Archive for the Internal Medicine Category
By GARDINER HARRIS
The New York Times
WASHINGTON (March 2) Federal drug regulators have started a broad review of the safety of popular cough and cold remedies meant for children, a top official said Thursday.
Concerns About Cold Remedies
Craig Mitchelldyer, Getty ImagesCold medicines line a pharmacy shelf. The government review began after doctors and health officials demanded that drug makers be stopped from marketing certain remedies for chil.. Read More
Internal Medicine | 03.2.07
Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:14pm ET
Science News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Smoking causes long-lasting changes in the brain similar to changes seen in animals when they are given cocaine, heroin and other addictive drugs, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
A study of the brain tissue of smokers and nonsmokers who had died showed that smokers had the changes, even if they had quit years before, the team at the National Institute on Drug Abuse reported.
"The da.. Read More
Internal Medicine | 02.21.07
Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press
Feb. 2, 2007 — Making a small change in the outer coating of the lethal 1918 flu virus was enough to stop it from spreading, a discovery that may help scientists monitor today's bird flu and other influenza strains for signs of the next pandemic.
The 1918 pandemic was triggered by a bird virus that mutated into one that could attack humans, going on to kill a staggering 50 million people worldwide in a mat.. Read More
Internal Medicine | 02.6.07
by MALCOLM KENDRICK
Conventional medical wisdom about cholesterol and the role of statins is now being challenged by a small, but growing number of health professionals. Among them is Dr Malcolm Kendrick. A GP for 25 years, he has also worked with the European Society of Cardiology, and writes for leading medical magazines:
When it comes to heart disease, we have been sold a pup. A rather large pup.
Actually, it's more of a full-grown blue whale... Read More
Internal Medicine | 01.24.07
By H. GILBERT WELCH, LISA SCHWARTZ and STEVEN WOLOSHIN
Published: January 2, 2007
For most Americans, the biggest health threat is not avian flu, West Nile or mad cow disease. It’s our health-care system.
You might think this is because doctors make mistakes (we do make mistakes). But you can’t be a victim of medical error if you are not in the system. The larger threat posed by American medicine is that more and more of us are being .. Read More
Internal Medicine | 01.4.07
Government urges prevention to ward off full-blown epidemicThe Associated
Press
Updated: 2:33 p.m. ET April 29, 2004WASHINGTON - Millions more Americans
than previously thought have signs of what could later turn into diabetes,
the government says
Doubling previous figures, the government estimates that 41 million
Americans have pre-diabetes blood sugar high enough to dramatically
increase their risk of getting the full-blown disease.
The.. Read More
Internal Medicine | 05.27.06
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