NEW YORK – Combined treatment with the chemotherapy drugs topotecan and docetaxel is effective for women who have had a return of their uterine or ovarian cancer and have already been treated with other drug combos, new research shows.
NEW YORK – Combined treatment with the chemotherapy drugs topotecan and docetaxel is effective for women who have had a return of their uterine or ovarian cancer and have already been treated with other drug combos, new research shows.
GENEVA – The World Health Organisation has asked Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche to deploy emergency stockpiles of its antiviral drug Tamiflu in response to the swine flu outbreak, Roche said in a statement on Saturday.
CIBOLO, Texas – When Hayden Henshaw came down with a new and worrying kind of influenza last month, he thought he had strep throat.
HONG KONG – When millions of people started dying around the world in 1918, doctors and scientists hadn’t a clue what was happening. As the epidemic spread, people blamed it on everything from tiny plants to old dusty books.
ATLANTA – Mexico’s health secretary may have thought he was allaying fears about swine flu when he suggested that the nation’s swine flu death rate was 6 or 7 percent. In reality, that would mean a monstrous killer virus — and no experts are close to saying that.
MEXICO CITY – The cloth patches in green, blue and white are everywhere, clamped tight over the mouth and nose of teachers, toddlers, policemen and drunks. Even the statue at the church of St. Jude, patron of lost causes, has been fitted with a light-blue surgical mask to ward off swine flu. But do they work?
A never-before-seen strain of swine flu has turned killer in Mexico and is causing milder illness in the United States and elsewhere.
SYDNEY - Wearing a surgical mask is a cheap and effective way of keeping out contagious diseases like swine flu, an Australian researcher said Monday.
MUNICH - Women should not casually decide whether to give birth by Caesarean section, said gynaecology professor Birgit Seelbach-Goebel, director of a women’s clinic in Regensburg, Germany.
GERMANY - A man sits on a train solving a crossword puzzle, a woman broods over a Sudoku grid while an ad for an electronic memory game flashes across a television screen. There is no shortage of ways to improve the brain’s memory powers - after all, lots of people want to improve their mental abilities.