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Does St. John's Wort Interfere With The Contraceptive Abilities Of Birth Control Pills?
Sweden's Medical Products Agency has released a warning this week that St. John's wort, a
commonly used herbal remedy for depression and mood disorders, may block the contraceptive effects of birth control pills.
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Physicians Warn Of Nuclear Terrorist Threat
In the aftermath of September 11, the threat of nuclear terrorism is among the most real -- and most
dire -- of our country's current public health concerns, according to a report in the Feb. 8 issue of the British Medical Journal
(BMJ), which estimates that a Hiroshima-scale nuclear explosion on a ship in port in New York City would result in more than
250,000 deaths. more
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Neuroscientists Enable Injured Man To Walk Again
Thanks in part to neuroscience researchers in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas
for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock, a 43-year-old Arizona man is walking again after about a four-year struggle to
regain mobility in his legs. He suffered an incomplete spinal cord injury, became quadriplegic and wheelchair-dependent, and
could stand but not walk. more
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Russia's HIV Epidemic: 100,000 Of The Country's 180,000 HIV Cases Reported Last Year
Russia's top HIV/AIDS official said in an interview published today that he fears his country will soon
be the center of the disease's worst epidemic ever, but that the Russian public is still largely ignoring the risk. more
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A Question Of Safety: Why Drugs Get Pulled From The Market
The FDA's mission is making sure that drugs are "safe and effective." So what does "safe" really mean?
When it comes to any drug, "safe" means that the benefits of the drug outweigh the risks for the population the drug is intended
to treat and for its intended use. more
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