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Supreme Court to deliver Obama healthcare law ruling
Wed,27 Jun 2012 10:18 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court is set to deliver on Thursday its ruling on President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare overhaul, his signature domestic policy achievement, in a historic case that could hand him a huge triumph or a stinging rebuke just over four months before he seeks re-election. The nine justices are scheduled to take the bench at 10 a.m. (1400 GMT) on the last day of the high court's term to read their final opinions, including their decision in the epic legal battle over the healthcare law. The U.S. ...
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China dairy recalls hundreds of cartons of tainted milk
Wed,27 Jun 2012 08:56 PM PDT
Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese dairy company has recalled hundreds of cartons of milk after a mechanical error tainted the batch with alkaline water, the latest blow to China's scandal-plagued dairy industry. The recall comes just weeks after China's top-selling dairy firm, Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co, pulled six months' worth of infant formula from shelves due to mercury contamination. ... Full Story | Top |
Pelosi sees Roberts helping uphold U.S. healthcare law
Wed,27 Jun 2012 04:31 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the U.S. Supreme Court prepared to announce a decision on President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, one of the legislation's chief supporters predicted that it would be upheld by a 6-3 vote. Nancy Pelosi, the House of Representatives' Democratic leader, said she can see Chief Justice John Roberts siding with Obama in an anticipated divided Supreme Court ruling on Thursday. "I believe 6-3," Pelosi told the Reuters Washington Summit on Wednesday. ... Full Story | Top |
Women's lung cancer deaths up in parts of U.S.: study
Wed,27 Jun 2012 03:31 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Lung cancer rates have been falling across the United States over the past decade, but deaths from the disease are steady or rising among middle-aged women in the South and Midwest, according to a study based on more than one million women. The findings, published Monday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, point to a need for more aggressive political action and strategies for reducing smoking by a new generation of men and women in all U.S. states, researchers said. ... Full Story | Top |
Online tool helps U.S. beachgoers avoid dirty waters
Wed,27 Jun 2012 03:03 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If you plan on hitting the beach this summer, a new report recommends first checking your local water quality online before packing your bags - or risk bringing home more trouble than wet bathing suits and sand-filled shoes. Last year was one of the worst on record in terms of bacterial pollution from human and animal waste, according to the nonprofit Natural Resource Defense Council's (NRDC) 22nd annual survey of water quality at over 3,000 U.S. beaches. State and local beach officials reported the third-highest number of closings and advisory days in over 20 years. ... Full Story | Top |
FDA OKs first obesity drug in 13 years
Wed,27 Jun 2012 02:08 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators approved the first new weight-loss drug in 13 years, allowing Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc to bring its Belviq pill to market as public health advocates push for new solutions to the nation's growing obesity epidemic. The Food and Drug Administration, knowing that millions of Americans would be tempted to take weight-loss pills, had set an unusually high bar for approvals because of safety problems and even deaths seen with past medicines. The most notorious, known as the "fen-phen" diet-drug combo, was pulled from the market in 1997. ...
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Cigna to buy Arcadian's medicare plans from Humana
Wed,27 Jun 2012 01:57 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Cigna Corp said it agreed to buy some Medicare Advantage plans in Texas and Arkansas from health insurer Humana Inc. The plans in the three markets — Amarillo, Longview-Marshall and Texarkana — will allow Cigna's HealthSpring unit to expand in Texas and Arkansas, the company said in a statement. About 3,500 Humana or Arcadian members will be added to Healthspring's existing customers, effective Jan 1, 2013, Cigna said. ... Full Story | Top |
Spanish forced to pay for drugs as cuts take toll
Wed,27 Jun 2012 01:50 PM PDT
Reuters - MADRID (Reuters) - Patients in Spain will have to pay the full price for some prescription medicines under a new measure to cut healthcare costs approved on Wednesday, Health Minister Ana Mato confirmed at a press conference. The new measure, which will come into effect in August, will apply to 425 drugs for "minor ailments", including migraines. Patients will have to pay 100 percent of the cost for codeine, some anti-inflammatories and laxatives, among other drugs. "We're revising the financing of a series of drugs with little therapeutic use and for minor ailments. ... Full Story | Top |
Obama to learn Supreme Court health verdict from news
Wed,27 Jun 2012 01:40 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will learn how the Supreme Court rules on his flagship healthcare law from watching the news, and won't get any advance word on the opinion, the White House said on Wednesday. Asked where Obama will be when the highly anticipated decision is announced on Thursday morning, White House spokesman Jay Carney said: "In my office." Supreme Court rulings are released in a carefully controlled way. Justices read excerpts from the bench in Washington at the same time as the full judgments are posted online and handed to reporters in paper form. ...
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Mississippi's sole abortion clinic sues over new law
Wed,27 Jun 2012 01:21 PM PDT
Reuters - TUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - The lone abortion facility in Mississippi asked a federal court on Wednesday to block a new state law that will require doctors who perform the controversial procedure to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. The law, set to take effect on Sunday, threatens to make Mississippi the only U.S. state without an abortion clinic. Some anti-abortion state lawmakers say they hope that would mean an end to abortions there. ... Full Story | Top |
People turn to high-calorie food first after fasting
Wed,27 Jun 2012 01:17 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who haven't eaten for many hours turn to high-calorie foods like starches and proteins - not vegetables - once they can satisfy their hunger, a new study suggests. And, researchers found, fasters ended up eating extra of whatever foods they chose to chow down on first at that meal. The findings carry a message for anyone who goes for long spans of time without eating, researchers said. That includes patients fasting before a procedure or blood test, some dieters and medical interns working long shifts without a snack break, for example. ... Full Story | Top |
Bone marrow registration spikes after TV anchor announcement
Wed,27 Jun 2012 01:00 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two weeks after "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts announced she was being treated for a rare blood and bone marrow disease, the number of people offering to donate bone marrow has jumped, according to officials. More than 12,000 people joined the donation registry Be The Match in the two weeks after the ABC morning show co-host announced she has MDS, a disease requiring a bone marrow transplant, on June 11, registry officials said on Tuesday. Previously, the monthly average was 9,000, they said. ... Full Story | Top |
Early menopause tied to higher heart disease risk
Wed,27 Jun 2012 12:54 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who go through menopause before age 46 are twice as likely to have a heart attack or stroke as women who hit menopause later, according to a new study. "These are women who should keep in mind that they are at increased risk," said Dr. Melissa Wellons, the lead author of the study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. "My advice to them would be to get your traditional risk factors checked... ... Full Story | Top |
German court bans circumcision of young boys
Wed,27 Jun 2012 10:05 AM PDT
Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - Jewish and Muslim groups protested on Wednesday after a German court banned the circumcision of young boys for religious reasons in the first ruling of its kind in the country. The court in the western city of Cologne handed down the decision on Tuesday in the case of a doctor prosecuted for circumcising a four-year-old Muslim boy who had to be treated two days later for post-operative bleeding. It ruled involuntary religious circumcision should be made illegal because it could inflict serious bodily harm on people who had not consented to it. ... Full Story | Top |
Failed IVF attempt tied to depression, anxiety
Wed,27 Jun 2012 09:55 AM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who are stressed and anxious before in vitro fertilization (IVF) are no less likely to have a baby, new research suggests. But if the treatment fails, it may take a toll on their mental health. In two separate studies in the journal Fertility and Sterility, researchers found women with anxiety or depression symptoms were just as likely as others to become pregnant. One study focused on women undergoing IVF and the other followed women trying to conceive naturally. "Our findings are consistent with the most recent research," said Lauri A. ... Full Story | Top |
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