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K-V sues FDA over Makena in fight for survival
Thu,5 Jul 2012 07:49 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - K-V Pharmaceutical Co is suing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for not cracking down on compounded versions of its premature birth drug Makena, in a last-ditch fight for the company's survival. Makena is an injectable hormonal medicine that reduces the risk of pre-term birth in women who have already delivered early in the past. K-V got approval to sell Makena last year, giving it a new lease on life after it was barred from making and marketing its own drugs due to repeated manufacturing problems. ... Full Story | Top |
Pfizer yanks breast, colon claims for Centrum vitamins
Thu,5 Jul 2012 07:27 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc, bowing to allegations of deceptive advertising lodged by a consumer watchdog group, has agreed to drop "breast health" and "colon health" claims from the labels of its widely used Centrum multivitamin supplements. Although Pfizer said it disagreed with complaints lodged by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), it agreed to remove the claims from some Centrum product labels over the next six months and to withdraw them from websites and advertising within 30 days. ...
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Romney campaign's missteps have some Republicans grumbling
Thu,5 Jul 2012 07:23 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For months, Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign was a picture of discipline, charting a relatively steady course for the former Massachusetts governor through a bitterly contested primary season. In recent weeks, however, Romney's tight ship has not looked so tight. ...
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Episcopalians debate transgender inclusion in ministry
Thu,5 Jul 2012 06:30 PM PDT
Reuters - INDIANAPOLIS, IN (Reuters) - A proposal to expand the U.S. Episcopal Church's nondiscrimination canons for the ordained ministry to include "gender identity and expression" passed its first hurdle on Thursday, when it won committee approval at the church's General Convention. The move comes nine years after the Episcopal Church, part of the worldwide Anglican Communion, approved its first openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson, sparking the departure of conservative parishes. The church now allows gay men and lesbians to join the ordained ministry. ... Full Story | Top |
Florida hero turns down offer to return to lifeguard job
Thu,5 Jul 2012 05:34 PM PDT
Reuters - MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida lifeguard who was fired after he left his post to help a distressed swimmer outside his assigned zone turned down an offer on Thursday to return to his old job. Tomas Lopez, a 21-year-old lifeguard in Hallandale Beach, Florida, was dismissed earlier this week by a private company that manages the lifeguards at the city's beaches and municipal pool. The company, Jeff Ellis Management, said Lopez put swimmers in his area at risk by leaving his lifeguard station to assist a struggling swimmer outside the area the firm is paid to watch over. ... Full Story | Top |
Alaska man treated for flesh-eating infection in Seattle
Thu,5 Jul 2012 05:28 PM PDT
Reuters - ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A man from Juneau, Alaska, contracted a rare infection from flesh-eating bacteria and was in satisfactory condition in a Seattle hospital after being flown in for emergency treatment, hospital officials said on Thursday. Ruben Pereyra was the latest person in the United States to suffer the flesh-eating disease that has also afflicted a Georgia graduate student who has had to undergo multiple amputations and a South Carolina woman who is a new mother of twins. ... Full Story | Top |
Britain rejects Roche's Avastin in advanced breast cancer treatment
Thu,5 Jul 2012 04:08 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG's cancer drug Avastin has been rejected by Britain's healthcare cost agency as a first-line treatment for advanced breast cancer, the latest in a series of setbacks for this medicine. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) said on Friday that although Avastin, when used in combination with the chemotherapy drug Xeloda, could delay cancer from progressing longer than chemotherapy alone, it did not appear to help breast cancer patients live longer overall. ...
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L.A. County voters to decide on condoms in porn
Thu,5 Jul 2012 04:06 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles County voters will decide in November whether to require porn actors to use condoms during film shoots, in a ballot measure that marks a new front for an AIDS group that has long targeted the adult entertainment industry. The ballot initiative is the latest salvo against the industry, after the city of Los Angeles passed a similar requirement in January that has yet to be enforced. ... Full Story | Top |
Analysis: Legal eagles redefine healthcare winners, losers
Thu,5 Jul 2012 02:48 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld President Obama's healthcare law under Congress's power to tax, but not its power to regulate the economy, many conservatives were quick to hail the decision as a victory for more limited government. By saying the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution does not allow Congress to penalize people for "inactivity" - such as someone's decision not to purchase health insurance - the thinking went, the court opened the door to challenges to laws that might attempt to do the same. ...
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Fewer public schools selling sugary drinks
Thu,5 Jul 2012 01:22 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fewer elementary school students can buy soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks at school than could a few years ago, according to a new study. Researchers called the trend of fewer vending machines and snack bars selling the beverages "encouraging," with soda drinking being one nutrition issue public health experts have tied to childhood obesity. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), an advisory panel to the U.S. government, recommends schools sell only water, 100-percent juice and fat-free or low-fat milk to kids. ... Full Story | Top |
High-dose vitamin D prevents fractures in elderly
Thu,5 Jul 2012 12:59 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new analysis of nearly a dozen studies testing vitamin D in older individuals has concluded that it takes a daily dose of at least 800 international units (IU) to consistently prevent broken bones. A dose that high was found to reduce the risk of hip fracture by 30 percent and other breaks by 14 percent. Lower doses didn't have any effect. The report, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also suggests that too much calcium -- perhaps more than 1,000 milligrams (mg) per day -- can weaken the benefit. ... Full Story | Top |
Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. needs "extended" in-patient treatment
Thu,5 Jul 2012 12:28 PM PDT
Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Representative Jesse Jackson Jr., who disclosed recently that he has been on medical leave since early June with an unspecified condition, is grappling with "physical and emotional ailments" that require in-patient treatment, his office said on Thursday. In a statement, Jackson's press secretary Frank Watkins said the 47-year-old congressman's condition was "more serious than we thought and initially believed" and would require "extended in-patient treatment as well as continuing medical treatment thereafter." The statement did not specify the medical problem. ... Full Story | Top |
Schizophrenia, autism may be linked in families
Thu,5 Jul 2012 11:35 AM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Families with a history of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder are also more likely to have a child with autism, new research from Sweden and Israel suggests. Researchers found that kids whose parents or siblings had been diagnosed with schizophrenia were almost three times more likely to have an autism spectrum disorder, including autism and Asperger syndrome. The link was weaker for bipolar disorder, but still consistent, according to findings published this week in the Archives of General Psychiatry. ... Full Story | Top |
Roche's DNA test to track CMV infection gets FDA nod
Thu,5 Jul 2012 10:56 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators on Thursday approved a first-of-its-kind DNA test by Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG to help physicians track progress in treating organ transplant patients for a common virus. Roche's COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan CMV Test is designed for use on solid organ transplant patients undergoing cytomegalovirus (CMV) antiviral therapy. CMV is a common virus that can cause pneumonia and colitis in patients with weak immune systems, such as organ transplant patients. There were 28,538 solid organ transplants in the United States in 2011, according to the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
U.S. OKs Lupin generic of Pfizer nerve pain drug
Thu,5 Jul 2012 10:40 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - India's Lupin Ltd said it won U.S. approval for a generic version of Pfizer Inc's big-selling Lyrica nerve pain treatment. A spokesman for Lupin said it has not yet launched its version of Lyrica, which is also known as pregabalin. Lyrica tallied U.S. sales of about $1.8 billion for the year ended in March, Lupin said, citing data from IMS Health Inc. (Reporting by Lewis Krauskopf; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick) Full Story | Top |
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