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Aspirin tied to lower lung cancer risk in women: study
Mon,23 Apr 2012 06:10 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Women who took aspirin at least a couple of times a week had a much lower risk of developing lung cancer, whether or not they ever smoked, according to a study of more than a thousand Asian women. The findings, published in the journal Lung Cancer, linked regularly taking aspirin to a risk reduction of 50 percent or more, although researchers cautioned that they did not prove aspirin directly protects against lung cancer. ... Full Story | Top |
Nestle may sell part of Pfizer assets: report
Mon,23 Apr 2012 06:03 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Swiss food group Nestle SA may sell about 10 to 15 percent of the $11.9 billion baby food business it is buying from Pfizer Inc to address antitrust concerns, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. Nestle may have to offload divisions in countries including Australia, Thailand and Venezuela, Bloomberg said, citing people with knowledge of the matter. Bloomberg reported that Nestle spokesman Robin Tickle said it was "premature to comment on and prejudge the decisions of the regulatory authorities". A spokesman for Nestle could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters. ...
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Nestle may sell part of Pfizer assets: report
Mon,23 Apr 2012 05:57 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Swiss food group Nestle SA may sell about 10 to 15 percent of the $11.9 billion baby food business it is buying from Pfizer Inc to address antitrust concerns, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. Nestle may have to offload divisions in countries including Australia, Thailand and Venezuela, Bloomberg said, citing people with knowledge of the matter. Bloomberg reported that Nestle spokesman Robin Tickle said it was "premature to comment on and prejudge the decisions of the regulatory authorities". A spokesman for Nestle could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters. ...
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Medicare trustee report hangs on uncertain assumptions
Mon,23 Apr 2012 05:50 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare, the U.S. healthcare program for the elderly, should be able to stave off insolvency for the next 12 years, depending on a number of financial and political assumptions that may prove unrealistic, officials and other experts said on Monday. The annual report of the Medicare trustees predicted that the program's key hospital trust fund will become exhausted in 2024, prompting Medicare to begin paying out only 87 percent of scheduled hospital benefits to tens of millions of future retirees and disabled beneficiaries. ... Full Story | Top |
Jennifer Hudson says always disliked man accused of killing her family
Mon,23 Apr 2012 05:46 PM PDT
Reuters -  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Grammy and Oscar winning singer and actress Jennifer Hudson testified on Monday that she had known the man charged with killing three members of her family since they were in middle school together but never liked him. Hudson was the first witness called at the murder trial of William Balfour, who is charged with shooting dead her mother Darnell Donerson, 57, her brother Jason Hudson, 29, and her nephew Julian King, 7. Balfour, married to Hudson's sister Julia Hudson, did not treat Julia or her son, Julian, well, Hudson testified. ...
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U.S. watchdog blasts Medicare quality insurance project
Mon,23 Apr 2012 04:38 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare, the U.S. healthcare program for the elderly, is spending $8.3 billion on a test project that is supposed to improve the quality of private health coverage but has mainly rewarded mediocre insurance plans, a government watchdog said on Monday. A report by the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, recommends canceling the Medicare Advantage quality bonus payment initiative. The three-year project is seen as the largest-scale test of an effort to improve Medicare services to date. The watchdog agency said the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Jennifer Hudson says always disliked man accused of killing her family
Mon,23 Apr 2012 04:10 PM PDT
Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Grammy and Oscar winning singer and actress Jennifer Hudson testified on Monday that she had known the man charged with killing three members of her family since they were in middle school together but never liked him. Hudson was the first witness called at the start of the murder trial of William Balfour, who is charged with shooting dead her mother Darnell Donerson, 57, her brother Jason Hudson, 29, and her nephew Julian King, 7. Balfour, married to Hudson's sister Julia Hudson, did not treat Julia or her son, Julian, well, Hudson testified. ...
