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Health & Medicine Week


Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . September 9th, 2002
Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only
Related Areas: Other Issues in Health & Medicine Week | Other Publications

Aging - Thinking positively about aging extends life more than exercise and not smoking

Head and Neck Cancer - Injectable gel effective treatment

Emergency Medicine - Research: Most emergency room visits are not for emergencies

Insomnia - Decreased testosterone levels linked to sleep disorder

Medicare - Physicians turning away new medicare patients jumps 28%

Otorhinolaryngology - Increased risk of bacterial meningitis in unvaccinated cochlear implant patients

Aging - Earthrise Spirulina shown to reverse age-related brain degeneration in rats

Appointments - NDCHealth announces new board member

Appointments - Tyco names Edward D. Breen chairman and CEO

Cancer Therapy - Marshall Edwards, NIH, join forces to study the investigational drug, phenoxodiol

Depression - EGeen International, Prediction Sciences sign deal to study citalpram

Erectile Dysfunction - FDA issues approvable letter for Vardenafil

Finance - Lincare Holdings reports 3 and 6 month results

Finance - Telik announces 2002 second quarter highlights and financial results

Food Safety - FDA's advisory on methyl mercury and fish consumption still OK

Information Technology - NIH awards $7 million to SRA

Investment Trends - Venture capital investment in Q2 2002 continues to slide toward 1998 levels

Legal Issues - VantageMed announces court approval of securities lawsuit settlement

Management Changes - Sepracor R&D executive VP quits

Market Trends - Viagra faces competition from new oral therapies from Eli Lilly and Bayer

Mergers and Acquisitions - RxBazaar completes merger with SB Merger Corp.

Practice Trends - Hmong doctor's new practice geared toward Asian community

Respiratory Disease - Collaboration targets aerosol delivery of surfactants

Staffing Issues - Time for action to solve the nursing shortage is now, says nurses' union

Stock Distribution - Pharmacia sets stock distribution ratio for spin-off of shares in Monsanto

Stock Repurchase - Steris Corp. announces share repurchase authorization

Stock Split - Psychemedics stockholders approve reverse stock split



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