Today's Reuters Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News:
|
|
China details rail, health, infrastructure spending - reports
Tue,4 Sep 2012 07:54 PM PDT
Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China has rolled out a series of plans for infrastructure spending this week, notably from the Ministry of Railroads, aiming to boost confidence that the government is committed to keeping economic growth from sagging further. The heavily indebted Ministry of Railroads has boosted its target for railway construction this year to 496 billion yuan ($78.14 billion), up from the previous target of 470 billion yuan), the China Daily said on Wednesday, citing an industry executive. Last year, it spent 461 billion yuan. ... Full Story | Top |
U.S. officials sound worldwide alert for Yosemite hantavirus risk
Tue,4 Sep 2012 06:37 PM PDT
Reuters -  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. health officials have sent warnings to 39 other countries that their citizens who stayed in Yosemite National Park tent cabins this summer may have been exposed to a deadly mouse-borne hantavirus, a park service epidemiologist said on Tuesday. Of the 10,000 people thought to be at risk of contracting hantavirus pulmonary syndrome from their stays in Yosemite between June and August, some 2,500 live outside the United States, Dr. David Wong told Reuters in an interview. Wong said U.S. ...
Full Story | Top |
Factbox: Highlights of the Democratic Party election platform
Tue,4 Sep 2012 05:59 PM PDT
Reuters - Charlotte, North Carolina (Reuters) - The Democratic Party late on Monday unveiled its election platform, a non-binding political document that party delegates will vote to adopt at the national convention in Charlotte on Tuesday evening. The document highlights a sharp divide in the economic and cultural agendas of the Democratic and Republican parties going into the November election. The platform seeks higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans, backs same-sex marriage and a woman's right to have an abortion. Below are some principles highlighted in the document called "Moving America ... Full Story | Top |
Trying to quit smoking? Patches, drugs help: study
Tue,4 Sep 2012 05:41 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Trying to stop smoking? Smokers have considerably more success when they use nicotine patches or prescription medications than when they try to go it alone, an international study found. Past research has yielded conflicting evidence on the effectiveness of such aids since they seem to work in clinical trials, but less so in a real-life setting. But the current researchers, whose findings appear in the journal Addiction, found that some quitting aids were linked to four-to-six-fold higher success rates. ...
Full Story | Top |
Planned Parenthood asks court to reconsider Texas health ruling
Tue,4 Sep 2012 05:13 PM PDT
Reuters - AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Planned Parenthood asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to reconsider a ruling that would allow Texas to exclude it from a health program for low-income women, as opponents of the rule packed a public hearing to express their outrage. A three-judge panel of a federal appeals court ruled last month that Texas may exclude groups affiliated with abortion providers from the Medicaid Women's Health Program, which provides cancer screenings, birth control and other health services to more than 100,000 Texas women. ... Full Story | Top |
Testing time for Roche's breast cancer business
Tue,4 Sep 2012 04:03 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG, the world's biggest maker of cancer drugs, faces a testing time in its breast cancer business as a near-term threat to Herceptin, its third-biggest seller, could take the shine off the long-term promise of its new medicines. The issue is likely to be centre-stage when the Swiss group gives a research and development presentation to investors in London on Wednesday. Results of two opposing studies examining how long patients should use Herceptin could potentially boost or cut sales of the blockbuster medicine, which had sales last year of 5. ...
Full Story | Top |
EU advises all girls need cervical cancer vaccines
Tue,4 Sep 2012 04:03 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - All girls in Europe should be immunized against the human papillomavirus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer and current vaccine coverage rates are far too low, European Union health officials said on Wednesday. In new advice about tackling the virus, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said that while 19 out of 29 countries in the region had introduced HPV vaccine programs, vaccination rates were as low as 17 percent in some. ... Full Story | Top |
Millions of Americans have uncontrolled blood pressure: report
Tue,4 Sep 2012 02:33 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly half of about 67 million Americans with high blood pressure are not effectively treating their condition and face a high risk of a heart attack or stroke, a U.S. health official said on Tuesday. About 36 million people have uncontrolled high blood pressure, a condition caused when too much force is exerted by blood as it is pumped through the body and moves against vessel walls, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Tuesday. "The bottom line is ... ... Full Story | Top |
FDA approves Pfizer leukemia drug
Tue,4 Sep 2012 02:33 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health regulators on Tuesday approved a Pfizer Inc pill for a rare type of leukemia, another step in the company's effort to expand its oncology business. The medicine, called Bosulif, treats chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), a blood and bone marrow disease that usually affects older adults. About 26,000 Americans live with the cancer, and 5,430 people in the United States expected to be diagnosed with it annually, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said. Most people with CML have a specific type of genetic mutation called the Philadelphia chromosome. ...
Full Story | Top |
Docs, nurses may overestimate quality of their care
Tue,4 Sep 2012 01:35 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors and nurses may overestimate the quality of the care they provide hospital patients in the hours leading up to a serious complication, according to a small new study. After reviewing the records of 47 patients, Dutch researchers found that for more than half there were delays in recognizing that the patients' conditions were deteriorating in advance of a crisis, such as an unplanned admission to intensive care. Meanwhile nurses, doctors-in-training and specialists reported far fewer delays. ... Full Story | Top |
Not all doctors want hand-washing reminders
Tue,4 Sep 2012 01:10 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many doctors and nurses don't like the idea of patients reminding them to clean their hands, a new study from Switzerland suggests. So-called hand hygiene has become a major goal of health care facilities around the world, and patients are often encouraged to become involved in system-wide changes to promote hand washing, researchers said. "Hand hygiene is the primary measure to prevent infections and cross-transmission (of bacteria and viruses) at the point of care," said Dr. ...
Full Story | Top |
Common household chemical tied to heart disease risk
Tue,4 Sep 2012 01:06 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who had higher levels of a common synthetic chemical in their blood were more likely to have heart disease or have had a stroke, in a new U.S. study. The chemical, known as perfluorooctanoic acid or PFOA, is found in everything from food containers to ski jackets to carpets. But the lead researcher emphasized that the new findings don't prove PFOA itself is dangerous or should be avoided. "I don't think these results should be taken as alarming. These are preliminary at this stage," said Dr. ... Full Story | Top |
Medicare reimbursement incentive less than effective
Tue,4 Sep 2012 12:50 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Record-keeping for a patient complication used by Medicare to determine how much hospitals get reimbursed is not comprehensive or accurate, undermining the policy's value, a new study suggests. In an effort to get more for their money, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - as well as some individual insurance companies - don't reimburse hospitals for certain conditions listed on billing records that are costly and believed to be preventable. ... Full Story | Top |
SEC charges China Sky One with securities fraud
Tue,4 Sep 2012 12:29 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged China Sky One Medical Inc and its chief executive with securities fraud and said the company recorded fake sales of a weight loss product. China Sky One inflated revenues in its financial statements by booking $19.8 million in phony export sales, the SEC said. The company, based in China, said in 2007 securities filings it had entered into a distribution agreement with a Malaysian company that would generate the sales, but never entered into such an agreement, the SEC said on Tuesday. ...
Full Story | Top |
In real-world setting, anti-smoking aids help
Tue,4 Sep 2012 12:24 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A large new survey across four countries has found that smokers attempting to quit have considerably more success when they use nicotine patches or prescription medications than when they go it alone without anti-smoking aids. Past research has yielded conflicting evidence on the effectiveness of drug treatments for smoking cessation - they seem to help in clinical trials, but to make less of a difference in real-life settings. ...
Full Story | Top |
| |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment