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Feds crack down on Colorado medical pot dispensaries
Thu,12 Jan 2012 11:33 PM PST
Reuters - DENVER (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors in Colorado started a crackdown against nearly two dozen medical marijuana dispensaries located within 1,000 feet of schools, giving the proprietors 45 days to cease operations or face civil and criminal penalties. U.S. Attorney John Walsh issued the ultimatum in letters to 23 dispensaries and landlords he said were in violation of federal and state law, a statement Thursday from the U.S. Justice Department said. ... Full Story | Top |
Novartis to slash nearly 2,000 U.S. jobs
Thu,12 Jan 2012 11:01 PM PST
Reuters - ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis AG is slashing nearly 2,000 jobs in the United States ahead of the patent loss of its top-selling blood pressure drug Diovan, the Swiss drugmaker said on Friday, just months after it said would scale back operations in Switzerland. The group is also expected to take a one-off charge of $900 million in the fourth quarter after stopping a study of Rasilez, also known as Tekturna, to treat high-risk patients with type-2 diabetes and renal impairment. ... Full Story | Top |
Factbox: Traditional Chinese medicine
Thu,12 Jan 2012 10:50 PM PST
Reuters - HONG KONG (Reuters) - As Beijing shifts its growth engine to cleaner hi-tech industries, committing $1.7 trillion over the next five years to nurture them, Chinese scientists are enjoying unprecedented government support and access to funding to design better drugs and diagnostic tools for chronic illnesses such as heart disease and cancer. Part of that effort and money is going into traditional Chinese medicines (TCM). ... Full Story | Top |
China seeks to unlock secrets of herbs, roots
Thu,12 Jan 2012 10:50 PM PST
Reuters -  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese legends have long extolled the benefits of the Tian Shan Xue Lian, a rare white flower found in snowcapped mountains that is revered as a panacea, an elixir so powerful it can supposedly bring the dead back to life. But in laboratories in Shanghai and Hong Kong, scientists are poring over this cusped, wrinkly flower the size of an avocado, from which they hope to develop a new drug to treat irregular heartbeat, or atrial fibrillation, a serious disease that raises the risk of stroke. ...
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Exclusive: TPG willing to invest $1 bln in Olympus in joint deal
Thu,12 Jan 2012 08:55 PM PST
Reuters -  TOKYO (Reuters) - Private equity firm TPG Capital is willing to invest about $1 billion in Japan's Olympus Corp in a joint deal with Sony Corp or another suitor circling the scandal-hit firm, a person with knowledge of the matter said. TPG has informed executives at Sony, Canon Inc, Fujifilm Holdings and Panasonic Corp of its interest in providing capital and expertise to help revive the maker of medical equipment and cameras, the person said. ...
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Heart risk during marathons low, but rising: study
Thu,12 Jan 2012 06:06 PM PST
Reuters -  (Reuters) - The risk of cardiac arrest during a marathon or half-marathon is low, but has increased over the past decade, according to a U.S. study of nearly 11 million race entries. Men face a greater risk than women, and full marathons are more dangerous than half marathons, with enlarged hearts and blocked arteries pegged as the biggest causes, according to findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine. ...
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Group seeks re-vote on birth control clot risk
Thu,12 Jan 2012 04:51 PM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A watchdog group on Thursday urged the Food and Drug Administration to hold a new vote about blood clot risks from popular birth control pills, after advisers to the agency were shown to have ties to the pillmakers. The FDA asked outside experts in December to discuss the safety of birth control that contains the compound drospirenone, including Bayer's Yaz and Yasmin. The panel decided by a four-vote margin that the benefit of pregnancy prevention from these pills outweighed their risk of dangerous blood clots. ... Full Story | Top |
Some IVF patients don't follow doctor's orders
Thu,12 Jan 2012 02:05 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors recommend women using fertility treatments cut back on certain activities to increase their chances of having children, but a new study suggests they're not listening. Although recommendations are based on just a handful of studies in humans, doctors typically tell women to cut back or eliminate exercise, smoking, drinking and herbal supplement use during their in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle. Some believe cutting back on those habits will increase the chance of a successful pregnancy. "We said let's look at what women are actually doing. ... Full Story | Top |
Frequent eating tied to less weight gain in girls
Thu,12 Jan 2012 12:44 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Girls who ate frequent meals and snacks put on fewer pounds and gained fewer inches to their waistlines over the next decade than those who only ate a couple of times each day, according to a new study. Researchers said that one explanation is that smaller, more frequent meals and snacks kept girls satisfied for longer, and prevented them from over-eating. But it's too early to say if that style of eating should be recommended to help prevent obesity in girls, or in the general population. ... Full Story | Top |
Sugary soda ups risky fat deposits
Thu,12 Jan 2012 11:22 AM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Drinking a liter of regular cola every day increases the amount of fat in the liver and in the muscles and surrounding the organs in the belly, according to a new Danish study. That kind of fat buildup has been linked in other studies to an increased risk of diabetes and heart disease. "This study suggests that the adverse effects of sugary beverages go beyond just weight gain or fat gain. It's the gaining of the wrong fat in the wrong places," said Dr. Frank Hu, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, who was not involved in this study. ... Full Story | Top |
Murder knocked off list of top U.S. killers: CDC
Thu,12 Jan 2012 11:18 AM PST
Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - A respiratory illness that strikes the elderly knocked homicide off the list of the top killers in the United States for the first time in 45 years in 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. In its annual report on U.S. mortality, the CDC said a condition known as pneumonitis had replaced murder as one of the Top 15 causes of death in the country, knocking homicide to 16th place in the list of top killers. It was the first time since 1965 that murder didn't make the Top 15. ... Full Story | Top |
Analysis: India's polio victory fuels endgame vaccine
Thu,12 Jan 2012 10:41 AM PST
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - When the clocks strike midnight in New Delhi on January 12, India will mark the first year in history it has recorded no new cases of polio. It's a huge milestone for a country many experts thought would be the last place on earth to get rid of the crippling virus. And it's an exciting step forward for global health workers battling to make polio only the second human infectious disease after smallpox to be eradicated. ... Full Story | Top |
Heart risk during marathons low, but rising
Thu,12 Jan 2012 10:36 AM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The risk of cardiac arrest during a marathon or half-marathon is low, but it has increased over the past decade, according to a new study of nearly 11 million race entries. The findings suggest that runners and their doctors need to realize that heart disease can take its toll even on runners who otherwise would seem to be the picture of health, coauthor Dr. Aaron Baggish of Massachusetts General Hospital told Reuters Health. "Being a runner is one of the best ways to stay healthy and reduce your risk of disease. But it's not 100 percent protective," he said. ... Full Story | Top |
Hospital rooms may be nearly as noisy as chainsaws: study
Thu,12 Jan 2012 08:31 AM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Everybody knows hospital rooms are noisy, but now a study has confirmed it -- with the added finding that noise levels may sometimes spike to nearly that of a chainsaw. "The hospital environment is certainly not a restful environment," said Vineet Arora, at the University of Chicago, who led the study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. ... Full Story | Top |
Red wine-heart research slammed with fraud charges
Thu,12 Jan 2012 08:16 AM PST
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A University of Connecticut researcher who studied the link between aging and a substance found in red wine has committed more than 100 acts of data fabrication and falsification, the university said Wednesday, throwing much of his work into doubt. Dipak K. Das, who directed the university's Cardiovascular Research Center, studied resveratrol, touted by a number of scientists and companies as a way to slow aging or remain healthy as people get older. ...
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