Where Can I Find Health and Medicine News?
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What websites have health and medicine news such as new drugs,new treatments, new discoveries etc..
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www.naturalnews.com
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Worries Grow About Treating Gonorrhea – This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Each year an estimated one hundred six million people get infected with gonorrhea. This sexually transmitted disease is getting harder and harder to treat. The World Health Organization says gonorrhea is increasingly resistant to antibiotics. The WHO warns that there are few treatment options available, and that the world is running out of ways to cure it. Manjula Lusti-Narasimhan is a scientist at the WHO. She explains what could happen if this bacterial disease becomes untreatable: For men and women of reproductive age, they could become infertile. For women who are pregnant, they could have ectopic pregnancies or spontaneous abortions that could increase maternal deaths. And for infants born to these women with untreated gonorrhea, over half of them develop severe eye infections which can lead to blindness. Gonorrhea is one of four major sexually transmitted infections that can be cured. The other three are chlamydial infection, syphilis and chancroid. But the organism that causes gonococcal infections has developed resistance to almost every class of antibiotic that exists. Resistance is caused by the overuse of antibiotics and the use of poor quality antibiotics. It also results from natural genetic changes, or mutations, within disease organisms. The WHO says it does not know the extent of the resistance worldwide. This is because of a lack of good information in many countries and a …
Epilepsy Drug Shows Promise as Weight-Loss Aid, Study Says
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… Oct. 15 (HealthDay News) — A prescription medication originally developed to treat epilepsy may help obese adults shed weight when combined with routine nutritional counseling, researchers say. Patients who took 400 milligrams of the anti-seizure …
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Onyx Pharmaceuticals fills up Phase III test of myeloma drug
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave accelerated approval of use of the drug to treat people with multiple myeloma in July. It's injected into patients who've gotten at least two other types of treatment. This Phase III test, called FOCUS, is …
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Task force works to address rise in drug-dependent babies
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The Substance Exposed Newborn Task Force is distributing about 900 guides for caring for drug-exposed infants. It has also developed a standardized form that will assist physicians in treating pregnant mothers addicted to powerful painkillers such as …
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