Hepatitis C Combination Therapy - Your Health Briefs - 12/29

Your Health Briefs - 12/29
KXAN - Researchers are questioning the effectiveness of an herbal remedy used to treat liver disease. That and more in Thursday's Health Briefs. A review of 13 clinical trials on milk thistle found it has no significant effects on liver disease caused by

Doctors collecting information on hepatitis drug
Grand Forks Herald - BISMARCK, N.D. - North Dakota doctors are collecting information on the treatment of prisoners for hepatitis C. Drs. Jeff Hostetter, Kent Martin, John Hagan and Olimpia Rauta, all of Bismarck, are collecting information to present to the federal

Destroyer of lives
Meadville Tribune - At 17 she snorted her first line. By 23, she was shooting up. A mere four years later, Donna Green sits on a hospital bed at a Terre Haute nursing home, where a crayon drawing by her daughter and a poster of The Doors are taped to the wall. Dabbing

35 local patients will be tested
Columbia State - At least 35 patients of Columbia-area hospitals might have received transplants of stolen human tissue. The transplants are connected to a New York City case in which funeral home workers took parts from dead bodies without the families consent

Biomed Rounds: Will Biogen s Tysabri make a comeback in 2006?
Mass High Tech - Looking ahead to 2006, here is a list of predictions from Your Scribe, who doesn t always see 20-20, even in hindsight: Tysabri will be brought back onto the market. The multiple-sclerosis drug is a potential blockbuster for Biogen Idec Inc., but