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Roche drug helped breast cancer patients survive longer
Sun,26 Aug 2012 11:11 PM PDT
Reuters -  ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG said its "armed antibody" T-DM1 drug significantly extended the lives of women with an aggressive type of breast cancer compared to those receiving the standard drug cocktail. Breast cancer, the most common cancer among women worldwide, will afflict about 1.4 million women worldwide and more than 450,000 women will die of the disease annually, according to the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer. ...
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FDA asks Genzyme to redo Lemtrada marketing application
Sun,26 Aug 2012 10:58 PM PDT
Reuters -  PARIS (Reuters) - The U.S. health regulator has asked Sanofi's rare disease division Genzyme to redo the filing of its marketing application for multiple sclerosis drug candidate Lemtrada, Genzyme said, though no additional clinical studies are needed. Genzyme said on Monday it had received a so-called Refuse to File letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), asking the company to change the presentation of the data so the agency can "better navigate the application". ...
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Benefits of circumcision outweigh risks, U.S. pediatrics group says
Sun,26 Aug 2012 09:06 PM PDT
Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued new guidelines saying the health benefits of infant circumcision outweigh the risks of the surgery, but the influential physician's group has fallen short of a universal recommendation of the procedure for all infants, saying that parents should make the final call. ... Full Story | Top |
Exercise may temporarily ease cigarette cravings: study
Sun,26 Aug 2012 07:12 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Smokers who are trying to cut down or quit might want to take a jog the next time a cigarette craving overcomes them, according to a British study. Researchers, whose findings appeared in the journal Addiction, combined the data from 19 previous clinical trials and found that a bout of exercise generally helped hopeful quitters reduce their nicotine cravings - though whether that translated into a greater chance of quitting was unclear. ... Full Story | Top |
Factbox: Japan's struggling TV maker Sharp
Sun,26 Aug 2012 02:42 PM PDT
Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp is racing to complete an emergency turnaround plan as the loss-making TV manufacturer negotiates a lifeline from its banks and an investment from its Taiwanese partner Hon Hai Precision Industries . Following are some key facts about Sharp: COMPANY OVERVIEW Sharp Corp operates 21 factories in 13 countries. Among them are four overseas TV assembly plants in Poland, Malaysia, China and Mexico, each employing around 1,500 people. Its two most advanced plants are the Sakai and Kameyama liquid crystal display factories in western Japan. ... Full Story | Top |
Merck to seek approval for two cardiovascular drugs in '13
Sun,26 Aug 2012 09:45 AM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Merck & Co said on Sunday it plans to file regulatory applications for a new type of blood clot preventer next year, and will also file with regulators for approval of another cardiovascular drug in 2013. The pharmaceutical company said in a statement that it is in discussions with regulatory agencies over vorapaxar, a drug that has been dogged by bleeding concerns since January 2011, when a safety committee overseeing a large study said the new type of anti-platelet drug was not appropriate for patients who had suffered a stroke. ...
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Nobel Biocare CEO aims for growth, not M&A: paper
Sun,26 Aug 2012 07:26 AM PDT
Reuters - ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss dental implant maker Nobel Biocare Holding AG is hoping to grow at a high single-or low double-digit rate, its chief executive was quoted as saying on Sunday. The economic downturn has caused patients to put off pricey dental work, hurting implant makers like Nobel Biocare and rival Straumann Holding AG . The firm's screw-in prosthetic teeth can cost thousands of francs apiece. ... Full Story | Top |
Lilly's heart drug Effient fails to carve new niche
Sun,26 Aug 2012 05:02 AM PDT
Reuters - MUNICH (Reuters) - Eli Lilly's heart drug Effient failed to beat the older product Plavix in a head-to-head clinical study, dealing a blow to hopes for its expanded use in treating less critically sick heart patients who are managed solely with medicines. The surprise finding, released at a medical meeting on Sunday, is good news for rival AstraZeneca, whose competitor product Brilinta did show an edge over Plavix in a comparable group of patients in an analysis published last year. ... Full Story | Top |
New Novartis drug shows potential in heart failure
Sun,26 Aug 2012 02:33 AM PDT
Reuters -  MUNICH (Reuters) - An experimental drug from Novartis may help up to half of heart failure patients for whom no effective treatment is available, although the evidence so far is indirect. Results of a mid-stage clinical trial of the drug known as LCZ696, unveiled on Sunday, gauged its effectiveness by measuring whether patients had lower levels of a protein linked to the debilitating condition. ...
