Tuesday, December 23, 2014

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San Francisco Chronicle
Exclusive: Express Scripts presses for more drug savings with coverage list
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Express Scripts, the largest manager of prescription drug plans for U.S. employers, is taking an increasingly aggressive stance in price negotiations with pharmaceutical companies after winning discounts on medications with a ...
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Los Angeles Times
Some heart patients do better when the cardiologist is away
Holy heart attack! Researchers have found that certain high-risk heart patients stand a better chance of survival if they go to a teaching hospital when all the cardiologists have left town. Though heart doctors have joked that the safest place to suffer a heart ...
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Penn State News
iPads, tablets, smartphones disrupt good sleep, study finds
Basking in the blue glow of iPads, smartphones and other electronic devices before bedtime could be messing up our sleep patterns more profoundly than we realize, and even affecting our long-term health, according to a new study published Monday in the ...
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Reuters
Risk of dengue increases due to climate change, city growth: research
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Large parts of Europe, West and Central Africa, and South America face the threat of outbreaks of the deadly dengue virus due to climate change and urbanization, according to the first-ever maps of dengue ...
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Wall Street Journal
Pope Issues Blistering Rebuke of Vatican Bureaucracy
Pope Francis exchanges Christmas greetings with the Roman Curia Monday in Vatican City. Alessandra Benedetti/Vatican Pool. By. Deborah Ball. Deborah Ball. The Wall Street Journal. CANCEL. BiographyDeborah Ball · deborah.ball@wsj.com ...
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BBC News
E-readers 'damage sleep and health,' doctors warn
If you curl up under the duvet with an ebook for a bedtime read then you are damaging your sleep and maybe your health, US doctors have warned. A team from Harvard Medical School compared reading paper books and light-emitting e-readers before ...
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KGNS.tv
Mother's Depression When Kids Are Young Linked To Risky Teen Behaviors
By Shereen Lehman (Reuters Health) - Having a depressed mother during elementary or middle school raises the likelihood a child will engage in risky behaviors like drinking and smoking during the teen years, according to a new Canadian study. Based on ...
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Newsweek
Pope Francis warns Vatican leaders against 'spiritual Alzheimer's'
Every year around this time, Pope Francis and the senior governing cardinals, bishops and priests of the Vatican — referred to as the Curia — meet for an exchange of Christmas greetings. This year, Pope Francis brought a little something extra for the Curia: ...
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SFGate
Window washer who fell 130 feet in SF 'wants to get up and run'
63°F San Francisco. antioch; concord; fairfield; hayward; livermore; mill valley; mountain view; napa; oakland; palo alto; richmond; san carlos; san francisco; san jose; santa rosa. Sign InRegister. Sections. SFGatevisit|Home|navigation-www|1.
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San Jose Mercury News
Window washer who fell from downtown San Francisco building set to leave ...
OAKLAND, Calif. – A window washer who fell 11 stories from a downtown San Francisco building onto a moving car last month is preparing to leave the hospital for a rehabilitation facility where he hopes to walk again. Pedro Perez, 58, fractured his pelvis, ...
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New York Times
UPDATE 3-Express Scripts drops Gilead hep C drugs for cheaper AbbVie rival
(Adds Molina CEO quote). By Caroline Humer. Dec 22 (Reuters) - The largest U.S. pharmacy benefit manager said on Monday it has lined up a cheaper price for AbbVie Inc's newly approved hepatitis C treatment and, in most cases, will no longer cover ...
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KMBZ
iPads, tablets, smartphones may disrupt sleep more than we realized
Basking in the blue glow of iPads, smartphones and other electronic devices before bedtime could be messing up our sleep patterns more profoundly than we realize, affecting our long-term health, according to a new study published Monday in the ...
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CBS News
Pope Francis blasts Vatican bureaucracy
VATICAN CITY - To the Catholic Church's "seven deadly sins," Pope Francis has added the "15 ailments of the Curia." Francis issued a blistering indictment of the Vatican bureaucracy Monday, accusing the cardinals, bishops and priests who serve him of ...
