Government Halts Sickle-Cell Study
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ATLANTA -- The government has halted a national sickle-cell study because two children suffered strokes and more than a dozen others developed dangerous conditions that put them at high risk of having a stroke.
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China's parliament passed a law  Saturday banning the buying or selling of blood to prevent the  spread of AIDS and outlawing discrimination against victims of  infectious diseases, state media said.
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Unexpected number of deaths forces NIH to abruptly halt part of major diabetes study.
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Decode Genetics Inc. said on Thursday it was halting its late-stage clinical trial program for an experimental oral heart attack drug after a formulation problem with the tablets cropped up.
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Home Health United has canceled the flu shot clinics scheduled for this week in the Madison area in the wake of a decision by British health officials to halt shipments of vaccine from a company
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Doctors Without Borders, the international medical charity that helps people in need throughout the world has announced it would be stopping all activities in the war-torn nation of Iraq because it could no longer guarantee the safety of its workers.
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A trial study in Zambia involving HIV infected children and the drug co-trimoxazole was stopped early because it was so successful.
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South Africa is to stop racially profiling blood donors after an outcry over the alleged rejection of blood from black donors because of the risk of HIV.
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Amgen Inc.'s  multibillion-dollar anemia drug Aranesp is facing further safety concerns after a medical newsletter reported on Friday that a Danish study of the drug in head and neck cancer was halted due to adverse outcomes seen in patients taking part.
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A Cambridgeshire heart transplant hospital suspends procedures over a rise in deaths.
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A study aimed at determining if some children with sickle cell anemia could be weaned off blood transfusion therapy has been halted because two young patients who stopped getting the procedure suffered strokes and others developed a high chance of strokes.
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London's Science Museum has cancelled a  talk by a Nobel prize-winning geneticist who suggested black  people were less intelligent than white people.
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China&#39;s drug regulator has suspended the sales of a leukemia and arthritis drug due to complaints by patients, state press said Sunday, in the latest incident to plague the nation&#39;s medicine industry.
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Decode Genetics Inc. said on Thursday  it was halting its late-stage clinical trial program for an  experimental oral heart attack drug after a formulation problem  with the tablets cropped up.
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A prescription painkiller used by more than 250,000 Australians to treat arthritis has been withdrawn from sale after a clinical trial found it doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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group of leading medical journals yesterday released a plan to stop publishing the results of clinical trials unless a test is registered at its outset in a public database.
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The government is stopping all imports of Chinese toothpaste to test for a deadly chemical reportedly found in tubes sold elsewhere in the world.