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| Forest Laboratories submits Cariprazine drug application: Richter Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 11:17 PM PST BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Forest Laboratories has recently submitted a new drug application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for antipsychotic drug Cariprazine, its Hungarian partner Richter said in a statement on Wednesday. Cariprazine was discovered by Richter and is licensed to Forest Laboratories Inc. in the U.S. and Canada. Richter said Forest's application to the FDA was submitted for the treatment of both schizophrenia and manic or mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder. (Reporting by Gergely Szakacs; Editing by David Goodman) Full Story | Top |
| China considers easing family planning rules Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 10:34 PM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - China is mulling changes to its one-child policy, a former family planning official said, with government advisory bodies drafting proposals in the face of a rapidly ageing society in the world's most populous nation. Proposed changes would allow for urban couples to have a second child, even if one of the parents is themselves not an only child, the China Daily cited Zhang Weiqing, the former head of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, as saying on Wednesday. ... Full Story | Top |
| Indian board rejects AstraZeneca's patent plea on cancer drug Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 10:13 PM PST (Reuters) - India's patents appeal board has dismissed British drugmaker AstraZeneca's petition challenging an earlier ruling that refused patent protection for a cancer-fighting drug, in the latest blow for Big Pharma in the country. The Indian patents office in 2007 refused patent protection to AstraZeneca's quinazoline molecule, citing lack of invention. The Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) on Monday upheld the refusal. The decision is also a setback for struggling AstraZeneca, which is battling to turn itself around as key drugs lose patent protection. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. price hikes on branded drugs far outpace 2012 inflation Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 09:05 PM PST (Reuters) - U.S. price increases on popular branded drugs in the past year have been more than six times the overall rate of inflation for consumer goods, while spending on specialty medications is up nearly 23 percent, according to data compiled by Express Scripts for its first quarterly drug trend report. The pharmacy benefit manager, whose recent acquisition of rival Medco Health Solutions greatly increased its available data, found that prices on a collection of the most widely used brand name prescription medicines rose 13.3 percent from Sept 2011 to Sept 2012. ... Full Story | Top |
| Arizona Representative Ron Barber says recovering after minor cancer surgery Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 08:07 PM PST  PHOENIX (Reuters) - Democratic Representative Ron Barber, a former aide to Gabrielle Giffords who was wounded alongside her in a deadly 2011 shooting, said on Tuesday he is recovering after surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his tongue. Barber, 67, beat Republican rival Martha McSally by a slender margin in the November 6 election to represent southeast Arizona in the state's redrawn 2nd Congressional District. Barber's office said he learned of the tumor on November 13. He underwent surgery on Monday to remove the growth, and is expected to return to work in Washington next week. ... Full Story | Top |
| Infected and unaware: HIV hitting America's youth Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 06:43 PM PST  CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than half of young people in the United States who are infected with HIV are not aware of it, according to a report by government health officials that zeroes in on one of the remaining hot spots of HIV infection in America. Young people ages 13 to 24 account for 26 percent of all new HIV infections, according to the report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which was released on Tuesday in advance of World AIDS Day on December 1. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama promotes tax agenda, Congress in stand-off Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 06:25 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday launched a public relations push for his bid to raise taxes on wealthy Americans, but U.S. lawmakers remained deadlocked over dramatic, year-end tax increases and spending cuts known as the "fiscal cliff." At the White House, small business leaders emerged from a one-hour meeting with Obama to voice support for his goal of extending low tax rates for the middle class beyond the end of the year, while letting rates rise for wealthier taxpayers. ... Full Story | Top |
| Venezuela's Chavez heads to Cuba for medical treatment Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 04:13 PM PST  CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will travel to Cuba on Tuesday for medical treatment, following a nearly two-week absence from the public eye, months after undergoing cancer surgery on the communist-run island. Chavez, 58, underwent what appeared to be a remarkable comeback from an undisclosed type of cancer diagnosed in June 2011. In October, he won re-election despite running a campaign that was much more subdued than his previous bids. ... Full Story | Top |
| Former presidential nominee Dole in hospital: media reports Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 03:55 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole has been admitted to Washington's Walter Reed Army medical center for what an aide called a "routine procedure," media reports said on Tuesday. Dole, 89, "self-checked into the hospital for a routine procedure and will be discharged tomorrow," an aide told NBC News. "He's doing very well." According to Politico, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, said on the Senate floor on Tuesday that Dole was hospitalized "because he is infirm. He is sick." Reid's comments came during debate on the U.N. ... Full Story | Top |
| Cloudy with a chance of flu? Study offers influenza forecast Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 03:54 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New research suggests it may be possible to forecast flu outbreaks in much the same way meteorologists predict weather, a potential boon for public health officials and consumers, one of the study's authors said on Tuesday. Using real-time U.S. data gathered by Google Inc, along with a computer model showing how flu spreads, the researchers offered a system that could generate local forecasts of the severity and length of a particular flu outbreak. ... Full Story | Top |
| Judge orders tobacco companies to admit deception Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 03:34 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major tobacco companies that spent decades denying they lied to the U.S. public about the dangers of cigarettes must spend their own money on a public advertising campaign saying they did lie, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. The ruling sets out what might be the harshest sanction to come out of a historic case that the Justice Department brought in 1999 accusing the tobacco companies of racketeering. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler wrote that the new advertising campaign would be an appropriate counterweight to the companies' "past deception" dating to at least ... Full Story | Top |
| GSK and J&J lead rivals in drug access for poor Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 03:02 PM PST LONDON (Reuters) - Drugmakers - led by GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson - are stepping up efforts to ensure their medicines are available and affordable in poor countries, after being attacked in the past for not doing enough. The Access to Medicines Index, which tracks the actions of the top 20 drugmakers, showed on Wednesday there had been an improvement across the board in the past two years, reflecting both commercial self-interest and a concern for reputation. ... Full Story | Top |
| Senior Democrat Durbin urges talks on Medicare Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 01:28 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dick Durbin, a senior Senate Democrat and close ally of President Barack Obama, urged fellow liberals on Tuesday to consider reforming Medicare and Medicaid, the U.S. healthcare programs they have long fought to shield from spending cuts. The timing of his message - just as Democrats and Republicans struggling to avoid the "fiscal cliff," looming early next year - and its prominence may signal that Democratic leaders and the White House will discuss social programs at the fiscal policy negotiating table. ... Full Story | Top |
| Whooping cough immunity may wane after vaccination: study Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 01:23 PM PST (Reuters Health) - Unvaccinated youngsters were nine times more likely to contract whooping cough during a recent outbreak in California than those who had received the entire five-shot series, researchers found. However, the effectiveness of the vaccine waned as more time elapsed since a child's final dose of the so-called DTaP vaccine for whooping cough, also known as pertussis. ... Full Story | Top |
| Whooping cough immunity may wane after vaccination Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 01:13 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - During a recent whooping cough outbreak in California, kids who hadn't been vaccinated against the disease were nine times more likely to get it than those who had received the entire five-shot series, researchers found. But even among children who were fully vaccinated, the longer it had been since their final dose of the so-called DTaP vaccine, the higher their risk of coming down with whooping cough, also known as pertussis. ... Full Story | Top |
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