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Food and Drug Administration inspectors found in April that McNeil Consumer Healthcare, which has voluntarily recalled certain lots of its children's and infants' Tylenol products, knowingly used bacteria-contaminated materials to make them, a report posted Tuesday by the agency says. FDA officials said no batches of the final product have been found to be contaminated, but the agency must further...
May 4, 2010
Doctors are exploring ways to reduce the amount of radiation exposure from medical imaging tests in light of renewed concerns about the cancer risk, according to research presented at a radiology conference this week. Medical radiation from exams such as CTs, or computed tomography, causes 29,000 new cancers a year, a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed in December. An accompanying article...
May 4, 2010
Hospitals can slow the revolving door that shuttles heart failure patients back into bed within a month of going home by following up promptly to ensure patients get the right outpatient care, a study shows. On average, nearly 20% of the 1 million heart failure patients admitted to U.S. hospitals each year are readmitted within a month. Heart failure is the leading cause of those readmissions, which...
May 4, 2010
Apr. 20 - Chicago first lady Maggie Daley stressed the importance of kindness and caring as she helped unveil a new cancer center named after her Monday. Her brief remarks at the dedication ceremony for the new Maggie Daley Center for Women's Cancer Care at Northwestern Memorial's Prentice Women's Hospital came hours after her doctor confirmed she has a leg fracture, an anticipated side effect of her...
May 4, 2010
GENEVA - The World Health Organization is launching a new website it hopes will cut the estimated 100,000 deaths from snake bites annually. The U.N. health agency says the site contains a database of approved antivenoms to treat the 2.5 million people who suffer venomous bites each year. WHO says antivenoms - antidotes developed from the venom itself - can prevent disability or death but many are inappropriate...
May 4, 2010
TOKYO - The world's oldest person, a Japanese woman on the southern island of Okinawa, has died a week before her 115th birthday, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. Kama Chinen, who witnessed three centuries, died Sunday, according to Kaoru Shijima, a spokeswoman at her care facility. Petite and grey-haired, Chinen spent her final years at a care centre in Nanjo on southeastern Okinawa. She was born on...
May 3, 2010
May 4 - After decades of research and multiple failed attempts to find a treatment, the pharmaceutical industry is entering a critical phase in the search for a drug that can slow, or stop, the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Drugmakers see huge money-making potential because of the aging population. Alzheimer's afflicts more than 5 million Americans and is one of the leading causes of death in...
May 3, 2010
May 4 - In the simplest terms, Sasha Gainullin is a fixer. The vice president of operations for the firm MyAssist, based in Stevens Point, is the guy you call when your luggage disappears, you want that reservation no one can get, or the Haitian officials just blocked your attempt to fly eight injured children to America for medical care. He'll save your vacation. In this case, he saved lives. "In...
May 3, 2010
Nearly 40% of parents of toddlers have delayed or refused a child's vaccination - a practice that endangers not only their children but others around them, a study reported Monday. Refusing vaccines is becoming more common, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in Vancouver, Canada. The percentage of parents who delay or refuse a shot rose from 22% in 2003 to 39%...
May 3, 2010
May 4 - WASHINGTON - A new federal program will track the treatment of diabetics in three Utah counties in a bid to spur greater use of electronic health records, according to a White House official. Vice President Joe Biden and Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius are slated to announce the $15.8 million pilot program Tuesday as part of a broader effort they have dubbed "Beacon Communities." The pilot...
May 3, 2010
CHICAGO - Debi Bobka doesn't meet the medical criteria to be included on the organ transplant list, but is convinced it's only a matter of time before her diseased liver fails. So she is seeking a live donor - even if it means appealing to strangers for help. Bobka, 53, of Schaumburg, Ill., posted a message on livingdonorsonline.org that begins: "In need of a liver to save my life." She acknowledges...
May 3, 2010
May 4 - The term "unintended pregnancy" came up a lot Monday morning at a community meeting held at Colorado State University-Pueblo. It was even on the flyer: "Help Prevent Unintended Pregnancy in Pueblo!" But Sarah Ruybalid, community health services division director for the Pueblo City-County Health Department, that the real problem among the area's teenage girls may not be unintended pregnancies....
May 3, 2010
May 4 - Five years after Harlan Snow's Alzheimer's diagnosis, his wife Joy Snow has watched what she calls the "slow, depressing process" of seeing her husband withdraw into a different world. The former conductor and music educator has lost his ability to speak and to walk. Once a great tenor, he can't sing anymore. When Joy misses a visit to his nursing home, her husband seems unaware of her absence....
