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Archive for November, 2007
Nov
30
Oxygen Suppliers Fight to Keep a Medicare Boon
Medicare spends billions of dollars each year on products and services that are available at far lower prices, according to a New York Times analysis of federal data.
Nov
30
Putting on Weight for Football Glory
Weight problems among high school football players have far outpaced those of other male children and adolescents, according to two recent medical studies.
Nov
30
Botched Surgeries Lead to Inquiry
The chief of the neurosurgery department at Rhode Island Hospital has stepped aside while officials investigate three incidents in which surgeons operated on the wrong side of a patient’s head.
Nov
30
From Smoking Boom, a Major Killer of Women
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which is usually caused by smoking, has become a major killer in women.
Nov
30
Drop in Sales of a Drug Leads to a Write-Down
Johnson & Johnson said last night that it would record a $440 million write-down to account for declining revenue from its heart-failure infusion treatment, Natrecor.
Nov
30
We Can! Program Takes Aim at Childhood Obesity
The national partnership wants to create a healthier America
Nov
30
FDA Mulls Cutting Salt in Processed Foods
Experts agree Americans eat too much sodium, but differ on need for
regulation
Nov
30
Wider nutrition labeling systems headed to stores in U.S.
A new system for scoring the nutritional value of foods will find
its way to grocery store shelves next year, the latest attempt to
come up with a standard way to make healthier food choices.
Nov
30
Drug maker packs red-wine-like compound in pill
New compounds that act like the red wine ingredient resveratrol may
offer a new formula for type 2 diabetes drugs and other age-related
diseases, researchers at U.S. drug maker Sirtris Pharmaceuticals
said on Wednesday.