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Illness or injury expected to be temporary

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Medical 'misjudgment' could be leaving heart attack patients open to further attacks

Published August 27, 2008, 9:57 pm, Daily Mail

Patients being sent home from hospital to recover after a heart attack could be at risk because the assessment of attacks has been underestimated, a study claims.

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Army Personnel Show Increased Risk For Migraine; Condition Underdiagnosed, Mistreated

Published August 27, 2008, 8:33 pm, Science Daily

Two new studies show that migraine headaches are very common among US military personnel, yet the condition is frequently underdiagnosed. The studies, appearing in Headache, the peer-reviewed journal of the American Headache Society, examine the incidence among soldiers within 10 days of returning from a 1-year combat tour in Iraq , as well as US Army officer trainees.

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Gleevec receives FDA priority review for gastrointestinal stromal tumors after surgery

Published August 27, 2008, 3:12 pm, News-Medical-Net

Novartis has announced that Gleevec (imatinib mesylate) tablets, (known as Glivec (imatinib) outside the US, Canada and Israel), has been granted priority review status by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as the first therapy to be reviewed for use after surgery in kit-positive gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST).

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Study shows duloxetine reduces chronic low back pain

Published August 27, 2008, 5:43 am, PharmaBiz

Data from a new study suggest that Cymbalta (duloxetine HCl) 60-120 mg once daily significantly reduced chronic low back pain, as measured by the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) 24-hour average pain score, compared with placebo.

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Gleevec Receives FDA Priority Review as First Therapy to Reduce Recurrence of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors After ...

Published August 27, 2008, 4:00 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Novartis announced today that Gleevec® tablets* has been granted priority review status by the US Food and Drug Administration as the first therapy to be reviewed for use after surgery in kit-positive gastrointestinal stromal tumors .

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Zoo: Heart, lung woes killed Petal

Published August 27, 2008, 12:26 am, Philly.com

Petal, the Philadelphia Zoo's beloved African elephant, died of acute heart and lung failure after she fell on her side while sleeping, zoo officials said yesterday.

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Wii brings young, old together

Published August 26, 2008, 10:42 pm, Akron Beacon Journal

W hen the time arrived for Max Hess to decide on a social service project to do for his upcoming bar mitzvah, the Bath Township lad, 13, thought long and hard.

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Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly Provide Context for FDA Alert for BYETTA

Published August 26, 2008, 4:35 pm, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company in a conference call today provided context and additional information regarding the August 18, 2008 U.S. Food and Drug Administration update to a prior alert for BYETTA® injection referencing pancreatitis.

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Queries from readers

Published August 26, 2008, 8:55 am, Malaya

s there a drug that dissolves arterial blockage? There is no medication today that dissolves calcific, cement-like, arterial blockage due to hardening of the arteries.

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Controlling Asthma a Challenge in Children

Published August 26, 2008, 3:24 am, Carteret County News-Times

(ARA) - Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease, affecting nearly 9 million children in the United States. Although it has serious health consequences, many parents don't know how to keep their child's asthma under control.

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