FDA: Mold, bacteria at pharmacy tied to outbreak
Associated Press via Yahoo! News Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:47 PM PDT
Federal health inspectors say staffers at a pharmacy linked to the deadly meningitis outbreak over the past year documented dozens of cases of mold and bacteria growing in rooms that were supposed to be sterile. |
Pitch counts don't add up to more injuries, says study
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:12 PM PDT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It is impossible to watch a Major League Baseball (MLB) game nowadays - such as those in the World Series now underway - without hearing about how many pitches a player has thrown. But a new study suggests that when it comes to preventing injuries, the obsession of many teams with those kinds of numbers may be misplaced. "I don't necessarily think that pitch counts or ... |
Baseball-Pitch counts don't add up to more injuries, says study
Reuters via Yahoo! News Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:11 PM PDT
NEW YORK, Oct 26 (Reuters Health) - It is impossible to watch a Major League Baseball (MLB) game nowadays - such as those in the World Series now underway - without hearing about how many pitches a player has thrown. But a new study suggests that when it comes to preventing injuries, the obsession of many teams with those kinds of numbers may be misplaced. "I don't necessarily think that pitch ... |
Planned Parenthood sues again over Texas health program
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:10 PM PDT
(Reuters) - Planned Parenthood family planning providers in Texas filed a new lawsuit on Friday over a rule that bars its clinics from a state health program for low-income women because the organization performs abortions. The suit was filed in state court, after a federal appeals court declined on Thursday to reconsider a ruling allowing Texas to withhold funding for women's healthcare from ... |
Plant compounds tied to less stomach cancer in women
Reuters via Yahoo! Maktoob News Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:49 PM PDT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Getting a moderate amount of plant substances called flavonoids through the diet may be linked to a lower stomach cancer risk in women, but not men, according to a new study. European researchers found that women with the highest intake of flavonoids were half as likely to develop the disease as were women who had the smallest intake. ... |
Baseball pitch counts don't predict injuries: study
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:02 PM PDT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It's impossible to watch a Major League Baseball game nowadays - for example, the World Series now underway - without hearing about how many pitches a player has thrown. But a new study suggests that when it comes to preventing injuries, the obsession of many teams with those kinds of numbers may be misplaced. "I don't necessarily think that pitch counts or innings ... |
Did the Neurontin lawsuit fuel health spending?
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:01 PM PDT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In 2004, Pfizer, the world's largest drug company, agreed to plead guilty and pay more than $430 million to settle charges it had illegally marketed the epilepsy drug Neurontin for unapproved uses. Now, a study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry questions whether the lawsuit ended up fueling spending on other epilepsy drugs instead of curbing so-called off-label ... |
Trans fats raise cholesterol, not blood sugar
Reuters via Yahoo! Maktoob News Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:03 AM PDT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although trans fats raise your levels of "bad" cholesterol, they don't appear to have lasting impacts on your blood sugar, according to a new review of the medical evidence. Researchers found that both blood sugar and insulin, the hormone that keeps blood sugar levels in check, were similar regardless of how much trans fat people ate. The link between trans fats and ... |
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