Settlement talks between Pfizer and Nigerian officials broke down last weekend after members of the families of children left injured or dead following a Pfizer drug trial in the West African country more than a decade ago turned down a $10 million compensation offer from the pharmaceutical company.
About 200 Nigerian families who contend their children […]
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Ten years ago this month, erectile dysfunction — a once-whispered-about disorder — did more than just come out of the closet. ED, as it’s now known, began strutting across America’s television screens.Bob Dole started talking. Then the grandfatherly former senator stepped aside and NASCAR drivers took over. Then a middle-aged garage band soon crooned, “Viva […]
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Medicine is finally opening the bedroom door to women. When the male erectile dysfunction drug Viagra was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1998, many middle-aged men experienced a new lease on life, or at least on life in the bedroom.
The women who were their partners, however, were not included in this […]
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Anti-impotence drug Viagra has given a ‘new lease of life’ to a dog suffering from a heart condition.
Talisker, a three-year-old border collie, developed heart problems after contracting a lung infection.
This meant that whenever he got a little too excited, he would lose consciousness as his heart was not pumping blood fast enough.
Owner Lesley […]
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A regular, healthy menstrual cycle is a goodindicator of a woman’s reproductive health. If you have problems with yourperiod, see
your doctor.Here’s a list of warning signs that something may be wrong, provided bythe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:If you have no menstrual cycle by age 15, or within three years ofbreast development.If you […]
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A laboratory-engineered virus cansuccessfully slow the growth of two types of hard-to-treat pediatrictumors without
harming healthy tissue, a new study shows.The targeted viral therapy, dubbed rQT3, slowed neuroblastoma andperipheral nerve sheath tumors in mice, according to findings published inthe Feb. 15 issue of Cancer Research. It also resulted in longerlife spans in the mice compared with […]
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Published in the journal Radiology, the study showed that deep vein thrombosis (DVT) could be effectively treated by injecting or ?lacing? the clot with
a fibre-binding thrombolytic agent. The therapy was also found to reduce the risk of subsequent recurrence or bleeding.
?This treatment regimen is able to clear blood clots rapidly and safely, restoring blood flow […]
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A detailed understanding of the tunnel-and-gate mechanism, called an ion-channel protein, could lead to new drugs that could block the reproduction of
flu viruses inside host cells, the researchers said.
Some 500,000 people around the world die every year from seasonal Influenza A virus, which mutates slightly from one year to the next.
A virus is a sub-microscopic […]
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The hope is that it can stop people from falling back into a spiral of addiction if they have a relapse.
The most promising results so far have been with cocaine, but researchers hope it could also one day be used to cure addiction to methamphetamine, heroin and even cigarettes.
“The vaccine slowly decreases the amount of […]
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Our findings show high-dose methotrexate alone or in combination with other chemotherapy drugs is the most effective treatment available for primary central
nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL)? said study author Tracy Batchelor, MD, with the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston. PCNSL can be a potentially curable brain tumor or one in which there can be […]
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