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- Communication Considerations for Parents of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children
The earlier that deafness or hearing loss is identified, the better the chances a child will acquire language, whether spoken or signed. A hearing screening can be an important indicator of deafness or hearing loss in a child. For this reason, all infants should be screened while still in the hospital or within the first month of life. But children who do not pass their screening need to go for a follow-up examination. The follow-up examination includes precise audiological testing that...
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
- Captions for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Viewers
Captions are words displayed on a television screen that describe the audio or sound portion of a program. Captions allow viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing to follow the dialogue and the action of a program simultaneously. They can also provide information about who is speaking or about sound effects that may be important to understanding a news story, a political event, or the plot of a program. Captions are created from the transcript of a program. A captioner separates the dialogue...
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
- Drug-Resistant Seizures Often Take Years to Develop
While about 80 percent of people with epilepsy gain significant relief from drug therapy, the remaining 20 percent have seizures that cannot be controlled by medications. Many of these people have a particular type of epilepsy called partial epilepsy. A new study shows that people with partial epilepsy often have seizures controlled by medications for years before their seizures become drug-resistant. The study also found that periods when seizures stopped for a year or more are common in these...
National Institutes of Health
- FDA Approves First New Drug Application for Treatment of Radiation Contamination due to Cesium or Thallium
This is a revised version of FDA Press Release P03-75, originally issued earlier on Oct. 2, 2003. Corrections were made to the original version, which is now obsolete. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved a New Drug Application for Radiogardase, also known as Prussian blue, to treat people exposed to radiation contamination, due to harmful levels of cesium-137 or thallium. Radiogardase capsules contain Ferric (III) hexacyanoferrate(II). The approval of Radiogardase is part of...
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- FDA Approves New Drug for Advanced Prostate Cancer
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved the New Drug Application (NDA) that permits marketing of Plenaxis (abarelix), a drug for advanced prostate cancer for patients who have no alternative therapy. The drug, indicated for the treatment of the symptoms of men with advanced prostate cancer who cannot take other hormone therapies and who have refused surgical castration, will be marketed under a voluntary risk management program (RMP) agreed to and administered by the sponsor that...
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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- Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc. - http://www.shhh.org/
- American Society of Addiction Medicine - http://www.asam.org/
- Addiction Technology Transfer Centers Program - http://www.nattc.org/
- Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing - http://www.agbell.org/
- National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, The - http://www.casacolumbia.org/
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- NIDA Begins Its First-Ever Public Discussion on Pain Relief and Addiction - March - 05, 2007
National Institutes of Health - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:51 EST
- Addiction Breakthrough May Lead To New Treatments
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:00 EST
- Addiction And The Brain -- Are We Hard-wired To Abuse Drugs?
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:00 EST
- Brain Chemical Tied to Drug Addiction
WebMD - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:26 EST
- Brain Chemical Tied to Drug Addiction
WebMD - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:00 EST
Clinical Trials
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- HIV Infection and Tobacco Use Among Injection Drug Users in Baltimore, Maryland: A Pilot Study of Biomarkers
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00491335 - Recruiting
HIV Infections; AIDS; Lung Cancer; Tobacco Addiction; Drug Addiction
- Treating the Partners of Drug Using Pregnant Women: Stage II
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00496990 - Recruiting
Drug Addiction
- Recovery Housing For Drug Dependent Pregnant Women
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00497302 - Recruiting
Drug Addiction
- Buprenorphine and Integrated HIV Care Evaluation
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00124358 - Recruiting
Substance-Related Disorders; Drug Addiction; HIV; AIDS
- Employment-Based Reinforcement to Motivate Drug Abstinence in the Treatment of Drug Addiction. - 2
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00249457 - Active, not recruiting
Behavior Therapy; Cocaine Abuse; Cocaine Dependence; Contingency Management; Heroin Dependence; Methadone; Opioid Dependence

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