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Fake drugs hard to spot amid 1,800 UK wholesalers
Thu,5 Apr 2012 09:29 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Stamping out trade in counterfeit drugs like Roche's Avastin is an uphill fight for regulators, whose task is complicated by the presence of thousands of small wholesalers across Europe. In Britain alone - the transit point for a second fake batch of the cancer drug uncovered in the U.S. market - there are around 1,800 licensed wholesalers, according to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). ...
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Reflective Chavez weeps at Mass in Venezuela
Thu,5 Apr 2012 08:05 PM PDT
Reuters -  CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wept and asked God to spare his life during a pre-Easter Mass on Thursday after returning from his latest session of cancer treatment in Cuba. Very little is known about the 57-year-old socialist leader's condition, including even what type of cancer he has. Chavez has undergone three operations in less than a year, and received two sessions of radiation treatment. He says the latest surgery was successful, that he is recovering well and will be fit to win a new six-year term at an election in October. ...
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Obama seeks to defuse healthcare row with appeals court
Thu,5 Apr 2012 07:31 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. courts have authority to decide whether President Barack Obama's healthcare law is valid under the Constitution, his attorney general told a federal court on Thursday in a further bid to defuse a controversy Obama ignited earlier this week. After Obama appeared to question the role of the courts in reviewing the two-year-old law, which seeks to expand healthcare coverage to 30 million-plus uninsured Americans, a conservative Texas judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the administration to explain itself. ...
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White House casts Republican budget as bad for women
Thu,5 Apr 2012 07:00 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Thursday that budget cuts proposed by congressional Republicans would hurt American women more than men, tailoring criticisms from President Barack Obama to one of his key voting demographics. Obama, a Democrat, slammed the election-year budget plan that cleared the Republican-controlled House of Representatives this week as "thinly veiled social Darwinism" that would pare down social services including health and retirement assistance. ... Full Story | Top |
South Africa takes TB battle to mine shafts
Thu,5 Apr 2012 05:56 PM PDT
Reuters -  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa is shifting its lines in the battle against tuberculosis to mines, where lung-attacking dust, crowded working conditions and a pan-African workforce make the industry a focal point for spreading the disease. Drug resistant TB strains, associated with cramped urban conditions, are spreading among miners, who have infection rates about three times higher than the general population, according to South African officials. ...
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Mali sanctions could be lifted soon: mediator
Thu,5 Apr 2012 04:16 PM PDT
Reuters -  BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's neighbors could soon lift economic and diplomatic sanctions imposed on the West African country with the aim of forcing last month's coup leaders to quit power, a regional mediator said after talks with the junta leader on Thursday. The 15-member West African bloc ECOWAS this week shut the borders of the landlocked country and denied it access to funds from the regional central bank, moves that could start to strangle the economy of Africa's third-ranked gold producer in days. ...
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U.S. panel backs Astellas drug for leaky bladder
Thu,5 Apr 2012 02:23 PM PDT
Reuters -  SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. advisers backed a bladder drug from Astellas Pharma Inc on Thursday, boosting the company's hopes of gaining approval for a second treatment for overactive bladder. A panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted 7 to 4, with one abstention, that the benefits of the once-daily tablet, called mirabegron, outweighed its possible risks to the heart and liver. The FDA usually follows the recommendations of its expert panels and will make a final decision on mirabegron by June 29. The drug is already approved in Japan. ...
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Moderate exercise, quicker conception linked
Thu,5 Apr 2012 02:08 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among women trying to get pregnant, moderate exercise is tied to more success, according to a new study. However, with exception of overweight and obese women, women who exercise vigorously take a longer time to conceive. While exercise has been linked to a lower risk of several diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and depression, its effects on fertility are less clear. ... Full Story | Top |
Consumers often ignore food allergy labels: study
Thu,5 Apr 2012 01:48 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The different allergy labels in common use may be confusing consumers instead of helping them decide whether to buy a food product, a new Canadian study shows. "We should narrow (various allergy labels) to only one which will be clear," said Dr. Moshe Ben-Shoshan, a professor of allergy and immunology at McGill University Health Center in Montreal, who worked on the study. An estimated 2. ... Full Story | Top |
French health body favors reimbursement of InterMune lung drug
Thu,5 Apr 2012 01:17 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - InterMune Inc said French health authorities ruled in favor of reimbursing the company's lung scarring drug Esbriet, potentially covering its costs in a country that is scaling back healthcare spending. The news drove InterMune's stock up as much as 11 percent on Thursday and closed up 10 percent at $15.28 on the Nasdaq. The recommendation by the Transparency Commission of the French National Health Authority comes after a German reimbursement body last month ruled that Esbriet provided additional benefit to patients suffering from lung scarring. ... Full Story | Top |
Sex education stagnating in U.S. schools, CDC says
Thu,5 Apr 2012 11:53 AM PDT
Reuters - ATLANTA (Reuters) - Public schools in the United States are making "little progress" in expanding instruction in how to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV, a new federal study concluded. Between 2008 and 2010, the percentage of public schools teaching key topics on prevention did not increase in the 45 states surveyed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. In middle schools, 11 states saw declines during the two-year period and no state saw an increase, the CDC said. The level of instruction was stable in high schools. ... Full Story | Top |
Malawi president in coma after heart attack
Thu,5 Apr 2012 11:46 AM PDT
Reuters -  LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika was in a coma on Thursday after a heart attack and was about to be flown to South Africa for treatment, a senior minister said, raising fears of a political crisis in the impoverished southern African nation. A Reuters reporter in Lilongwe witnessed chaotic scenes as the 78-year-old leader's wife, Callista, and senior cabinet ministers left Kamuzu Central Hospital, where Mutharika was admitted on Thursday morning after collapsing. "There was panic," one hospital staffer told Reuters. "We have never been prepared for such an eventuality. ...
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Obama seeks to defuse healthcare row with court
Thu,5 Apr 2012 11:40 AM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. courts have authority to decide whether President Barack Obama's healthcare law is valid under the Constitution, his attorney general told a court on Thursday in a further bid to defuse a controversy Obama ignited earlier this week. After Obama appeared to question the role of the courts in reviewing the two-year-old law expanding healthcare coverage to 30 million-plus uninsured Americans, a conservative judge in Texas on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the administration to explain itself. ...
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Analysis: Justice Kagan--Giving liberals a rhetorical lift
Thu,5 Apr 2012 11:37 AM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - During three days of arguments over the Obama healthcare plan, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan put on a display of rhetorical firepower, reinforcing predictions that the newest liberal justice is best equipped to take on the conservative, five-man majority controlling the bench. The strong views and persuasive tactics of the administration's former top lawyer could affect the fate of the healthcare overhaul, as well as decisions in other ideologically charged issues that will come before the court, such as same-sex marriage. ...
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Drug-resistant malaria spreads along Thai-Myanmar border: study
Thu,5 Apr 2012 11:06 AM PDT
Reuters - HONG KONG (Reuters) - A malaria strain increasingly resistant to the most effective drug used to treat the disease has spread along the Thai-Myanmar border, a 10-year study published in The Lancet medical journal found, and may reach India and Africa unless ways are found to contain it. The findings in the U.K. ... Full Story | Top |
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