The Food and Drug Administration approved the ExAblate 2000 System, a new medical device that uses magnetic resonance image guided focused ultrasound to target and destroy uterine fibroids, non-cancerous masses located in the uterus. The device is intended to treat women who have completed child bearing or do not intend to become pregnant.
Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited India has informed the World Health Organization (WHO) that it is voluntarily withdrawing all its antiretrovirals (all the product dossiers under assessment and all prequalified products) from WHO prequalification. This action was taken after the company found discrepancies in the documentation relating to proof of the products’ bioequivalence with originator medicines. The company has already presented WHO with a plan indicating proposed dates for the submission of new study reports for these products. The first study is expected to be completed by December 2004.
In 1999, almost 108 million adult Americans were overweight or obese. If you are overweight or obese, carrying this extra weight puts you at risk for developing many diseases, especially heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer. Losing this weight helps to prevent and control these diseases. Following guidelines provide you with a new approach for the measurement of overweight and obesity and a set of steps for safe and effective weight loss.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an artificial spinal disc for use in treating pain associated with degenerative disc disease (DDD). The device is intended to replace a diseased or damaged intervertebral disc.
With the launch of a new report, the Global Campaign Against Epilepsy (GCAE) is urging governments to improve treatment, services and prevention of epilepsy in the Western Pacific Region.
In this area, the focus has been on prevention of mother to child transmission (MTCT) of HIV infection. The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that prevention of MTCT should be seen as one part of the comprehensive care of the HIV positive pregnant woman i.e., a holistic and life span approach.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announces measures which will ensure that HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts in poor countries will also help deliver better health services. Canada’s 100 million Canadian dollars contribution to the WHO this year is key in helping to build these services, which include urgently addressing the shortage of health workers in countries suffering the most pressure from the effects of HIV/AIDS.
A new $2.8 million effort, partnering public and private funding agencies, will examine how better community design encourages people to be more physically active in their daily lives. Researchers will identify how our built environment contributes to obesity and how environmental changes can combat a growing public health problem.
Adults with nicotine dependence and/or psychiatric disorders consume 70 percent of all cigarettes smoked in the United States, according to results of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study reported in the November issue of the “Archives of General Psychiatry (Volume 61).” Based on the 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC), the article provides the first national estimates among U.S. adults of the prevalence and co-occurrence of nicotine dependence and a broad array of other psychiatric disorders including alcohol and drug abuse and dependence, mood and anxiety disorders, and personality disorders as defined by the American Psychiatric Association’s “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition (DSM-IV).”
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