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Rich-poor divide scars Angola as it heads for polls
Mon,27 Aug 2012 03:35 PM PDT
Reuters -  HUAMBO, Angola (Reuters) - A four-lane avenue separates the shelled ruins of the art deco Ruacana Cinema from Huambo's shiny new Chinese-built railway station, a symbol of the leaps Angola has made to recover from a devastating 27-year civil war that ended a decade ago. As Angolans prepare to go to the polls on Friday for only the second time since the end of the war, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos's ruling MPLA party reminds them daily of the rewards of peace and boasts of its reconstruction achievements. ...
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FDA approves Gilead's four-drug HIV treatment
Mon,27 Aug 2012 03:27 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators on Monday approved Gilead Sciences Inc's four-drug combination pill to treat HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The four drugs in one pill, which was formerly called the Quad and had been considered one of Gilead's more important future growth drivers, will be sold under the brand name Stribild, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said. Gilead shares were virtually unchanged from their $57.19 Nasdaq close as Wall Street has been focused on development of the experimental hepatitis C treatment that Gilead acquired with its $11 billion purchase of Pharmasset. ... Full Story | Top |
Evidence lacking on screening for kidney disease
Mon,27 Aug 2012 02:03 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There isn't enough evidence to recommend checking the kidney function of otherwise healthy people for signs of disease, a government-backed panel said on Monday. But it's also not clear that using blood or urine tests to screen for chronic kidney disease causes much harm either, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. "It's a common condition," said Dr. Joy Melnikow, a Task Force member from the University of California, Davis in Sacramento. "I was actually struck by how little information there was. ... Full Story | Top |
Less chronic disease in store for fit 50-year-olds
Mon,27 Aug 2012 01:53 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fit 50-year-olds are less likely to get chronic diseases as they age than are couch potatoes, according to a new U.S. study. It may seem like a no-brainer, but the study helps fine-tune our understanding of the link between fitness and healthy aging, researchers say. "It has been known for decades that if you are more fit, you live longer," Dr. Jarett Berry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, told Reuters Health. "But it has not been clear that you have a higher quality of life, that you age better. ... Full Story | Top |
Common nose implant has high infection rate: study
Mon,27 Aug 2012 01:17 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Nose jobs done with a common type of plastic implant may have a higher complication rate than previously thought, researchers said Monday. As many as one in five nose jobs using Medpor, a product made from porous high-density polyethylene, led to infections in a new study. And in nearly all of those cases, the implant eventually started poking out through the surgical wound. "The infection rate was extremely high and startling," said Dr. Andrew Winkler, a plastic surgeon at the University of Colorado in Denver, who led the study. ... Full Story | Top |
Aspirin use not tied to breast cancer risk
Mon,27 Aug 2012 01:03 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - How frequently older women use aspirin and other pain relievers has nothing to do with their chance of developing breast cancer, a large new study suggests. Previous research has painted a cloudy picture, with some studies indicating that women who regularly take so-called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, have a lower risk of breast cancer, but others finding a higher risk with such drugs. ... Full Story | Top |
Teens who smoke pot can damage memory, intelligence
Mon,27 Aug 2012 12:04 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Teenagers who become hooked on cannabis before they reach 18 may be causing lasting damage to their intelligence, memory and attention, according to the results of a large, long-term study published on Monday. Researchers from Britain and the United States found that persistent and dependent use of cannabis before the age of 18 may have a so-called neurotoxic effect, but heavy pot use after 18 appears to be less damaging to the brain. ... Full Story | Top |
Do job programs for autistic adults work?
Mon,27 Aug 2012 11:41 AM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Programs are out there to help young adults with autism find and keep a job. But no one yet knows whether they work, according to a study published Monday. Combing the medical literature for evidence on the question, researchers were able to find only five studies. All were generally low-quality, the team reports in the journal Pediatrics. "We did identify some small studies with promising results," said lead researcher Julie Lounds Taylor, an assistant professor of pediatrics and special education at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. ... Full Story | Top |
Rosie O'Donnell says married partner
Mon,27 Aug 2012 10:47 AM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian and talk show host Rosie O'Donnell married partner Michelle Rounds in an intimate hospital ceremony earlier this summer, the comedian wrote on her official website on Monday. O'Donnell, 50, posted that Rounds, 41, was diagnosed with Desmoid tumors in June, and they decided to get married in the intensive care unit on June 9, before Rounds went into surgery to treat the benign tumors. The announcement came after O'Donnell posted last week that she had suffered a heart attack and was "lucky to be here. ...
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Eight dead in Quebec Legionnaires' outbreak
Mon,27 Aug 2012 07:17 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Canadian health officials say eight people have died in a rare outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in the province of Quebec, having identified more than 100 cases of the dangerous strain of pneumonia since July. Aiming to stop the outbreak, public health workers have inspected and disinfected about 89 cooling towers in Quebec City, the provincial government said in a release on Sunday. All told, 104 cases have been identified so far. Legionnaires' disease is caused by bacteria that can grow in cooling towers, showers and other water sources. ... Full Story | Top |
Italy health minister mulls France-style drinks tax
Mon,27 Aug 2012 06:31 AM PDT
Reuters - ROME (Reuters) - Italy's health minister is considering the inclusion of a tax on drinks deemed unhealthy in a spending bill due to go before the Italian cabinet later this week, a health ministry official said on Monday. The official confirmed Health Minister Renato Balduzzi may propose a drinks tax of 3 euro cents a bottle to raise revenues of 250 million euros ($312.9 million), but did not clarify which beverages would be affected. ... Full Story | Top |
Nerve-deadening devices impress EU heart doctors
Mon,27 Aug 2012 06:29 AM PDT
Reuters - MUNICH (Reuters) - Europeans suffering from stubbornly high blood pressure, despite swallowing multiple pills, now have a new treatment option in the form of devices that deaden nerves in the kidneys - and doctors are impressed. The United States has yet to approve the technology, known as renal denervation, but several products are already available in Europe and researchers on Monday reported encouraging results from a series of studies testing them out in practice. ... Full Story | Top |
Extra pounds tied to breast cancer recurrence, death
Mon,27 Aug 2012 05:39 AM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among women who have been treated for breast cancer, heavier women are more likely to have their disease come back and more likely to die of cancer, according to a new study. That could be because certain hormones that are linked to body weight may also fuel tumor growth in the most common form of the disease, known as estrogen receptor-positive cancer. Previous studies have tied obesity to a higher chance of getting breast cancer - and worse outcomes in women who have already been diagnosed. ... Full Story | Top |
Roche drug helped breast cancer patients survive longer
Mon,27 Aug 2012 05:02 AM 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 with those receiving the standard drug cocktail. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide, with about 1.4 million new cases diagnosed each year and more than 450,000 women dying of the disease annually, according to the World Health Organisation's International Agency for Research on Cancer. ...
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A pill that treats and tells
Mon,27 Aug 2012 04:26 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - If you have trouble remembering whether you took your pills on time, your medicine may soon have the answer for you. Pills for anything from the common cold to diabetes or cancer can be embedded with tiny ingestible chips that keep track of whether a patient is taking their medicine on time. The digital feedback technology, devised by Redwood City, California-based Proteus Digital Health Inc, can also prompt patients to take their medicine and even ask them to take a walk if they have been inactive for too long. "Overall, people only take their medications half of the time ... ... Full Story | Top |
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