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SFGate
Window washer who fell 130 feet in SF 'wants to get up and run'
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Justice department alleges Omnicare received kickbacks from Abbott Labs
(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has filed a complaint against Omnicare Inc, alleging that the largest U.S. provider of pharmacy services to the elderly received millions of dollars in kickbacks from Abbott Laboratories. Omnicare received the kickbacks ...
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KGNS.tv
Mother's depression when kids are young linked to risky teen behaviors
(Reuters Health) - Having a depressed mother during elementary or middle school raises the likelihood a child will engage in risky behaviors like drinking and smoking during the teen years, according to a new Canadian study. Based on nearly 3,000 children ...
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Irish Independent
Study: Reading from tablet before bed alters sleep cycle
A study has found that reading from a light-emitting device, such as an e-reader, before bedtime can shift your body's natural clock and delay the onset and characteristics of your sleep. By Geoffrey Mohan. Los Angeles Times ...
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Science 2.0
Excess Weight May Help Heart Failure Patients, Study Contends
MONDAY, Dec. 22, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Obese heart-failure patients appear to live longer than people of normal weight who develop the disabling condition, a new study suggests. Researchers tracked nearly 1,500 heart failure patients, most of whom ...
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Reuters
Novartis says Alcon's Travatan receives EU approval
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis said on Tuesday the European Commission had approved an additional treatment for its eyecare unit Alcon's Travatan treatment for glaucoma, a chronic, sight-threatening eye disease. Alcon said in a ...
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Wall Street Journal
Novartis Gets European Approval For Glaucoma Treatment
Novartis's eye-care unit received European approval for the use of a glaucoma eye drop in juvenile patients. Associated Press. By. Neil MacLucas. Dec. 23, 2014 2:08 a.m. ET. 0 COMMENTS. ZURICH— Novartis AG said Tuesday that its eye-care unit ...
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Dallas Morning News
Pope Francis issues unprecedented rebuke of Vatican bureaucrats
Pope Francis, blessing a child during an audience with the Holy See's employees, had harsh words for prelates. FROM WIRE REPORTS. Published: 22 December 2014 11:05 PM. Updated: 22 December 2014 11:05 PM. VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis ...
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STLtoday.com
US Files Suit Against Omnicare For Accepting Kickbacks From Abbott Labs
The United States has filed a civil False Claims Act complaint against Omnicare Inc. (OCR: Quote) alleging that it solicited and received millions of dollars in kickbacks from pharmaceutical manufacturer Abbott Laboratories (ABT: Quote), the Justice ...
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Dallas Morning News
Can Dr. Oz be trusted?
Mehmet Oz testified that he believes in the products he mentions on his show and said his family gets the same advice as his audience. Published: 22 December 2014 05:28 PM. Updated: 22 December 2014 05:28 PM. It's not hard to understand what makes ...
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USA TODAY
Pope: Vatican bureaucracy has 'spiritual Alzheimer's'
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis launched a blistering attack on the Vatican bureaucracy Monday, outlining a "catalog of illnesses" plaguing the church's central administration, including "spiritual Alzheimer's" and gossipy cliques. The pope's traditional ...
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SFGate
Express Scripts picks AbbVie's hepatitis C drug over Gilead's
Gilead Sciences Inc., already under fire for the high costs of its hepatitis C drugs, took another hit Monday when the nation's largest manager of pharmacy benefits struck an exclusive deal with a rival drugmaker. Express Scripts Holding Co. said Monday it will ...
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Kansas City Star
Drug company's prices criticized
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) used one of his last hearings as chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee to review how the VA has had to ration a break-through medicine that cures hepatitis C, a liver virus infecting 174,000 veterans, because a ...
