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Monday, September 8th, 2008What types of prescription weight-loss medicines are available?
Prescription weight-loss medicines include diethylpropion (brand name: Tenuate), benzphetamine (brand name: Didrex), Phendimetrazine (brand name: Bontril), phentermine (brand name: Ionamin), mazindol (brand name: Mazanor), sibutramine (brand name: Meridia) and orlistat (brand name: Orlistat) works by keeping your body from digesting some of the fat that you eat. The [...]
Free Health News_Only 2 Donors Can Help Boy With Rare Blood
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 A young child with sickle-cell anemia has been found to have a blood type so rare that only two people in the entire nation have been identified as potential donors, according to his pediatrician and experts at the American Red Cross.
The 5-year-old boy [...]
Free Health News_Cholera kills 40 in northwest Uganda
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 About 40 people have been killed and other 200 affected by a serious cholera outbreak in Arua and Yumbe, northwestern Uganda, Radio Uganda reported Wednesday.
The government quoted Yumbe member of parliament (MP) Nusura Tiperu as saying that the situation in the two [...]
Free Health News_Scientists clone human stem cells from patients
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 South Korean scientists who cloned the first human embryo to use for research said on Thursday they have used the same technology to create batches of embryonic stem cells from nine patients.
Their study fulfills one of the basic promises of using cloning technology [...]
Free Health News_Fuzeon Is Cost-effective in Patients with Advanced HIV Infection
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Although the fusion inhibitor enfuvirtide (Fuzeon) is expensive, it appears that the increased costs can provide considerable gains in life expectancy (survival) in patients with advanced HIV infection, researchers report in the May 1st issue of the Journal of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromes.
Our study [...]
Free Health News_Steady Gains Made Against Digestive Cancers
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Researchers are fine-tuning chemotherapy regimens for cancers of the digestive tract, and new studies show the effort is paying off.
We have agents that are more interesting and more effective that we can include in the armamentarium, Dr. Norman Wolmark, chairman of the National [...]
Free Health News_Shattered Eyeglasses Putting Kids at Risk
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 One out of every five eyeglass-related injuries occurs in children aged 2 to 17 years, according to a new analysis of the more than 26,000 such injuries treated in U.S. emergency rooms in 2002 and 2003.
Researchers at the Columbus Children's Research Institute (CCRI), [...]
Free Health News_New Treatment Destroys Kidney Tumors
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 A minimally invasive technique that uses a heated needle to destroy malignancy is proving an effective, long-lasting treatment against kidney cancer in certain patients, researchers report.
Radiofrequency ablation uses heat created by electrical energy to destroy tumor tissue. The treatment is delivered through a [...]
