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U.S. approves Spectrum Pharma's purchase of Allos
Fri,31 Aug 2012 05:38 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust officials have approved Spectrum Pharmaceuticals' purchase of cancer drugmaker Allos Therapeutics, a $206 million deal aimed at giving Spectrum access to the Allos anti-cancer drug Folotyn. The Federal Trade Commission posted letters on its web site sent to lawyers for Allos and Spectrum dated August 28 which said it had been investigating the deal but had closed the probe, indicating that the transaction could go forward. Henderson, Nevada-based Spectrum agreed in April to buy Allos for about $1. ... Full Story | Top |
Arkansas conservative group seeks to block medical pot vote
Fri,31 Aug 2012 05:35 PM PDT
Reuters - LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - A conservative Arkansas group seeking to prevent the state from becoming the first in the U.S. South to allow medical marijuana filed a lawsuit on Friday to knock a pot-as-medicine proposal off the November election ballot. The lawsuit filed in the state Supreme Court by the Coalition to Preserve Arkansas Values argues the ballot's title, the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act, is misleading and the act itself hard to understand at 8,000 words long. ... Full Story | Top |
CDC says 10,000 at risk of hantavirus in Yosemite outbreak
Fri,31 Aug 2012 05:00 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Some 10,000 people who stayed in tent cabins at Yosemite National Park this summer may be at risk for the deadly rodent-borne hantavirus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. The CDC urged lab testing of patients who exhibit symptoms consistent with the lung disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, after a stay at the California park between June and August and recommended that doctors notify state health departments when it is found. ...
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Obama vows to support veterans, steers back to foreign policy
Fri,31 Aug 2012 03:42 PM PDT
Reuters -  EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - President Barack Obama returned on Friday to the site where he announced the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq two years ago, highlighting his foreign policy record and pledging to take better care of veterans of America's wars. Obama visited Fort Bliss, Texas, where on August 31, 2010, he said he would make good on one of the signature promises from his 2008 run for the presidency: withdrawing American forces from Iraq. ...
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U.N. says Haiti struggling to cope with cholera as aid withdrawn
Fri,31 Aug 2012 03:15 PM PDT
Reuters -  UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon warned on Friday that Haiti was struggling to cope with a cholera epidemic that has killed thousands and deteriorating conditions in tent camps as aid groups withdraw from the impoverished country due to a lack of funding. In a report to the U.N. Security Council, Ban said there had been an increase in the number of cholera cases since the rainy season began in early March and the World Health Organization had projected there could be up to 112,000 cases during 2012. ...
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ConvaTec to buy 180 Medical Holdings for $321 million
Fri,31 Aug 2012 02:15 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Medical technology firm ConvaTec said it will buy privately owned 180 Medical Holdings Inc, a maker of catheters and urologic medical supplies, for $321 million. ConvaTec, which private equity firms Nordic Capital and Avista Capital Partners bought from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co in 2008, said the deal will close late in the third quarter. Skillman, New Jersey-based ConvaTec makes wound care and ostomy care products. (Reporting by Prateek Kumar in Bangalore; Editing by Maju Samuel) Full Story | Top |
Induced labors may be tied to rise in preterm births
Fri,31 Aug 2012 01:59 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The increasing number of preterm births in the U.S. during the early 1990s and 2000s appear linked to the increasing number of medically induced labors, according to a new study. The number of preterm births across the U.S. rose by 30 percent between 1992 and 2004, and that increase may be attributable to the number of medically induced labors, which nearly doubled during the same period, researchers found. Doctors induce labor in women for various reasons, including medical problems with the baby or a woman being past due for delivery. ... Full Story | Top |
Boy without feet causing stir in Brazil
Fri,31 Aug 2012 01:47 PM PDT
Reuters - CAMPOS, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian Gabriel Muniz, 11, is one of the best players at his school despite being born without feet and he dreams of being a footballer when he grows up, even though he knows it can only be at disabled level. After an appearance in Brazil's most popular sports show on the TV Globo network, Gabriel was invited to take part in a Barcelona training camp in Saquarema, a town in the state of Rio de Janeiro. His special skills impressed the Spanish club's coaches and he has been invited to meet his idol Lionel Messi next month. ... Full Story | Top |
Tobacco smoke tied to flu complications in kids
Fri,31 Aug 2012 01:40 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids hospitalized with the flu are more likely to need intensive care and a longer stay if they've been exposed to second-hand smoke at home, a small new study finds. Analyzing the records of more than 100 kids hospitalized with flu in New York state, researchers found those exposed to second-hand smoke were five times more likely to be admitted to the intensive care unit and required a 70 percent longer stay in the hospital, compared to the kids not exposed to smoke. ...
