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Buyers still should beware of imported foods  -  Mar 18, 2008
Asbury Park Press,His health quickly deteriorating, the 57-year-old railroad superintendent was diagnosed with rare fulminant hepatitis A disease â€” in which the virus

The Doctor Says: By Dr MILTON LUM  -  Feb 19, 2008
Malaysia Star,About 0.1% to 0.6% of acute HBV infection leads to fulminant hepatitis, which has a mortality of about 70%. The development of chronic HBV carriers is

Import alarm keeps sounding on food safety  -  Feb 8, 2008
USA TodayHis health quickly deteriorating, the 57-year-old railroad superintendent was diagnosed with rare fulminant hepatitis A disease â€” in which the virus

Genentech and Biogen Idec Announce Positive Results from a Phase ...  -  Jan 24, 2008
Business Wire (press release),...progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), hepatitis B reactivation with related fulminant hepatitis and other serious viral infections,

World first in transplant medicine  -  Jan 23, 2008
Parramatta Sun,The patient, Demi-Lee Brennan, then aged nine, was diagnosed with severe liver failure, or acute fulminant hepatitis. She required a life-saving liver

donors' rights must be guarded / greater legal protection required ...  -  Nov 12, 2007
The Daily Yomiuri,...a 38-year-old woman from tokyo, said a doctor at a hospital where her father was diagnosed with fulminant hepatitis failure said her father required a

Another Success for Hepatitis A Vaccine  -  19 Oct 2007
New England Journal of Medicine (subscription),Death from fulminant hepatitis was rare, typically occurring in people with underlying chronic liver disease. Since the introduction of the second hepatitis

Food poisoning likely behind mysterious C. Java deaths  -  Jul 31, 2007
Jakarta Post,Kandun said the deaths were not caused by acute fulminant hepatitis (liver failure) as originally suspected. A joint health team from the police,

Transplant ad aims to spread information, hope  -  Jul 1, 2007
Barre Montpelier Times Argus,She visited a hospital in London and was diagnosed with fulminant hepatitis. A doctor told her the disease was rapidly destroying the cells in her liver and

Adverse event with oral EPO FG-2216 in anemia treatment  -  May 7, 2007
PipelineReview.com (press release),...that in the phase II clinical trial of FG-2216 for patients in pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease, there was one case of death by fulminant hepatitis.

Black cohosh and liver damage: how relevant?  -  May 29, 2007
ScienceBlogsToday the most common cause of fulminant hepatitis is use of acetaminophen. Studying drug-induced liver injury is extremely challenging because of its often

GPs face work hike after NSAID alert  -  May 18, 2007
Irish Medical News,...the risk of hepatitis, fulminant hepatitis (including fatal cases), jaundice and cholestasis and to limit the oral dose to a maximum of 200 mg daily.â€?

Hepatitis A more than a 'passing tummy bug'  -  Apr 13, 2007
The Australian,This is most often the result of a fulminant hepatitis, a rare syndrome in which large numbers of liver cells die, the necrotic liver shrivels and the

Obara gets life term, but not for Lucie case  -  Apr 24, 2007
Asahi Shimbun,Ridgway died from an attack of fulminant hepatitis caused by chloroform in the drug in 1992. Prosecutors said Blackman was attacked in the same way.

Sanofi-Aventis Announces Update to US Prescribing Information for ...  -  Feb 15, 2007
Drug Newswire (press release),These hepatic reactions included fulminant hepatitis and hepatic necrosis leading to liver transplant, and were observed during or immediately after

Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL)  -  Dec 22, 2006
WebMDRituxan has also been associated with fatal hepatitis B reactivation with related fulminant hepatitis and other serious viral infections, cardiovascular events ...

Sanofi-Aventis Statement Regarding US FDA Joint Advisory Committee ...  -  Dec 16, 2006
FinanzNachrichten.de,These hepatic reactions included fulminant hepatitis and hepatic necrosis leading to liver transplant, and were observed during or immediately after treatment. ...

Subsequent Course of Rituximab Improved Outcomes in Rheumatoid ...  -  Nov 17, 2006
DG News...life-threatening adverse reactions that have been reported following Rituxan therapy include Hepatitis B reactivation with fulminant hepatitis, other viral ...

Guidelines Issued for Rituximab Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis  -  Nov 21, 2006
Medscape (subscription)...for hepatitis B infection prior to the initiation of rituximab, as this medication has been linked with the development of fulminant hepatitis among patients ...

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