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12/31/1969 Fate of 'uninsurables' hinges on Supreme Court Cancer patient Kathy Watson voted Republican in 2008 and believes the government has no right telling Americans to get health insurance. Nonetheless, she says she'd be dead if it weren't for President Barack Obama's health care law. Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Health Tip: Keep Cloth Grocery Totes Clean (HealthDay News) -- Reusable grocery totes may be friendly for the environment, but they can also befriend harmful bacteria. Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Diabetes Can Take a Toll on Your Emotions THURSDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) -- Many people know diabetes -- both type 1 and type 2 -- can take a serious toll on physical health. But these blood-sugar disorders also can affect your emotions and, in turn, your emotions can wreak havoc on yo... Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 After stinging report, Pope softens tone for U.S. nuns VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Friday held out an olive branch to American Roman Catholic nuns, who are reeling from a stinging Vatican report that criticized them as being feminist and politicized. "I wish to reaffirm my deep grat... Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 French autistic kids mostly get psychotherapy In most developed countries, children with autism are usually sent to school where they get special education classes. But in France, they are more often sent to a psychiatrist where they get talk therapy meant for people with psychological or emo... Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 'Bad' Fat May Hurt Brain Function Over Time FRIDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) -- Women who eat a lot of "bad" saturated fat may hurt their overall brain function and memory over time, Harvard University researchers report. Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Health Tip: Log Migraine Details in a Diary (HealthDay News) -- Tracking your migraines can better prepare you to prevent or treat these often-debilitating headaches. Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Healthy Dieting in Pregnancy May Be Helpful FRIDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) -- Eating a healthy, calorie-controlled diet during pregnancy can helps prevent excessive weight gain and cut the risk of obstetric complications, researchers report. Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 FDA warning hurts Hikma generics margins (Reuters) - Hikma Pharmaceuticals Plc said it expects profitability in its generics business to be hurt by continuing price competition and steps it has taken to comply with a warning letter from U.S. regulators. In February, the company received ... Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Novartis lung drug superior to placebo over 1 year ZURICH (Reuters) - A Novartis experimental lung drug to treat smokers' cough was superior to a placebo in improving lung function over a one-year period and had similar efficacy to a rival drug from Pfizer and Boehringer Ingelheim, the Swiss d... Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Two-Drug Combo May Be Safe for Melanoma Treatment WEDNESDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) -- A preliminary, first-stage study funded by a pharmaceutical company shows promising results for an experimental double-drug therapy for melanoma. Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 J&J drug shows promise in high-risk prostate cancer (Reuters) - Adding Johnson & Johnson's advanced prostate cancer drug, Zytiga, to hormone therapy before surgery has been shown for the first time to eradicate tumors in some men with high-risk forms of the disease. The mid-stage trial found th... Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Glaxo melanoma drug combo shows promise in small trial (Reuters) - Two drugs being developed by GlaxoSmithKline Plc - each designed to block different pathways used by cancer cells - have been shown in a small clinical trial to curb melanoma with fewer side effects than current therapies. The experime... Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Bulgaria bans smoking in indoor public spaces SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's parliament voted on Thursday to ban smoking in all indoor public spaces from June 1 in an attempt to persuade one of Europe's heaviest smoking nations to kick the habit. The European Union's poorest member ... Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Patients should consult before stopping Pfizer drug-FDA (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators said patients should not stop taking Pfizer Inc's Zithromax antibiotic without consulting a doctor, after a study showed a slightly higher rate of death among patients taking the drug compared to those on oth... Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Specialty drug costs a major employer worry: survey (Reuters) - Employers want to step up programs to encourage healthier behavior among their workers and to control spending on expensive injected specialty medicines, according to a survey by pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts Holding Co. Cos... Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Many pregnant women may not get STD tests NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite recommendations that pregnant women have tests for certain sexually transmitted diseases, many may not be getting them, a new study suggests. Researchers found that of nearly 1.3 million U.S. women who had blood... Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Some patients' fate could hinge on Supreme Court If the Supreme Court strikes down President Barack Obama's health care law, it wouldn't just be politicians dealing with the fallout. Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 White births in US no longer in majority: census White births in the United States are no longer in the majority, according to US Census Bureau data made public Thursday. Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Fate of some patients hinges on Supreme Court Cancer patient Kathy Watson voted Republican in 2008 and believes the government has no right telling Americans to get health insurance. Nonetheless, she says she'd be dead if it weren't for President Barack Obama's health care law. Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Boomers' love of pets could change as both age Hazel the schnauzer and Wrigley the black lab mix mean everything to Harriet Buscombe. The dogs protect her on her pre-dawn runs around her Champaign, Ill., neighborhood, but mostly they make her feel great. Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Study unpicks gene changes behind breast cancer LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have mapped the complete genetic codes of 21 breast cancers and created a catalogue of the mutations that accumulate in breast cells, raising hopes that the disease may be able to be spotted earlier and treated more e... Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Fewer Young Americans Smoking, Survey Finds THURSDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) -- Smoking rates among American teens and young adults fell between 2004 and 2010, but too many of them still light up, a new federal government report reveals. Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Many Primary Care Docs Don't Know Long-Term Effects of Chemo: Survey WEDNESDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) -- Many primary care doctors don't know the long-term side effects of the chemotherapy treatments that cancer survivors under their care may have been given, a new survey found. Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Advanced Prostate Cancer Drug May Help at Earlier Stage WEDNESDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) -- A drug approved to treat advanced prostate cancer appears to help men who have localized high-risk prostate cancer if given before surgery. Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Human Genome adopts rights plan to ward off Glaxo (Reuters) - Human Genome Sciences Inc said on Thursday it adopted a stockholder rights plan as the biotechnology company defends itself against a $2.6 billion hostile takeover bid by drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline Plc. Human Genome said its board deter... Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 Safety inspections don't hurt businesses-study BOSTON (Reuters) - Random inspections of U.S. industrial workplaces lower the risk of workers being injured on the job and have no measurable negative effect on the companies inspected, according to a study in the journal Science. Companies chosen... Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 TB patient charged in Calif for not taking meds Armando Rodriguez was warned several times to continue taking his tuberculosis medicine. Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 FCC chooses spectrum for wireless medical devices NEW YORK (Reuters) - The telecommunications regulator on Thursday announced plans to set aside a chunk of spectrum for connecting wireless medical devices to allow for more convenient and cost-effective health monitoring. The allocation of spectru... Read more at this website... 12/31/1969 More doctors are ditching the old prescription pad Doctors increasingly are ditching the prescription pad. The latest count shows more than a third of the nation's prescriptions now are electronic. Read more at this website... |