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Soccer-Boy without feet causing stir in Brazil
Fri,31 Aug 2012 01:34 PM PDT
Reuters - CAMPOS, Brazil, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Brazilian Gabriel Muniz,11, is one of the best players at his school despite being bornwithout feet and he dreams of being a footballer when he growsup, even though he knows it can only be at disabled level. After an appearance in Brazil's most popular sports show onthe TV Globo network, Gabriel was invited to take part in aBarcelona training camp in Saquarema, a town in the state of Riode Janeiro. His special skills impressed the Spanish club's coaches andhe has been invited to meet his idol Lionel Messi next month. ... Full Story | Top |
FDA approves Medivation prostate cancer drug
Fri,31 Aug 2012 01:27 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - A novel prostate cancer drug developed by Medivation Inc and Astellas Pharma Inc has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for men whose cancer has spread despite treatment with hormone therapy and chemotherapy, the agency said on Friday. Approval of the pill, to be sold under the brand name Xtandi, comes three months ahead of the agency's late-November decision deadline and sent shares of Medivation up 7.6 percent. Wall Street analysts, on average, have forecast Medivation's sales of the drug at $1.2 billion by 2017, according to Thomson Pharma. ... Full Story | Top |
Vitamin D supplements may not improve heart health
Fri,31 Aug 2012 01:24 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite many studies linking higher blood levels of vitamin D to fewer heart attacks and deaths, a new trial found giving older women daily D supplements didn't cut their heart-related risks. The women's cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar was no lower after a year of taking one of two doses of vitamin D, compared to those who took vitamin-free placebo pills. So-called observational studies - which measure vitamin D in people's blood and then follow them over time - have tended to find a link between vitamin levels and heart health. ... Full Story | Top |
Intense workouts may be safe for heart patients: study
Fri,31 Aug 2012 01:21 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Moderate levels of exercise are often prescribed for people recovering from a heart attack or heart surgery, but a new study finds that pumping up workouts to high intensity levels might be a safe option too. Among 4,800 Norwegian heart patients, who racked up a combined total of over 170,000 hours of aerobic exercise, researchers found three cardiac arrests occurred during workouts and only one was fatal. ... Full Story | Top |
Paralympics returns home a different Games
Fri,31 Aug 2012 12:59 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - When Britain's Stoke Mandeville hospital staged its first sporting contest for disabled patients in 1948 it hoped to show soldiers injured in World War Two that a broken back did not have to mean a death sentence. Since then, staff have seen those early games transformed into a Paralympic showcase now in its 14th and largest edition in Britain, mirroring wider progress in the perception of disability around the world. ...
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Can drug coverage erase the income gap in diabetes?
Fri,31 Aug 2012 11:15 AM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Universal drug coverage might help partly close the gap between the rich and the poor when it comes to diabetes complications, a new Canadian study suggests. Researchers found that much of the income gap in heart risks among diabetic adults disappeared after the age of 65 - the age at which universal drug coverage kicks in for Canadians. Canada has universal healthcare, but when it comes to medications, people younger than 65 either pay out-of-pocket or have private drug coverage through work - similar to Americans their age. ... Full Story | Top |
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