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Cuba says cholera outbreak not spreading
Sat,14 Jul 2012 11:09 AM PDT
Reuters - Havana (Reuters) - Cuba said on Saturday that a cholera outbreak in eastern Cuba is diminishing and has not spread to other parts of the country. A Public Health Ministry statement said there were 158 confirmed cholera cases and three people had died since the illness was first detected in Manzanillo, a city of 130,000 residents located on the southern coast of Granma province. "The outbreak of cases transmitted through water is diminishing, with no indication the illness has spread through food or other means," Saturday's Health Ministry statement said. ... Full Story | Top |
GE lands first deal as US firms descend on Myanmar
Sat,14 Jul 2012 03:52 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - General Electric Co secured a medical equipment deal with two hospitals in Myanmar on Saturday, becoming the first U.S. company to restart business in the long-isolated country since Washington eased sanctions this week. U.S. firms are wasting no time since U.S. President Barack Obama announced the issue of general licenses on Wednesday to allow investment and financial services. GE was the first to move, agreeing through its local dealer to provide X-ray machines for cardiology and topography to two private hospitals in Myanmar. The deal was announced on Saturday during a U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Colorado says dentist put thousands at HIV risk from reused syringes
Fri,13 Jul 2012 09:32 PM PDT
Reuters - DENVER (Reuters) - A suspended Colorado dentist reused syringes and needles in his now-shuttered practice, potentially exposing thousands of patients to HIV and hepatitis infection, health officials warned on Friday. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment sent letters to 8,000 patients of dentist Stephen Stein, urging them to seek tests for the diseases after learning of "unsafe injection practices" at two Denver-area clinics he owned between September 1999 and June 2011. ... Full Story | Top |
Judge rules Mississippi abortion clinic can stay open for now
Fri,13 Jul 2012 08:26 PM PDT
Reuters -  TUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - Mississippi's sole abortion clinic won a court battle on Friday to stay open while it challenges the constitutionality of a new state law requiring its doctors to have local hospital admitting privileges. The law, which abortion rights advocates say is a thinly veiled attempt to ban abortions in Mississippi, has threatened to make Mississippi the only U.S. state without such a facility. The law requires doctors who perform abortions to be board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, and to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. ...
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Florida health officials deny cover-up in TB outbreak
Fri,13 Jul 2012 04:21 PM PDT
Reuters - TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Florida state health officials have denied they covered up a sharp spike in tuberculosis infections among the homeless in Jacksonville and said the public was not at risk from what is believed to be the worst TB outbreak in the nation in 20 years. At least 13 people have died and another 99 have contracted TB in the outbreak in Jacksonville, the state's largest city with a population of 825,000. ... Full Story | Top |
Georgia death row inmate seeks reprieve due to mental disability
Fri,13 Jul 2012 03:23 PM PDT
Reuters - ATLANTA (Reuters) - Attorneys for a Georgia man facing execution next week argued to the state's pardons board on Friday that executing the two-time murderer would be unjust because of his limited mental capacity. Warren Lee Hill, 52, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on July 18. In a series of unsuccessful appeals, his lawyers have said his execution should be halted because he suffered from what they termed mental retardation. The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles held a closed hearing in the case on Friday but did not issue a ruling. ... Full Story | Top |
Autistic man ate roots and frogs to survive weeks in Utah desert
Fri,13 Jul 2012 03:02 PM PDT
Reuters -  SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - An autistic man has been rescued from Utah's remote Escalante Desert after surviving at least three weeks alone in temperatures that topped 100 Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius) by eating roots and frogs. William Martin LaFever, 28, was found emaciated and unable to walk on Thursday, more than a month after he was last heard from. He was spotted by a police helicopter, sitting in the Escalante River and waving weakly. ...
