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Multiple Sclerosis - New Rebif® Formulation Submitted In USA And ...

April 9, 2006

Medical News Today - Serono (virt-x:SEO and NYSE: SRA) announced today the submission of a supplemental Biologics Licence Application (sBLA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and of a variation to the current Marketing Authorization to the European Medicines ...

HIV/AIDS (Gay)

April 9, 2006

Washington Blade - COFFEEHOUSE FOR WOMEN With HIV/AIDS, sponsored by Women's Collective. Meet, share, talk. Refreshments. Children welcome. Saturday, April 15, 3-6 p.m. Brooks Mansion, 901 Newton St., NE, next to Brookland Metro. 202-483-7003. FREE ANONYMOUS HIV ...

Early Use Of Avonex® Delays Risk Of Multiple Sclerosis For Up To 5 Years, Newly Published Data Show (Medical News Today)

April 9, 2006

Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) announced today that data published in the March 14, 2006 issue of Neurology demonstrated that AVONEX delayed the risk of developing clinically definite multiple sclerosis (MS) for up to five years in patients who began treatment immediately after their initial MS attack. The study, known as CHAMPIONS (Controlled High Risk AVONEX Multiple Sclerosis Prevention Study In

Ill. Hospital Helps War Veterans Cope

April 9, 2006

ABC News - HINES, Ill. Apr 9, 2006 (AP) — Josh Dobbelstein drives as close to the middle of the road as he can. Over on the side, in a plastic bag or stuffed in the carcass of a dead dog, that's where he knows the enemy intent on killing him hides bombs. Just ...

Early Use Of Avonex® Delays Risk Of Multiple Sclerosis For Up To 5 Years, Newly Published Data Show (Medical News Today)

April 9, 2006

Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) announced today that data published in the March 14, 2006 issue of Neurology demonstrated that AVONEX delayed the risk of developing clinically definite multiple sclerosis (MS) for up to five years in patients who began treatment immediately after their initial MS attack. The study, known as CHAMPIONS (Controlled High Risk AVONEX Multiple Sclerosis Prevention Study In

Child abuse: It’s happening in Butte

April 9, 2006

Montana Standard - Since 1998, evaluations for children who have been sexually or physically abused in Butte and outlying areas have been done for children as young as 9 months and as old as 18. While the number of children coming to the evaluation center at St. James ...

When Worry Gets in the Way of Life

April 9, 2006

National Womens Health Information Center - SUNDAY, April 9 (HealthDay News) -- To be human is to worry -- about finances, your children's health, work, even whether you remembered to unplug the iron when you go on vacation. But if you find that worry seems to consume your life, that you ...

Options for the addicted

April 9, 2006

NW Arkansas Times - Mary Ann Gunn is talking about the challenges women — often mothers — face when fighting addiction. She speaks toward the jury box, where some women are sitting, shackled, in their orange and white jail outfits. "I understand that the issues you ...

Court documents show Lutz in emotional tailspin

April 9, 2006

Lansing State Journal - EATON COUNTY — The image of Sheriff Sgt. Jeffrey Lutz as a man whose emotional state is spiraling out of control is reflected in court documents filed in Eaton County Circuit Court by his wife in an affidavit given in connection with a request for ...

Getting the patient's mind off medicine at Packard's Children's ...

April 9, 2006

San Francisco Gate - On a sunny Wednesday afternoon, Kristina Shepherd is lying on white sand, which would be unremarkable except that at the exact same moment she is lying in a hospital bed at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. The beach scene is administered by Dr ...

Child abuse: It’s happening in Butte

April 9, 2006

Montana Standard - Since 1998, evaluations for children who have been sexually or physically abused in Butte and outlying areas have been done for children as young as 9 months and as old as 18. While the number of children coming to the evaluation center at St. James ...

The doctor almost always is in

April 9, 2006

Observer-Reporter - WAYNESBURG -- Missing class no longer has to be part of the visit to the child psychiatrist for students in Central Greene School District. A pilot program, called telepsychiatry, was introduced at Waynesburg Central elementary and high schools this ...

Options for the addicted

April 9, 2006

Northwest Arkansas News - Mary Ann Gunn is talking about the challenges women — often mothers — face when fighting addiction. She speaks toward the jury box, where some women are sitting, shackled, in their orange and white jail outfits. "I understand that the issues you ...

