April 21st, 2008 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
Washington — A postmortem of a mumps outbreak in 2006 — the nation’s largest in 20 years — is raising questions about the effectiveness of the vaccine.
Investigators who took a close look at the reasons behind the 6,584 cases of mumps that hit Midwestern states in March through May of 2006 found that a surprisingly large percentage of those who contracted the illness had received the recommended two doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.
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March 31st, 2008 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
Over a flauta and a chicken-spinach enchilada, Brandon Bolfing and Shahed “Sky” Izaddoost took a breather from their final year at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to celebrate their Match results with friends and family at a Mexican restaurant.
“This is the first place we went in medical school,” Bolfing said. “And it will be the last now that we’ve matched.”
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February 4th, 2008 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
Anthony Atkins, MD, a family physician working in the poverty-stricken neighborhoods of Lima, Ohio, wanted a way to reach the young African-American males who came to his office with bullet wounds and the 13-year-old girls arriving for prenatal care. He also wanted to find a way to reduce the number of adolescents he saw who had not just one sexually transmitted disease, but multiple types simultaneously.
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January 5th, 2008 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
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… but now he is breaking out with eczema all over again. Can soy do this? … Food Allergy Screening Quiz Results Preventing Food Allergies Classroom Triggers …
Understanding and Treating Eczema
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December 3rd, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
Two teams of scientists simultaneously announced they have reprogrammed human skin cells to obtain pluripotency, the characteristic hailed in embryonic stem cells as having the potential for therapeutic breakthroughs in areas ranging from Parkinson’s disease to diabetes.
Scientists in Japan and Wisconsin created the so-called induced pluripotent cells by introducing different combinations of genes into skin cells that are normally switched off after embryonic cells differentiate into various cell types. The results were published last month in Read the rest of this entry »
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November 30th, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
Tomorrow is World AIDS Day and instead of “barraging you with [another set of] statistics, gruesome photos, or heart-wrenching stories” (quote credit to Mr. Casnocaha), I want to alert you to something we prefer here - solutions, problem solving, technology, and creative thinking. Piya Sorcar, a doctoral student in Stanford’s Learning, Sciences & Technology Design program has used her considerable skills to figure out how to reach the minds of children in devleoping countries when it comes to HIV/AIDS education.
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November 24th, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
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transplants, liver transplants, heart transplants, pancreas and lung risk human papillomavirus (HPV) strains known to cause cervical cancer. A screening test s sensitivity is
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November 18th, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
An anti-psychotic drug already approved in the U.S. to treat adults and adolescents with schizophrenia may soon be available for youngsters age 10 to 17 years of age suffering from bipolar disorder.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given priority review status to the drug Abilify which is manufactured by Bristol-Myers Squibb and Otsuka Pharmaceutical.
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June 8th, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
SACRAMENTO—The Senate Health Committee today passed SB 1683, the Pharmaceutical Drug Right-to-Know Act. The bill, authored by Senator Jack Scott (Alta Dena) and sponsored by CALPIRG, would require drug companies to release the results of all their health studies for every drug sold in California.
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