Aventis offers free testing to recipients of recalled hepatitis A vaccine FRANKFURT, Germany (Reuters Health) – Aventis Pasteur MSD, the European vaccines joint venture set

מתוך medicontext.co.il NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Certain patients who are slightly overweight to moderately obese can safely have the equivalent of up to 17

מתוך medicontext.co.il By Suzanne Rostler NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Teenage vegetarians may be at greater risk of eating disorders and suicide than their meat-eating

מתוך medicontext.co.il NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In asthmatic patients, gastroesophageal reflux frequently causes coughing; rarely does coughing, through increased abdominal pressure, cause reflux of

מתוך medicontext.co.il LONDON (Reuters Health) – Aventis Pasteur MSD, the European vaccines joint venture set up by Merck and Aventis, announced the recall of all

מתוך meducontext.c.il WESTPORT, CT (Reuters Health) – The lifetime risk of severe duodenal lesions in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is nearly 100% once

מתוך medicontext.co.il WESTPORT, CT (Reuters Health) – An approach including ultrasonic measurement of fetal abdominal circumference allows avoidance of insulin therapy in certain women with

מתוך medicontext.co.il LONDON (Reuters Health) – Women who eat a traditional cooked breakfast or consume large quantities of hot tea appear to have an increased

מתוך medicontext.co.il WESTPORT, CT (Reuters Health) – Low plasma levels of selenium are associated with a four- to fivefold increase in the risk of prostate

מתוך medicontext.co.il By Desmond Teo SINGAPORE (Reuters Health) – An Asia-Pacific study has shown that tamoxifen does not prolong survival in patients with liver cancer,

מתוך medicontext.co.il LONDON (Reuters Health) – High dose balsalazide therapy is superior to low dose balsalazide or mesalazine treatment in preventing ulcerative colitis relapses, according

מתוך medicontext.co.il WESTPORT, CT (Reuters Health) – A positive T-cell flow cytometry crossmatch (FCXM) is strongly predictive of acute allograft rejection (AR) in the month

NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) Nov 30 — Pharmacia Corporation has initiated PREVENT (PRospective EValuation of Dalteparin Efficacy for Prevention of VTE in Immobilized PatieNts Trial) to

NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) Nov 21 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers to immediately stop use of the product LipoKinetix, marketed

By Dulce Zamora New York (MedscapeWire) Nov 7 — Colon cancer screening is far more effective than aspirin in preventing development of the disease, according

By Ori Twersky WASHINGTON (Reuters Health) – Merck & Company Inc. said on Thursday that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved Invanz (ertapenem

מתוך medicontext.co.il WESTPORT, CT (Reuters Health) – Infection with Helicobacter pylori may increase the risk of developing larynx cancer, researchers from Turkey report. Dr. Erdinc

WESTPORT, CT (Reuters Health) – Previous study findings indicate that alpha-interferon therapy is beneficial for patients infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C

WESTPORT, CT (Reuters Health) – Ultrasound is useful in determining the number of lymph node metastases in patients with esophageal cancer, and thereby predicting patient

מתוך medicontext.co.il By Ori Twersky WASHINGTON (Reuters Health) – Pharmaceutical makers Pharmacia Corp. and Pfizer Inc. jointly announced on Monday that Pharmacia has received approval