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Without reforms, U.S. retirees to face dwindling funds
Mon,23 Apr 2012 02:58 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Aging baby boomers got some jolting news on Monday when the U.S. government said the Social Security retirement program is on track to go bankrupt three years earlier than expected if reforms are not made. Unless Washington politicians, who have been at war with each other over government spending priorities and federal budget deficits, can decide how to put Social Security on a sound footing, retirees' pension checks would start running out in 2033, according to an annual report. ...
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Evidence behind autism drugs may be biased: study
Mon,23 Apr 2012 02:27 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors' belief that certain antidepressants can help to treat repetitive behaviors in kids with autism may be based on incomplete information, according to a new review of published and unpublished research. The drugs, which include popular selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), are sometimes used to treat repetitive behaviors in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). "The main issue to emphasize is that SSRIs are perhaps not as effective at treating repetitive behaviors as previously thought. ...
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No bail for Texas nurse accused of killing woman, kidnapping baby
Mon,23 Apr 2012 02:15 PM PDT
Reuters - CONROE, Texas (Reuters) - A judge on Monday denied bail for a nurse accused of fatally shooting a young mother and abducting her baby outside a doctor's office near Houston last week. District Attorney Brett Ligon said he was still considering whether to seek the death penalty against Verna D. McClain, 30, charged with murdering mother Kala Golden, 28, and kidnapping her 3-day-old baby Keegan Schuchardt on April 17. The baby was found unharmed that same evening at a home 10 miles away. District Court Judge Fred Edwards said that the crimes McClain is accused of could warrant the death penalty. ... Full Story | Top |
Evidence behind autism drugs may be biased: study
Mon,23 Apr 2012 02:11 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors' belief that certain antidepressants can help to treat repetitive behaviors in kids with autism may be based on incomplete information, according to a new review of published and unpublished research. The drugs, which include popular selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), are sometimes used to treat repetitive behaviors in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). "The main issue to emphasize is that SSRIs are perhaps not as effective at treating repetitive behaviors as previously thought. ... Full Story | Top |
Venezuela's Chavez calls home to squash death rumors
Mon,23 Apr 2012 02:02 PM PDT
Reuters -  CARACAS (Reuters) - A healthy-sounding President Hugo Chavez called Venezuelan state television from Cuba on Monday to dispel rumors fanned by a nine-day silence that he had died undergoing cancer treatment at a hospital in Havana. "It seems we will have to become accustomed to live with these rumors, because it is part of the laboratories of psychological war, of dirty war" the 57-year-old socialist leader said in the telephone call. ...
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Wealthy pick colonoscopy over at-home cancer test
Mon,23 Apr 2012 01:46 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Colonoscopy has become an increasingly popular method of screening for colon cancer while the rate of at-home stool testing has dropped off, according to a new study. The findings, published in the journal Cancer, are primarily driven by a trend among people above the poverty line preferring colonoscopy; poor people still choose at-home testing as frequently as they did a decade ago. Dr. ...
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FDA staff doubt Cameron device better than rivals
Mon,23 Apr 2012 01:26 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. medical device reviewers said the first defibrillator designed to be implanted directly under the skin may cause more infections, and work less quickly, than similar devices implanted in the heart, raising doubts that Cameron Health Inc's novel product would attract patients. The initial review from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration comes after Boston Scientific Corp, a leading maker of heart devices, agreed in March to buy privately held Cameron Health. But analysts said the FDA staff review, released online on Monday, may not dent Cameron's chances to win U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Robin Gibb woke from coma to sound of his music
Mon,23 Apr 2012 11:23 AM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Bee Gees singer/songwriter Robin Gibb awoke from a coma while music from his latest composition, the recently released classical work "The Titanic Requiem", was playing, his son said on Monday. The 62-year-old star of the disco era, who has been battling cancer and pneumonia and slipped into a coma earlier this month, had been given less than a 10 percent chance of surviving, Robin-John told ITV News in an interview. But as he lay in a London hospital bed, his family members played Bee Gees tunes and noticed Gibb trying to mouth words to songs he had sung hundreds of times. ...
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