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Avian influenza A(H5N1) in humans - update
A new vaccine, made with several proteins from the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), will soon enter the first phase of human safety testing. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has supported research on the candidate vaccine from its earliest stages. more
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Review of probable and laboratory-confirmed SARS cases in southern China
Health authorities in China announced a second laboratory-confirmed case of SARS in the southern province of Guangdong on 17 January 2004. The patient, a 20-year-old female waitress, has fully recovered and has been discharged from hospital. None of her known contacts have shown any signs or symptoms suggestive of SARS and the observation period has now ended. Two laboratories in the WHO SARS Reference and Verification Laboratory Network verified the test results. WHO now considers this individual to be a confirmed case of SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) infection.
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Bird flu spreads; U.N. Agencies call for rapid containment
As governments throughout Asia scrambled to contain a deadly outbreak of bird flu, Thai authorities confirmed today that the second boy to have been stricken with the disease has died, becoming the country's second fatality and the region's eighth.
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Eight dead in Colombia's yellow fever outbreak
Colombia is scrambling to control an outbreak of yellow fever along its popular Caribbean coast that has killed eight people and infected 27 more, Reuters reported yesterday.
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Recent FDA/U.S. customs import blitz exams continue to reveal potentially dangerous illegally imported drug shipments
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) agency today announced that their second series of import blitz
examinations found 1,728 unapproved drugs, including so-called "foreign
versions" of FDA-approved drugs, recalled drugs, drugs requiring special
storage conditions, drugs requiring close physician monitoring and drugs containing
addictive controlled substances. more
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For leg-bypass patients, drugs can save lives and limbs, but many patients go without them
The same drugs that help millions of heart patients can also aid people who have painful blockages in the blood vessels of their legs, new research from the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center shows.
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High cholesterol predicts lower mortality in dialysis patients
Kidney dialysis patients with higher cholesterol levels die at a lower rate than those with lower cholesterol levels, which is opposite of the general public. However, a study by researchers at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health determined that the lower mortality rate of those with higher cholesterol is likely due to the cholesterol-lowering effects of inflammation and malnutrition, two serious complications of kidney dialysis, and not a benefit of high cholesterol. more
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