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Wyeth Receives Approvable Letter from FDA for Bazedoxifene for the
MSN MoneyCentral - Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth, has leading products in the areas of women’s health care, infectious disease, gastrointestinal health, central nervous system, inflammation, transplantation, hemophilia, oncology, vaccines and

What’s New Now
Baseline - Dr. Roger Baxter, infectious disease specialist for the Northern California branch of Kaiser Permanente, a health maintenance organization based in Oakland, Calif., says the avian flu models have sparked dialogue within his 40-hospital group and with

Health Beat Clean hands may keep doctor away
Lowell Sun - Marian Michaels, an infectious disease specialist at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh: l Do wash for 20 seconds — or longer. A good guideline for children is the time it takes for them to sing their ABCs. l Don’t use really hot water. Hot

Pregnant women at risk for HIV may opt out of testing
Reuters - Singh from University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and associates compared the characteristics and HIV prevalence of women undergoing prenatal infectious disease screening who accepted prenatal HIV testing with those of women who declined

Breakthrough In Rapid Malaria Detection Reported
Science Daily - Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease spread by parasites of the genus Plasmodium. Most common in tropical and subtropical regions, it is a global scourge with 350 to 500 million new cases — and one to three million fatalities — reported

Government protests against WHO ports list
Taipei Times - The IHR is the WHO’s global legal framework for infectious disease control. It comes into effect in June. The IHR Authorized Ports List, made public on the WHO’s Web site last Friday, showed the list of ports sent by Taiwan to the WHO — Keelung