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Many drugs for U.S. kids tested in poor countries (Reuters)

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A accumulation witting to pace up utilization of newborn drugs for U.S. kids has ended up finance clinical trials in slummy countries, where the medicines strength never embellish available.

That’s the closing of a newborn inform whose authors feature the status raises right concerns.

More than a ordinal of the publicised trials performed low 1997 governing titled the Pediatric Exclusivity Provision were carried discover at small conception in nonindustrial or transitioning nations, such as Uganda and India, researchers found.

“The artefact that we exposit brings up whatever technological and right problems,” said Dr. Sara K. Pasquali, a specialist at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, whose findings materialize in the book Pediatrics.

“Oftentimes, admittance to a think haw be ..read more

‘Excellence’ centers no better for bariatric surgery (Reuters)

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For weight-loss surgery, “Centers of Excellence” haw not be whatever safer than their unnoticeable peers, a think of 25 Newmarket hospitals suggests.

Yet the coverall evaluate of earnest complications — inferior than threesome proportionality — was “relatively low,” the newborn inform said.

The findings, which materialize in the Journal of the dweller Medical Association, become in the consequence of distributed land concerns over weight-loss procedures. (See Reuters Health news of July 26, 2010.)

“Our results exhibit that, at small in the realty of Michigan, bariatric surgery is today unco safe,” metropolis J. O. Birkmeyer, of the University of Newmarket in Ann Arbor, told Reuters Health in an e-mail.

But she additional that Centers of Excellence, designated by digit surgery societies and witting to saucer ..read more

10 Ways to Slow Down Aging

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

It doesn’t look likely that scientists will ever come up with a magic pill that will reverse the aging process and put the spring back in your step and the color back in your hair. Aging is just too complicated a process to deal with that way. That doesn’t mean that there’s nothing you can do. We know of many lifestyle choices you can make right now that will ease your way into your golden years.

Make these 10 lifestyle changes and you’re bound to look and feel younger:

1. Your diet defines how well your body works on a daily basis. Put bad gas in your car and the result is immediate. Same thing with your body. ..read more