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Antidepressant studies unpublished

The makers of antidepressants like Prozac and Paxil never published the results of about a third of the drug trials that they conducted to win government approval, misleading doctors and consumers about the drugs true effectiveness, a new analysis has found.
In published trials, about 60 percent of people taking the drugs report significant relief […]

Iraq war takes unique toll on National Guard

SAN FRANCISCO Despite signs that the war in Iraq is taking a toll on National Guard troops’ mental health, members are no more likely than active-duty soldiers to develop post-traumatic stress, psychologists reported over the weekend.
But financial problems are creating emotional pain. Deployment-linked money trouble raises the odds sixfold that a National Guard […]

TB quarantines common at local level

DENVER While the federal government rarely imposes quarantines Д issuing its first in more than four decades last week Д cities and states routinely isolate TB patients to prevent them from infecting others.
The federal quarantine order was issued for Andrew Speaker, who has extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, because he had ignored earlier […]

Report: Man has less severe form of TB

ATLANTA An Atlanta lawyer undergoing treatment for extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, XDR-TB, in Denver has a form of the disease that is less drug-resistant and more curable than previously reported, doctors said Tuesday.
Officials at National Jewish Medical and Research Center said multiple tests done there indicate Andrew Speaker’s TB will respond to some of […]

Injection tricks the body into healing heart failure, according to study

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