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No extra birth defect risk after cancer treatment: study
Mon,12 Dec 2011 06:26 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - The radiation and chemotherapy given to young cancer patients don't seem to increase the risk that their own children will have birth defects years later, a U.S. and Canadian study said. Researchers, whose findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, said this was "reassuring" because some doctors have wondered if the powerful drugs and radiation -- especially radiation directed near the ovaries or testicles -- might have long-term effects on the DNA of egg and sperm cells. ... Full Story | Top |
Brazil's Lula is beating cancer, doctors say
Mon,12 Dec 2011 05:41 PM PST
Reuters -  SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A 75 percent reduction in the size of a tumor in former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's throat has surprised his doctors and could put the popular showman back on the active political roster as early as March. The medical team treating Lula at the Hospital Sirio-Libanes said they were "impressed" with his recovery, as the 66-year-old former union boss started his third and final round of chemotheropy on Monday. ...
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Japan auditors to approve restated Olympus accounts: media
Mon,12 Dec 2011 05:16 PM PST
Reuters -  TOKYO (Reuters) - External auditors of Japan's disgraced Olympus Corp are set to sign off on its restated accounts this week, the Asahi newspaper said on Tuesday, clearing one key hurdle in the firm's struggle to survive a $1.7 billion accounting fraud. The maker of cameras and medical equipment must publish its second-quarter results by Wednesday in order to keep its stock-market listing and avoid being cut off from capital markets, and will also submit its corrected accounts for the past five years. ...
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Factbox: Payroll tax cut areas of compromise
Mon,12 Dec 2011 04:33 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Lawmakers are trying to clinch a deal extending a popular payroll tax cut, working against a year-end deadline to avoid imposing an effective tax hike on 160 million Americans. While Republican leaders agree with Democrats on the need to extend the tax cut, they disagree on how to fund the $120 billion cost. Below are areas of contention and potential compromise. KEYSTONE PIPELINE The biggest bargaining chip for Republicans is their proposal to speed approval of TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL pipeline project between the United States and Canada. ... Full Story | Top |
Medtronic settles U.S. probe over doctor kickbacks
Mon,12 Dec 2011 04:23 PM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medtronic Inc has agreed to pay $23.5 million to settle allegations that it paid kickbacks to doctors to encourage them to use its pacemakers and defibrillators, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday. The company was accused of seeking physicians to participate in studies and registries and paying doctors fees of between $1,000 to $2,000 per patient for information and data collected as long as they used Medtronic's devices, according to the Justice Department. ... Full Story | Top |
Olympus auditors to approve financial statements: report
Mon,12 Dec 2011 03:41 PM PST
Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - External auditors of Japan's Olympus Corp are set to approve the scandal-hit firm's financial statements for the second quarter to September, as well as for the past five years, the Asahi newspaper reported on Tuesday. Auditing firms KPMG AZSA LLC, and Ernst and Young ShinNihon LLC will approve without qualification all the statements except for the year ending in March 2007, which they will approve with qualification, the Asahi said without citing sources. ... Full Story | Top |
Medtronic settles probe over doctor kickbacks
Mon,12 Dec 2011 03:22 PM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medtronic Inc has agreed to pay $23.5 million to settle allegations that it paid kickbacks to doctors to encourage them to use its pacemakers and defibrillators, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday. The company was accused of seeking physicians to participate in studies and registries and paying doctors fees of between $1,000 to $2,000 per patient for information and data collected as long as they used Medtronic's devices, according to the Justice Department. ... Full Story | Top |
Analysis: Little appetite in Japan for major post-Olympus reform
Mon,12 Dec 2011 02:46 PM PST
Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is unlikely to make sweeping reforms to rules on corporate governance in the wake of the Olympus Corp accounting scandal because of a largely hostile business lobby and a lack of political will to clip the wings of top executives. The $1.7 billion scheme to hide two decades of investment losses at Olympus is one of Japan's worst accounting frauds and highlights long-standing criticism of lax corporate governance, yet analysts say only minor reform is likely. ... Full Story | Top |
Olympus ex-president personally fired auditor: report
Mon,12 Dec 2011 02:33 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Olympus Corp's former president Tsuyoshi Kikukawa personally dismissed the auditing firm that raised objections about the acquisitions used to cover up loss-making investments, the Nikkei business daily reported, citing sources familiar with the ongoing investigations. Olympus used payments to a financial advisory firm connected with its takeover of U.K. medical devices maker Gyrus Group Plc, as well as a portion of the cost of three domestic acquisitions, to offset the securities losses, the paper said. ...
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Canada says invoking right to quit Kyoto protocol
Mon,12 Dec 2011 02:31 PM PST
Reuters -  OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto protocol on climate change, Environment Minister Peter Kent said on Monday. "As we've said, Kyoto for Canada is in the past ... We are invoking our legal right to formally withdraw from Kyoto," he told reporters. (Reporting by David Ljunggren and Louise Egan; editing by Rob Wilson)
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Factbox: Payroll tax cut areas of compromise
Mon,12 Dec 2011 02:19 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Lawmakers are trying to clinch a deal extending a popular payroll tax cut, working against a year-end deadline to avoid imposing an effective tax hike on 160 million Americans. While Republican leaders agree with Democrats on the need to extend the tax cut, they disagree on how to fund the $120 billion cost. Below are areas of contention and potential compromise. KEYSTONE PIPELINE The biggest bargaining chip for Republicans is their proposal to speed approval of TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL pipeline project between the United States and Canada. ... Full Story | Top |
Many elderly screened for cancer despite doubts
Mon,12 Dec 2011 02:17 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although the benefits of cancer screening in elderly people are often less certain than the risks, many silver-haired Americans are still getting the routine tests, researchers said Monday. More than half of women ages 75 to 79 in a nationwide survey said they were being screened for breast cancer and had had recent Pap smears to look for signs of cervical cancer. Similarly, most men in that age group had been screened for prostate cancer recently. The numbers dropped some for people over 80, but were still high. ... Full Story | Top |
Brazil's Lula is beating cancer, doctors say
Mon,12 Dec 2011 02:11 PM PST
Reuters -  SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Doctors in charge of throat cancer treatment for former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called his response to chemotherapy "impressive" and said the tumor in his larynx had shrunk by 75 percent in size. The popular Lula is undergoing his third and final round of chemotherapy on Monday, which will be followed by radiation therapy in the coming months, finishing in February. Doctors on the team treating the former president at the Hospital Sirio-Libanes said they were "impressed". ...
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FDA panel backs Alexza drug with limits
Mon,12 Dec 2011 02:02 PM PST
Reuters - U.S. drug advisers recommended approving an experimental treatment from Alexza Pharmaceuticals for calming down patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, but placed restrictions on how the drug should be used. Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration on Monday voted 9 to 8 that Adasuve should be approved, but only if it is given in a single dose in 24 hours, and with the FDA's safety strategy. ... Full Story | Top |
Studies may have overestimated cellphone crash risk
Mon,12 Dec 2011 01:41 PM PST
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Increased risk of having a car crash attributed to cellphone use may have been overestimated in some past studies, a new analysis suggests. So-called "distracted driving" has become a big public health issue in recent years. The majority of U.S. states now ban texting behind the wheel, while a handful prohibit drivers from using handheld cellphones at all (though many more ban "novice" drivers from doing so). But studies have reached different conclusions about how much of an added crash risk there is with cellphone use. In the new report, Richard A. ...
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