Archive for December, 2005

Men's Fitness - According to a new University of Alabama report, eating vitamin-D-fortified foods like milk and cereal when you're young may reduce your risk of developing
April 1, 2004 — According to a new University of Alabama report, eating vitamin-D-fortified foods like milk and cereal when you're young may reduce your risk of developing …

Healthcare Purchasing News - FDA supports rheumatoid arthritis drug, one-shot vaccine and inhaled form of insulin
October 1, 2005 — A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee has backed a proposed treatment for a new drug, Orencia, to treat rheumatoid arthritis, from Bristol-Myers …

Holiday signifies life’s battles 
Syracuse.com - Dec 17 3:04 AM
7Sherman The genius of the Jewish holiday is such, it can be understood on a variety of levels. There is the historical significance, putting it in yesterday’s context, affirming or celebrating something significant in the collective memory of Jewish peoplehood.Save to My Web

Hypnosis may provide clues of brain function 
Houston Chronicle - Dec 15 10:45 PM
Hypnosis, with its long and checkered history in medicine and entertainment, is receiving some new respect from neuroscientists.Save to My Web

Facing up to the hard questions 
Sydney Morning Herald - Dec 15 4:55 AM
It was a startling feat of medicine, the world’s first partial face transplant. But many doctors are worried, write Craig S. Smith and Lawrence K. Altman. -Save to My Web

Mind/Body 
Philadelphia City Paper - Dec 14 5:18 PM
ACUPUNTURE AND HERBAL HEALING Experience Chinese herbal medicines and acupunture healing. Every Mon, Thu, Fri & Sat, Wellpoint Oriental Medicine, 255 S. 17th St., 215-200-6200.Save to My Web

Women Are Not More of a Pain But They Are More Sensitive To Pain Than Men 
[Press Release] PR Web via Yahoo! News - Dec 16 4:00 AM
(PRWEB) December 16, 2005 — For centuries, it has been generally believed women are the more sensitive gender. A new study says that, when it comes to pain, women are in fact more sensitive. According to a report published in Octobers Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery , the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), women have more nerve receptors, which Save to My Web

US panel limits support for Merck shingles vaccine 
AlertNet - Dec 15 3:21 PM
BETHESDA, Md., Dec 15 (Reuters) - U.S. health experts on Thursday offered limited support for an experimental vaccine to help prevent shingles, a painful rash affecting about one million, mostly older, Americans each year.Save to My Web

Harris Methodist Fort Worth is all heart 
Fort Worth Business Press - Dec 16 9:01 PM
Offering an early and large-scale valentine of sorts to the community, Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital officials unveiled a $62 million heart center Dec. 7. Harris Methodist Heart Center , although not licensed as a separate hospital, is being referred to, at least informally, as Tarrant County s only dedicated heart hospital.Save to My Web

Canada says Bextra drug will not return to market 
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Dec 16 11:15 AM
Pfizer Inc.’s arthritis drug Bextra, which it voluntarily suspended in April, will not return to the Canadian market, the federal government said on Friday, as the company has been unable to demonstrate the safety of the medication.Save to My Web

Painkiller safety to be tested in new study 
The Toledo Blade - Dec 14 3:35 AM
CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Clinic will lead a major international study to learn whether painkillers taken by millions of Americans for arthritis are safe for those at risk of heart problems.Save to My Web

Finger-lickin’ good 
San Jose Mercury News - Dec 16 3:17 AM
There are thousands of boy-meets-girl songs in rock ‘n’ roll. Boy-wrestles-bear songs, on the other hand, are in short supply. That’s where Southern Culture on the Skids comes in. The North Carolina trio’s mission, it appears, is to tell curious tales that might otherwise be omitted from popular music. Over the years, the band has created such songs as the love ode to fried chicken “Eight Piece Save to My Web

Australians launch Vioxx class action 
ABC via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News - Dec 14 3:13 PM
More than 400 Australians have launched a class action for personal damages from the manufacturers of the anti-arthritis drug, Vioxx.Save to My Web

Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 16, 2005 
HealthDay via Yahoo! News - Dec 16 1:02 PM
(HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:Save to My Web

Welcome to the Langley Advance- About the Advance and the Market 
Langley AdvanceNews - Dec 16 1:49 PM
The Langley Advance is the longest established newspaper in both the City and Township of Langley. Established in 1931, the Langley Advance has the highest circulation of any community newspaper serving the area.Save to My Web

