No treatments helped SARS victims, study finds
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None of the treatments used to treat   SARS patients appears to have helped, researchers reported on   Tuesday in a study that illustrates how difficult it is to   battle newly emerging viruses.
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Scientists say that although behavior therapies benefit many children, they do not have evidence that any of these treatments improve the core symptoms of autism.
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Nov 30, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - The World Health Organization&#39;s (WHO&#39;s) top official in the western Pacific said yesterday that SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) cases may return this winter but probably not in large numbers.
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If SARS comes back to haunt the world again, a team of Belgian scientists may have discovered a new weapon to use against it. Chloroquine, a drug used to fight malaria since World War II, has been found to
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Scientists in Hong Kong say they may have found a series of chemicals that could counter the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and other viruses.
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDayNews) -- The drug etanercept shows no benefit against the autoimmune disorder Wegener's granulomatosis, according to results of a clinical trial led by Johns Hopkins researchers.
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The billions that drug companies  spend on personal visits to promote new drugs and hand out free  samples to doctors have little effect on how doctors prescribe  drugs, according to a study published on Wednesday.
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It is possible that SARS will resurface in this country, but the chances of a major outbreak of the killer atypical pneumonia are slim given experience accumulated in fighting the disease, Academia Sinica&#39;s vice president said yesterday.
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LONDON - Doctors have been giving steroids to head trauma patients for more than 30 years, but the first major study of the practice has shown they are useless and may even have killed thousands of people.    Experts said the findings, published this week in The Lancet medical journal, are "a complete and alarming surprise for all."   Head trauma, usually from car crashes, violence or falls, is the leading cause of death and disability in children and young adults in the developed world, and globally second only to HIV in causing the death of people under 40...
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The wife of a Hong Kong nurse who died of SARS last year alleged Monday that hospital authorities did not provide training on how to care for victims of the disease or set up enough treatment facilities.
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An expert panel said Thursday that it was unclear which treatments could help combat veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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THE government on Monday inaugurated a new health facility to combat communicable diseases, including severe acute respiratory synÂ­drome (SARS), which killed hundreds of people around Asia last year, the Department of Health said.
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Three Malaysians who became ill after an outbreak of deadly (H5N1) bird flu hit their northern village do not have the disease. The three were hospitalized as a precautionary measure after they came down with flu symptoms.
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NEW YORK  - An analysis of the results of several studies confirm previous reports suggesting that chemotherapy offers little or no survival benefits for young women with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancers and, if given, it should not be the sole second-phase, or "adjuvant" therapy.
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The first reports of disease began to emerge from the stricken regions, but health officials said there was no evidence of an epidemic.
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Chinese researchers have developed a SARS vaccine that has passed the first stage of human trials, state media has reported, raising hopes for the prevention of a virus that killed some 800 people since it emerged in 2002.
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The mystery illness in the southern parts of Sri Lanka which has killed eight people was a type of influenza and had no links with bird flu or SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), the official Daily News said Tuesday.