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FDA acts to stem shortages of two cancer drugs (0 Comments)
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02/22/2012 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it will resolve a potentially life-threatening shortage of two leading cancer drugs by allowing one of them to be imported from abroad and rushing approval for a new manufacturer to make the second.
The moves announced on Tuesday mark the latest government effort to address severe drug shortages. More than 200 medicines were in short supply in 2011 and doctors and patient advocates say the crisis has forced providers to postpone care or use second-best or costlier alternatives.
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Healthcare reform's missing link -- nurse practitioners (0 Comments)
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02/22/2012 By Patricia Dennehy
Within the next two years, if federal healthcare reforms proceed as expected, roughly 30 million of the estimated 50 million uninsured people in the United States — 6.9 million in California — will be trying to find new healthcare providers.
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Danvers family triumphs, autistic son allowed to skate (0 Comments)
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02/17/2012 A Danvers mom who just wanted her autistic son to be able to do things the other kids can do, is learning that by speaking up, one person can evoke change.
It all started when Lea Irzyk wanted to sign up her autistic son for "Learn to Skate" group skating lessons at the James McVann-Louis O'Keefe Memorial Rink on Lowell Street in Peabody.
"We don't want to stick out -- we don't want to make Jack feel different from anybody else," Irzyk told FOX 25's Heather Hegedus.
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Autism Brain Scan Signs Found At 6 Months Of Age (0 Comments)
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02/17/2012 According to a study published online February 17, at AJP in Advance, a section of the website of the American Journal of Psychiatry, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered considerable differences in brain development at age six months in high-risk infants who develop autism, than high-risk infants who do not develop the condition.
Jason J. Wolff, Ph.D, lead researcher of the study and a postdoctoral fellow at UNC's Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (CIDD), explained:
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Higher recurrence rate of Dupuytren’s contracture seen with needle fasciotomy (0 Comments)
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02/18/2012 Although patients with Dupuytren’s contractures may prefer percutaneous needle fasciotomy due to its less invasive nature and shorter recovery time, researchers in the Netherlands found that the treatment has a higher rate of recurrence than limited fasciectomy.
The study, conducted by Annet L. van Rijssen, MD, and colleagues, was recently published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. According to a press release, the research is the first to compare long-term outcomes of the procedures.
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