplantation has been described in 40-50% of cases. For a long time, this type of recurrence was considered as a benign condition....

Judge dismisses McDonald's obesity suit.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A federal judge has dismissed a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of New York children that claimed McDonald's food caused them to suffer health problems including diabetes, high blood pressure, and...

Settlement reached with states on partial fill prescriptions.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- CVS Corporation (CVS) said today that it has entered into a settlement agreement with the Attorneys General of a number of states with respect to allegations relating to certain billing practices...

Vision researchers find that photon receptors pair up in neat rows.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Using atomic-force microscopy, vision researchers have taken pictures of some of the eye's photon receptors in their natural state, and have analyzed their packing arrangement. Their findings offer...

Researcher explores new uses for nicotine and sea sponges.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In an organic chemistry lab located on the campus of Binghamton University, Scott Handy is busy whipping up promising new substances modeled after natural compounds found in sea sponges and tobacco...

Fertility, nutrition resources available on consumer web site.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- As cloning and other reproductive issues grow in importance to consumers, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota's web site has responded by adding a Fertility Center, as well as an extensive...

Health literacy a becomes a priority.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The American Medical Association Foundation applauds a new report by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies for identifying health literacy as one of the country's top priorities for...

Johnson to maintain building automation system.(Johnson Controls, Inc.)
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Johnson Controls, Inc., (JCI) has secured a planned service agreement with Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis in Memphis, Tenn., to maintain the hospital's existing Honeywell building automation system...

One-third of physicians personally experienced medical errors.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Some 42% of the public and more than one-third of U.S. doctors say they or their family members have experienced medical errors in the course of receiving medical care, with significant percentages...

Only treatment for prophylaxis of bleeding is nonselective beta-blockers.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from the United States, "Portal hypertensive gastropathy (PHG), a term used to describe the endoscopic appearance of gastric mucosa with a characteristic mosaic-like...

Sexual risk reduction should be part of programs for injection drug users.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Programs to reduce the risk of HIV among injection drug users should target other high-risk behavior as well, researchers in San Francisco argue. K.P. Shafer and colleagues at the University of...

Lung condition at moderate altitude underestimated.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE), a potentially fatal lung condition, occurs more frequently at moderate altitude (below 8000 ft) than past research indicates. A recent study suggests that...

Study shows gains closing quality gap for Medicare beneficiaries.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows broad progress in closing the quality gap in the treatment of a number of chronic conditions and serious illnesses affecting...

Research finds 20% mortality rate for children.(Canada)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The results of a 10-year retrospective chart review of cases of shaken baby syndrome (SBS) in Canada present important lessons for the medical system, caregivers and society, says a new study. ...

nCPAP study reveals sleep disorder linked to hypertension.(nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure)
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- ResMed, Inc., (RMD), a manufacturer and developer of products for the diagnosis, treatment, and management of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), has announced the release of compelling new clinical data...

Parkinson drug may help smokers quit.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A drug used to treat Parkinson disease, selegiline hydrochloride, also appears to help smokers quit smoking, according to a study at Yale. The study, published in Biological Psychiatry, was...

Most heal spontaneously, conservative therapy for young children suggested.(Brief Article)
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "As a support for the guidelines published in 2001, a review of the literature was carried out using the evidence-based approach in order to update the state of the art regarding epidemiology and...

Antibody-receptor complexes mediate intracellular neutralization of pathogens.
February 10, 2003... 2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from the United States, "IgA, IgG and IgM are transported across epithelial cells in a receptor-mediated process known as transcytosis. "In addition to neutralizing pathogens...