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Judge orders FDA to let 17-year-olds use Plan B (Update)

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration let politics cloud its judgment when it denied teenage girls over-the-counter access to the Plan B morning-after pill, a federal judge said Monday as he ordered the FDA to let 17-year-olds ...





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U.S. sales of morning-after pill double

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jul 13, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sales of the morning-after pill Plan B in the United States have doubled since it was made available without a prescription.


Too much TV linked to future fast-food intake

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

High-school kids who watch too much TV are likely to have bad eating habits five years in the future. Research published in BioMed Central's open access International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity follow ...


FDA OKs morning-after pill retail sale

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created Aug 24, 2006 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Over-the-counter sale of Plan B, or the morning-after contraceptive pill was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Thursday.


Changes in brain chemicals mark shifts in infant learning

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

When do you first leave the nest? Early in development infants of many species experience important transitions—such as learning when to leave the protective presence of their mother to start exploring the wider world. Neuroscientists ...


Researchers Discover Virus Using Same Tools as Host Cell

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 12, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Duke University Medical Center researchers have discovered that the virus which causes Kaposi's Sarcoma encodes a molecule for controlling gene regulation nearly identical to one found normally in human cells. Both versions ...


Rare head and neck cancer linked to HPV, study finds

Rare head and neck cancer linked to HPV, study finds

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An increase in cases of a rare type of head and neck cancer appears to be linked to HPV, or human papillomavirus, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer ...


Research finds single gene controls growth of some cancers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 12, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Research led by Ashok Aiyar, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans, showing that a single gene can control growth in cancers related to the Epstein-Barr ...


Traces of pharmaceuticals found in central Indiana waterways

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pharmaceuticals have been found in freshwater ecosystems in rural areas of central Indiana, says a new study from Ball State University.


Study: Range of pharmaceuticals in fish across US

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(AP) -- Fish caught near wastewater treatment plants serving five major U.S. cities had residues of pharmaceuticals in them, including medicines used to treat high cholesterol, allergies, high blood pressure, bipolar disorder ...


Camouflaging of viral DNA could be crucial step in progression of cancers

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An estimated 15% of cancer cases can be linked to a viral infection, however the biological changes that cause some asymptomatic carriers of a virus to develop full-blown tumors are not well understood. In a study published ...



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