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NIH study seeks to improve asthma therapy for African-Americans
Researchers will enroll around 500 African-American children and adults who have asthma in a multi-center clinical trial to assess how they react to therapies and to explore the role of genetics in determining the response to asthma treatment. This...
UNICEF, government vaccinating over 1.7 million children in Guinea amid measles outbreak
As the death toll and the number of suspected cases of measles continue to rise in Guinea, UNICEF and the Government of Guinea have kicked off a massive emergency campaign to vaccinate over 1.7 million children in an effort to stop the spread of...
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SAMHSA issues Advisory to treatment community on the danger of heroin contaminated with fentanyl and what can be done to save lives
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has issued an advisory to the treatment community about a marked increase in deaths since the beginning of the year that were reportedly linked to the use of heroin contaminated...
Measles deaths reach record lows with fragile gains toward global elimination
New mortality estimates from WHO show that annual measles deaths have reached historic lows, dropping 78% from more than 562 000 in 2000 to 122 000 in 2012. During this time period, an estimated 13.8 million deaths have been prevented by measles...
