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...immunization] schedule is not really user-friendly," admits Dr. Vijay Sikand of Tufts University School of Medicine, one of the participating physicians. "You have to remember to come back 11 months after the second shot." Nor did the panel recommend, pending further testing, use by pregnant women, people with chronic arthritis or youngsters under 18--a group with one of the highest risks of exposure. So even if the FDA gives Lymerix a quick O.K., it won't be of much help against this summer's tick onslaught...
...escaped me, a registered nurse for more than 20 years, that the majority of patients with cancer and other chronic illnesses subscribe to the classic American diet. It is increasingly difficult to support diets that are meat, dairy and egg based. Scientific literature is full of reports by unbiased researchers not funded by any special interests who recommend little to none of these products. ROBIN KIRSCHNER, R.N. Olney...
...advisory panel last week recommended approval for a new drug, infliximab, to treat Crohn's disease--a painful, chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. There's no cure for Crohn's, but infliximab, which is administered intravenously, significantly reduces symptoms--sometimes for months at a time. Final approval is expected by this fall...
...that they will have to be taken for many years, or even for the rest of a patient's life. But if such drugs can slow or stop the growth and spread of malignant cells, then cancer can be transformed from an acute and deadly disease into a chronic and manageable one. That doesn't make as sexy a headline as a cancer cure, but it's still the difference between life and death...
...According to the Centers for Disease Control (www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/chlamydia_facts.htm) "Untreated, chlamydia can cause severe costly reproductive and other health problems.... Up to 40 percent of women with untreated chlamydia will develop PID [pelvic inflammatory disease]. ... Of those with PID, 20 percent will become infertile; 18 percent will experience debilitating chronic pelvic pain; and 9 percent will have a life-threatening tubal pregnancy [which] is the leading cause of first-trimester, pregnancy-related deaths in American women.... In addition, recent research has shown that women infected with chlamydia have a three-to five-fold increased risk of acquiring HIV, if exposed...