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Medication Effective In Treating Anxiety Disorders In Children and Adolescents
A multi-site study to evaluate treatments for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), found that a medication was more than twice as effective as the placebo, or sugar pill. The research trial, which cost $1.7 million, involved 128 children and adolescents ages 6 to 17 over a period of eight weeks. Symptoms improved in 76 percent of those randomly assigned to take the medication, compared to only 29 percent of those in the placebo group. The study, "Fluvoxamine For The Treatment Of Anxiety Disorders In Children And Adolescents," appears in the 25 April 2001 issue of the the New England Journal of Medicine. more
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Analyzing Milk Duct Cells Might Help Detect Breast Cancers That Mammograms Miss
An experimental technique that analyzes milk duct cells might one day be able to detect breast cancers that mammograms miss in younger women, according to preliminary research. Nearly all breast cancers start in the milk ducts. The method, which involves flushing the ducts to dislodge cells by injecting saline solution through the nipples and drawing it back out again, is described this week in The Lancet medical journal. more
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Depleted Uranium: Sources, Exposure And Health Effects
This scientific review on depleted uranium is part of the World Health Organization's (WHO's) ongoing process of assessment of possible health effects of exposure to chemical, physical and biological agents. Concerns about possible health consequences to populations residing in conflict areas where depleted uranium munitions were used have raised many important environmental health questions that are addressed in this monograph. more
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HIV Causing Tuberculosis Cases To Double In Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today warned that Tuberculosis (TB) cases in Africa will likely double over the next decade as a consequence of the increased spread of HIV and the under-funding of strategies effective in curing TB. more
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Warning By FDA And Canadian Food Inspection Agency Issued
FDA in conjunction with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning consumers not to consume a poisonous flowering perennial plant known as Aconitum carmichaelii "Arendsii", commonly called Autumn Monkshood. Valleybrook Gardens, Ltd., a Canadian nursery located in British Columbia is known to have distributed the plants with the incorrect labels to other nurseries in British Columbia, Washington State and Idaho, but full distribution is not known at this time. The packages were mistakenly labeled with the statement, “All parts of this plant are tasty in soup,” instead of indicating that the plant is poisonous. more
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