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Rash on passenger causes quarantine of plane in Chicago
Thu,26 Apr 2012 05:34 PM PDT
Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Passengers and crew were held for more than two hours on an airplane at Chicago's Midway Airport on Thursday while a passenger with a rash was checked out for a possible infectious disease, but none was found, authorities said. The Delta Air Lines flight from Detroit was met by Chicago health and fire officials. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was contacted, after the report of a passenger suffering from "a medical problem," said city aviation department spokeswoman Karen Pride. ... Full Story | Top |
Authorities investigate health issue in plane at Chicago airport
Thu,26 Apr 2012 04:07 PM PDT
Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago health and fire officials on Thursday were called to an airplane at Chicago Midway Airport after a report of a passenger with a medical problem, a spokeswoman for the city's aviation department said. City officials were notified at about 3:45 p.m. local time that Delta Air Lines flight 3163 from Detroit to Chicago was landing at Midway International Airport with a passenger suffering from "a medical issue," aviation department spokeswoman Karen Pride said. "Health officials and the fire department have responded to the medical issue on board," Pride said. ... Full Story | Top |
Army beefs up leadership at troubled Lewis-McChord base
Thu,26 Apr 2012 03:38 PM PDT
Reuters - SEATTLE (Reuters) - The U.S. Army announced a new layer of command at Joint Base Lewis-McChord on Thursday as it looks to strengthen leadership at the Tacoma, Washington-area post which has earned a reputation as one of the most troubled in the U.S. military. The joint Army-Air Force base, with 43,000 active-duty military personnel and some 14,000 civilian employees, most recently attracted attention as the home base of Robert Bales, the staff sergeant accused of massacring 17 Afghan villagers in March. It was also home for a so-called "kill team," convicted of wartime atrocities in 2010. ... Full Story | Top |
Hispanics back Obama over Romney on policy, many undecided
Thu,26 Apr 2012 03:26 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hispanics favor President Barack Obama's policies over those of Republican rival Mitt Romney by large margins but many in the fast-growing voter group are still undecided on issues more than six months ahead of the presidential election. Hispanics also feel the Democratic Party better serves the needs of most Americans than the Republican Party, which bodes poorly for Romney and members of his party running in congressional and state elections. ...
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FDA approves Glaxo cancer drug Votrient
Thu,26 Apr 2012 02:57 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators gave the nod to GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Votrient for a type of sarcoma on Thursday, following a positive advisory panel vote last month. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the pill for people with soft-tissue sarcoma who have already received chemotherapy. Soft-tissue sarcoma is a rare but aggressive form of cancer that afflicted about 11,000 Americans last year, 4,000 of whom died from the disease, according to the National Cancer Institute. The cancer begins in the muscles, fat or other tissues. ...
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FDA advisers back Cameron Health heart device
Thu,26 Apr 2012 02:44 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. drug advisers gave the nod to the first defibrillator designed to be implanted directly under the skin, raising hopes Cameron Health Inc's novel product would be approved. Outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted 7-1 to recommend approval of Cameron's device, which delivers electrical shocks to a dangerously irregular heartbeat to return it to a normal rhythm. They also voted 7-1 that the device worked and unanimously said it was safe, according to the company and the FDA. ... Full Story | Top |
As Supreme Court mulls healthcare, rumors fly
Thu,26 Apr 2012 02:33 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This week the U.S. Supreme Court wrapped up the last oral arguments of its current term. Now comes the nationwide angst of waiting - as long as two months - for decisions, particularly the one that will resolve the most high-stakes and closely watched case of the year: the challenge to the Obama-sponsored healthcare law. The collective impatience is fueling a mini-industry of rumors, wagers and speculation not seen since the Bush v. Gore case of 2000, when a presidential election hung in the balance. ...
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FDA approves Novartis' Afinitor for kidney tumors
Thu,26 Apr 2012 02:32 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators approved on Thursday Novartis AG's Afinitor for the treatment of non-cancerous kidney tumors in patients with a rare genetic disease known as tuberous sclerosis complex. The approval from the Food and Drug Administration makes Afinitor the first drug available specifically for non-cancerous tumors that do not require immediate surgery. Shares of Swiss-based Novartis closed 0.2 percent higher in Europe earlier on Thursday. ...
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Lawyer says Arizona inmate shook violently during execution
Thu,26 Apr 2012 02:30 PM PDT
Reuters - PHOENIX (Reuters) - The lawyer for a convicted murderer executed in Arizona said on Thursday his client shook violently after a lethal injection drug was administered, and may call for an independent autopsy to determine if he experienced any pain. A defiant Thomas Kemp, 63, was executed on Wednesday by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence, about 60 miles southeast of Phoenix, for kidnapping and killing a Hispanic college student in 1992. His last words were: "I regret nothing. ... Full Story | Top |
Republican report blasts Obama's healthcare law
Thu,26 Apr 2012 02:22 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on Thursday issued a politically charged report that quoted President Barack Obama's corporate advisers as predicting his 2010 healthcare overhaul would raise - not lower - the cost of care. The report, released as the Supreme Court weighs the fate of Obama's healthcare law, was compiled by the Republican staff of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee with input from major corporations including General Electric, Southwest Airlines and American Express. ...
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Hormone drugs may pose fewer risks for Chinese women
Thu,26 Apr 2012 02:10 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hormone therapy originally taken to ward off chronic diseases may be linked to an increased risk of breast cancer in older Chinese women, but it does not seem to raise their risk of heart attacks or heart-related deaths, a new study suggests. The findings expand upon the landmark Women's Health Initiative study of 2002, which found that a common estrogen-plus-progestin treatment increased a woman's risk for heart attacks, breast cancer and strokes. ...
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Many older men still get prostate cancer testing
Thu,26 Apr 2012 01:14 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite recommendations not to screen men age 75 and older for prostate cancer, most elderly men still get tested, according to a new survey. "I think there is a lot of push from patients to get (the test)," said Dr. Edward Messing from the University of Rochester Medical Center, who worked on the study. "Eighty-year-olds don't think they're that old anymore, and maybe they're not. They think they still have a life ahead of them." In 2008, the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
New J&J CEO parachuting into tough terrain
Thu,26 Apr 2012 11:35 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson is sending in a former Army Ranger to clean up several big messes that have hurt its reputation, earnings and share price in the past three years. Alex Gorsky said in an interview his biggest priority is to complete a revamping of the company's factories and manufacturing processes to fix quality control lapses that sparked huge recalls of Tylenol, Motrin and dozens of other consumer medicines over the past three years. "Mission No. ... Full Story | Top |
Florida judge blocks drug tests for state workers
Thu,26 Apr 2012 11:05 AM PDT
Reuters -  MIAMI (Reuters) - A federal judge in Miami has tossed out an executive order from Florida Governor Rick Scott requiring drug testing of state employees, saying it violated the constitutional prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. The Republican governor last year ordered random drug tests for all state employees and new hires, regardless of whether they were suspected of drug use, arguing it was similar to the financial disclosures required for some workers. In a ruling on Wednesday, U.S. ...
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Bonuses for docs do little to improve diabetes care
Thu,26 Apr 2012 10:44 AM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Small financial incentives aimed at getting physicians to make sure their diabetic patients receive recommended routine exams may not lead to changes in doctors' behavior, according to a new study from Canada. The findings echo much of what has been shown in other so-called pay-for-performance arrangements, said Meredith Rosenthal, a health policy researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston who wasn't involved in the study. ...
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