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SF Gate
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Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading even faster than medical experts had feared, the World Health Organization warned in report issued Tuesday. The rate of TB patients infected with the drug-resistant strain topped 20 percent in some countries, the h..
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BBC News
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New generation anti-depressants have little clinical benefit for most patients, research suggests.
A University of Hull team concluded the drugs actively help only a small group of the most severely depressed.
Marjorie Wallace, head of the mental he..
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SF Gate
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A new study gives the strongest evidence yet that obesity surgery can cure diabetes.
Patients who had surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs were five times more likely to see their diabetes disappear over the next two years than were patients wh..
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New York Times
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Americans are increasingly frustrated about the subpar performance of this country’s fragmented health care system, and with good reason. A new survey of patients in seven industrialized nations underscores just how badly sick Americans fare compared wi..
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Science Daily
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With the latest advances in treatment, doctors have discovered that they can successfully neutralise the HIV virus. The so-called ‘combination therapy’ prevents the HIV virus from mutating and spreading, allowing patients to rebuild their immune syste..
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SF Gate
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Patients seeking an appointment with a dermatologist to ask about a potentially cancerous mole have to wait substantially longer than those seeking Botox for wrinkles, a study published online on Tuesday by the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatolo..
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BBC News
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Diabetes patients may soon be able to take a pill to control their condition instead of repeated injections.
UK company Diabetology, with experts at Cardiff University, says it has solved a crucial problem with oral insulin.
The capsule's special co..
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CNN
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People who took a Sanofi-Aventis SA obesity pill in clinical trials were more likely to report suicidal thoughts or actions, drug reviewers said in an analysis released Monday.
Food and Drug Administration staff also said a 20-milligram dose of the dru..
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FOX News
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For the first time, doctors say they have found a pill that improves survival in liver cancer, a notoriously hard to treat disease diagnosed in more than half a million people globally each year.
The results in a multinational study of 602 patients wit..
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Toronto Star
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Health outcomes for patients in Canada are as good as or better than in the United States, even though per capita spending is higher south of the border, suggest Canadian and U.S. researchers who crunched data from 38 studies.
The findings were publish..
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Sydney Morning Herald
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A new category of drugs has shown promising results for HIV/AIDS patients who failed to respond to other treatments, a new study shows.
Especially when combined with other medications, raltegravir - the first in a new class of anti-retroviral drugs cal..
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CNN
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A drug used by several thousand patients with Parkinson's disease is being pulled from the market because of reports of heart valve damage.
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that pergolide, sold under the name Permax and also in generic ve..
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SF Gate
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A federal appeals court upheld the U.S. government's authority Wednesday to prosecute medical marijuana patients in California, but left open the possibility that a gravely ill patient could defend against criminal charges by showing that marijuana was he..
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Physorg
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AIDS researchers said a new drug shows promise for inhibiting the HIV virus in patients new to treatment or those currently taking a drug cocktail...
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BusinessWeek
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German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim didn't set out to create a Viagra-like drug for women. The company was simply trying to develop a fast-acting antidepressant, one that patients would respond to in a matter of days, not weeks as in most current treat..
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EurekAlert
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For years researchers have been trying to understand how a few HIV-infected patients naturally defeat a virus that otherwise overwhelms the immune system. Last year, a research team at the University of Rochester Medical Center confirmed that such patient..
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MSNBC
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Breast cancer patients with low levels of vitamin D were much more likely to die of the disease or have it spread than patients getting enough of the nutrient, a study found — adding to evidence the "sunshine vitamin'' has anti-cancer benefits.
The r..
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MSNBC
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Dr. Howard Stark's office is quiet. Very quiet. No patients sit in his waiting room. No receptionist answers the telephone. Stark does not have a receptionist.
Instead, he and his assistant Michele Norris-Bell check e-mail alerts on handheld devices an..
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MSNBC
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Troubling cases in which doctors were accused of botching operations while undergoing treatment for drugs or alcohol have led to criticism of rehab programs that allow thousands of U.S. physicians to keep their addictions hidden from their patients.
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MSNBC
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A federal patient privacy rule has had a chilling effect on medical research, making it tougher to recruit patients and use their health records, the first national survey on the topic suggests.
Two-thirds of the more than 1,500 epidemiologists surveye..
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