May 3, 2010
May 4 - Ridgefield-based Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals is working on creating an inhaler free of chlorofluorocarbons for its Combivent respiratory medicine to conform to pending Food and Drug Administration regulations. "It's been a very challenging process," said Emily Baier, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals' manager of public relations, of the company's 10-year effort. "There was a tremendous...
May 3, 2010
As a sun lover with a fair complexion and a history of blistering sunburns, I've spent much of the last decade waiting for skin cancer. So when I noticed that a fleshy pink nodule on the side of my head seemed to be growing exponentially, I headed to the dermatologist for official confirmation. In less than five seconds, Dr. Roopal Kundu dismissed the unsightly growth. But after lightly tracing my...
May 3, 2010
May 4 - Maybe you're a parent or family member who has picked up a child's backpack - only to be staggered by its heft. Or maybe, like a Buffalo News reader who lives in Williamsville, you have observed children walking in your neighborhood while bent under the burdens of enormous packs. "I have become concerned," wrote the reader, in a recent letter to The News. Whatever your proximity to the subject,...
May 3, 2010
May 3 - SPARTA - It is lunchtime in the third-fattest county in Georgia. At the Palm Tree Restaurant, a fish-and-burger parlor on the outskirts of one of the state's most economically depressed towns, a house painter is hunched over a perch plate. "Judge Alex" is on the snowy, outdated, big-screen TV in the corner of what was once an American Legion hall. The color of the concrete floor almost matches...
May 2, 2010
May 2 - The Legislature has overwhelming approved a bill that aims to curb "doctor shopping" by abusers of prescription drugs, which are causing a growing number of overdose deaths locally and nationally. The bill is one of 200-some measures awaiting action by Gov. Jim Doyle and has been ardently supported by some law enforcement officials. Such a law would deter not only drug abusers but doctors who...
May 2, 2010
May 3 - Michael Banks has a shaved head, dazzlingly white teeth and upper arms the size of country hams. He also has the ability to draw people out of their beds on a balmy Saturday morning to exercise in the open air. Banks, a 48-year-old fitness guru and personal trainer based in Salt Lake City, led a free "community workout" Saturday morning at Tattnall Square Park. About 100 people turned out for...
May 2, 2010
May 3 - CHAPEL HILL - Changes in health care and a growing need for family doctors have prompted UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke to consider a dramatic shift in the way their medical students get clinical experience. At UNC, the medical school may scrap the widely used "rotations" model, in which students spend a month or two in each of several specialties such as surgery and psychiatry. In its place, they're...
May 2, 2010
Turmeric, a tawny orange-gold spice that is an integral part of curry powder and ballpark mustard, has been garnering some nice press lately - and not just among foodies. Its health benefits, from aiding digestion to easing inflammation, have caught the attention of researchers, including the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Investigators there...
May 2, 2010
May 3 - The spread of canine influenza could mean boarding Fido while the family goes on vacation this summer will cost a little more. A growing number of veterinary practices in the tri-county area are requiring canine flu vaccinations for dogs before they are boarded or receive grooming services. The inoculations cost about $20 and require a booster shot within three to four weeks. "What people need...
May 2, 2010
From ailing Middle East royalty arriving in private jets to desperate charity cases, Dr Tan Kai Chah has seen them all in his liver disease centre in Singapore. But the Malaysian doctor, one of Asia's top liver surgeons, has a more lofty mission: make transplants and treatment more accessible to patients now that the organs can be sourced from living donors, not just cadavers. Liver disease is common...
May 2, 2010
May 3 - BETHLEHEM - Connor Menneto felt pain that most of us can't imagine. Diagnosed at 16 with a rare disease called complex regional pain syndrome, Connor's left arm and leg burned in crushing pain. He gave up baseball and basketball. He could barely walk. A small breeze set off the hypersensitive nerves on his skin. He quit school and refused to see friends. "He was so despondent and discouraged,"...
May 2, 2010
May 3 - A LOCAL martial arts expert has come to the aid of Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) doctors, donating more than 100 self-defence manuals. Zen-Do Bahrain Kickboxing Club founder Suhail Algosaibi said it was his way of letting doctors know he was concerned about their safety. The donation follows a GDN report earlier this month, in which Bahrain Medical Society general secretary Dr Hussain Meer...
May 2, 2010
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