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Drug safety data opened up to patients and researchers: The UK medicines watchdog, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, is to publish anonymous data on suspected adverse drug reactions to patients and researchers on its website. Patients will also be able to report suspected drugs side effects direct to the scheme (www.yellowcard.gov.uk).
Woman gives birth at age 66: A 66 year old Romanian woman has given birth to a baby girl weighing just 1.4 kg at the Giulesti Maternity Hospital in Bucharest. The woman reportedly had infertility treatment for nine years before becoming pregnant.
Global strategy published for development of HIV/AIDS vaccine: The Global HIV/AIDS Vaccine Enterprise, an international alliance of organisations involved in research on HIV vaccine, has published a strategic plan for overcoming the major obstacles to the development of an effective vaccine. See the Public Library of Science Medicine website (www.plosmedicine.org).
Pfizer withdraws advertising on COX 2 inhibitors: Pfizer has withdrawn advertising of its COX 2 (cyclo-oxygenase-2) drugs celecoxib and valdecoxib, the business information company Datamonitor has said (www.datamonitor.com). The US Food and Drug Administration said that the advertisements failed to disclose appropriate information about the risks and potential side effects associated with the drugs.
Alcohol may reduce mortality: Alcohol may protect against some diseases and death, say the findings of a 23 year prospective study of 12 000 male British doctors who were aged 48-78 years in 1978 and drank an average of two to three units of alcohol a day; 7000 of the doctors died during the study, by Richard Doll, Richard Peto, and colleagues at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. It is published in the International Journal of Epidemiology ("advance access" at http://ije.oupjournals.org).
Woman gives birth at age 66: A 66 year old Romanian woman has given birth to a baby girl weighing just 1.4 kg at the Giulesti Maternity Hospital in Bucharest. The woman reportedly had infertility treatment for nine years before becoming pregnant.
Global strategy published for development of HIV/AIDS vaccine: The Global HIV/AIDS Vaccine Enterprise, an international alliance of organisations involved in research on HIV vaccine, has published a strategic plan for overcoming the major obstacles to the development of an effective vaccine. See the Public Library of Science Medicine website (www.plosmedicine.org).
Pfizer withdraws advertising on COX 2 inhibitors: Pfizer has withdrawn advertising of its COX 2 (cyclo-oxygenase-2) drugs celecoxib and valdecoxib, the business information company Datamonitor has said (www.datamonitor.com). The US Food and Drug Administration said that the advertisements failed to disclose appropriate information about the risks and potential side effects associated with the drugs.
Alcohol may reduce mortality: Alcohol may protect against some diseases and death, say the findings of a 23 year prospective study of 12 000 male British doctors who were aged 48-78 years in 1978 and drank an average of two to three units of alcohol a day; 7000 of the doctors died during the study, by Richard Doll, Richard Peto, and colleagues at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. It is published in the International Journal of Epidemiology ("advance access" at http://ije.oupjournals.org).