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| In Missouri Senate race, new Akin ad features rape survivor Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 05:43 PM PDT  KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Todd Akin, the Republican candidate in the closely watched U.S. Senate race in Missouri, released a new advertisement on Thursday featuring a woman who says she was raped and had an abortion but supports Akin's anti-abortion stand. The TV commercial comes in the closing days of a campaign that has drawn national attention because of Akin's remark in August that women's bodies could ward off pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape." Akin, a six-term U.S. congressman from the St. ... Full Story | Top |
| Retail clinics may cut into primary care: study Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 05:27 PM PDT (Reuters) - The health clinics in U.S. pharmacies and other retail stores may be convenient, but they may also take a bite out of the traditional doctor-patient relationship, according to a U.S. study. Retail health clinics operate mainly out of chain pharmacies, but they're also in some grocery stores and "big box" stores like Wal-mart. They now number more than 1,300 nationwide, according to the non-profit RAND Institute - and among people with private health insurance, their use rose 10-fold between 2007 and 2009. ... Full Story | Top |
| Judge backs Catholic firm over contraception mandate Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 05:16 PM PDT (Reuters) - A Catholic-owned family business in Michigan does not have to comply with the provision of the new U.S. healthcare law that requires private employers to provide employees with health insurance that covers birth control, a federal judge in Detroit has ruled. U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland, in a ruling late Wednesday, temporarily blocked the government from forcing the owner of Weingartz Supply Company, which sells outdoor power equipment, to include contraception in its health coverage of employees. ... Full Story | Top |
| NICE backs melanoma drugs after price cuts Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 05:06 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Two new drugs for skin cancer have been recommended for use on Britain's state-run health service after the rival manufacturers - Roche and Bristol-Myers Squibb - agreed to cut their prices. The move underscores the growing pressure on drug companies to cut deals with austerity-hit European governments in order to prove their expensive new medicines offer value for money. ... Full Story | Top |
| UK cost agency backs melanoma drugs after price cuts Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 05:01 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Two new drugs for skin cancer have been recommended for use on Britain's state-run health service after the rival manufacturers - Roche and Bristol-Myers Squibb - agreed to cut their prices. The move underscores the growing pressure on drug companies to cut deals with austerity-hit European governments in order to prove their expensive new medicines offer value for money. ... Full Story | Top |
| Many HIV patients skip medications to drink: study Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 05:00 PM PDT (Reuters) - About half of HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy skipped their medications whenever they were drinking alcohol, according to a U.S. study - an ill-advised behavior that researchers say could lead to higher viral loads. The study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, for a year followed nearly 200 people with HIV who were on antiretrovirals and drank alcohol. It found that 51 percent stopped taking their medications while drinking. ... Full Story | Top |
| St Jude to cut 500 more jobs under realignment Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 04:47 PM PDT (Reuters) - St Jude Medical Inc, a maker of heart devices, said it will cut 500 more jobs under its reorganization plan announced in August, when it realigned its business into two operating units and eliminated 300 jobs. It expects to incur additional pre-tax charges of about $40 million to $60 million related to the additional cuts, the company said in a regulatory filing on Thursday. The company has now slashed its global workforce by 5 percent and expects to incur total charges of between $150 million and $200 million through fiscal 2013. St Jude shares closed at $38. ... Full Story | Top |
| Nine more cases of meningitis reported in outbreak Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 04:37 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Nine more cases of deadly fungal meningitis were reported from an outbreak tied to steroid medications shipped by a Massachusetts company, bringing the national total to 377 cases, U.S. health officials said on Thursday. No new deaths were reported on Thursday and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Virginia had revised down the number of deaths there to two from three, reducing the national fatality total to 28. The CDC gave no reason for the revision. ... Full Story | Top |
| Vertex posts loss as hepatitis drug sales plunge Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 04:20 PM PDT (Reuters) - Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc reported a net loss for the third quarter on Thursday with results hurt by fast-declining sales of its Incivek hepatitis C drug, as the company turned its attention to developing a next generation of treatments for the serious liver disease. Vertex posted a net loss of $57.5 million, or 27 cents per share, compared with a profit of $221.1 million, or $1.02 per share, a year ago. Analysts on average expected a profit of 20 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. FDA finds bacteria in New England Compounding drugs Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 04:19 PM PDT (Reuters) - U.S. health officials have found bacteria in lots of an injected steroid and a heart drug made by New England Compounding Center, the pharmacy linked to contaminated steroids that have claimed the lives of at least 28 people. The Food and Drug Administration said it identified different types of bacteria in three separate recalled batches of NECC's preservative-free betamethasone and in a single batch of NECC-supplied cardioplegia solution. Betamethasone is an injectable steroid, while cardioplegia is used during heart surgery. ... Full Story | Top |
| Nearly 30 Air Force Academy cadets injured in annual ritual Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 01:57 PM PDT DENVER (Reuters) - Nearly 30 Air Force Academy cadets required medical care, with six of them hospitalized, after an annual tradition to mark the first snowfall of the season turned into an out-of-control melee, school officials said on Wednesday. An unauthorized ritual last week called "First Shirt/First Snow," in which freshman cadets try to throw their cadet sergeant into a snowbank, grew violent and resulted in injuries, the academy said in a statement. "A relatively small number of cadets chose to take part in this unsafe activity," Brigadier General Gregory Lengyel said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Study finds healthy snacks still limited in some U.S. schools Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 01:43 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. school children searching for a healthy snack at school - perhaps an apple or some celery sticks - may find that a bag of potato chips is much easier to come by, a report released on Thursday said. Students in states such as Connecticut and West Virginia have limited access to junk food like candy and chocolate on school grounds while those in Louisiana and Idaho can buy it in abundance, according to an analysis by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. U.S. childhood and adolescent obesity rates have more than tripled in the past 30 ... Full Story | Top |
| Massachusetts tightens rules for compounding pharmacies Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 01:32 PM PDT BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts adopted new regulations on Thursday that it said will allow it to keep a closer eye on compounding pharmacies, a class of drug supplier linked to the U.S. meningitis outbreak that has so far killed 29 people. The state, home to the New England Compounding Center that produced the injectable steroids at the heart of the outbreak, said the new rules give it the authority to track the volume and distribution of drugs that compounding pharmacies sell to determine if they are operating like manufacturers. ... Full Story | Top |
| Lot of work left on Canada-EU trade deal, both sides say Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 01:22 PM PDT  OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada and the European Union still have plenty of work to do on a proposed free trade treaty that is supposed to be finished by the end of the year, officials from both sides said on Thursday. Canada, keen to diversify its exports away from the United States, says a deal with the European Union would increase two-way trade by 20 percent. The talks started in 2009. But several sensitive matters remain to be settled, including access for agricultural goods, opening up procurement markets and the extension of pharmaceutical patents. ... Full Story | Top |
| Retail clinics may cut into primary care Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 12:42 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The health clinics in pharmacies and other retail stores may be convenient, but they may also take a bite out of the traditional doctor-patient relationship, a new study suggests. Retail health clinics operate mainly out of chain pharmacies, but they're also in some grocery stores and "big box" stores like Wal-mart. There are now more than 1,300 retail health clinics nationwide, according to the non-profit RAND Institute. And among Americans with private health insurance, their use rose 10-fold between 2007 and 2009. "The scope of care is limited," said Dr. ... Full Story | Top |
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