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CORRECTED - Roche aims for 400 mln Tamiflu doses by end 2006
In ZURICH item of March 16 headlined "Roche aims for 400 mln Tamiflu doses by end 2006" please read in paragraph 13 ... another Chinese company, HEC Group ... instead of ... another ...

Mozambique to double number receiving AIDS drugs
MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique expects to provide free anti-retroviral AIDS drugs to some 50,000 people by the end of 2006, more than twice as many as now get the life-prolonging ...

Chinese AIDS activists call for release of colleague
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese AIDS activists on Friday called for the release of fellow rights worker Hu Jia, who vanished a month ago, while his wife said she still had no idea where he ...

WHO maps out new strategy to battle tuberculosis
LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization unveiled a new strategy on Friday to fight tuberculosis, an infectious disease that kills about 1.7 million people worldwide each ...

UK drug drama could set back other trials: expert
LONDON (Reuters) - Tragic results from a clinical study of a new drug which has left six men in Britain seriously ill could be a setback for other trials, at least in the short-term ...

Osteoporosis screening missing highest-risk women
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The women who would benefit the most from a screening test for osteoporosis are the least likely to get it, a new study shows.

Low-carb diets can be unhealthy, doctors warn
LONDON (Reuters) - Low carbohydrate, high protein diets may help to shed weight quickly but researchers warned on Friday that they can be unhealthy.

Medicare May Hurt Access for Seniors (AP)
AP - Scores of doctors will stop seeing new Medicare patients or decrease the number they see if the federal government goes ahead with a proposed cut in their reimbursement rates, the ...

More Kids Are Getting Anti-Psychotic Drugs (AP)
AP - Soaring numbers of American children are being prescribed anti-psychotic drugs — in many cases, for attention deficit disorder or other behavioral problems for which these ...

FDA calls for studies to aid drug development
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators called on government, academic and industry researchers on Thursday to tackle 76 projects to help speed drug development, from creating tests ...

More big US employers offer pricey health plans
CHICAGO (Reuters) - More big U.S. employers are building high deductibles into their workers' health plan options, but many of these companies do not see such programs as a silver ...

Research setback feared after trial disaster
LONDON (Agence de Presse Medicale) - The medical profession is fearful for the future of clinical research and drug development following the clinical trial disaster that has left ...

New test spots drug-resistant malaria in travelers
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If travelers become sick after returning from areas in which chloroquine-resistant malaria is endemic, they need to be quickly checked for the disease. A ...

Leptin linked to asthma in women
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - High levels of leptin, an inflammatory compound produced by body fat, may raise the risk of asthma in premenopausal women, new research suggests.

Formula feeding doesn't make for heavy kids
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Whether infants are breastfed or formula-fed does not seem to influence their risk of becoming overweight kids, new study findings show.

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