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(HealthDay)—When it comes to the care of your children's teeth, dentists aren't the only experts who can help. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-primary-docs-role-kids-dental.html Dentistry Tue, 21 May 2013 07:20:01 EST news288336885 (HealthDay News) - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel will weigh on Friday the merits of a new therapy for some people with epilepsy who have seizures that don't respond to medication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-fda-panel-brain-epilepsy.html Neuroscience Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:50:01 EST news280673844 (HealthDay)—A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted Friday to place tougher restrictions on prescription painkillers containing hydrocodone, potentially moving medications such as Vicodin into the same class as narcotics such as Oxycontin and Percocet. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fda-panel-votes-tougher-curbs.html Medications Sat, 26 Jan 2013 07:50:01 EST news278401640 (HealthDay)—A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel met Thursday and Friday to discuss the fate of certain painkillers that contain the opioid known as hydrocodone, concluding in a vote in favor of moving hydrocodone combination products into the more restrictive Schedule II category of controlled substances. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fda-panel-votes-tougher-restrictions.html Medications Sat, 26 Jan 2013 06:20:01 EST news278401574 (HealthDay)—A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel will meet Thursday and Friday to discuss the fate of certain painkillers that contain an opioid known as hydrocodone. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fda-panel-tougher-restrictions-prescription.html Medications Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:20:01 EST news278262973 International scientists who last year halted controversial research with the deadly bird flu say they are resuming their work as countries adopt new rules to ensure safety. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-scientists-resume-lab-bred-bird-flu.html Medical research Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:09:54 EST news278176188 (HealthDay)—A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on Thursday recommended against approval of the first proposed drug to treat chronic fatigue syndrome. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-fda-panel-1st-drug-chronic_1.html Medications Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:40:42 EST news275308835 A touch-screen computer to help detect malnutrition in older adults has been created by a team of researchers led by the University of St Andrews. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-nana-touch-screen-technology-malnutrition-older.html Health Thu, 08 Nov 2012 06:50:08 EST news271579791 Virologists making mutated versions of the H5N1 bird flu halted their research in January after a U.S. government advisory panel suggested that their work, though well-intentioned, had the potential to endanger the public. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-bird-flu-debate-h5n1-resume.html Medical research Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:10:59 EST news269338236 On Friday September 28, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Ophthalmic Devices Advisory Panel unanimously voted 19-0 that the probable benefit of the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System outweighs the risks to health, an important step toward the FDA market approval of this product manufactured by Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. In making this determination, the panel spent ten hours carefully reviewing and discussing data submitted from the international clinical trial of this innovative retinal implant that, for the first time ever, partially restores vision to patients who are blind due to Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-fda-sight-ii-retinal-prosthesis.html Ophthalmology Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:03:12 EST news268455784 (AP)—The federal government will include about 50 types of cancer on the list of Sept. 11 World Trade Center-related illnesses covered by a program to pay for health coverage. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-wtc-health-cancer.html Health Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:56:27 EST news266514977 (HealthDay) -- A top U.S. advisory panel has recommended against preventive electrocardiography (EKG) screening for people at low risk of heart disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-guidelines-screening-ekgs-low-risk-patients.html Cardiology Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:14:30 EST news262890855 US regulators were expected to decide Tuesday whether to approve the second new anti-obesity drug in 13 years, Qnexa, which studies have shown may help some people lose up to 10 percent of their body weight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-weight-loss-drug.html Medications Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:52:13 EST news261748312 (HealthDay) -- A leading U.S. government advisory panel has proposed that postmenopausal women not take low-dose calcium and vitamin D supplements daily to ward off bone fractures. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-older-women-calcium-vitamin-d.html Health Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:00:01 EST news258741705 (HealthDay) -- The new blood thinner Xarelto appears to lower the chances of potentially fatal blood clots in high-risk heart patients, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration review has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-blood-thinner-chances-clots-high-risk.html Medications Mon, 21 May 2012 21:30:01 EST news256843717 (AP) -- A panel of HIV specialists is recommending that U.S. regulators approve the first over-the-counter HIV test designed to quickly return a result in the privacy of a person's own home, a new option which could expand testing for the virus that causes AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-fda-panel-rapid-home-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 15 May 2012 17:19:16 EST news256321148 The first drug shown to prevent HIV infection won the endorsement of a panel of federal advisers Thursday, clearing the way for a landmark approval in the 30-year fight against the virus that causes AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-fda-panel-pill-block-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 11 May 2012 04:35:14 EST news255929707 US regulators will decide in July whether to approve Qnexa, the first obesity drug in more than a decade, extending the initial deadline by three months, the California-based drug-maker VIVUS said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-obesity-drug-july.html Medications Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:15:20 EST news253278870 (HealthDay) -- A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Monday will weigh the wisdom of allowing new clinical trials of a class of powerful painkillers for osteoarthritis. The drugs may have worked so well for some patients that those patients wound up needing knee replacement surgery because they overworked their already damaged joints. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-fda-panel-chance-class-painkillers.html Medications Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:40:01 EST news250778922 (AP) -- A government panel favors expanding an aid program for people sickened by World Trade Center dust to include people who have at least some types of cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-panel-favors-wtc-cancer.html Health Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:40:01 EST news248624251 The World Health Organization said Friday it will meet next week to determine whether scientists can publish research on a bird flu virus that may be easily passed among humans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-health-experts-scientists-discuss-bird.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:30:02 EST news248102357 In a top-security lab in the Netherlands, scientists guard specimens of a super-killer influenza that slays half of those it infects and spreads easily from victim to victim. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-controversial-bird-flu_1.html Medical research Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:43:48 EST news244266218 (AP) -- Regulators on Friday approved Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s drug Eylea, an injection designed to treat a common cause of blindness in older people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-fda-regeneron-eye-eylea.html Medications Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:25:44 EST news240924324 A government advisory panel is considering whether the anthrax vaccine should be tested in children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-govt-anthrax-vaccine-kids.html Medications Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:20:17 EST news239026802