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U.S. should scale down $1 billion Kansas biodefense lab: study
Fri,13 Jul 2012 02:54 PM PDT
Reuters -  KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - The United States should consider scaling down ambitious plans for a $1 billion laboratory in Kansas to study potentially deadly animal diseases, the National Research Council said on Friday in a key report to help the government decide how to proceed. Construction of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas, has been stalled by concerns that deadly animal diseases could escape and devastate agriculture. Some have called the facility a costly boondoggle. ...
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Keep a journal, don't skip meals to shed weight: study
Fri,13 Jul 2012 02:42 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Want to drop those extra pounds without starving yourself? Keeping a food journal, not skipping meals and eating out less often, particularly for lunch, will help, according to new research released on Friday. Scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, in a study that looked at the impact of various self-monitoring techniques in older overweight and obese women, showed that simple changes in behavior can make a difference on the scales. They found that in the year-long study women who kept journals lost six pounds (2. ... Full Story | Top |
Could Wii nunchuks make screen time healthier?
Fri,13 Jul 2012 02:01 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Active video games might help people burn more calories than couch-based screen time, but those who play active games tend to undo most of the difference if there's junk food available, says a new study. Those active gamers tended to eat more calories than they spent dancing, playing hockey, and drumming. They took in an average of 376 more calories than they burned, compared to about a 650-calorie surplus among the inactive groups. Although small, these differences can mean a lot in terms of energy balance when they are multiplied over days, weeks and years, Dr. ...
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FDA warns about Mexicali brand products on listeria concerns
Fri,13 Jul 2012 01:12 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned consumers on Friday against eating products of the Mexicali Cheese Corp because the deadly listeria bacteria has been found in some of them. Mexicali Cheese, of Woodhaven, New York, has failed to comply with a May 1 court order to stop making and distributing food until safety steps have been carried out, the FDA said in an emailed statement. The tainted food was distributed in the New York area and in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. ... Full Story | Top |
Acadia redesigns study on Parkinson's psychosis drug
Fri,13 Jul 2012 01:08 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc said it redesigned an ongoing late-stage study on its experimental anti-psychotic drug for Parkinson's disease patients, and that it plans to conduct an identical study to win regulatory approval. The redesigned study will include only patients from North America, and will exclude mildly psychotic patients, Acadia CEO Uli Hacksell said at the JMP Securities Healthcare Conference. He said a previous late-stage trial in 2009 failed because of the inclusion of mildly psychotic patients. ... Full Story | Top |
Medicare, Medicaid chief urges states to implement health law
Fri,13 Jul 2012 12:51 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. government's Medicare and Medicaid health programs urged Republican state governors to implement President Barack Obama's healthcare law to extend coverage to millions of uninsured Americans, many of them poor or handicapped. Opposition to Obama's signature domestic policy achievement has become a rallying cry among Republicans, with at least five governors saying they would not implement the law's expansion of the Medicaid program for the poor and handicapped. With the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Cardiac arrest survival improving in U.S. hospitals
Fri,13 Jul 2012 12:27 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More Americans hospitalized for cardiac arrest are surviving now compared with a decade ago, a new study finds. Researchers are not sure of the reasons for the improvement. But they suspect it's changes in how hospitals treat cardiac arrest, and possibly the way bystanders respond when they see someone suddenly collapse. The study, which appears in the journal Circulation, found that in 2009, the death rate among Americans hospitalized after cardiac arrest was just under 58 percent. That was down from almost 70 percent in 2001. ... Full Story | Top |
Public favors posthumous reproduction, with consent
Fri,13 Jul 2012 11:27 AM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many Americans may think it's OK to retrieve sperm or eggs from a dead or dying spouse in order to have children in the future -- but only if there is written consent, a new survey suggests. The survey, of more than 1,000 U.S. adults, asked people about their views on "posthumous reproduction." Most often, that involves eggs, sperm or embryos that were frozen by a person before undergoing medical treatment that could cause infertility -- usually chemotherapy or radiation for cancer. ... Full Story | Top |
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