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Conservative group launches ad attacking Florida Supreme Court
Tue,25 Sep 2012 05:47 PM PDT
Reuters - TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - A conservative advocacy group began running an Internet ad criticizing the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday, days after the Republican Party started a campaign to sack three justices who rejected efforts to overturn President Barack Obama's healthcare law. ... Full Story | Top |
U.S. bans beef from Canada's XL Foods plant
Tue,25 Sep 2012 03:59 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - The United States has halted imports of beef products from one of Canada's largest beef-processing plants, owned by privately held XL Foods at Brooks, Alberta, due to findings of E. coli bacteria. A spokesman for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said on Tuesday that the agency "de-listed" the plant on September 13 at the request of U.S. authorities, meaning that it cannot export any of its products to the United States until corrections are made. "Which is normal, when there are positive findings from a facility," said CFIA spokesman Tim O'Connor. ... Full Story | Top |
Alnylam gets favorable ruling in patent suit against Tekmira
Tue,25 Sep 2012 03:48 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc said a U.S. federal court has ruled that it could sue Canada's Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp for infringing patents on lipid nanoparticle technology exclusively licensed to Alnylam. Alnylam also said it filed a similar lawsuit in Canada. Alnylam had alleged that Tekmira provided its molecules to pharmaceutical collaborators despite having an exclusive agreement licensing them to Alnylam to use in its RNA therapy. The company said the U.S. federal court in Massachusetts denied Tekmira's motions to dismiss certain claims by Alnylam. ... Full Story | Top |
Supreme Court to address blood testing for drunk driving
Tue,25 Sep 2012 02:15 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court will soon consider whether police must get a warrant before forcing a suspected drunken driver to submit to a blood test, a case that could set a new legal standard for motorists' privacy. By agreeing on Tuesday to hear the case along with six others, the court has agreed to review close to 40 cases for the nine-month term that begins on Monday. It will add others in months to come and typically hears 70 to 75 cases a year. Decisions are expected by the end of June. ...
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FDA to expedite review of Sucampo and Takeda's constipation drug
Tue,25 Sep 2012 02:13 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Sucampo Pharmaceuticals Inc said U.S. health regulators will review the company's application for wider use of its constipation drug Amitiza sooner than usual, pushing its shares up as much as 10 percent in after-market trade. The companies are trying to gain U.S. approval for the drug to treat constipation caused by opioids in patients with chronic, non-cancer pain. The "priority review," or the expedited review granted by the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Depomed sues FDA to get sales exclusivity for shingles pain drug
Tue,25 Sep 2012 02:07 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Depomed Inc filed a lawsuit against U.S. health regulators, seeking market exclusivity for its shingles pain drug, which was designated as an orphan drug. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which approved Gralise in January 2011, had granted orphan-drug designation to it, but not the market exclusivity that goes with the status. An orphan drug status, granted to drugs treating fewer than 200,000 patients, gives the approved product seven years of marketing exclusivity from its approval date. Gralise accounted for $3. ... Full Story | Top |
Salmonella sickens 30 in 19 states, peanut butter recalled
Tue,25 Sep 2012 01:42 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thirty people in 19 states have fallen ill from Salmonella poisoning, probably from tainted peanut butter, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday. Health officials and regulators point to Trader Joe's Valencia Creamy Salted Peanut Butter made with Sea Salt as the likely source of the outbreak of the Salmonella Bredeney strain, the CDC said in a statement. The median age of those taken ill is 7, and four people have been hospitalized, the CDC said. ... Full Story | Top |
Medical students lack knowledge of healthcare overhaul
Tue,25 Sep 2012 01:33 PM PDT
Reuters - New York (Reuters Health) - The 2010 Affordable Care Act affects almost every aspect of the U.S. healthcare system, but many future doctors who will be operating under its policies admit they don't know that much about the law. In a survey of about 850 medical students in Minnesota, less than half said they understood the healthcare law's basic components, and more than 40 percent said they had no opinion on the law. ... Full Story | Top |
Canadian contracts H1N1 variant after contact with pigs
Tue,25 Sep 2012 01:30 PM PDT
Reuters - OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian man has been infected with an H1N1 variant influenza virus after having had close contact with pigs, a senior health official for the province of Ontario said on Tuesday. "I would like to reassure Ontarians that this variant influenza virus rarely spreads from animals to humans. Subsequent human-to-human transmission is also rare," Arlene King, Ontario's chief medical officer of health, said in a statement. An influenza virus that normally circulates in animals is referred to as a variant virus when it infects humans. In such cases it is labeled H1N1v. ... Full Story | Top |
Knee replacements on the rise in the U.S
Tue,25 Sep 2012 01:03 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More seniors are getting their knees replaced with artificial joints, according to a new study of Medicare data. Researchers found that over the last two decades, the number of first-time knee replacements and re-do procedures more than doubled in the U.S. By 2010, 62 out of every 10,000 older adults were getting primary knee replacement surgery every year, they reported today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. ... Full Story | Top |
Xbox games get kids moving, but benefits unclear
Tue,25 Sep 2012 01:02 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids burned more calories while playing dance and boxing video games than they did during a sedentary car racing game, in a new UK study. Researchers said it's not surprising children would get their body working harder while playing a game on Kinect for the Xbox 360 that requires being off the couch and jumping around. But it's still not clear whether that translates to real weight and health differences for youngsters who have those games at home. ...
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Kids' prescriptions often going unfilled
Tue,25 Sep 2012 12:53 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A large share of medication prescriptions to children on Medicaid may go unfilled, a new study suggests. Researchers found that of nearly 17,000 prescriptions made to kids at two urban clinics, 22 percent were never filled. That's similar to what's been seen in studies of adults - among whom anywhere from 16 percent to 24 percent of prescriptions go unfilled. "There are lots of studies that show that if you're not adherent to your medication, you'll have worse health outcomes," said lead researcher Dr. ...
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Down syndrome may hold key to new Alzheimer's treatments
Tue,25 Sep 2012 12:52 PM PDT
Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - In a new lead on Alzheimer's research, Johnson & Johnson is bankrolling a three-year pilot study of people with Down syndrome to identify the early changes that herald dementia, which afflicts up to 75 percent of adults with the condition. The aim is to generate support for a much bigger, public-private partnership funded by drugmakers, advocates and government agencies that will study at least 1,000 people with Down syndrome, tracking them from an early age and eventually testing treatments to keep dementia from developing. ... Full Story | Top |
Merck agrees to settle Coppertone class action lawsuit
Tue,25 Sep 2012 12:49 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Merck & Co has agreed to pay between $3 million and $10 million to settle a nearly decade old class-action lawsuit that alleged the company made false claims about the benefits of its Coppertone sunscreen products. Merck acquired the popular Coppertone franchise in 2009 when it bought U.S. rival Schering-Plough Corp, and thereby inherited the 2003 lawsuit. Merck denied any wrongdoing or liability or that anyone was harmed by the allegedly exaggerated claims for Coppertone sprays and lotions cited in the lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of numerous consumers. ...
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Pre-op MRI may not help breast cancer patients
Tue,25 Sep 2012 12:48 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Having an MRI scan before breast cancer surgery may not cut a woman's risk of needing a second operation to go after additional tumor tissue - and may even raise her chance of getting an unnecessary mastectomy, a new study suggests. Researchers found that among more than 300 women who underwent breast cancer surgery, those who had an MRI beforehand were no less likely to need a repeat operation to remove more tumor tissue: 19 percent did, versus 18 percent of women who did not have an MRI. ... Full Story | Top |
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