New York - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to immediately approve Discovery Laboratories Inc's drug to help prevent respiratory distress syndrome in premature babies, the company said on Friday, sending shares down 41 percent.
The small biotechnology company said it received a so-called "approvable letter" from the FDA about the drug, Surfaxin.
Deborah L. Shelton and Bonnie Miller Rubin
Los Angeles TimesTue, 06 May 2008 00:50 UTC
Adolescents who were adopted as infants are significantly more likely to have a psychiatric disorder than those who were not adopted, a study released Monday has found.
The researchers -- emphasizing that most of the adoptees in the study were psychologically healthy and faring well -- the said that as a group those adolescents faced a greater risk for two psychiatric conditions: attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defiant disorder.
Drinking and alcohol dependence has increased substantially among women, particularly white and Hispanic women born since 1945, new study finds.
Alcohol use and dependency appeared to remain stable for men, while young Americans report having more lifetime alcohol problems than older Americans, despite having had less time to develop issues with drinking.
The findings were published in the May issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
Douglas Bakshian
VOA NewsTue, 06 May 2008 00:23 UTC
A new report says the lives of millions of young children could be saved each year if basic medical care and medicine are made available to the poor.
The report by the U.S. organization Save the Children says about 10 million children die every year from easily preventable and treatable diseases. About six million of those could be saved with basic services.
Those services include immunizations, antibiotics, skilled care at childbirth and treatment for diarrhea and pneumonia.
Comment: The money spent to kill and destroy in Iraq by the Bush government would be enough to provide medical care for those children many times over.
Beijing - New outbreaks reported Tuesday in three Chinese provinces and Beijing put the number of children infected with hand, foot and mouth disease above 12,000 and the death toll has risen to at least 26 across the country.
Breast cancer patients who have a prior history of mood and anxiety disorders are at a much higher risk of experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder following their diagnosis, new research suggests.
A study of 74 breast cancer patients at the Ohio State University Medical Center found that 16 percent of them (12 women) suffered from PTSD 18 months after diagnosis.
Four people pleaded guilty Thursday to breaking federal law by marketing the drug Loprox to Kansas doctors as a diaper-rash treatment, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Scientists have made a significant discovery that clarifies a previously poorly understood key event in the progression of breast cancer. The research, published by Cell Press in the May issue of the journal Cancer Cell, highlights the importance of the microenvironment in regulating breast tumor progression and suggests that it may be highly beneficial to consider therapies that do not focus solely on the tumor cells but are also targeted to the surrounding tissues.
Progression of breast cancer begins with abnormal epithelial proliferation that progresses into localized carcinoma, called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS); invasive carcinoma; and eventually, metastatic disease. DCIS is believed to be a precursor to invasive ductal carcinoma, but comprehensive molecular profiling studies comparing DCIS and invasive ductal carcinomas have not yielded tumor-stage-specific genetic signatures. "These studies have focused mainly on the tumor epithelial cells and have not explored the role of the microenvironment in tumor expression," says lead study author Dr. Kornelia Polyak from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
Comment: The money spent to kill and destroy in Iraq by the Bush government would be enough to provide medical care for those children many times over.