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Femara® Approved In Germany As Initial Therapy For Postmenopausal ...

March 25, 2006

Medical News Today - Novartis has announced that Femara® (letrozole) has received approval in Germany for use after surgery in postmenopausal women with hormone-sensitive early breast cancer (adjuvant setting). This is the first major European market approval for this ...

New Dosages Of RISPERDAL® (Risperidone) Now Available (Medical News Today)

March 25, 2006

Physicians treating people with schizophrenia or bipolar mania now have expanded treatment options: Two additional dosages (3 mg and 4 mg) of RISPERDAL® M-TAB®, the fast-dissolving form of one of the most prescribed antipsychotic medications, RISPERDAL® (risperidone), are now available by prescription... click link for more info.

Femara® Approved In Germany As Initial Therapy For Postmenopausal Women With Early Breast Cancer After Surgery (Medical News

March 25, 2006

Novartis has announced that Femara® (letrozole) has received approval in Germany for use after surgery in postmenopausal women with hormone-sensitive early breast cancer (adjuvant setting). This is the first major European market approval for this additional indication under the European mutual recognition procedure... click link for more info.

New Dosages Of RISPERDAL® (Risperidone) Now Available

March 25, 2006

Medical News Today - Physicians treating people with schizophrenia or bipolar mania now have expanded treatment options: Two additional dosages (3 mg and 4 mg) of RISPERDAL® M-TAB®, the fast-dissolving form of one of the most prescribed antipsychotic medications ...

Hans W. Singer, 95, Creator of U.N. Development Program, Dies

March 25, 2006

New York Times - Hans Wolfgang Singer, an economist who devoted his life to analyzing the causes and effects of poverty and helped create the World Food Program and the United Nations Development Program, died in his sleep on Feb. 26 in Brighton, England. He was 95 ...

Femara® Approved In Germany As Initial Therapy For Postmenopausal Women With Early Breast Cancer After Surgery (Medical News

March 25, 2006

Novartis has announced that Femara® (letrozole) has received approval in Germany for use after surgery in postmenopausal women with hormone-sensitive early breast cancer (adjuvant setting). This is the first major European market approval for this additional indication under the European mutual recognition procedure... click link for more info.

New Dosages Of RISPERDAL® (Risperidone) Now Available (Medical News Today)

March 25, 2006

Physicians treating people with schizophrenia or bipolar mania now have expanded treatment options: Two additional dosages (3 mg and 4 mg) of RISPERDAL® M-TAB®, the fast-dissolving form of one of the most prescribed antipsychotic medications, RISPERDAL® (risperidone), are now available by prescription... click link for more info.

Femara® Approved In Germany As Initial Therapy For Postmenopausal Women With Early Breast Cancer After Surgery (Medical News

March 25, 2006

Novartis has announced that Femara® (letrozole) has received approval in Germany for use after surgery in postmenopausal women with hormone-sensitive early breast cancer (adjuvant setting). This is the first major European market approval for this additional indication under the European mutual recognition procedure... click link for more info.

Volunteers needed to test AIDS treatment

March 25, 2006

Belleville News-Democrat - Doctors at Washington University are testing a new set of experimental treatments that they hope may produce a cure for AIDS. Current treatments involving several drugs have transformed the disease from a fatal disorder to a manageable condition for ...

Inside the mind of a millionaire

March 25, 2006

Crain's Chicago Business - In theory, the lives of power brokers are exhilarating: They get paid big money to fly around on corporate jets and negotiate deals that transform companies — even regional economies. In reality, they deal with the guilt of orchestrating mergers ...

Villages - March 22, 2006

March 25, 2006

North Channel Sun - On Friday March 24 and April 7, from 6-8 p.m., at St. Martha's Family Life Center, the Knights of Columbus will hold their Friday Lent Fish Fry. Adult plates are $7 and child's plates are $3. Adult dinner includes Cajun fried catfish or baked lemon ...

Jury finds Sutter Health guilty of negligence, elder abuse

March 25, 2006

Gainesville Sun - jury has awarded $1.4 million to an 85-year-old Sutter Health patient who developed a grapefruit-size bedsore after falling in her home. Jurors said Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region was guilty of medical negligence, elder abuse, intentional ...

Drug switch aids depression

March 25, 2006

Detroit Free Press - Federal health advisers said Wednesday that Ritalin and other drugs for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder should not carry strong so-called black box warnings about potential cardiovascular and psychiatric risks. Rather, the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Study: Second Antidepressants Try Often Works

March 25, 2006

1010Wins - NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Many depressed patients who didn't get better on one medicine were able to overcome their crushing dark spells with another, according to the largest study ever of treatments for America's top mental health problem. Up to one ...

News in Brief

March 25, 2006

Aspen Times - The Roaring Fork School District on Wednesday approved the school-year calendar for 2006-07 and announced that classes will begin and end one week later than normal. Fall classes for next year will start on Tuesday, Sept. 5, after the Labor Day ...

Jury slaps Sutter for treatment of senior

March 25, 2006

Sacramento Bee - Get weekday updates of Sacramento Bee headlines and breaking news. Sign up here. A Sacramento Superior Court jury has slapped one of the largest skilled nursing operators in the region with a $1.4 million judgment for medical negligence, elder abuse ...

Bionics beats brain disorders

March 25, 2006

MichNews.com - At least one of every 100 Americans has epilepsy, a disturbance in the brain’s electrical activity causing recurrent seizures. These may be as mild as twitching fingers or as severe as violent muscle contractions causing unconsciousness. But we ...

CD reviews 3/23/06

March 25, 2006

1960 Sun - Anti-Flag, "For Blood and Empire" (RCA) 4 stars - Rest easy Anti-Flag fans, your band hasn't changed one bit under RCA. "For Blood and Empire" is a powerful, scathing, controversial and undeniably catchy record that easily could catapult the ...

Feeling depressed? It could be case of SAD

March 25, 2006

Gonzaga Bulletin - Glum weather can lead students to equally glum moods. Moods have been rising and falling around campus, mirroring the fluctuating weather. Although this is campus-wide and expected, the weather might affect some of us more than others. Those who find ...

Drug Abuse and Addiction

March 25, 2006

MedicineNet.com - Many people see drug abuse and addiction as strictly a social problem. They tend to characterize people who take drugs as morally weak or as having criminal tendencies. They believe that drug abusers and addicts should be able to stop taking drugs if ...

PTSD stalks veterans, civilians

March 25, 2006

Bar Harbor Times - AUGUSTA - Until 1980, it didn't have an official name. But soldiers in all the wars in history, dating back to the Egyptians and the Greeks, had suffered from it. Some called it shell shock, others called it battle fatigue. In 1980, the American ...

Oline H. Cogdill

March 25, 2006

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - Strange Bedfellows. Paula L. Woods. One World/Ballantine Books. $23.95. 258 pp. Paula L. Woods' novels about police detective Charlotte Justice have opened a window into the upper middle class black communities of Los Angeles. Set in the aftermath of ...

'Better than drugs'

March 25, 2006

Chanute Tribune - Sherry is a friend of mine, and a mother of three active young boys. As we enjoyed a cup of tea, she shared with me that she'd been having difficulty sleeping, and felt tired constantly. Lately, she'd also felt somewhat depressed. It had finally ...


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