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| Infected and unaware: HIV hitting America's youth Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 06:43 PM PST  CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than half of young people in the United States who are infected with HIV are not aware of it, according to a report by government health officials that zeroes in on one of the remaining hot spots of HIV infection in America. Young people ages 13 to 24 account for 26 percent of all new HIV infections, according to the report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which was released on Tuesday in advance of World AIDS Day on December 1. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama promotes tax agenda, Congress in stand-off Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 06:25 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday launched a public relations push for his bid to raise taxes on wealthy Americans, but U.S. lawmakers remained deadlocked over dramatic, year-end tax increases and spending cuts known as the "fiscal cliff." At the White House, small business leaders emerged from a one-hour meeting with Obama to voice support for his goal of extending low tax rates for the middle class beyond the end of the year, while letting rates rise for wealthier taxpayers. ... Full Story | Top |
| Venezuela's Chavez heads to Cuba for medical treatment Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 04:13 PM PST  CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will travel to Cuba on Tuesday for medical treatment, following a nearly two-week absence from the public eye, months after undergoing cancer surgery on the communist-run island. Chavez, 58, underwent what appeared to be a remarkable comeback from an undisclosed type of cancer diagnosed in June 2011. In October, he won re-election despite running a campaign that was much more subdued than his previous bids. ... Full Story | Top |
| Former presidential nominee Dole in hospital: media reports Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 03:55 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole has been admitted to Washington's Walter Reed Army medical center for what an aide called a "routine procedure," media reports said on Tuesday. Dole, 89, "self-checked into the hospital for a routine procedure and will be discharged tomorrow," an aide told NBC News. "He's doing very well." According to Politico, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, said on the Senate floor on Tuesday that Dole was hospitalized "because he is infirm. He is sick." Reid's comments came during debate on the U.N. ... Full Story | Top |
| Cloudy with a chance of flu? Study offers influenza forecast Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 03:54 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New research suggests it may be possible to forecast flu outbreaks in much the same way meteorologists predict weather, a potential boon for public health officials and consumers, one of the study's authors said on Tuesday. Using real-time U.S. data gathered by Google Inc, along with a computer model showing how flu spreads, the researchers offered a system that could generate local forecasts of the severity and length of a particular flu outbreak. ... Full Story | Top |
| Judge orders tobacco companies to admit deception Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 03:34 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major tobacco companies that spent decades denying they lied to the U.S. public about the dangers of cigarettes must spend their own money on a public advertising campaign saying they did lie, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. The ruling sets out what might be the harshest sanction to come out of a historic case that the Justice Department brought in 1999 accusing the tobacco companies of racketeering. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler wrote that the new advertising campaign would be an appropriate counterweight to the companies' "past deception" dating to at least ... Full Story | Top |
| GSK and J&J lead rivals in drug access for poor Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 03:02 PM PST LONDON (Reuters) - Drugmakers - led by GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson - are stepping up efforts to ensure their medicines are available and affordable in poor countries, after being attacked in the past for not doing enough. The Access to Medicines Index, which tracks the actions of the top 20 drugmakers, showed on Wednesday there had been an improvement across the board in the past two years, reflecting both commercial self-interest and a concern for reputation. ... Full Story | Top |
| Senior Democrat Durbin urges talks on Medicare Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 01:28 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dick Durbin, a senior Senate Democrat and close ally of President Barack Obama, urged fellow liberals on Tuesday to consider reforming Medicare and Medicaid, the U.S. healthcare programs they have long fought to shield from spending cuts. The timing of his message - just as Democrats and Republicans struggling to avoid the "fiscal cliff," looming early next year - and its prominence may signal that Democratic leaders and the White House will discuss social programs at the fiscal policy negotiating table. ... Full Story | Top |
| Whooping cough immunity may wane after vaccination: study Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 01:23 PM PST (Reuters Health) - Unvaccinated youngsters were nine times more likely to contract whooping cough during a recent outbreak in California than those who had received the entire five-shot series, researchers found. However, the effectiveness of the vaccine waned as more time elapsed since a child's final dose of the so-called DTaP vaccine for whooping cough, also known as pertussis. ... Full Story | Top |
| Whooping cough immunity may wane after vaccination Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 01:13 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - During a recent whooping cough outbreak in California, kids who hadn't been vaccinated against the disease were nine times more likely to get it than those who had received the entire five-shot series, researchers found. But even among children who were fully vaccinated, the longer it had been since their final dose of the so-called DTaP vaccine, the higher their risk of coming down with whooping cough, also known as pertussis. ... Full Story | Top |
| Salary growth lagging for primary care doctors Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 01:12 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite rising spending on health care in the United States, primary care doctors don't seem to be reaping the rewards on their paychecks, a new study suggests. The findings could have implications for what some predictions say will be a primary care shortage in some parts of the country in the coming years. Researchers found that since the late 1980s, the average doctor's earnings have grown more slowly than the salaries of other health professionals, such as pharmacists, dentists and registered nurses. ... Full Story | Top |
| Journals to heart researchers: Get your words right Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 01:03 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When it comes to describing medical findings, researchers may need to tone it down a bit, according to a group of heart journal editors. "It's a plea to not get ahead of the evidence," said Dr. Christopher Cannon, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston and one of a group of cardiology journal editors publishing a statement this week. ... Full Story | Top |
| Chronology: Hugo Chavez's battle for health Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 12:27 PM PST (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will travel to Cuba on Tuesday for medical treatment, months after he underwent chemotherapy and radiation there for cancer. Following is a chronology of the 58-year-old Socialist leader's battle with illness: 30 JUNE 2011 A pale-looking Chavez addresses the nation by television from Cuba, where he says doctors operated on him to remove a cancerous tumor from his pelvis. 4 JULY 2011 The president makes a surprise return to Venezuela ahead of the country's Independence Day celebrations. ... Full Story | Top |
| New Jersey gay conversion therapy group sued for fraud Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 11:52 AM PST (Reuters) - Four gay men who underwent treatment designed to change their sexual orientation filed a lawsuit in New Jersey on Tuesday accusing their therapists of fraud, in what may be the first suit of its kind against conversion therapists. Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH), a Jersey City-based non-profit organization, falsely claimed to be able to eliminate the four men's homosexual desires through a scientifically proven process, according to a complaint filed in the Superior Court of New Jersey. ... Full Story | Top |
| Soy unlikely to help hot flashes Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 10:58 AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who eat a lot of soy-based foods or fiber don't seem to have fewer menopause symptoms, according to a new study. The findings add to other studies that have found no benefits from eating extra amounts of soy, a food abundant in dietary estrogen. "It might be a dead end," said William Wong, a professor at Baylor College of Medicine who has studied the effects of soy protein on menopause symptoms. Plant-based estrogens, also called phytoestrogens, are found in foods such as seeds, nuts and soybeans. Their chemical structure is similar to human estrogens. ... Full Story | Top |
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