Medical Informer

The Rays Tank: Spark in the Offense Provides Hope CT Scan reveals a fracture in Jeter's bionic ankle, so he'll be out until after the All-Star break now. David Ortiz will be in the lineup for the Red Sox today for the first time this season.The Red Sox return to Fenway for the first time [...]

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Pill camera provides an alternative to colonoscopy The PillCam Colon 2, as it's called, offers a few advantages over colonoscopies: no sedation and no need for air to be pumped into the bowel. But it's plenty expensive ($ 800) and not yet an insured benefit of the public health insurance plan … Full News here [...]

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APA Provides Important Checks On Health-Care Law Colorado is also in the process of implementing the new health-care law, including setting up the Colorado Health Benefit Exchange — a marketplace for Coloradans to search for and purchase health insurance based on quality and price. Accordingly … Full News here – Read more on Law Week [...]

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The saga of the forbidden fruit, part 2: FTC provides food for thought in POM … The FTC sued POM in September 2010 alleging that POM's ads made deceptive claims that: (i) its products prevented, treated, or reduced the risk of heart disease, prostate cancer, and erectile dysfunction, and (ii) that POM had clinical studies [...]

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Pozen Provides Results Of Type A Meeting With FDA … versions of 325 mg aspirin delayed-release and 40 mg omeprazole immediate-release, and 81 mg aspirin delayed-release and 40 mg omeprazole immediate-release, respectively) for the secondary prevention of cardio – and cerebrovascular events and to … Full News here – Read more on NASDAQ

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Powdered supplement provides anemia cure for poor children Mixing powdered iron and other micronutrients into food reduced rates of anemia beyond what nutrition education alone could achieve, the researchers found after a study among 3112 infants in Cambodia. The researchers provided sachets of micronutrient … Full News here – Read more on Global Times

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