FDA Approves More Than 150 Antiretroviral Drugs for Global HIV/AIDS Relief – US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg announced the agency has approved or tentatively approved a total of 152 antiretroviral drugs in association with the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to treat those infected with HIV/AIDS in countries that lack the tools needed to fight the AIDS epidemic. [vpdrugs]

Study drug makes marrow transplant possible in relapsed leukemia

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Study drug makes marrow transplant possible in relapsed leukemia. The final data from a … Produced by the FLT3 gene, the enzyme signals bone-marrow stem cells to divide and replenish, according to a statement issued by Johns Hopkins Medicine …
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'Protecting' psychiatric medical records puts patients at risk of hospitalization

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Medical centers that elect to keep psychiatric files private and separate from the rest of a person's medical record may be doing their patients a disservice, a Johns Hopkins study concludes. In a survey of … "The big elephant in the room is the …
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Recipe for a long life: overweight people have LOWER death risk

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It is the second time that research studies led by Katherine Flegal, a distinguished epidemiologist from the National Centre for Health Statistics at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Maryland, US, have studied the link between obesity …
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