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Breakthrough Isolaz Acne Therapy Featured In US

Aesthera Corporation’s Isolaz painless acne therapy has been featured, issue of U.S. News %26amp; World Report, a leading national weekly news magazine. The publication describes Isolaz acne therapy as %26quot;an advance against acne%26quot; and reports that the Isolaz is the first treatment device FDA cleared to treat comedonal and pustular acne, in addition to mild [...]

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Diabetes Patients Taking Exenatide See Improvements In Glycemic, Weight Control

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly and Company, and Alkermes announced results from a 52-week open-label clinical study that showed the durable efficacy of exenatide once weekly, a long-acting release formulation of exenatide. Patients taking exenatide once weekly over the course of one year sustained a similar improvement in glucose control [A1C: -2.0%+/-0.08; fasting plasma glucose (FPG) [...]

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AMA Lobbies for Changes to Health Care in New Hampshire

The American Medical Association (AMA) has been promoting a reform plan in the state of New Hampshire that it says would help improve the state’s health care system. Analysts are offering mixed reviews of the plan, with some calling it %26quot;a very good step%26quot; for the AMA and for New Hampshire, and others criticizing it [...]

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Health Savings Accounts Under Attack in Congress

Brian McManus of the Health Care Freedom Coalition and Dan Perrin of the HSA Coalition, both member organizations of Consumers for Health Care Choices, are mobilizing a defense of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) against a new threat in Congress. The threat is a proposed requirement, passed by the House of Representatives on April 15 but [...]

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Unions Retooling Message in Effort to Organize Nurses

Employers in health care have seen a significant increase in union efforts to organize nurses during the past few years. The national rate of unionization among nurses now exceeds 23 percent, whereas in 1998 it was less than 17 percent. Nationwide, unionization in health care fields is 14 percent. Nurses are a desirable source of [...]

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Bird Flu Prompts Huge Poultry Cull In Hong Kong

All poultry at the retail level are culled in Hong Kong as the H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in three more markets, Director of Agriculture, Fisheries %26amp; Conservation Cheung Siu-hing says. The order was given after positive samples were taken from Luen Wo Hui, Ap Lei Chau and Tuen Mun Yan Oi Markets. [...]

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Disease Outbreak Prevention Crucial In China Earthquake Aftermath

Preventing communicable disease outbreaks is the key public health issue now facing the People’s Republic of China in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck the country’s south-western region on 12 May. %26quot;The main needs now are water, sanitation and food. Ensuring supply of food and safe drinking water and trying to restore good sanitation [...]

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What Is New In Knee Replacement Surgery

Have there been advances in joint replacement surgery for the knee? Yes, indeed. There have been many advances in all surgical fields, joint replacements included. We’ve seen advances in surgical techniques, developments in implant design and technology, and improvements in the materials used to make artificial joints. I find it necessary to limit my surgical [...]

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Salmonella In Garden Birds Responsive To Antibiotics

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that Salmonella bacteria found in garden birds are sensitive to antibiotics, suggesting that the infection is unlike the bacteria found in livestock and humans. Salmonella is increasingly resistant to antibiotics and can sometimes go undetected in animals, which increases the risk of the infection being spread to [...]

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One In 10 UK Adults Has A Non-Earlobe Piercing

One in ten adults in England have had a piercing somewhere other than their ear lobe, with a quarter experiencing complications, and one in 100 piercings resulting in a hospital admission, according to a study published on bmjdotcom today. The study, carried out by public health doctors from the Health Protection Agency and the London [...]

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NeoRecormon Safe In Treating Anaemia In Cancer Patients

A new meta-analysis of all 12 prospective, randomised, controlled studies in 2,301 cancer patients shows that treating anaemia with NeoRecormon (epoetin beta) has no negative impact on survival, tumour progression or deaths caused by blood clots, when used within its approved indications. These encouraging results reported in the British Journal of Cancer, June 2008, showed [...]

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Golimumab Effective In Patients With Active Rheumatoid Arthritis

Findings presented for the first time from a novel, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 3 study showed that patients with moderately-to-severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who were previously treated with anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha agents, experienced significant improvements in signs and symptoms and physical function after receiving every four-week subcutaneous injections of golimumab (CNTO 148) 50 [...]

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