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FDA Proposes Barring Certain Cattle Material From Medical Products As BSE Safeguard
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing to limit the materials used in some medical products in order to keep them free of the agent thought to cause mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE.This is the latest in a series of BSE safeguards that would bar material that has been found to harbor the highest concentrations of this fatal agent in infected cattle.
Generic Prostate Drug Helps Find High Risk Cancers Early
Men now have another good reason to consider taking finasteride, a well known generic drug that shrinks an enlarged prostate and reduces the risk of getting prostate cancer by 25 percent. A new study from the Southwest Oncology Group strongly suggests that for men at risk of the disease which strikes one in six men finasteride also raises the odds that physicians will find fast growing prostate cancers early, when they are most easily treatable.
Working Together To Make Rabies History, UK
Despite being entirely preventable, through vaccination and prompt medical treatment, rabies continues to kill over 55,000 people annually. Mostly children and mainly in Africa and Asia, it is easy for those in a country free of the disease to forget its impact, yet two-thirds of the world's population still live in a rabies endemic area.