Today's Reuters Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News: | | Dioxin found in eggs from two more German farms Thu,12 Apr 2012 11:51 PM PDT Reuters - HAMBURG (Reuters) - German authorities said on Friday the highly-poisonous chemical dioxin had been found above permitted levels in eggs from two more German farms following its discovery in eggs from three other farms in early April. Dioxin has been discovered on two poultry farms in the northern German state of Lower Saxony, the state Agriculture ministry said in a statement. The two farms have been sealed off and the eggs they produced recalled, the ministry said. The source of the contamination was unknown and being investigated. ... Full Story | Top | Arizona governor signs law banning most late-term abortions Thu,12 Apr 2012 06:35 PM PDT Reuters - PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed into law on Thursday a controversial bill that bans most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, giving Republicans a win in ongoing national efforts to impose greater restrictions on abortion. The measure, which state lawmakers gave a final nod to on Tuesday, would bar healthcare professionals from performing abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, except in the case of a medical emergency. Only a small number of these abortions are performed in the state. ... Full Story | Top | Brazil lifts ban on aborting brain-damaged fetuses Thu,12 Apr 2012 05:37 PM PDT Reuters - BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday voted to legalize abortions of severely brain-damaged fetuses, loosening the law in the world's biggest Catholic country and a region where the spread of evangelical denominations in recent decades has maintained fierce opposition to abortion rights. With only two of the 10 judges voting against lifting the ban, the decision marks a small but historic shift in abortion law in Latin America's biggest country. ... Full Story | Top | House panels turn budget axe to automatic cuts Thu,12 Apr 2012 04:57 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in six House of Representatives committees next week will dust off their past proposals for reducing the deficit as they try to replace some of the automatic spending cuts set to take place in January. Under a directive in the House-passed budget plan from Congressman Paul Ryan, the panels have just two weeks to come up with $18.45 billion in savings for fiscal 2013 and a net $261 billion over 10 years. Expected targets for cuts include food stamps, farm subsidies and crop insurance, federal employee pensions and health care. ... Full Story | Top | Arizona governor signs law banning most late-term abortions Thu,12 Apr 2012 04:41 PM PDT Reuters - PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed into law on Thursday a controversial bill that bans most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, giving Republicans a win in ongoing national efforts to impose greater restrictions on abortion. The measure, which state lawmakers gave a final nod to on Tuesday, would bar healthcare professionals from performing abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, except in the case of a medical emergency. Only a small number of these abortions are performed in the state. ... Full Story | Top | U.S. agency warns of skin lesions from goats, sheep Thu,12 Apr 2012 03:54 PM PDT Reuters - ATLANTA (Reuters) - People can contract skin lesions from goats and sheep infected with the Orf virus through household meat preparation or when slaughtering the animals, a federal agency said on Thursday in a report aimed at doctors in ethnically diverse communities. The Orf virus - sometimes misdiagnosed as a more serious disease such as anthrax - is most commonly transmitted to humans on farms. It has also been reported in children who visited petting zoos and livestock fairs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. ... Full Story | Top | Sebelius seeks civil rights support for U.S. healthcare law Thu,12 Apr 2012 03:50 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. administration official asked civil rights activists on Thursday to help defend President Barack Obama's embattled healthcare law, saying the reform package faces an "enemy" determined to set American health policy back half a century. The remarks in a charged election year come two months before the Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling that could make or break the law. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sought to cast the two-year-old reform law as a vital weapon against racial disparities that have long condemned U.S. ... Full Story | Top | Sebelius seeks civil rights support for healthcare law Thu,12 Apr 2012 03:50 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. administration official asked civil rights activists on Thursday to help defend President Barack Obama's embattled healthcare law, saying the reform package faces an "enemy" determined to set American health policy back half a century. The remarks in a charged election year come two months before the Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling that could make or break the law. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sought to cast the two-year-old reform law as a vital weapon against racial disparities that have long condemned U.S. ... Full Story | Top | Analysis: Heart device troubles cloud St Jude's outlook Thu,12 Apr 2012 02:27 PM PDT Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Twin setbacks for St Jude Medical Inc's heart rhythm devices are raising concerns on Wall Street that doctors will curb use of the company's products, weakening its position in the $6.5 billion global market for implantable defibrillators. Early last week, St Jude halted sales of its QuickSite and QuickFlex leads, wires that carry electricity from defibrillators to the heart, due to concerns the insulation could wear away and expose the wires. ... Full Story | Top | Menthol smokers have more strokes: study Thu,12 Apr 2012 12:55 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research suggests that among smokers, those who prefer mentholated cigarettes tend to have more strokes than non-menthol smokers. That seems to be particularly true for women and non-African Americans. The study's author said that although no cigarettes are good for you, the new findings suggest people should especially move away from mentholated types. "They're all bad, but having said that, from a harm-reduction perspective this study does lend to the view of avoiding -- at a minimum -- mentholated cigarettes," said Dr. ... Full Story | Top | Egg donors remain fertile after procedure: study Thu,12 Apr 2012 12:29 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Donating eggs does not appear to hurt a woman's chances of becoming pregnant in the years after the procedure, a small study from Belgium found. Few other studies have looked at the effects of egg-harvesting procedures on the future reproductive health of women who donate eggs. Some experts question whether hormonally stimulating the ovaries -- which makes them produce extra eggs -- and removing those eggs from a healthy, young woman could later increase her chance of infertility, but others contend there are no serious long-term risks. ... Full Story | Top | Delta Air passengers unexposed to rabies from bat on board: CDC Thu,12 Apr 2012 12:14 PM PDT Reuters - ATLANTA (Reuters) - A bat swooping around the passenger cabin during a U.S. commercial airline flight last August may have been unnerving for passengers, but there is no evidence anyone was exposed to rabies, a federal health agency said on Thursday. The bat in question flew into the cabin of a Delta Airlines flight from Madison, Wisconsin, to Atlanta that had 50 passengers and three crew members aboard, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in report. ... Full Story | Top | Many tests follow surgery for early breast cancer Thu,12 Apr 2012 12:05 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who have early breast tumors surgically removed may often go through repeat mammograms and invasive procedures for years afterward, a new study finds. The study focused on so-called ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS -- abnormal cells in the milk ducts that are considered the earliest stage of breast cancer. The most common treatment is breast-conserving surgery, where the surgeon removes only the abnormal tissue and avoids a mastectomy (removal of the breast). ... Full Story | Top | C-sections tied to lower incontinence risk Thu,12 Apr 2012 12:03 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who have given birth vaginally are more likely to develop incontinence decades later than moms who delivered their babies via cesarean section, according to a new study from Sweden. Dr. Steven Swift, director of urogynecology and incontinence at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, who did not participate in this research, said he wasn't surprised by the findings. "Anybody who has ever witnessed a vaginal delivery realizes the baby's head is quite large and the muscles that it passes through are not that large. ... Full Story | Top | Graying America gets wired to cut healthcare costs Thu,12 Apr 2012 11:49 AM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baby boomers wired to their iPads and smart phones are giving U.S. health experts some new ideas about ways to cut the soaring costs of medical care in graying America. Some of the ideas might sound like "Robo-Granny". An astronautical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has made a skin-tight undersuit equipped with sensors that can constantly monitor the vital signs of its elderly wearer and feed the data into a computer that fires off health alerts. It was first designed for a landing on Mars. ... Full Story | Top |
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