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CHICAGO - Hospitals across the country are running out of key drugs used in surgeries and to treat some diseases, including cancer, causing doctors to turn to older treatments. In some cases, hospitals are paying higher prices to get their patients necessary care because wholesalers are hoarding needed medicines. Part of the shortage is being caused by manufacturing issues and quality-control problems...
February 22, 2011
The ingredient that gives cannabis its "high" and famously whets the appetite can help cancer patients recover lost pleasure in food, according to a study published on Wednesday. Researchers in Canada enrolled 21 patients who had been treated with chemotherapy for advanced cancer, and gave them either capsules containing THC - delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive chemical in cannabis - or...
February 22, 2011
Two medical investigations published on Tuesday have strengthened arguments that modest daily consumption of alcohol is good for the heart and the blood system. People who drink alcohol in moderate amounts - equivalent to about one drink a day or less - are between 14 and 25 percent less likely to develop cardiovascular disease than counterparts who drink no alcohol at all, they said. The two papers,...
February 22, 2011
The Food and Drug Administration is now requiring stronger safety warnings for a popular treatment to prevent pregnant women from prematurely giving birth. Women should not be given injections of the drug terbutaline for more than three days "because of the potential for serious maternal heart problems and death," the FDA said Thursday. It is now requiring a boxed warning - the FDA's most serious type...
February 18, 2011
Feb. 18 - One in four children nationwide doesn't know where the next meal is going to come from or if that meal will have the nutrition needed to grow and thrive. It's called food insecurity and it's not just a poverty issue anymore. Talk to an expert in the field of childhood nutrition or to Florida's education commissioner, and they'll tell you a healthy diet is just as important as textbooks and...
February 18, 2011
Tokyo (dpa) - More than 1,000 schoolchildren and teachers in northern Japan became ill in a suspected outbreak of food poisoning, news reports said Tuesday. A total of 1,048 students and teachers at nine elementary and junior high schools in Iwamizawa on the island of Hokkaido developed symptoms of food poisoning, public broadcaster NHK said, citing local officials. Thirteen students had been admitted...
February 17, 2011
Feb. 16 - Energy drinks popular among teenagers everywhere can disrupt sleep patterns, increase blood pressure and in extreme cases even cause stroke, according to a report released in the journal Pediatrics. Caffeine in energy drinks, including brand names Red Bull, Monster and Rock Star, is not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration because they are classified as dietary supplements....
February 17, 2011
At least 12 people have died from swine flu in Hong Kong in less than a month, the territory's health authority said Thursday, after the latest death from the disease. A spokeswoman for the health authority said one elderly person had died of confirmed swine flu, while another had died of influenza type A, of which swine flue is a sub-type. An increase in swine flu cases caused densely populated Hong...
February 17, 2011
There will be nearly 1.3 million deaths from cancer in Europe in 2011 according to predictions from a study published in the cancer journal, Annals of Oncology today (Wednesday 9 February) [1]. The estimates, which have been reached after researchers used for the first time in Europe a new mathematical model for predicting cancer mortality, show a fall in overall cancer death rates for both men and...
February 17, 2011
Feb. 17 - SANTA CRUZ - New research suggests that the drug Ecstasy - used on its own - does not have residual effects on brain performance, according to a study published this week in the journal Addiction. The Santa Cruz-based Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies contributed $15,000 for an initial 2004 study on Ecstasy use. That work led to a $1.8 million grant from the National Institute...
February 17, 2011
The vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV) can prevent 90 percent of genital warts in men when offered before exposure to the four HPV strains covered by the vaccine, according to a new multi-center study led by H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and UCSF (see also Vaccines). The four-year, international clinical trial, which also found a nearly 66 percent effectiveness in the general population of young...
February 17, 2011
Thirty years ago, the first human fetal surgery was performed at the University of California, San Francisco. Now, a randomized controlled trial has proven definitively that fetal surgery can help certain patients before birth (see also Uterine Rupture). Babies who undergo an operation to repair the birth defect spina bifida while still in the womb develop better and experience fewer neurologic complications...
February 17, 2011
In 1980 in the United States, approximately 4.5% of all pregnant women were of advanced maternal age. By 2007 that figure had increased to 14%. Women over 35 are at increased risk of giving birth to babies with trisomy 21. In a study published online today in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology (AJOG), researchers from the Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine confirmed that DNA sequencing...
