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Senator seeks expanded visas for foreign high-tech workers
Tue,15 May 2012 06:14 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading Republican in the Senate on Tuesday unveiled legislation to raise the number of temporary visas for skilled technical workers from foreign countries, but prospects of passage this year could be clouded by election-year politics. Senator John Cornyn, the senior Republican on a panel that oversees immigration, introduced a bill that would make an additional 55,000 visas available each year for graduates with master's and doctoral degrees who have studied at U.S. research institutions. ...
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Britain to fund prostate cancer pill in U-turn
Tue,15 May 2012 04:00 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's drug watchdog has reversed a controversial decision not to fund a new prostate cancer pill that was developed in the country after maker Johnson & Johnson agreed a new discount on supplies to the UK state healthcare service. Zytiga, which is known chemically as abiraterone, was approved last year in Europe and the United States to treat advanced prostate cancer in patients who previously received chemotherapy. The drug was developed by researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research and London's Royal Marsden Hospital. ... Full Story | Top |
Pentagon limits F-22 flights due to safety concerns
Tue,15 May 2012 03:10 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon announced on Tuesday new safety precautions for its F-22 fighter jets - including limiting how far they can fly from airstrips - after pilots experienced symptoms of oxygen deprivation aboard the advanced stealth aircraft. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes the new precautions on the F-22s, built by Lockheed Martin Corp, are sufficient to guarantee safety. But the Pentagon did not rule out grounding the aircraft again, if necessary. ...
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FDA panel backs OraSure's In-Home HIV test
Tue,15 May 2012 02:45 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel of outside experts concluded that OraSure Technologies Inc's over-the-counter, in-home HIV test is reasonably safe and effective for determining whether someone has the AIDS virus. The 17-member FDA advisory committee voted unanimously that the drug's ability to prevent new HIV infections and provide HIV-positive people with access to medical care and social services outweighed the risks of false results. ...
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Catholic college drops health plan over contraception mandate
Tue,15 May 2012 02:21 PM PDT
Reuters - DENVER (Reuters) - A small Catholic college in Ohio said Tuesday it was dropping health insurance coverage for students rather than comply with a federal mandate that the plan provide free birth control. The Franciscan University of Steubenville "will not participate in a plan that requires us to violate the consistent teachings of the Catholic Church on the sacredness of human life," according to a bulletin to students posted on the university's website. Not only will the university drop its own plan, but it will no longer require its undergraduates to carry insurance, the bulletin said. ... Full Story | Top |
Senator seeks expanded visas for foreign high-tech workers
Tue,15 May 2012 01:56 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading Republican in the Senate on Tuesday unveiled legislation to raise the number of temporary visas for skilled technical workers from foreign countries, but prospects of passage this year could be clouded by election-year politics. Senator John Cornyn, the senior Republican on a panel that oversees immigration, introduced a bill that would make an additional 55,000 visas available each year for graduates with master's and doctoral degrees who have studied at U.S. research institutions. ...
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St Jude is latest to launch blood pressure device
Tue,15 May 2012 01:22 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - St Jude Medical Inc said it won European approval to begin selling a device that lowers blood pressure by creating tiny scars along the renal nerves, joining a growing number of medical technology companies developing hypertension treatments. The St Jude device, called the EnligHTN Renal Denervation System, is intended for patients whose high blood pressure is resistant to drug therapy, or about one quarter of those who have hypertension. An estimated 68 million Americans, or one in three, have high blood pressure, considered a risk factor for heart disease, the world's No. ...
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Fewer young girls getting married in South Asia
Tue,15 May 2012 01:04 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fewer girls in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan are getting married before the age of 14, according to a new study. The decline varied in each country, but was generally sizeable. In Bangladesh, for example, about 34 percent of women reported being married by age 14 in 1991 and 1994. By 2005 and 2007 that number fell to about 19 percent. The news, however, was not good for older girls, researchers said. ...
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U.S. HIV aid has prevented 741,000 deaths: study
Tue,15 May 2012 01:02 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The United States foreign aid program that sends billions of dollars to African countries for HIV treatment and prevention has cut the number of people dying for any reason in those nations, a new study suggests. Researchers had previously shown that the initiative -- the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR -- had prevented deaths from AIDS. But it was unclear if more people in those countries were only dying of tuberculosis or malaria instead, researchers explained. ...
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FDA delays deadline for new U.S. sunscreen labels
Tue,15 May 2012 12:42 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has delayed by six months rules on the marketing of sunscreen originally set to go into effect this summer, saying the extra time was needed to avoid supply shortages. The FDA last year ordered sunscreen manufacturers to make a host of changes by June to sunscreen labels that would better explain how consumers should use the products. After complaints from major trade associations that companies were having trouble making the changes, the agency late last week extended the deadline to December. ... Full Story | Top |
Young adults with autism lag in school, work
Tue,15 May 2012 11:19 AM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young adults with autism are less likely to go to college or hold down a job than their peers with other types of disabilities, a new U.S. study finds. Researchers found that more than one-third of young adults with an autism spectrum disorder had not gotten a job or gone into higher education since high school. And that number was much higher compared with young adults with learning disabilities or other impairments. It's estimated that about one in 88 U.S. children has an autism spectrum disorder, or ASD. ... Full Story | Top |
Acupuncture may help some people with COPD: study
Tue,15 May 2012 11:15 AM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Three months of acupuncture improved breathing problems in people with chronic lung disease, in a new study from Japan. According to one researcher, the benefits seen with the alternative treatment were on par with, or better than, what's been shown for conventional drugs and exercises used to treat the disease. But the study was small, he added, and more research will be needed to convince doctors and policymakers of acupuncture's usefulness. "We don't know if this is going to extend life, but the study suggests it improves quality of life," said Dr. ...
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U.S. launches ambitious Alzheimer's plan with research push
Tue,15 May 2012 10:53 AM PDT
Reuters -  CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. government launched a national plan to address Alzheimer's disease on Tuesday with funding for a first prevention study in high-risk patients and tests on an insulin nasal spray that has shown promise in earlier studies. The trials, funded by grants of $16 million and $7.9 million respectively, are initial steps in the National Alzheimer's Plan, a sweeping effort to find an effective way to prevent or treat Alzheimer's by 2025 and improve the care of those already afflicted with the brain-wasting disease. ...
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Young adults with autism lag in school, work
Tue,15 May 2012 10:35 AM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young adults with autism are less likely to go to college or hold down a job than their peers with other types of disabilities, a new U.S. study finds. Researchers found that more than one-third of young adults with an autism spectrum disorder had not gotten a job or gone into higher education since high school. And that number was much higher compared with young adults with learning disabilities or other impairments. It's estimated that about one in 88 U.S. children has an autism spectrum disorder, or ASD. ... Full Story | Top |
Cardinal facility suspended under DEA settlement
Tue,15 May 2012 08:46 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Drug wholesaler Cardinal Health Inc will suspend shipments of controlled substances from a Florida warehouse for two years under a settlement of federal litigation stemming from a major crackdown on prescription painkiller abuse. Under the agreement with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Cardinal said on Tuesday that it would also work to improve security procedures at the Lakeland, Florida, distribution center to ensure that potentially addictive painkillers known as opioids, including oxycodone, wind up in the right hands. ... Full Story | Top |
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