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China stops unapproved stem cell treatments
Mon,9 Jan 2012 11:46 PM PST
Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China has ordered a halt to all unapproved stem cell treatments and clinical trials, state media reported on Tuesday, as Beijing seeks to rein in the largely untested stem cell therapies now on offer across the country. The Ministry of Health has also stopped accepting new applications for stem cell programs, a ban that will last until July and comes as China begins a one-year program to regulate the sector better, Xinhua cited a ministry spokesman as saying. ... Full Story | Top |
Olympus sues execs over scandal, shares surge
Mon,9 Jan 2012 11:00 PM PST
Reuters -  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's disgraced Olympus Corp is suing 19 current and former executives, including its current president, for up to almost $50 million in compensation, as it struggles to recover from one of the nation's worst accounting scandals. The maker of cameras and medical equipment said on Tuesday all board members subject to the lawsuit would quit in March or April, leaving it in the extraordinary position for now of continuing with its most senior executive, Shuichi Takayama, and five other directors it is suing for mismanagement. ...
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Can electronic health records erase disparities?
Mon,9 Jan 2012 10:23 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Switching to electronic health records might help close health gaps between black and white Americans, researchers suggest in a new study. They say government data on primary care visits from 2007 to 2008 show that when doctors didn't use digital records, there was a racial gap in how many patients had high blood pressure. But there was no such gap among patients treated at practices with electronic record-keeping. ... Full Story | Top |
Insight: New DNA reader to bring promise
Mon,9 Jan 2012 09:09 PM PST
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - New DNA reader could bring genetics to medical clinics After years of predictions that the "$1,000 genome" - a read-out of a person's complete genetic information for about the cost of a dental crown - was just around the corner, a U.S. company is announcing Tuesday that it has achieved that milestone and taken the technology several steps ahead. The new genome-sequencing machine from Ion Torrent, a division of Life Technologies Corp., in Guilford, Connecticut, is 1,000 times more powerful than existing technology, says CEO and chairman Jonathan Rothberg. ...
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B vitamins may modestly boost memory: study
Mon,9 Jan 2012 07:15 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Older adults who took vitamin B12 and folic acid supplements for two years had greater improvements on short- and long-term memory tests than adults who did not take the vitamins, according to an Australian study. The benefits were modest but encouraging, said author Janine Walker, a researcher at Australian National University, of the study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. ... Full Story | Top |
Statin use linked to more diabetes in women: study
Mon,9 Jan 2012 06:09 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins may be linked to an increased risk of diabetes in middle-aged and older women, according to a U.S. study -- but researchers said the benefits of the drugs still make them valuable for people at risk. The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that among the thousands of women looked at, those who reported using any kind of statin at the start of the six- to seven-year study were nearly 50 percent more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes than those not taking statins. ... Full Story | Top |
New York anti-obesity ads pair soda, leg amputations
Mon,9 Jan 2012 04:44 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A diabetic man with a penchant for sugary drinks who lost his legs to amputation is the latest posterboy in the city health department's hard-hitting anti-obesity campaign. The disturbing image of an amputee sitting near cups of soda was plastered in city subways on Monday, part of a series of ads aimed at shocking people out of dietary habits that can lead to obesity, said Thomas Farley, the city health commissioner. "These are hard-hitting images because we really felt we need to drive home a point that large portions are not completely benign," Farley told Reuters. ... Full Story | Top |
Heart attack risk seen with Boehringer clot drug
Mon,9 Jan 2012 03:52 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Boehringer Ingelheim's Pradaxa blood clot preventer has been associated with a slightly higher risk of heart attack or acute coronary syndrome, according to results of a meta-analysis of several studies reported in a major medical journal. The relative increase in risk to comparative medicines was found to range from 27 to 33 percent, however the absolute risk increase for suffering a heart attack was only 0.27 percent, the authors of the meta-analysis said in the study published on Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine online edition. ... Full Story | Top |
Heart attack risk seen with clot drug Pradaxa
Mon,9 Jan 2012 02:22 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Boehringer Ingelheim's Pradaxa blood clot preventer has been associated with a slightly higher risk of heart attack or acute coronary syndrome, according to results of a meta-analysis of several studies reported in a major medical journal. The relative increase in risk to comparative medicines was found to range from 27 to 33 percent, however the absolute risk increase for suffering a heart attack was only 0.27 percent, the authors of the meta-analysis said in the study published on Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine online edition. ... Full Story | Top |
Can electronic health records erase disparities?
Mon,9 Jan 2012 02:21 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Switching to electronic health records might help close health gaps between black and white Americans, researchers suggest in a new study. Using government data on primary care visits from 2007 to 2008, they found a racial gap in well-controlled blood pressure among doctors who didn't use digital records, but not among those who did. That could be important, because African Americans are more likely to have high blood pressure than whites, which might in turn explain why they also have more heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease, said Dr. ... Full Story | Top |
Heart attack risk seen with Boehringer clot drug
Mon,9 Jan 2012 02:09 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Boehringer Ingelheim's Pradaxa blood clot preventer has been associated with a slightly higher risk of heart attack or acute coronary syndrome, according to results of a meta-analysis of several studies reported in a major medical journal. The relative increase in risk to comparative medicines was found to range from 27 to 33 percent, however the absolute risk increase for suffering a heart attack was only 0.27 percent, the authors of the meta-analysis said in the study published on Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine online edition. ... Full Story | Top |
Recession-hit U.S. health spending barely rose in 2010
Mon,9 Jan 2012 01:45 PM PST
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. healthcare spending barely rose in 2010 from record-low recession levels, as high unemployment and the loss of private health insurance forced many Americans to delay or forego medical treatment, government officials said on Monday. Spending edged up 3.9 percent, bringing the total size of the U.S. healthcare system to $2.6 trillion, or $8,402 per person, according to a report released by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, and published in the journal Health Affairs. For a graphic, see: http://link.reuters. ...
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Statin use tied to more diabetes in women
Mon,9 Jan 2012 01:17 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cholesterol-lowering drugs may be linked to an increased risk of diabetes, according to a new study of middle-aged and older women. But researchers said that shouldn't dissuade people with heart disease -- or at risk of it -- from taking so-called statins. Instead, statin users should try to reduce their risk of diabetes in other ways, such as by losing weight, and should have their blood sugar regularly monitored, they said. ... Full Story | Top |
Aspirin guidelines need overhaul, researchers say
Mon,9 Jan 2012 01:15 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Healthy people shouldn't be taking aspirin to prevent heart disease, researchers say in a new report that casts doubt on recommendations from U.S. health officials. Medical guidelines currently urge people to take low doses of the drug if they are at high risk of heart disease but have never had any symptoms, or if they have already suffered a heart attack. But the first piece of advice, known as primary prevention, has come under attack from more and more doctors because aspirin therapy can also be harmful. ... Full Story | Top |
Heart attack risk seen with Boehringer clot drug
Mon,9 Jan 2012 01:10 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Boehringer Ingelheim's Pradaxa blood clot preventer has been associated with a slightly higher risk of heart attack or acute coronary syndrome, according to results of a meta-analysis of several studies reported in a major medical journal. The relative increase in risk to comparative medicines was found to range from 27 to 33 percent, however the absolute risk increase for suffering a heart attack was only 0.27 percent, the authors of the meta-analysis said in the study published on Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine online edition. ... Full Story | Top |
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