Contributor ReportsZwangere vrouw overleden aan Mexicaanse griep
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anonymous
Brussels :: Belgium | updated Fri Dec 04 07:56:16 -0800 2009 | health-news
15:25 In het universitair ziekenhuis Saint-Luc in Brussel is een zwangere vrouw gestorven aan de gevolgen van de Mexicaanse griep. Dat meldde de Franstalige televisiezender vrijdag in haar middagjournaal. Het griepcommissariaat kon of wilde dit specifiek overleden (nog) niet bevestigen,...
ReachA Man Who Was Diagnosed In A Coma For 23 Years
Posted by: bmmcgee2009
Beringen :: Belgium | updated Wed Dec 09 10:17:54 -0800 2009 | health-news
Rom Houben was trapped 23 years in a coma, a Belgium man was completely paralyzed after an automobile accident at age 23. He was declared in a coma in 1983 because he was unable to communicate he couldnt speak or...
Belgian wrongly believed to have been in coma ''feels like a newborn ...
Source: NewKerala
Liège :: Belgium | updated Wed Dec 09 13:36:48 -0800 2009 | health-news
The 46-year-old Rom Houben was injured in a car crash in 1983 when he was 20 and doctors took him to be in coma, although they now agree that he was conscious throughout. However, it was not until three years...
Man was awake during 23-year 'coma'
Source: CNN
Liège :: Belgium | updated Thu Dec 10 13:44:19 -0800 2009 | health-news
A Belgian car crash victim who was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state for 23 years was conscious the whole time, it has emerged. Rom Houben was 23 at the time of his accident, but tests carried out by...
EU: no safety concerns as 10 million get H1N1 shots
Source: Reuters
Brussels :: Belgium | updated Thu Dec 10 11:29:06 -0800 2009 | health-news
Some 10 million people across the European Union have now been vaccinated against H1N1 swine flu and so far no unexpected serious safety issues have been identified, the region's drugs watchdog said on Thursday. The most frequent adverse reactions have...
Coma patient's second birth
Source: News 24
Brussels :: Belgium | updated Fri Nov 27 14:00:20 -0800 2009 | health-news
He saw his doctors and nurses as they visited him daily during their rounds; he listened to the conversations of his carers; he heard his mother deliver the news to him that his father had died...Doctors presumed Houben was in...
Plastic may make boys act less than manly
Source: Toronto Star
Brussels :: Belgium | updated Tue Nov 17 01:54:39 -0800 2009 | health-news
A new study suggests that in-utero exposure to certain plastics may change behaviour in boys, making them less masculine. Researchers at the University of Rochester examined the play habits of children aged 4 to 7 years. The mothers of 145...
Abbott settles TriCor suit
Source: Chicago Tribune
Brussels :: Belgium | updated Mon Nov 30 20:31:32 -0800 2009 | health-news
Abbott Laboratories has settled U.S. patent litigation over its blockbuster cholesterol pill TriCor in a deal that allows generic versions of the drug in early 2011. The North Chicago -based drug giant said Monday that Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries can sell...
Dithering over statins' side-effects label finally ends
Source: The Guardian
Brussels :: Belgium | updated Sat Nov 21 13:37:39 -0800 2009 | health-news
Drug Safety Update, Volume 1, Issue 7 (a boring government document). After a review of clinical trial data, spontaneous reports of suspected adverse drug reactions, and published literature, the agency concluded: "Product information for statins is being updated to reflect...
Gene therapy in eyes brings success — and hope
Source: The Courier-Journal
Brussels :: Belgium | updated Mon Nov 02 15:37:32 -0800 2009 | health-news
They have now treated an additional nine patients, including five children, and find that the best results are achieved in the youngest patients, whose defective retinal cells have not had time to die off. The youngest patient, 9-year-old Corey Haas,...
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