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| Sambazon disputes study on energy drink caffeine levels Friday, Oct 26, 2012 03:18 PM PDT (Reuters) - Sambazon, a California-based maker of fruit juices and protein drinks, said it contests a report in the December issue of Consumer Reports magazine stating that Sambazon's energy drink had more caffeine than printed on its label. The study, released on Thursday, said Sambazon Organic Amazon Energy drink had 81 milligrams of caffeine per serving. The privately-held company said the findings were wrong, adding that its drink actually contains 53 milligrams of caffeine per eight-ounce serving. Consumer Reports said it stands by its findings. ... Full Story | Top |
| Pitch counts don't add up to more injuries, says study Friday, Oct 26, 2012 02:12 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It is impossible to watch a Major League Baseball (MLB) game nowadays - such as those in the World Series now underway - without hearing about how many pitches a player has thrown. But a new study suggests that when it comes to preventing injuries, the obsession of many teams with those kinds of numbers may be misplaced. "I don't necessarily think that pitch counts or innings pitched are the best way to measure the demands of pitching," Thomas Karakolis, the lead author on the study, told Reuters Health. ... Full Story | Top |
| Baseball-Pitch counts don't add up to more injuries, says study Friday, Oct 26, 2012 02:11 PM PDT NEW YORK, Oct 26 (Reuters Health) - It is impossible to watch a Major League Baseball (MLB) game nowadays - such as those in the World Series now underway - without hearing about how many pitches a player has thrown. But a new study suggests that when it comes to preventing injuries, the obsession of many teams with those kinds of numbers may be misplaced. "I don't necessarily think that pitch counts or innings pitched are the best way to measure the demands of pitching," Thomas Karakolis, the lead author on the study, told Reuters Health. ... Full Story | Top |
| Planned Parenthood sues again over Texas health program Friday, Oct 26, 2012 02:10 PM PDT (Reuters) - Planned Parenthood family planning providers in Texas filed a new lawsuit on Friday over a rule that bars its clinics from a state health program for low-income women because the organization performs abortions. The suit was filed in state court, after a federal appeals court declined on Thursday to reconsider a ruling allowing Texas to withhold funding for women's healthcare from Planned Parenthood clinics. The new lawsuit tries a different legal tactic, filing in state rather than federal court, and arguing that the way the Texas rule is written violates state law. ... Full Story | Top |
| Final farewell set for former Senator George McGovern Friday, Oct 26, 2012 02:05 PM PDT  SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (Reuters) - Mourners gathered on Friday for the funeral of former U.S. Senator George McGovern, a soft-spoken South Dakota native and passionate opponent of the Vietnam war who shaped the Democratic Party even in a landslide defeat in the 1972 presidential race. Close friends, family and those he mentored directly and indirectly called McGovern a man of principle and decency during a prayer service on Thursday night. ... Full Story | Top |
| In echoes of Obama, Romney seeks to adopt mantle of change Friday, Oct 26, 2012 01:45 PM PDT  AMES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney attempted to adopt the mantle of change on Friday in an economic speech in which he vowed to bring a fresh start to Washington to generate stronger job growth. Romney's address in the swing state of Iowa was an effort to take on the role President Barack Obama played in 2008, that of an outsider who would represent an abrupt change if he wins the tight 2012 presidential race. ... Full Story | Top |
| Plant compounds tied to less stomach cancer in women Friday, Oct 26, 2012 12:49 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Getting a moderate amount of plant substances called flavonoids through the diet may be linked to a lower stomach cancer risk in women, but not men, according to a new study. European researchers found that women with the highest intake of flavonoids were half as likely to develop the disease as were women who had the smallest intake. ... Full Story | Top |
| Insight: Red flags ignored for years at firm in meningitis crisis Friday, Oct 26, 2012 12:40 PM PDT  BOSTON (Reuters) - A cracked vial here, a missing label there. The complaints coming into New England Compounding Center, the firm at the heart of the deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak, were piling up. In March, regulators responded to a complaint from the prestigious Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary about a potency concern involving one of the eye medications it purchased from NECC. The investigation is ongoing. Over the summer, physicians at Ruby Memorial Hospital in West Virginia returned a bag of cardioplegia solution used in heart surgery after a patient did not respond as expected. ... Full Story | Top |