Air Marshal Kills Man Who Made Bomb Claim
ABCNEWS.com - By JOHN PAIN The Associated Press MIAMI - An agitated passenger who claimed to have a bomb in mentally ill and had not taken his medication. The passenger, identified as

Merck Refills its Prescription
Red Herring - It also plans to swallow a bitter pill to treat its own fiscal ailments.:namespace prefix = o ns = ‘urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office’ /> Facing an expanding series of lawsuits over its Vioxx pain medication, Mr. as did Pfizer with its pain treatment Bextra (see Pfizer Yanks Bextra

La Crosse County Circuit Court
Online La Crosse Tribune - was caught trying to use a forged prescription to purchase prescription pain medication from a La Crosse pharmacy.

Mario Lemieux Released From Hospital
ABCNEWS.com - atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat that can be treated with medication and should not affect his career 1990-91 Stanley Cup championship season with severe lower back pain.

Hectic Holidays Bring Health Hazards
ABCNEWS.com - Holiday stress can cause chest pain and trigger heart attacks Travel can boost stress levels, cause lapses in medication schedules, and delays in seeking care.

Global Analysis of Diabetes Products, Technologies and Markets Reveals Many Opportunities for Device, Drug and
PRWeb - share to newcomers, and while the diabetes medication market has previously been slow to adopt new achieving their potential in solving the need for relatively pain-free sampling

There are other options for men besides Viagra
Daily Press, VA - Dec 14, 2005 The needle is so small (like those used for insulin) that it causes very little discomfort. There can be pain from the medication, however.

Care for companions
Greenfield Daily Reporter,  USA - Dec 2, 2005 Those options, including pre-operative blood work, pain medication and IV catheterization, are often cost-prohibitive. Many families

Authorities charge Cape woman in theft of pain medication
Southeast Missourian, MO - Dec 12, 2005 She was out on bond awaiting the sentencing hearing. "We have seven instances where we have taken reports" about similar medication thefts, Selzer said.

Report slams Katrina response
Leesville Daily Leader, LA - Dec 12, 2005 But the report, based on accounts by physicians sent to New Orleans, said urgent requests for pain medication, IV lines, catheters, and other equipment

PENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY'S BURNED CAT UP FOR ADOPTION
CBS 5, CA - Dec 12, 2005 reported. Under the care of the PHS/SPCA Tess has undergone surgery, received pain medication and antibiotics to heal her wounds. "She's

'Exhausted' Colin Farrell Undergoes Drug Treatment
andPOP, Canada - 15 hours ago Farrell's publicist announced that he is being treated for a dependency to prescription medication. He got hooked on pain pills after suffering a back injury

Medical pot veto attacked
Pawtucket Times, RI - 22 hours ago This allows me one more medication that I can provide to my patients.". "It shouldn t be a crime for me not to live my life in pain," said Warren Dolbashain

Check the pantry, not the medicine cabinet
El Paso Times, TX - Dec 12, 2005 Your first inclination might be to head for the medicine chest when confronted with one of then rub the cooled, wet tea bag on a canker sore to ease the pain.

Test Predicts Death From Sickle Cell
WebMD - 3 hours ago the vascular medicine branch, NHLBI and critical care medicine department, National shortness of breath with minimal exertion, fatigue, chest pain, dizzy spells

Animals get alternative medicine
Los Angeles Daily News, CA - Dec 12, 2005 to relieve the pain. "There are times that she stands still for one half-hour all hunched over because she can't move," Jones said. Eastern medicine, with its

Medi-pot activists are mad as hell
San Diego CityBEAT, CA - 8 hours ago They re not going to get medicine. Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that causes pain in muscles, ligaments and tendons and affects mostly women.

There are other options for men besides Viagra
Daily Press, VA - 19 hours ago If injections are too intimidating, you can get the same medicine in MUSE. A: Diphenhydramine (the "PM" in Tylenol PM and other nighttime pain relievers) is

Book Excerpt: Chronic Musculoskeletal Diseases
TheHorse.com, KY - 13 hours ago Note: This is an excerpt from Understanding Equine Preventive Medicine by Bradford G of analgesic medications such as NSAIDs to help control pain when it is at

Merck denies omitting info on Vioxx study
CTV.ca - Vioxx compared to naproxen, a generic pain relief medication against which Vioxx was being compared Vioxx, prescribed primarily for arthritis pain relief, was pulled from the market

