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Mutated scarlet fever fuels Hong Kong outbreak

29 June, 2011

FILE – In this June 22, 2011 file photo, parents meet at a school where a 5… -old bug long forgotten in many developed countries an outbreak of drug-resistant scarlet fever that has killed the first children there in a decade. And with it is the rise of a mutated strain that appears to be [...]

Live health chat on postoperative pain at noon

29 June, 2011

  The management of postoperative pain has been in the news recently. A study authored by Hopkins Drs. Christopher Wu and Srinivasa Raja found that pain management for patients after surgery remains inadequate. If you have a question about dealing with pain after surgery, join our live chat on Wednesday with Hopkins pain specialist Dr. [...]

Metformin: Safer for Heart Than Older Diabetes Drugs?

29 June, 2011

June 28, 2011 (San Diego) — Older people with type 2 diabetes who take an older class of oral diabetes drugs called sulfonylureas may have a higher risk of developing heart problems than those who take metformin. In a two-year study of 8,502 people with type 2 diabetes aged 65 and older, 12.4% of those [...]

9/11 hero Galfano dies at 57

28 June, 2011

A retired NYPD captain died Sunday, days after releasing a moving video about spending nine months at Ground Zero and developing cancer. Barry Galfano, 57, of Brentwood, L.I., had fought brain, lung and liver cancer since retiring from the force in 2006. He was first diagnosed in 2008. “They didn’t give him long to live,” [...]

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