The first national guidelines telling doctors, nurses and others how to inform patients they have suffered harm while receiving medical treatment are to be released Tuesday, though there is a sticking point over how %26#8211; or even whether %26#8211; to use the word %26#8220;sorry.%26#8221;
The Canadian Patient Safety Institute guidelines, to be released Tuesday at [...]
The human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS attacks immune system cells. Like other viruses, it cannot replicate on its own but must hijack a cell and turn it into a virus factory. HIV must evade several genes to do this, including an immunity gene called HLA.
Some people have versions of the HLA gene that are [...]
Feb. 29 (Bloomberg) — Wyeth, maker of the worlds best-
selling antidepressant Effexor, won U.S. approval to sell
Pristiq, a quicker-acting remedy.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the pill, derived
from Effexor, to treat [...]
Feb. 29 (Bloomberg) — Chikungunya, the tropical disease
that spread to Europe from Asia last year, may have turned
deadly, according to scientists who studied an outbreak that
infected about 1.4 million people in India.
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Jennifer Walmsley’s headache was so severe it felt like her head was being squeezed by a vise-like grip. Even the unusually hectic day of Oct. 10, 2007 - the Ontario election - could not be blamed for the constituency assistant’s pain.
Finding it difficult to open her eyes, the 52-year-old went to [...]
WASHINGTON %26#151; A new panel of tests aimed at finding out how drugs may damage cells has turned up a series of interactions that may explain some of the serious side-effects of statin drugs, researchers said on Sunday.
Statins, the wildly popular cholesterol-lowering drugs, may interact with at least one blood [...]
Admitting that they couldn’t create a baby together was painful enough. But finding an Indian woman willing to donate her eggs — someone from their own culture — proved agonizingly difficult. “I was very upset, thinking we can’t fail at this too,” Rajiv said [...]
They said as many as half of all patients with sickle cell disease could be helped by hydroxyurea, but no more than 3 per cent to 5 per cent are likely using the drug.
A shortage of doctors specializing in sickle cell disease, along with a batch of rumours about the drugs safety, worsens the problem, [...]
In a report based on data from 81 countries, the WHO estimated nearly half a million people a year worldwide become infected with a form of TB resistant to two or more of the primary drugs used to treat it. That number accounts for about 5 per cent of the 9 million new TB cases [...]
The university was expected to announce whether Sampson would keep his job after an investigation that concluded he committed five major NCAA recruiting violations, but officials offered no timetable.
Athletic director Rick Greenspan met briefly with Sampson Friday morning. A few minutes after Greenspan left the coach’s office, [...]
