FDA to expedite review of Sucampo and Takeda's constipation drug
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:13 PM PDT
(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 ... |
Depomed sues FDA to get sales exclusivity for shingles pain drug
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:07 PM PDT
(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 ... |
Salmonella sickens 30 in 19 states, peanut butter recalled
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:42 PM PDT
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 ... |
Medical students lack knowledge of healthcare overhaul
Reuters via Yahoo! News Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:33 PM PDT
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 ... |
Canadian contracts H1N1 variant after contact with pigs
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:30 PM PDT
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 ... |
Knee replacements on the rise in the U.S
Reuters via Yahoo! News Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:03 PM PDT
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 ... |
Xbox games get kids moving, but benefits unclear
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:02 PM PDT
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 ... |
Kids' prescriptions often going unfilled
Reuters via Yahoo! News Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:53 PM PDT
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 ... |
Pre-op MRI may not help breast cancer patients
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:48 PM PDT
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 ... |
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