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• FDA Panel Upholds Anemia Drugs' Benefits (Thursday, March 13, 2008)
  Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said anemia drugs sold by Amgen Inc. and Johnson & Johnson should only be used by a limited number of chemotherapy patients...>>More
• Senate Panel Acts on AIDS Bill (Thursday, March 13, 2008)
  The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday approved the spending of $50 billion over the next five years to combat the health crises posed by AIDS and other diseases in Africa and elsewhere in the world...>>More
• Dementia Diagnosis May Relieve Patients (Thursday, March 13, 2008)
  Doctors often hesitate to tell patients they likely suffer from Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia, fearing the news will overwhelm them...>>More
• US Syphilis Up for Seventh Straight Year (Thursday, March 13, 2008)
  U.S. syphilis cases climbed for the seventh straight year in 2007, and increases in the disease among gay men and blacks largely contributed, government researchers reported Wednesday...>>More
• Monitors Don't Stop Patients From Waking (Thursday, March 13, 2008)
  Patients say it feels like being trapped in a corpse: They wake up during surgery, unable to move or scream. Some remember hearing their surgeons talk, and a few recall feeling intense pain...>>More
• Report: Woman, Cat Shared Staph Bug (Thursday, March 13, 2008)
  People struggling to get rid of recurrent staph infections might want to consider an often-overlooked source: the family pet. A German woman repeatedly battled the same strain of drug-resistant superbug MRSA until her cat was tested and treated. It's...>>More
• Report Cites Pollution Health Issues (Wednesday, March 12, 2008)
  Under pressure from Congress, the government released a controversial draft report Wednesday that suggests pollution is causing health problems in some parts of the Great Lakes states, including cancer and premature births...>>More
• Syphilis Up in US for 7th Straight Year (Wednesday, March 12, 2008)
  U.S. syphilis cases climbed for the seventh straight year in 2007, and increases in the disease among gay men and blacks largely contributed, government researchers reported Wednesday...>>More
• FDA Panel Favors Amgen Platelet Drug (Wednesday, March 12, 2008)
  A panel of government experts recommended approval for Amgen Inc.'s experimental biotech drug to treat a blood-clotting disorder...>>More
• Hong Kong Closes Schools Due to Flu (Wednesday, March 12, 2008)
  Hong Kong government orders all kindergartens and primary schools to be closed for two weeks amid flu outbreak...>>More