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UK switches to Merck's Gardasil for HPV vaccination
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - Britain is to stop using GlaxoSmithKline's cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix from next September and will instead offer girls Merck & Co's rival product Gardasil. The move underscores Gardasil's lead in a $1 billion-plus worldwide...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Preventative Medicine, Chemical Industry, HPV Vaccine, Health
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Mailbag: Should they sell seashells at store?
Perhaps instead of fighting over how many merchants in town sell seashells, they should consider not selling them at all ("Fighting over some seashells," Dave Hansen column, June 2). Yes, I know, they are big sellers, and make money for the merchants....Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Los Angeles Times, Crime, Law and Justice, Preventative Medicine, Crimes
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Wealthy nations must follow through on disease fight
In 1980, I moved my family from Maryland to the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona to work on an issue most people are not comfortable talking about — diarrhea. At the time, diarrhea, which is preventable and treatable, was rampantly...Tags: Human Interest, Diarrhea, Diseases and Illnesses, Preventative Medicine, Chemical Industry
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Malaria vaccine: The fiction and the reality
Opinion L.A.Ann Patchett has earned all sorts of praise for her bestseller, "State of Wonder," but as engaging as the story is, the book's science concerning a malaria vaccine left something -- well, several things -- to be desired. The reality is that with all the... -
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Doctor-drug company database adds to confusion for consumers
Last week, after the launch of a new database detailing doctors' financial ties with drug companies, Dr. Daniel Carlat sat at his computer and began searching for information about colleagues.
He found several doctors who had potentially compromising...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Medical Research, Lilly Eli & Co, Science and Technology, Hospitals and Clinics
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High hopes for a malaria vaccine
Each year, malaria kills more than 1 million people -- 90% of them in sub-Saharan Africa and 80% of them younger than 5 -- and makes 300 million people seriously ill. Major progress in controlling the disease has been made by the widespread adoption of...Tags: Liver, Diseases and Illnesses, Crime, Law and Justice, Preventative Medicine, Malaria
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Gauging a gas tackler
Whether you're still plowing through Thanksgiving leftovers or easing back to your normal fare, billions of bacteria in your digestive tract are eagerly awaiting their next meal. And if you feed them well enough, they'll thank you by producing gas....Tags: Disasters, Washington (U.S. state), Education, Drugs and Medicines, Flatulence
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Expectations affect benefits of pain drug
People who don't believe their pain medicine will work can actually reduce or even cancel out the effectiveness of the drug, and images of their brains show how they are doing it, scientists report.
Researchers from Britain and Germany used brain scans...Tags: MRI (imaging), Abbott Laboratories, Medical Research, Crime, Law and Justice, Science and Technology
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Gates Foundation to improve child vaccines in China
Web ReporterThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is helping partners in China improve child vaccines, roll out faster TB detection kits and make higher-yielding rice which it hopes can be used later in other parts of the world. Ray Yip, the foundation's chief...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Preventative Medicine, Chemical Industry, China, Meningitis
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Doctors supplement income via drug companies
A cardiologist, endocrinologist, psychiatrist, nurse practitioner and allergist. These five medical professionals in Burbank and Glendale may have different specialties, but they have one source of income in common — drug companies. Since 2009, 33...Tags: Eric Campbell, Diseases and Illnesses, Lilly Eli & Co, Science and Technology, Psychiatrists
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