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| Serious birth complications rising in the U.S. - study Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 06:02 PM PDT (Reuters) - Severe complications from childbirth, including heart attacks and strokes, have been rising in the United States, although they still remain rare overall, according to a U.S. government study. In 2008-2009, there were 129 cases of severe complications - including heart attack, stroke, severe bleeding and kidney failure during or after childbirth - for every 10,000 women who delivered in a hospital, said researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (CDC) That was up 75 percent from a decade earlier. ... Full Story | Top |
| Pharmacy linked to meningitis deaths failed on sterility measures Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 04:32 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - The pharmacy linked to a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak repeatedly failed to follow standard safety and quality procedures, including waiting for results of sterility tests on its injectable steroid before shipping them to doctors and maintaining sterile conditions, health officials said on Tuesday. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama administration agrees to ease in Medicare benefit rules Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 04:25 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has agreed to relax Medicare's requirements for skilled nursing and home health care, allowing beneficiaries to qualify for benefits even if their conditions are not expected to improve, according to court documents. A proposed settlement of a national class-action lawsuit, filed October 16 in U.S. District Court in Vermont, says the government will revise its Medicare manual to make benefits available when care would only "maintain the patient's current condition or ... prevent or slow further deterioration". ... Full Story | Top |
| Brands cry foul over unauthorized sellers on Amazon Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 04:19 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is grappling with a problem that eBay Inc has struggled with for years: The proliferation of unauthorized third-party sellers that undercut the world's top consumer brands. The sellers offer online shoppers goods ranging from Guess watches to LG televisions and Adidas sportswear at low prices, upsetting Amazon suppliers who want the world's largest online retailer to crack down on unauthorized discounting. On eBay, the brands mostly complained about counterfeit products sold by third parties. ... Full Story | Top |
| Monster Beverage shares down more, analysts weigh views Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 03:54 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Monster Beverage Corp shares sank more than 10 percent for a second straight day on Tuesday as investors expressed concern over potential legal and regulatory fallout from a lawsuit and investigations into five deaths to see if they are linked to the company's namesake energy drink. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday that it was looking into the deaths, and Monster is being sued by the family of a 14-year old Maryland girl with a heart disorder who died after drinking two cans of Monster Energy drink in a 24-hour period. ... Full Story | Top |
| Green tea drinkers show lower cancer risks Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 01:58 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older women who regularly drink green tea may have slightly lower risks of colon, stomach and throat cancers than women who make no time for tea, a large study suggests. Researchers found that of more than 69,000 Chinese women followed for a decade, those who drank green tea at least three times a week were 14 percent less likely to develop a cancer of the digestive system. That mainly meant lower odds of colon, stomach and esophageal cancers. No one can say whether green tea, itself, is the reason. Green-tea lovers are often more health-conscious in general. ... Full Story | Top |
| Unclear if Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. will return to Congress: friend Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 01:39 PM PDT CHICAGO (Reuters) - It is not clear if Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. will ever return to Congress, a friend and fellow congressman said on Tuesday after meeting Jackson, as the Illinois lawmaker returned to the Mayo Clinic for treatment of bipolar disorder. Illinois congressman Danny Davis said Jackson was frail and emotional during the meeting on Monday at Jackson's Washington, D.C., home that also included Illinois congressman Bobby Rush. ... Full Story | Top |
| Medicine rarely a slam dunk, despite splashy studies Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 01:31 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Next time a research finding leaves you slack-jawed, thinking it's too good to be true, you might just be right, according to a massive new analysis tracking the fate of splashy medical studies. It turns out that 90 percent of the "very large" effects described in initial reports on medical treatments begin to shrink or vanish as more studies are done. "If taken literally, such huge effects should change everyday clinical and public health practice on the spot," Dr. John Ioannidis of the Stanford School of Medicine in California told Reuters Health by email. ... Full Story | Top |
| Apax, KKR, Madison Dearborn bid for Heartland Dental: sources Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 01:19 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity firms KKR & Co , Apax Partners and Madison Dearborn Partners are bidding for Heartland Dental Care Inc, one of the largest U.S. dental practice management companies and which could be worth around $1.3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The buyout firms submitted final bids on Monday for Heartland Dental, which has been exploring a sale after hiring investment banks Jefferies and Moelis earlier this year, the people said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Court blocks Indiana law cutting Planned Parenthood funds Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 12:47 PM PDT (Reuters) - A federal appeals court has blocked Indiana from enforcing a law to cut off Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood, a law that critics said would deprive thousands of low-income people of medical services. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled that Indiana had broad authority to exclude unqualified providers from its Medicaid program for the poor, but could not deny funding to a class of providers for an unrelated reason -- in this case, because Planned Parenthood clinics perform abortions. ... Full Story | Top |
| Executions increasingly viewed as torture: U.N. investigator Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 12:20 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Countries around the world are increasingly viewing capital punishment as a form of torture because it inflicts severe mental and physical pain on those sentenced to death, a U.N. torture investigator said on Tuesday. Traditionally, countries have considered the legality of capital punishment with respect to the right to life guaranteed under international law, U.N. special rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez told the U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee. ... Full Story | Top |
| Serious birth complications rising in the U.S Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 12:12 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Severe complications from childbirth are rare in the U.S., but they are becoming more common, a new government study finds. Between 1998 and 2009, the rate of serious complications like heart attack, stroke, severe bleeding and kidney failure during or after childbirth roughly doubled among U.S. women, according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2008-2009, there were 129 cases of severe complications for every 10,000 women who delivered in a hospital. That was up 75 percent from a decade earlier. ... Full Story | Top |
| Number of U.S. meningitis cases from tainted injections tops 300 Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 12:08 PM PDT (Reuters) - The number of U.S. cases of meningitis from tainted injections of a steroid medication has reached 304, up 10 from a day earlier, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday. Georgia reported its first case, raising the states covered in the outbreak to 17, the CDC said. Four joint infections from injections of the steroid medication also have been reported, bringing the national total of infections to 308, the CDC said. There were no new deaths reported, leaving total fatalities in the outbreak at 23 in seven states, the CDC said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Monitor says Celgene cancer drug meets late-stage goals Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 10:40 AM PDT (Reuters) - An independent safety panel determined that Celgene Corp's experimental cancer drug had met the main goal of a late-stage trial by improving progression-free survival in multiple myeloma patients who have relapsed or not responded to prior treatment, the drugmaker said. The study's data safety monitoring board also determined that the pomalidomide drug, given in combination with a low dose of existing treatment dexamethasone, was superior to a high dose of the existing treatment in improving overall survival. ... Full Story | Top |
| Canada allows plant that shipped tainted beef to reopen Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 10:30 AM PDT (Reuters) - The Canadian plant that produced millions of pounds of tainted beef was set to reopen on Tuesday as food inspection officials tried to restore consumer confidence in the country's food safety system. XL Foods' Brooks, Alberta, plant has been closed since September 27 after producing beef contaminated with E. coli bacteria that sickened at least 16 people in Canada. Products including ground beef and steaks were pulled off store shelves across Canada and in most U.S. states. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) halted imports last month of products traced to the plant. ... Full Story | Top |
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