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July 2006
The Healthier You Eat, the Better Your Sex Life Will Be
24 July 2006 :IF THE risk of heart disease,
diabetes and other chronic illness isn't compelling enough to prompt better
eating habits, maybe this is. The healthier your diet, the better your
sex life...
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FDA Approves First Treatment for Hunter Syndrome
24 July 2006 :The Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) today approved Elaprase (idursulfase), the first product for the
treatment of Hunter syndrome (Mucopolysaccharidosis II, or MPS II), a
rare inherited disease ...
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Sex Close to Due Date May Cause Spontaneous Labor: Study
18 July 2006 :NEW YORK (Reuters Health)
- Women who have sexual intercourse during late pregnancy are more likely
than abstinent women to have a spontaneous delivery at 38 to 40 weeks'
and less likely to require labor induction, according to results of a
study conducted in Malaysia...
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A
Flu Outbreak is on its Way
18 July 2006 :General practitioner Peter
Hopkins from King Street General Practice said influenza could lead people,
especially the elderly, to hospitalisation and severe health problems...
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Diet Pill Acomplia may be Available in UK, but not Always Easy to Find
in Pharmacies
11 July 2006 :While Sanofi-Aventis appears
to be off to a fast start in promoting the new diet pill Acomplia
(rimonabant) to primary care physicians in the United Kingdom, it still
appears to be lagging in getting the highly anticipated weight loss drug
into Britain's pharmacies...
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First UK Trials for Avian Flu Vaccine Proposed
10 July 2006 :Plans for clinical trials
to test the viability of a vaccine to protect against an avian flu pandemic
have been submitted to the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory
Agency (MHRA)...
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Is Viagra, the erectile dysfunction drug, good for the heart, too?
3 July 2006 :In the first human study of
its kind, Dr. David Kass , a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, showed in a paper last fall in the journal Circulation
that Viagra can suppress the
effects of stress hormones...
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Infections 'may cause diabetes'
3 July 2006 :Common infections may be a
trigger for diabetes in children and young adults, research suggests...
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