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| Clot-busting drug ups bleeding stroke survival
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research confirms that a very low dose of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), a clot-busting drug, improves survival in patients with bleeding or "hemorrhagic" strokes, a type that is usually fatal. |
| Research links common chemicals to obesity
GENEVA (Reuters) - Exposure in the womb to common chemicals used to make everything from plastic bottles to pizza box liners may program a person to become obese later in life, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. |
| Health ministers to debate drug patent dispute
GENEVA (Reuters) - Health ministers from around the world will try next week to bridge differences over how to overhaul drug patent rules that developing countries say make life-saving medicines costly and inaccessible. |
| Bird flu pandemic will need multiple drugs
LONDON (Reuters) - Governments need to stockpile different sorts of flu drugs - not just Roche Holding AG's Tamiflu - to counter the danger of resistance in a pandemic triggered by bird flu, British experts said on Wednesday. |
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