| Baseball pitch counts don't predict injuries: study Friday, Oct 26, 2012 12:02 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It's impossible to watch a Major League Baseball game nowadays - for example, the World Series now underway - without hearing about how many pitches a player has thrown. But a new study suggests that when it comes to preventing injuries, the obsession of many teams with those kinds of numbers may be misplaced. "I don't necessarily think that pitch counts or innings pitched are the best way to measure the demands of pitching," Thomas Karakolis, the lead author on the study, told Reuters Health. ... Full Story | Top |
| Did the Neurontin lawsuit fuel health spending? Friday, Oct 26, 2012 12:01 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In 2004, Pfizer, the world's largest drug company, agreed to plead guilty and pay more than $430 million to settle charges it had illegally marketed the epilepsy drug Neurontin for unapproved uses. Now, a study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry questions whether the lawsuit ended up fueling spending on other epilepsy drugs instead of curbing so-called off-label prescribing. Doctors are allowed to prescribe drugs for uses that haven't been approved by U.S. health regulators, but companies are prohibited from marketing their products for such purposes. ... Full Story | Top |
| Meningitis death toll reaches 25 with another Tennessee fatality Friday, Oct 26, 2012 11:56 AM PDT  (Reuters) - The U.S. death toll from a meningitis outbreak tied to contaminated steroid injections reached 25 on Friday following another death in Tennessee, the state where the problem was first discovered, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. In its daily update on the meningitis emergency, the CDC said the latest fatality brings the number of deaths to 10 in Tennessee, the most of any state. Michigan has reported five deaths, Florida and Indiana three each, Virginia two, and Maryland and North Carolina one each. ... Full Story | Top |
| FDA finds contaminants in drug linked to meningitis Friday, Oct 26, 2012 11:56 AM PDT (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it found "greenish black foreign matter" and other contaminants in an injectable steroid produced by the New England Compounding Center, the pharmacy at the heart of a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak. It also found that vials from the same bin of the steroid contained what appeared to be a "white filamentous material," according to the report released by the FDA following inspections of the facility in October. ... Full Story | Top |
| Trans fats raise cholesterol, not blood sugar Friday, Oct 26, 2012 11:03 AM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although trans fats raise your levels of "bad" cholesterol, they don't appear to have lasting impacts on your blood sugar, according to a new review of the medical evidence. Researchers found that both blood sugar and insulin, the hormone that keeps blood sugar levels in check, were similar regardless of how much trans fat people ate. The link between trans fats and high cholesterol levels is widely accepted, but there have been conflicting results on the effect on blood sugar control, which is involved in diabetes. ... Full Story | Top |
| Almagro's Tour Finals hopes dented by Ferrer Friday, Oct 26, 2012 10:18 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Nicolas Almagro's chances of making next month's World Tour Finals in London were dealt a blow when he was beaten 6-3 7-5 by top seed and Spanish compatriot David Ferrer in the quarter-finals of the Valencia Open on Friday. Almagro, seeded sixth at the indoor hardcourt event, did not manage to win a single game on the Ferrer serve and had his own broken twice as he slipped to a 12th defeat in 12 career meetings with the world number five. "I managed to get a lot of my first serves in and kept that up for the whole match," said Ferrer who has already qualified for the Tour Finals. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tax gains lift Merck profits, but sales disappoint Friday, Oct 26, 2012 09:53 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Merck & Co Inc posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit as one-time tax gains helped offset plunging sales of its former flagship product, Singulair, an asthma drug that began facing cheaper generics in August. But overall third-quarter sales came in slightly below Wall Street expectations on Friday, as Singulair's decline outpaced already-grim predictions for it. "There was nothing excellent about the quarter, but nothing scary about it either," said Michael Liss, portfolio manager of American Century Investments, whose mutual funds own Merck shares. ... Full Story | Top |
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