Saturday, June 17, 2006

Medical news

BBC just discovered that Diabetic pregnancies have risk of defects and still births....something docs have know for at least 40 years.

Bad news: Plague in the Congo...pneumatic bubonic plague is one of the diseases that can kill in 24 hours...

And some earthquake victims from Indonesia have died of Tetanus...

Adult stem cells continue to be used successfully. The latest is treating lupus with stem cells from one's own bone marrow...

But the EUnion parliement approved funding for embryonic stem cell research,: "The European Parliament rejected an attack by fundamentalists and extremists," Cappato said.
Of course the dirty little secret is that if it looked like they could make money, the govenment wouldn't have to fund such research.

Finally, a new study shows antidepressants lower suicide risk....

Dr. Julio Licino, chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Miami Miller school of Medicine says, "As the number of [SSRI] prescriptions go up, the number of suicides go down."....

The authors of the study are troubled that prescriptions of antidepressants are declining, seemingly due to the recent controversy.


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