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FDA Reviews Two Major Heartburn Drugs

1 hr 35 mins ago - Patients who suffer from heartburn are not at increased risk for heart problems as a result of taking Prilosec or Nexium, according to a review released Monday by the Food and Drug Administration.

Products With Good Bacteria Get Popular

2 hrs 44 mins ago - Bugs in baby food? Microbes in your milkshake? Relax, this is not the latest tainted food scare - it's a growing trend in foods designed to boost health, not make you sick.

Shortage Prompts Delay in Medical Tests

2 days ago - Thousands of patients are facing delays in crucial medical tests because of a shortage of a radioactive substance used in those examinations - all because of the shutdown of one nuclear reactor in Canada.

Weight Gain Hurts Breast Cancer Survival

2 days ago - Breast cancer patients might have a powerful incentive to avoid gaining weight: better odds of surviving the disease. New research suggests that for every 11 pounds a woman gains after being diagnosed with breast cancer, the chances of it proving fatal go up 14 percent.

NJ Parents Try to Block Vaccine Mandate

2 days ago - Parents concerned about possible vaccine dangers and government intrusion are trying to block New Jersey from becoming the first state to require flu shots for preschoolers.

Minn. Slaughterhouse Workers Fall Ill

2 days ago - On the slaughterhouse floor at Quality Pork Processors Inc. is an area known as the "head table," but not because it is the place of honor. It is where workers cut up pigs' heads and then shoot compressed air into the skulls until the brains come spilling out.

WHO Says Victim's Dad Also Has Bird Flu

2 days ago - The father of a Chinese man who died of bird flu has also been infected with the H5N1 virus that causes the disease, the World Health Organization reported Friday, saying it could not rule out the possibility of human-to-human infection.

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Aflac Inc (AFL): Aflac Donates $100,000 to United Way Von Maur Victims Fund

EpiCept Corp (EPCT): EpiCept Releases New Data Demonstrating Prolonged Five-Year Leukemia-Free Survival for AML Patients Treated with Ceplene(TM) + IL-2

Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc (MLNM): Phase III Trial of VELCADE(R) (Bortezomib) for Injection Showed Dramatic Fourfold Increase in Complete Remission Rates When Combined With the Most Commonly Used U.S. Regimen in Front-Line Multiple Myeloma

Novartis AG (NVS): Photo: New Data Show Gleevec(R) Halts Progression to Advanced Stages of Life-Threatening Form of Leukemia in Sixth Year of Treatment

Nuvelo Inc (NUVO): Nuvelo Phase 3 SONOMA-2 Trial Shows Alfimeprase has the Potential to Restore Catheter Function

Pharmion Corp (PHRM): Pharmion and Methylgene Report Favorable Results for Phase 2 MGCD0103 Single- Agent Studies in Relapsed or Refractory Lymphomas at the 49th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Meeting

Sanofi-Aventis SA (SNY): New Taxotere(R) (docetaxel) Injection Concentrate Data to be Presented at the 30th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS)

Smith & Nephew PLC (SNN): Smith & Nephew Endoscopy Names Todd Usen Senior VP, US Sales

Universal Health Services Inc (UHS): Universal Health Services, Inc. Announces Share Repurchase Authorization

Varian Inc (VARI): Varian, Inc. to Co-Market and Distribute MestReNova NMR Processing Software

Study: Calls Help Couch Potatoes Walk

3 days ago - Fitness research shows that when a computer talks the talk, even couch potatoes can be persuaded to walk the walk. Researchers at Stanford University, who studied sedentary people for a year, found that automated exercise reminder phone calls had about the same get-up-and-go power as calls from human counselors.

Scientists Cure Mice With Sickle Cell

3 days ago - Scientists have the first evidence that those "reprogrammed stem cells" that made headlines last month really have the potential to treat disease: They used skin from the tails of sick mice to cure the rodents of sickle cell anemia.