Guidance Aids Drug Development for COPD Patients Occupational Health Safety, TX - Aug 26, 2008 The Food and Drug Administration has released draft guidance to help clinical trial sponsors and investigators develop antimicrobial drugs for treating ... |
Uganda: The Ten Leading Killers of Country's Men AllAfrica.com, Washington - 19 hours ago In 2003, according to the American Lung Association, 60714 men died of COPD, a group of chronic lung conditions that includes emphysema and chronic ... |
Listen to the NLM Director's Comments called "Statins for Kids?" The transcript is also available.
Recent and aggressive recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics to screen and treat high risk children with statins, or cholesterol lowering drugs, resulted in some public criticism. While the Academy's recommendations underscore a concern about childhood obesity in the U.S., some of the recent, critical public comments seem to be based on misunderstandings about the Academy's suggestions. In turn, these reveal the situational difficulties that sometimes make it challenging to communicate health information through the news media to the public...
Severe weather is in the news. Visit the topic pages on hurricanes, floods and tornadoes.
Has your baby's hearing been screened? Learn more from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Also, visit the hearing problems in children topic page.
Medical opinion: Prevention is the only cure - don't smoke! Yuma Sun, AZ - 1 hour ago Emphysema and COPD (chronic obstructive lung disease) have become the common words describing one of the most common disabling lung diseases. ... |
Medical opinion: Prevention is the only cure - don't smoke! Yuma Sun, AZ - 1 hour ago Emphysema and COPD (chronic obstructive lung disease) have become the common words describing one of the most common disabling lung diseases. ... |
Time to butt out Malaysia Star, Malaysia - 19 hours ago Pre-existing lung diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with higher risk (approximately four to six times the risk of a ... |
Time to butt out Malaysia Star, Malaysia - 19 hours ago Pre-existing lung diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with higher risk (approximately four to six times the risk of a ... |
Southampton's health record in need of a check-up Southern Daily Echo, UK - 20 hours ago Experts believe as many as 6000 people in Southampton have the potentially fatal chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but are yet to be diagnosed. ... |