Treatment Discovered For Deadly Childhood Disease Science Daily
Researchers have discovered that a treatment involving enzyme replacement therapy dramatically reduces the risk of death in children with Pompe disease, a rare genetic disorder in which most children die before their first birthday. The disorder causes profound muscle weakness and heart and breathing problems and affects as many as one in 40,000 births. The study is published in the online
City Kids With Asthma Lose Out On Preventive Treatment Medical News Today
A new study by specialists at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and elsewhere suggests that only one in five inner-city children with chronic asthma gets enough medicine to control dangerous flare-ups of the disease. [click link for full article]
Merck and Vertex Announce Phase I Results for Investigational Aurora Kinase Inhibitor MK-0457 VX-680; Compound Showed Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.----Merck & Co., Inc. and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated today announced results of a Phase I clinical trial for MK-0457 , an investigational small molecule inhibitor of Aurora, FLT-3, JAK-2 and BCR-ABL kinases.
DPH reopens Diabetes Center on Navy Hill Saipan Tribune
Two months after being shut down, the Department of Public Health's Diabetes Control and Prevention Program office has been reopened on Navy Hill. DPH deputy secretary for Lynn Tenorio confirmed that the Diabetes Center is back in business, just three months after its closure in July.
Flu season arrives in South Carolina WIS News 10 Columbia
(Columbia-AP) December 9, 2006 - South Carolina has recorded just one laboratory confirmed case of the influenza, but the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention says the state is among five in the Southeast with local or regional outbreaks of the flu.
Many people still misunderstand the flu Plano Courier
Dr. Jane Siegel, an infectious diseases specialist at Children’s Medical Center Dallas and professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, says although the flu is a fairly common disease, many people still misunderstand it.
Researchers Make Progress Against Often Overlooked, Deadly Lung Disease Attacking Women In Their Childbearing Years Medical News Today
Researchers are advancing against a rare, deadly lung disease (related to hormones) that no one had even heard of a decade ago. The disease targets only women, striking them down during their childbearing years. It can be triggered by pregnancy, progresses rapidly, and often results in death within ten years. [click link for full article]
Diabetes afflicting more in US Asian population Boston Globe
Second in a two-part series At the Joslin Diabetes Center , the Vietnamese nun is half the size of many men and women who walk the halls. Mary Phuc Nguyen is 5 feet tall, little more than 100 pounds, a wisp among the burly bodies. But she comes seeking help for the same disease that often afflicts those of greater
CDC: E. coli outbreak cases likely to increase from 62 USA Today
There are now 62 cases associated with the E. coli outbreak at Taco Bell restaurants in the Northeast, and officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that number is likely to increase.
TAIWAN REPORTS YEAR'S FIRST FLU DEATH Central News Agency
Taipei, Dec. 9 (CNA) An 18-year old student has died of serious complications triggered by type B influenza, becoming the first case of flu-related death recorded this year, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported Saturday.

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