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Wednesday,
19 November 2008
Federal Court Upholds Drug Privacy Law
By STEPHANIE SAUL A federal appeals court in Boston on Tuesday dealt a setback to the pharmaceutical industry and companies that collect prescription data for use in drug marketing.
(Source: New York Times) read more...
Wednesday,
19 November 2008
Workers anxieties grow as UTMB begins layoffs (w/video)
By HARVEY RICE Rosalind Johnson, a CT scan technician at John Sealy Hospital, has been living in a Galveston hotel since Ike damaged her home.
(Source: Houston Chronicle) read more...
Wednesday,
19 November 2008
Lean Cuisine recalls items
By S. Heather Duncan - hduncan@macon.com Some Lean Cuisine chicken meals have been recalled because they contain small pieces of hard plastic, according to a news release by the Georgia Department of Agriculture.
(Source: Macon Telegraph) read more...
Wednesday,
19 November 2008
Survey: many primary care doctors ready to scale back work or quit
Most primary care physicians feel they are working at maximum or have too much work, and nearly half plan to cut back on patient volume or quit their profession altogether, according to survey results from the Physicians Foundation.
(Source: Drug Topics Magazine) read more...
Wednesday,
19 November 2008
Genentechs Avastin Linked to Vein-Clotting Risk in Analysis
By John Lauerman Genentechs Avastin, widely prescribed for colon cancer and some lung tumors, was linked to significantly higher rates of vein clotting in an analysis of earlier studies.
(Source: San Jose Mercury News) read more...
Wednesday,
19 November 2008
Woman gets first trachea transplant without drugs
By Michael Kahn LONDON (Reuters) - A Colombian woman has received the worlds first tailor-made trachea transplant, grown by seeding a donor organ with her own stem cells to prevent her body rejecting it, an international research team...
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Wednesday,
19 November 2008
Herbal supplement Ginkgo doesnt stop Alzheimers
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The widely used herbal supplement Ginkgo biloba does not appear to prevent Alzheimers disease in healthy elderly people or those with mild cognitive impairment, US researchers said on Tuesday.
(Source: Reuters) read more...
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