February 17, 2011
Cancer and diabetes hardly ever strike a remote mountain community of little people in Ecuador, suggesting they may be protected by the gene mutation that causes dwarfism, said a study on Wednesday. International researchers have followed the 100 abnormally short people and 1,600 of their regular-height relatives who live on the edge of Andes for 22 years, said the report in the journal Science Translational...
February 16, 2011
Cancer and diabetes hardly ever strike a remote mountain community of little people in Ecuador, suggesting they may be protected by the gene mutation that causes dwarfism, said a study on Wednesday. International researchers have followed the 100 abnormally short people and 1,600 of their regular-height relatives who live on the edge of Andes for 22 years, said the report in the journal Science Translational...
February 16, 2011
The high calorie counts of the artery-clogging fast foods were right in front of their eyes, but adults and teens in a recent US study went ahead and ordered burgers anyway. So said researchers at New York University whose findings were published this week in the International Journal of Obesity, just as a major policy to display calorie counts on menus is taking effect across the United States. The...
February 16, 2011
Feb. 16 - Energy drinks popular among teenagers everywhere can disrupt sleep patterns, increase blood pressure and in extreme cases even cause stroke, according to a report released in the journal Pediatrics. Caffeine in energy drinks, including brand names Red Bull, Monster and Rock Star, is not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration because they are classified as dietary supplements....
February 16, 2011
Cancer and diabetes hardly ever strike a remote mountain community of little people in Ecuador, suggesting they may be protected by the gene mutation that causes dwarfism, said a study on Wednesday. International researchers have followed the 100 abnormally short people and 1,600 of their regular-height relatives who live on the edge of Andes for 22 years, said the report in the journal Science Translational...
February 16, 2011
Tokyo (dpa) - More than 1,000 schoolchildren and teachers in northern Japan became ill in a suspected outbreak of food poisoning, news reports said Tuesday. A total of 1,048 students and teachers at nine elementary and junior high schools in Iwamizawa on the island of Hokkaido developed symptoms of food poisoning, public broadcaster NHK said, citing local officials. Thirteen students had been admitted...
February 15, 2011
Feb. 15 - People with prescriptions to counter the debilitating effects of osteoporosis should not be alarmed by concerns of a very rare jaw condition, Kaiser health researchers say. It's an advisory that will become even more important as growing numbers of people suffer from deterioration of bone tissue. People taking the oral medications for osteoporosis have a slightly elevated risk of developing...
February 15, 2011
Feb. 14 - Planned Parenthood centers in the Tulsa area are now offering a new emergency contraceptive pill that can block pregnancy up to two days longer than previous pills available. The pill, called ella, can prevent pregnancy when taken up to 120 hours, or five days, after unprotected sex or contraceptive failure. It has been under scrutiny from anti-abortion activists, as have other emergency...
February 14, 2011
A vaccine against pneumonia, the leading cause of child deaths around the world, was rolled out in Kenya Monday and is expected to save hundreds of thousands of lives in coming years. Pneumococcal disease accounts for 18 percent of child deaths in developing countries, killing more than a million children under the age of five every year, according to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation...
February 14, 2011
Feb. 14 - BECKLEY - Child sexual abuse is an unpleasant conversation topic, but some experts say that talking to children about boundaries could drastically reduce the risk of this happening. Scott Miller, director of Just for Kids, says there are already a number of programs in the school system that deal with this exact subject, such as "Good Touch Bad Touch." But Miller says that talking to kids...
February 14, 2011
Feb. 14 - Energy drinks packed with caffeine and sugar may pose serious health risks to users, especially children, adolescents and young adults, according to a study by the University of Miami School of Medicine published Monday in the online version of Pediatrics, the peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The study, co-authored by Dr. Steven Lipshultz, chief of pediatrics at...
February 14, 2011
A growing number of states are moving to ban a new synthetic drug known as "bath salts" that can cause severe side effects, including paranoia, hallucinations and sometimes violent behavior. Emergency bans have been issued in Louisiana, North Dakota and Florida. Legislators in Hawaii, Kentucky, North Dakota and Mississippi have introduced bills to ban the drug, which can be sold legally in stores and...
February 11, 2011
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