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2006-05-11 07:43:43
A D V E R T I S E M E N TSenator Clinton called the Enzi health bill, which would let small companies band together to buy health insurance across state lines at a good price, "a bait and switch for small businesses," and claimed it would provide employees with "no guarantee that the benefits available to you initially" would be there later.In response to a question from The New York Sun, Mrs. Clinton said that a Democratic health plan would provide the economies of scale Senator Enzi's bill en ...
2006-05-11 09:30:49
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2006-05-11 10:09:43
... story about the causes behind an alleged rise in impotence among college students.Salon:There was a story in the Washington Post on Sunday about a problem apparently facing a lot of men on college campuses: They're having a hard time getting hard. This isn't the first time I've heard reports of this in recent years, mostly from young women who assume, as I have assumed, that it's one of the costs of living in a world with antidepressants. Those sexual side effects are no joke. Then, of course, there is the rise in campus binge drinking, which ...
2006-05-11 19:31:40
Thu May 11, 3:31 PM ET SAO PAULO (AFP) - A Brazilian court authorized the open production and sale of medications to treat erectile dysfunction in men, loosening Viagra's firm grip on the market, officials said. ADVERTISEMENT A Sao Paulo court issued the ruling after being asked by the National Intellectual Property Institute to review the matter. The decision protects Viagra maker Pfizer's patent on the impotence drug as well as its key component, an inhibitor of the PDE55 enzyme that underlie ...
2006-05-11 19:31:40
Thu May 11, 3:31 PM ET SAO PAULO (AFP) - A Brazilian court authorized the open production and sale of medications to treat erectile dysfunction in men, loosening Viagra's firm grip on the market, officials said. ADVERTISEMENT A Sao Paulo court issued the ruling after being asked by the National Intellectual Property Institute to review the matter. The decision protects Viagra maker Pfizer's patent on the impotence drug as well as its key component, an inhibitor of the PDE55 enzyme that underlie ...
2006-05-11 21:01:19
How to ration vaccine in a flu pandemicGive younger, healthier people priority, experts urgeRELATEDBaby in Djibouti has bird fluHEALTH LIBRARYColds and fluSPECIAL REPORT Season tempered by bird flu fears The animal connection Interactive:Flu 101 Interactive:Superflu creation Gallery:The cold facts Special ReportYOUR E-MAIL ALERTS National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health Flu Season or Create Your OwnManage Alerts | What Is This?WASHINGTON (AP) -- Who should get the first flu vaccine du ...
2006-05-11 23:10:00
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2006-05-11 23:19:00
According to researchers in the U.S. the cancer drug Gleevec (imatinib), which has dramatically improved survival prospects for some cancer patients, can interfere with bone development. Gleevec is the treatment of choice for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST).Gleevec is considered to be a well tolerated drug, however, side effects do occur, including a variety of skin reactions in approximately 10% of patients, joint effusions, hypopigmentat ...
2006-05-11 23:24:00
Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who have been imprisoned in a Libyan jail since 1999 on spurious charges of deliberately infecting more than 400 children with the HIV virus, have had their request to be released on bail rejected.The group were initially sentenced to death in 2004 but a new trial at Libya's supreme court, was ordered last year after it overturned the death sentences given to the six health workers.Presiding judge, Mahmoud Hawisa, rejected the defence team's reques ...
2006-05-12 04:34:00
An imbalance in the lipid content of the liver appears to trigger the downward spiral that leads some with fatty liver disease to advance to full-blown liver failure, according to a new study in the May Cell Metabolism. Researchers at the University of Alberta, Edmonton found evidence in mice that a disproportionate ratio of two phospholipid constituents of cell membranes undermines membrane integrity and influences progression to the condition known as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis or NASH. Wha ...
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