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Antibiotics in Livestock: The FDA said it will ban the use of antibiotics called cephalosporins to prevent disease in livestock, though the drugs can still be used to treat illnesses in the animals, the WSJ reports. The agency — and other experts — are concerned that over- or misuse of the drugs can […]
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Earlier this year the WSJ reported on new research suggesting that a hormone gel can help certain women at risk of preterm birth and its subsequent complications. That study, by the National Institutes of Health, found that using a progesterone gel in women with a short cervix cut the rate of early preterm […]
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Katherine Hobson
Earlier this year the WSJ reported on new research suggesting that a hormone gel can help certain women at risk of preterm birth and its subsequent complications. That study, by the National Institutes of Health, found that using a progesterone gel in women with a short cervix cut the rate of early […]
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The goal is to be able to identify women at risk and intervene to prevent stillbirths.
Each year in the U.S. there are nearly as many stillbirths — defined as fetal death at 20 weeks of pregnancy or later — as there are infant deaths.
Answers to some of the questions about stillbirth are revealed […]
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Drug Hospitalizations: New research published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that blood thinners and diabetes drugs were among the medications most commonly linked to hospitalizations of adults aged 65 and up for adverse drug reactions and accidental overdoses, the WSJ reports. A study author tells the WSJ that dosages for […]
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Two More Deaths Recorded: The CDC says listeria-tainted cantaloupes from a Colorado farm have now sickened at least 116 people, killing 23 of them, CNN reports. The cantaloupes were recalled by Jensen Farms last month, but the infection can take up to two months to produce symptoms, which means the number of cases […]
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Babies born too soon face a host of obstacles, including immediate medical issues as well as longer-term physical and mental health problems.
A study just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association unearths another consequence: a higher chance of dying during young adulthood.
The study tracked 674,820 individuals born in Sweden in 1973 […]
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âNiche Blockbustersâ: Pfizerâs newly approved lung-cancer therapy crizotinib, to be sold under the brand name Xalkori, represents a relatively new tack for the pharma giant: a drug aimed at a small group of patients with a serious disease whom tests show will likely benefit from the treatment, the WSJ reports. Drug makers can […]
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By Timothy W. Martin
More flu shots than ever will be produced for the upcoming influenza season, as public-health officials keep trying to spur more Americans — particularly health-care workers and pregnant women – to get vaccinated.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on a media teleconference today that it expects about 166 […]
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Many parents-to-be are eager to know as soon as possible whether they’re expecting a boy or a girl. For a woman carrying a fetus that may be at risk of certain sex-linked disorders, though, the value of that information goes beyond knowing what color baby clothes to buy.
Invasive tests like chorionic villus sampling […]
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