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Treat Gestational Diabetes for Baby’s Sake
Treating pregnant women who have even mild gestational diabetes helps reduce the risk of complications in infants and the women’s own risk of blood pressure problems, according to a new study.

Only 1/3 in U.S. Plan to Get Swine Flu Vaccine
Only a third of Americans plan to get the swine flu vaccine. One reason: 57% of those at risk of severe flu don’t know it, a Consumer Reports poll shows.

Strep Throat: No Link Seen to Tourette’s Syndrome, Tics, or OCD
Streptococcal infections such as strep throat and strep pneumonia don’t appear to make Tourette’s syndrome, tics, or obsessive-compulsive disorder more likely.

Bacteria Have Role in Swine Flu Deaths
Bacterial co-infections play a role in swine flu deaths. Most of these are vaccine-preventable pneumococcus infections. Some are deadly MRSA.

CDC: Alarming Increase in Methadone Deaths
The growing use of methadone for pain relief is largely responsible for a dramatic increase in deaths linked to the drug, which have risen sevenfold in less than a decade, an alarming government report shows.

Breast Cancer Deaths Drop Again
Breast cancer death rates continue to drop by 2% a year. Despite the decline, African-American women die of breast cancer 40% more often than white women.

Sanofi-Aventis Presents Results For Head-to-Head Study Of Lantus
Superior efficacy-dose ratio for Lantus over Detemir

Novartis Reports Two-Year Phase III Study For Oral MS therapy
FTY720 has shown to reduce relapses and disability progression

Nexavar Plus Paclitaxel Show Progression Free Survival By 74%
Safety and tolerability profile was consistent with the previous result

CBR Pharma reports on M&A in the biopharmaceutical industry
The history of the pharmaceutical industry is closely linked to the business practices of the combination and purchase of corporations. From the creation of the combined entity of Warner-Lambert in 1955, to the purchase of Warner-Lambert by Pfizer in 2000, to the recent acquisition of Wyeth, pharmaceutical [...]