Hypnosis offers a new approach to managing pain during labor
Lawrence Journal-World - But some are also concentrating hard on imagining a light switch in the back of the mother’s neck, so she can hypnotically "switch off" any sensations of pain she might feel when the baby comes. as an alternative to epidurals, pain medication or relaxation-and-breathing techniques

Mario Lemieux Released From Hospital
AP via Newsday - fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat that can be treated with medication and should not affect his career Cup championship season with severe lower back pain. After retiring for 3

Marijuana derivatives may provide MS treatment
Reuters - study, 80 percent of subjects agreed to continue on the medication for up to 52 weeks other cannabinoids reported improvements in sleep and pain. Zajicek’s group concludes that

SARS survivors struggling for life in bone damage shadow
CHINAdaily - the medication. However, her health took a turn for the worse after she left the special hospital when unbearable pain soon diagnosed the pain as being bone

Win over Pakistan relieves Sandeep (CHAMPIONS DIARY)
Webindia123 - medication. ‘ I don’t know how I survived the Pakistan match,’ he said, looking his usual cheerful self. ‘ I took lots of pain

Allergic Headaches
NEWSWATCH 50 - forehead, cheeks, and behind the eyes. Sinus pain can range from dull to intense, often begins severe and sometimes don’t respond to pain medication. Migraines often are triggered

Colin Farrell checks into rehab 
Digital Spy - Dec 13 8:18 AM
Colin Farrell has checked himself into a rehab facility after becoming addicted to pain medication, his publicist Danica Smith has revealed.Save to My Web

Colin Farrell Seeks Drug Treatment 
E! Online via Yahoo! News - Dec 12 4:34 PM
The Hollywood hunk, known for his work-hard-play-harder attitude, is being treated for a dependency to prescription medication, publicist Danica Smith said Monday.Save to My Web

New Medication Helps Relieve Symptoms Associated With Asthma and Copd 
[Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Dec 12 8:25 PM
THIS IS A MULTIVU REPORT.Save to My Web

Medical pot veto attacked 
Pawtucket Times - Dec 13 12:20 AM
PROVIDENCE — Billboards are usually intended to spread a message to a broad array of people - the thousands or tens of thousands who drive past on a highway or other busy road, for instance.Save to My Web

Licensing need: Seeking opportunities for consumer healthcare products and molecules with Rx-to-OTC switch potential 
Pharmalicencing - 1 hour, 49 minutes ago
OTC products ready for registration or in late stage development and molecules with Rx-to-OTC switch potential.Save to My Web

Mossey: I’m Sorry, And I’m Starting Over 
The Omaha Channel - Dec 13 6:59 AM
Former state Sen. Ray Mossey talks about how prescription drugs took over his life, and how he plans to get back on track.Save to My Web

HEALTH’S A CONCERN FOR NETS 
New York Post via Yahoo! News - Dec 13 3:00 AM
If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.Save to My Web

Men’s Fitness - According to a new University of Alabama report, eating vitamin-D-fortified foods like milk and cereal when you’re young may reduce your risk of developing
April 1, 2004 — According to a new University of Alabama report, eating vitamin-D-fortified foods like milk and cereal when you’re young may reduce your risk of developing …

CHEST - Histopathologic pattern and clinical features of rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease
June 1, 2005 — Study objectives: To investigate the histopathologic pattern and clinical features of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)-associated interstitial …

Business Week - Another Ailing Miracle Drug
March 14, 2005 — When the immune system goes bad, it goes very, very bad. Some 80 known diseases are caused by out-of-control immune cells that attack the body’s own organs — among them multiple sclerosis, rheumato

Chemical Market Reporter - IMMUNEX Corp.(priority review status for arthritis treatment)(Brief Article)
September 24, 2001 — IMMUNEX Corp. and co-marketing partner American Home Products’ Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories have received FDA priority review status for Immunex’s supplemental …

Ebony - Arthritis - Health Hotline
July 1, 2003 — IT can strike suddenly and without warning. It is the leading cause of disability in the United States. Among African-Americans, arthritis is reported …

Drug Store News - SAB-Pharma - Supplier News - SAB-Pharma offers gold sodium thiomalate as rheumatoid arthritis treatment in the United States - Brief Article
November 3, 2003 — SAB-Pharma announced that its gold sodium thiomalate is available for treating select cases of active rheumatoid arthritis in adults and children. The …

Better Nutrition - Study spawns arthritis hope
June 1, 2005 — Evidence has long suggested that a diet high in oily fish such as salmon and mackerel may help improve inflammatory conditions such as arthritis. At …

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