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Teavana worker may have exposed shoppers to hepatitis INDIANAPOLIS — A Teavana worker infected with hepatitis A may have exposed shoppers who drank tea samples to the virus, public health officials said. Teavana, which is owned by Starbucks (SBUX), has disinfected the mall store here where the infected ...
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| J&J suspends sale of device used in fibroid surgery - WSJ (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson suspended sale of devices used in fibroid surgery amid concerns about their potential to spread a rare but deadly cancer, the Wall Street Journal reported. J&J was halting world-wide sale, distribution and promotion of the tools ...
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FDA wants stricter safety rules for pelvic mesh Makers of trouble-prone implants used to surgically repair women's pelvic problems would be subject to stricter safety requirements under a federal proposal issued Tuesday. The Food and Drug Administration says that plastic mesh used to repair pelvic ...
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FDA Proposes More Closely Regulating Some Surgical Mesh Kits -- Update Surgical mesh kits used to repair a condition called pelvic organ prolapse should be more closely regulated, the Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday, signaling heightened recognition of the safety issues associated with the devices currently ...
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Complications Common, Costly With Some Kidney Stone Treatments TUESDAY, April 29, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Kidney stone treatments cause complications in about 14 percent of patients and can be costly, according to a large new study. Researchers analyzed data from more than 93,000 privately insured patients in the ...
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Study: 'Healthy' States Rare Before Obamacare Public Health & Policy. Study: 'Healthy' States Rare Before Obamacare. Published: Apr 30, 2014. By David Pittman, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today. save. |. A. A. Post Test Complete · Take Posttest. In most states, residents' health status ...
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High-fibre diet 'benefits heart attack patients' If you have had a heart attack, eat plenty of fibre because it may improve your long-term chances of recovery, say US researchers. Heart-attack survivors were more likely to be alive nine years later if they followed a high-fibre diet, a study in the British Medical ...
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Pre-pregnancy diet 'permanently influences baby's DNA' A mother's diet around the time of conception can permanently influence her baby's DNA, research suggests. Animal experiments show diet in pregnancy can switch genes on or off, but this is the first human evidence. The research followed women in rural ...
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Novartis gets FDA approval for Zykadia Novartis AG (NVS: Quote) said Tuesday that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved Zykadia for the treatment of patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive metastatic non-small cell lung cancer who have progressed on or are intolerant to ...
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More Than 100 Sickened After Food Safety Summit Health officials are investigating what may have sickened over 100 people who attended a conference where more than 1,300 food safety experts had gathered. No one at the Food Safety Summit held April 8-10 in Baltimore was hospitalized, according to ...
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| Amicus Therapeutics Inc. Conducts Successful Trial For Fabry Genetic Disorder ... A biopsy of the conjunctiva of a 15-year-old patient with Fabry disease. (Photo : Wikimedia Commons/National Eye Institute). An Amicus Therapeutics Inc. drug that would reduce abnormal fat that accumulates in cells when a rare genetic disorder is present ...
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Share of Latinos who are immigrants is declining So says a new Pew Research Center study, which also shows Utah has the 12th highest share of population that is Latino among the states, 13.3 percent. The study, released Tuesday, also says Utah's Latino population grew by 88.5 percent between 2000 ...
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MRI shows disrupted connections in the brains of young people with ADHD OAK BROOK, Ill. – A new study has found that children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have disrupted connections between different areas of the brain that are evident on resting-state functional magnetic resonance ...
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Bill Gates Right, PlanetSave Wrong! Thinking we might fool somebody, we began our February story about the Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) with “The most dangerous creature in the world is not what you think it might be.” Of course, it's not the shark at all. Sharks kill fewer than 50 ...
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Tennessee: Governor Signs Bill Targeting Drug Use During Pregnancy Gov. Bill Haslam on Tuesday signed legislation that will allow women to be charged with assault if they abuse narcotics while pregnant and give birth to a child who is dependent on drugs or harmed. Health organizations and women's rights advocates had ...
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Schizophrenia and Autism may Share Genetic Mutations Researchers from the School of Medicine in Trinity College Dublin and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories (CSHL) in the US have identified a novel mechanism which may underlie susceptibility to schizophrenia and autism. The work, published in the ...
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Pot and child endangerment bills fail in Colorado DENVER (AP) — A Colorado effort to update child-endangerment drug statutes to account for legal marijuana failed Tuesday night. The Senate approved, but then rejected two bills that sought to protect parents who use or grow marijuana from ...
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Diabetes duration and severity associated with brain atrophy Type 2 diabetes may be associated with brain degeneration, according to a new multicenter study published online in the journal Radiology. The study also found that, contrary to common clinical belief, diabetes may not be directly associated with small ...
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Insects Represent an Important Link for Antibiotic Resistance Traits A research team at Kansas State University recently confirmed that insects, such as house flies and cockroaches, can carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria and disseminate them to urban areas. The transmission could be a contributor to the increasing problem ...
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Coral reefs provide potent new anti-HIV proteins SAN DIEGO (April 29, 2014) – Researchers have discovered a new class of proteins capable of blocking the HIV virus from penetrating T-cells, raising hope that the proteins could be adapted for use in gels or sexual lubricants to provide a potent barrier ...
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Ten-year survival rates soar for UK cancer patients The proportion of patients in Britain who survive for 10 years after a cancer diagnosis has risen from 25 per cent in the early 1970s to 50 per cent now – and today Cancer Research UK set a 10-year survival target of 75 per cent for people diagnosed in the ...
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