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U.S. rape controversy reflects teachings of anti-abortion hero
Sat,25 Aug 2012 07:07 PM PDT
Reuters - KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Eric Scheidler was in grade school when he was introduced to the power of John Willke's persuasion. It was the 1970s and the now 87-year-old Dr. "Jack" Willke was renowned as a physician-turned-advocate for abolishing abortion. Willke's teachings resonated four decades later in the controversy this week over Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin's remarks on pregnancy and rape. Willke's use of graphic photos of "unborn children" energized followers in the nascent anti-abortion movement of the 1970s. ... Full Story | Top |
Alaska, concerned about gold miners' health, to test them for mercury
Sat,25 Aug 2012 10:26 AM PDT
Reuters - ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska health officials, concerned about amateur miners seeking riches in a modern-day mini gold rush, plan to test prospectors in the town of Nome for mercury exposure for fear that archaic mining techniques may be inadvertently harming their bodies. The Bering Sea port town of Nome has been a magnet this summer for gold prospectors, some of them with little experience, in a boom that state officials attribute in part to publicity from Discovery Channel's reality TV show "Bering Sea Gold" and other mining shows set in Alaska. ... Full Story | Top |
Greek study finds e-cigarettes no threat to heart
Sat,25 Aug 2012 06:49 AM PDT
Reuters - MUNICH (Reuters) - Electronic cigarettes, an increasingly popular option among smokers trying to quit, do not appear to pose a threat to the heart, according to results of a clinical study presented on Saturday. Greek researchers said e-cigarettes - battery-powered metal tubes that transform liquid laced with nicotine into vapour - had no adverse effects on cardiac function in their small trial. ... Full Story | Top |
Gynecologists alarmed by plastic surgery trend
Sat,25 Aug 2012 06:04 AM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Trained as a gynecologist and reconstructive surgeon, Dr. John Miklos calls himself a "medical tailor," specializing in surgery to reshape a woman's private parts. The Atlanta surgeon, who has performed gynecological surgery for nearly 20 years, cites cases of patients who say their sexual response improved after vaginoplasty, a procedure to surgically tighten a vagina stretched by childbirth or aging. "Women come to me and say they don't have the urge to have sex anymore because they don't feel anything," Miklos said. ... Full Story | Top |
Obama aims to shift campaign focus back to Medicare
Sat,25 Aug 2012 03:00 AM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama used his regular weekly radio address Saturday to continue pounding away at Republican plans to overhaul Medicare, the U.S. healthcare program for the elderly. The address underscored the new prominence Medicare has assumed as a campaign issue in the past two weeks, since the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, picked Paul Ryan as his running mate. Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman and chairman of the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Judge pares down Clorox cat litter lawsuit
Fri,24 Aug 2012 05:28 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - The Clorox Co clawed away parts of a class action lawsuit claiming its cat litter advertising was false and misleading on Friday, but a judge refused to scoop away the entire mess. U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti in San Francisco dismissed some but not all of the lawsuit by consumers of Clorox's Fresh Step letter brand. The lawsuit said scientific studies showed Fresh Step wasn't preferred by cats over other litters or more effective at cutting down odors. A lawyer for Clorox, Kenneth Lee, declined comment. Lawyers for the plaintiffs did not respond to requests for comment. ... Full Story | Top |
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