Alaskana: Alaska odyssey

April 9, 2006

Anchorage Daily News - Each week, Alaska writer Judy Ferguson profiles old-time Alaskans for this page. And old-time Alaskans, as always, have questions. Like, who is this person and when did she get off the boat? This week we let Judy -- who's been in Alaska for only 30 ...

Solving the mystery of fibromyalgia

April 9, 2006

Southern Illinoisan - You go to the doctor complaining of throbbing, burning muscle pain throughout your body, overwhelming fatigue, and anxiety that makes it extremely difficult to do even the everyday things like housecleaning, playing with the kids and exercising ...

YAKIMA HERALD REPUBLIC

April 9, 2006

Yakima Herald Republic - Rosemary Russell shares a laugh with regular Larry Boord, right, at Wiley D's, where she has worked for almost two years. "It's like an extended family," Russell says, describing one of the reasons she enjoys her job. Bernard "Bun" Hammermeister is ...

Community calendar

April 9, 2006

Spartanburg Herald-Journal - The ladies of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Asheville Highway, will have their annual spring luncheon and bake sale at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the church. The pastry sale, featuring an assortment of Greek pastries, begins at 9 a.m. and lasts until ...

New online resource guide to help bulimia sufferers

April 9, 2006

Seattle Times - Ivy Silver, cleans up after dinner while her husband, Steven Leshner, juggles fruit. Silver had bulimia as a youngster, and her daughter has struggled with it more recently. You'd think Ivy Silver, of all people, would have seen it coming. After all ...

VA hospital helps Iraq, Afghanistan vets cope

April 9, 2006

Courier News - HINES — Josh Dobbelstein drives as close to the middle of the road as he can. Over on the side, in a plastic bag or stuffed in the carcass of a dead dog, that's where he knows the enemy intent on killing him hides bombs. Just the other day he dove ...

Fabled columnist enjoys his long goodbye

April 9, 2006

Allentown Morning Call - | Columnist Art Buchwald is dying and enjoying every minute of it. Death was expected within weeks of his decision to reject blood-cleansing treatments that could prolong his life, yet he lives on. Neither Buchwald nor his doctors know why, he says ...

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April 9, 2006

Baltimore Sun - THERE WAS A PLAQUE that hung in my mother-in-law's kitchen for all the years I knew her: "If Momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy." Turns out she was more right than she knew. A pair of recently released studies demonstrate that depression in ...

Graduates of treatment center move on with their lives

April 9, 2006

Sioux City Journal - Melissa Ohden, a clinical supervisor at the Women and Children’s Center, helps Brian Suarez, 4, open his Easter basket. He is the son of Annabelle Suarez, a resident of the shelter. Five of her children are living at the center with her. (Staff ...

Court documents show Lutz in emotional tailspin

April 9, 2006

Lansing State Journal - EATON COUNTY — The image of Sheriff Sgt. Jeffrey Lutz as a man whose emotional state is spiraling out of control is reflected in court documents filed in Eaton County Circuit Court by his wife in an affidavit given in connection with a request for ...

A controversial device in the fight against depression

April 9, 2006

Des Moines Register - Donna Halfhill says a controversial electronic implant turned her life around by sending electrical impulses into her brain. "I feel like I'm Donna again," she says. "I feel like I've got my personality back, the one I had before this all started ...

When moms get help, their children do too

April 9, 2006

Vindicator - Successfully treating mothers for depression can do wonders for their children's mental health. So says a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study, part of ongoing research aimed at discovering the best practices for ...

Students drawing on the pain

April 9, 2006

Baton Rouge Advocate - Javonté LeFlore, left, and Darrylneka Thomas discuss their drawings during a Jan. 27 art-therapy session at Progress Elementary School. At top is a detail from a drawing done by Thomas. Therapist Folly Shaffer has been working with about 20 students ...

Democratic state representative candidates give views

April 9, 2006

Springfield News Sun - Spangler: The changes I’d like to see is the state take it to heart its responsibility to fund a modern public school system. There’s enough of an under-funding it’s shown by the frequency of local ballot initiatives. The fact that they fail so ...

PATIENT ACCUSED OF HEROIN DEALS AT REHAB CLINIC (Sunday Mail)

April 9, 2006

A FORMER patient at a rehab clinic has been charged with dealing heroin to other addicts. Police were called to Castle Craig Hospital in Peeblesshire, after complaints that patients had been given the class A drug last Christmas Day.


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