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Reuters - Leukemia patients may be able to avoid
developing resistance to the drug Gleevec through a
mathematical formula that predicts when they should receive an
immune-boosting vaccine, researchers said on Thursday.

AP - The federal Centers for Disease Control has recommended that some artificial turf athletic fields be tested for lead.

AP - Doctors have long suspected that people with herpes are more likely to catch HIV. So they thought that by treating herpes, they could also cut a person’s HIV risk. But a new study that tested this strategy found the assumption may have been wrong.

Reuters - New computing technologies and the
evolution of a “virtual man” to predict the effects of new
drugs before they enter clinical trials could transform the
fortunes of pharmaceutical research, a report said on Friday.

Reuters - A Massachusetts city is investigating an
apparent teenage “pregnancy pact” that has at least 17
high-school girls expecting babies, four times more than last
year, including many aged 16 or younger.

AP - Doctors who treat the kinds of knee and leg injuries that ended Tiger Woods’ victorious season have one word for his U.S. Open victory — remarkable.

Reuters - U.S. drug regulators are close to
allowing doctors to electronically prescribe potentially
abusive medications like painkillers, rather than requiring
written orders, a Drug Enforcement Administration spokeswoman
said on Thursday.

AP - A prescription painkiller sold under such names as Darvon and Darvocet is too risky to stay on the market, a consumer advocacy group argued Thursday in suing the Food and Drug Administration.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 19 (HealthDay News) — Due to problems with
false-positive results, the use of an oral rapid HIV test was recently
halted by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which
operates 10 sexually transmitted disease walk-in clinics.

Reuters - Morbidly obese patients who undergo
weight-loss surgery greatly reduce their risk of cancer,
according to a study providing fresh evidence of health
benefits from these increasingly common operations.

A team of neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has demonstrated for the first time in living animals that insulin receptors in the brain can initiate signaling that regulates both the structure and function of neural circuits.
The finding suggests a significant role for this class of receptors and perhaps for insulin, not only in […]

Tercica, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRCA) announced the first results from the Increlex® Growth Forum Database (IGFD) Registry in two posters presented at the 90th annual meeting of the Endocrine Society in San Francisco. Increlex® (mecasermin (rDNA origin) injection) is currently approved in the United States for the treatment of severe Primary IGF-1 Deficiency.
“Data from the […]

Men may not live as long if they have low testosterone, regardless of their age, according to a new study. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society’s 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
The new study, from Germany, adds to the scientific evidence linking deficiency of this sex hormone with increased death from all causes […]

This month’s Internal Medicine Report looks at two key studies: Coffee drinking and mortality, and a connection between diabetes and hearing loss.
There is good news for coffee drinkers. A new study published in Annals of Internal Medicine found that regular coffee drinking (up to 6 cups per day) is not associated with increased deaths […]

People with type 2 diabetes and morbid obesity who had laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery were significantly better able to get their blood glucose to normal levels than those who were treated with conventional medical treatment including insulin, according to a new study presented here at the 25th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic […]