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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials warned the public on Friday about the risk of a rare type of muscle injury seen when the cholesterol drug simvastatin is combined with the anti-arrhythmia medicine amiodarone.

It has been years since tobacco companies vowed to stop targeting children with slick ads featuring cartoon characters, but new research suggests that children remain in the crosshairs of the industry's advertising strategy.Tobacco advertisers use multiple posters, banners and fliers, often in close proximity, to get the message out, according to a study in the September issue of the American Journal of Preventive medicine.read more

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Unique biochemical crosstalk that enables a fetus to get nutrition and oxygen from its mother's blood just may cause common postpartum blues, researchers say. That crosstalk allows the mother's blood to flow out of the uterine artery and get just a single cell layer away from the fetus' blood, says Dr. Puttur D. Prasad, biochemist in the Medical College of Georgia School of medicine.

An innovative study appearing in the August issue of The Journal of Sexual medicine examined, for the first time, if noseless bicycle saddles would be an effective intervention for alleviating deleterious health effects, erectile dysfunction and groin numbness, caused by bicycling on the traditional saddle with a protruding nose extension.

Overall alcohol use particularly consumption of beer is declining in the US, according to a new study published in the August 2008 issue of The American Journal of medicine. Researchers examined 50 years of data and found several changes in alcohol intake but no change in alcohol use disorders.

Antiretroviral medications for HIV do not seem to increase the risk of cardiovascular events, suggest a pair of studies in the August issue of AIDS. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has given approval for a medicine to be made available from a pharmacist without a doctor's prescription to treat chlamydia. The azithromycin pill, which will be called 'Clamelle', will be available to buy by people 16 years and over if they have tested positive for the infection and have no symptoms, and for their sexual partners.

(London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) Eating oily fish once a week may reduce age-related macular degeneration which is the major cause of blindness and poor vision in adults inwestern countries and the third cause of global blindness, according toa study published today in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Adolescents who are skilled in interpreting media messages about tobacco may be less likely to smoke and less likely to start smoking in the future, according to a new study by University of Pittsburgh School of medicine researchers. The report is now online in the American Journal of health Behavior. In this study, researchers assessed the media literacy of more than 1,200 adolescents.