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Researchers to test monthly vaginal ring for HIV prevention
Tue,24 Jul 2012 06:09 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two large clinical trials in Africa are ramping up to test the effectiveness of a vaginal ring that releases an HIV-fighting drug for a month or more, offering women at high risk a discreet way to protect themselves from the virus that causes AIDS. The studies will test the effectiveness of a vaginal ring containing the antiretroviral drug dapivirine in thousands of women in several African countries to evaluate its ability to prevent new HIV infections and its long-term safety. ... Full Story | Top |
Accused Colorado killer no easy fit for mass murderer profile
Tue,24 Jul 2012 05:44 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Unless James Holmes chooses to say why he went on the lethal shooting spree he is accused of in a Colorado movie theater last Friday, the analyses offered by forensic psychiatrists, based on their study of other mass murders, may be as close as we get. From what is known of the attack and his life so far, experts say Holmes was probably not suffering from as serious a mental illness as Jared Loughner, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia after killing six people in Tucson, Arizona, in 2011. ... Full Story | Top |
Pentagon concludes oxygen supply behind F-22 breathing problems
Tue,24 Jul 2012 03:34 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta approved plans to send a squadron of Lockheed Martin Corp F-22 fighter jets to Japan, a step toward lifting flight restrictions on the most advanced U.S. warplane after the Air Force ruled out that contaminants were causing some F-22 pilots to get dizzy at the controls. ...
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Philadelphia woman accused of murder in death of British student
Tue,24 Jul 2012 03:31 PM PDT
Reuters - PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Philadelphia woman has been charged with murder in the 2011 death of a British woman who came to the United States for a buttocks enhancement procedure, authorities said on Tuesday. The victim, Claudia Aderotimi, a 20-year-old student from East London, traveled to Philadelphia in February 2011 after seeing an advertisement for the procedure online, authorities said. She met with Padge Winslowe, 42, of West Philadelphia, who was untrained and unlicensed but injected her buttocks with silicone, according to the Philadelphia district attorney's office. ... Full Story | Top |
New York City's proposed ban on big sugary sodas draws heated debate
Tue,24 Jul 2012 03:19 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed ban on large sodas is expected to pass in September, but that didn't deter hundreds who showed up on Tuesday either to praise the measure as a way to battle obesity or oppose it as pointless and unfair. The proposal before the city Board of Health, the first of its kind in the nation, would limit servings of sugary drinks to 16 ounces (473 ml) at most restaurants, theaters, delis, vending carts and stadium concessions. ...
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CBO says healthcare ruling could save $84 billion
Tue,24 Jul 2012 02:36 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Last month's Supreme Court ruling that upheld President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare law could save the U.S. government some $84 billion over 11 years, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday. The savings would come primarily from a portion of the ruling giving the states an escape hatch from the law's expanded program of healthcare coverage for the poor. That expansion of the Medicaid program would be funded mostly by the federal government, but eventually states would have to pick up a portion of that cost. ...
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Novavax experimental influenza vaccine meets main goal of study
Tue,24 Jul 2012 02:27 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Novavax Inc said its experimental influenza vaccine met the main goal of showing safety and inciting immune response in a mid-stage study. The drug, tested on 500 people in Australia, triggered an immune response against all four viral strains after 21 days. It also showed promising signs of meeting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's eligibility criteria to gain an "accelerated approval." The FDA grants accelerated approval to drugs that target an unmet medical need, or ones that are advantageous over current treatments, by expediting the review process. ... Full Story | Top |
Appeals court upholds South Dakota abortion law's suicide advisory
Tue,24 Jul 2012 02:22 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a South Dakota law requiring doctors to advise women seeking abortions that they face an increased risk of suicide after the procedure. The 7-4 ruling by the full 8th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a decision by a three-judge appellate panel in September 2011 that had ruled unconstitutional the suicide advisory provision in South Dakota's 2005 law. ... Full Story | Top |
Edwards Lifesciences profit up on heart valve rollout
Tue,24 Jul 2012 02:19 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Edwards Lifesciences Corp reported higher-than-expected second-quarter earnings on Tuesday, driven by strong U.S. sales of its new artificial heart valve that is implanted using a less-invasive procedure than traditional open-heart surgery. The rollout of Edwards' transcatheter valve, which gained U.S. regulatory approval for use in very ill patients late last year, is picking up momentum. Sales of the device, which is implanted via a catheter that is threaded to the heart through a leg artery or small incision between the ribs, climbed 71 percent in the quarter. ... Full Story | Top |
Hopes dim for Alzheimer's trials after Pfizer failure
Tue,24 Jul 2012 02:06 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Investor hopes for two experimental Alzheimer's treatments have grown even fainter after Pfizer Inc said its treatment failed in one of four big clinical trials. Pfizer and Eli Lilly and Co are due to present key data on their drugs, which target the same protein, in the next two months. Expectations that either medicine would become the first real treatment for the memory-robbing disease were already very low. ...
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Women with diabetes may have more problems with sex
Tue,24 Jul 2012 02:01 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Middle-aged and older women with diabetes are less satisfied with their sex lives than are women without the blood sugar disease, U.S. government-funded research suggests. While diabetic men have long been known to be extra prone to sexual problems, particularly impotence, less is known about the intimate lives of women with the disease. "It's an area that is very understudied, particularly in older women," said Dr. Alison Huang of the University of California, San Francisco, who led the new work. ... Full Story | Top |
U.S. commander accused of stalling Afghan hospital abuse probe
Tue,24 Jul 2012 01:49 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. general in Afghanistan sought to stall an investigation into waste and abuse at a U.S.-funded hospital in Kabul, possibly for political reasons, current and former U.S. military officials told Congress on Tuesday. Retired Colonel Gerald Carozza, who served as an adviser to the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan, accused Lieutenant General William Caldwell, then head of U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Spanish company Almirall gets EU nod for smoker's cough drug
Tue,24 Jul 2012 01:01 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Spanish pharmaceutical company Almirall SA said late on Tuesday its inhaled treatment for smoker's cough, a serious lung disease known as COPD, had been approved by European regulators. Earlier on Tuesday, the company confirmed that U.S. drug regulators had also given the green light to the twice-daily drug, which will be used to treat symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The drug will be marketed in the United States by Forest Laboratories Inc. Almirall's shares closed up 7.07 percent on Tuesday at 6.06 euros a share. "It's very positive ... ... Full Story | Top |
Genital warts on the decline among Swedish women
Tue,24 Jul 2012 12:25 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Genital warts have been on the decline among women in Sweden after the country began offering subsidized HPV vaccinations to teenage girls in 2007, new research shows. Rates of the sexually transmitted infection dropped by 17 percent among women ages 15 to 25 from 2006 to 2010, although there was no change among men over the same period. The findings are "in all likelihood" a sign the vaccine is working, said Amy Leval of Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, who worked on the study. ... Full Story | Top |
Study finds scarcity of drug trials in kids
Tue,24 Jul 2012 11:59 AM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Relatively few clinical trials have tested the safety and effectiveness of medications in children - even when kids make up a large share of patients with the condition the drug treats, a new study finds. That most clinical drug trials do not include children and teenagers has long been known. It has meant that many medications on the market are not specifically approved for kids. ... Full Story | Top |
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