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CBS News
As flu takes off, Norfolk ranked 5th-sickest city in US
Two children under 4 have died from the flu in eastern Virginia recently, state officials said Monday, driving home what the health department has been seeing for two weeks: The flu is here and spreading quickly. Across the country, the number of people ...
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Los Angeles Times
Panel recommends blood pressure screening to stop a 'silent killer'
Health authorities in the U.S. are taking fresh aim at a "silent killer" with a recommendation that all American adults be screened for high blood pressure. People should be screened once a year if they are at least 40 years old, if they are overweight or obese, ...
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Wink News
FDA approves Bristol-Myers's skin cancer treatment Opdivo
U.S. regulators Monday approved Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s Opdivo for advanced skin cancer, the latest drug to reach the market in the emerging field of cancer immunotherapy. The decision by the Food and Drug Administration means Bristol-Myers BMY, ...
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Midland Reporter-Telegram
Weakened vaccine is a factor as flu season escalates
Francisco Sanchez was one of the first in line Wednesday to receive a flu shot at the Midland Health Department. Daniel Sotelo, MC nursing student, under the supervision of Felecia McCubbin, R.N. was giving shots. Photo by Tim Fischer/Midland Reporter- ...
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USA TODAY
Do heart patients fare better with doctors away?
CHICAGO — Doctors joke that if you're going to have a heart attack, the safest place would be at a big national gathering of heart specialists. But a new study suggests some older hospitalized heart patients may fare better when these doctors aren't around.
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CBC.ca
Ebola survivor's blood used to find cure to deadly disease
For months, Vanderbilt University researcher Dr. James Crowe has been desperately seeking access to the blood of U.S. Ebola survivors, hoping to extract the proteins that helped them overcome the deadly virus for use in new, potent drugs. His efforts finally ...
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Gazettextra
Flu cases picking up in Rock County
Walgreens pharmacist Chris Nguyen gives a free flu shot to Sandra Bazaldua in Houston, Texas. Influenza cases across Rock County have spiked in the past week, and local health officials are predicting a bad flu season. 1. of. 2. Associated Press.
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Dallas Morning News
CentraCare requires flu vaccine for workers, volunteers
With a mission comes a mandate: CentraCare Health is emphasizing patient safety by requiring all its employees to get a flu vaccine or wear a mask where patients may be present. Such mandates have popped up elsewhere, although other major local ...
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Chinatopix
Flu Virus Continues to Mutate, US CDC Issues Warning
Nurses prepare influenza vaccine injections during a flu shot clinic at Dorchester House, a health care clinic, in Boston, Massachusetts. REUTERS/Brian Snyder. share on facebook. share on twitter. With the height of the flu season approaching, the US ...
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Youth Health Magzine
The Cure to Ebola May Be in the Blood
With the recent blood donation of one of the American Ebola survivors, researchers may finally able to figure out how to effectively neutralize the deadly virus. The Ebola outbreak continues to take lives, especially in Western African nations such as Liberia ...
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Capitalberg
How Ebola survivor can help cure Ebola
Blood of Ebola survivors can be a cure to the deadly disease. The proteins found in the survivor of this disease may help others to cure. Rick Sacra, a survivor of Ebola, who got infected in Liberia but got well after the treatment in US, is a physician at the ...
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National Post
Viewers should be skeptical of advice on TV medical talk shows like Dr. Oz and ...
EDMONTON — Medical researchers at the University of Alberta has two words of advice about the recommendations on medical talk shows: be skeptical. In a new study in the British Medical Journal, they found only one-third of the recommendations on Dr.
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Science Times
Electronic devices use before bed can cause sleep disorder: Study
Now-a-days, the craze for electronic devices including smartphones, tablets or e-readers are attracting more and more people and they exhaust most of their time while peeping into it. But none of us think that how much these devices affect our body.
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Belfast Telegraph
England will sequence the genomes of 100000 humans to tackle cancer and ...
England's National Health Service announced today that it would build 11 new Genomic Medicine Centers as part of the country's new 100,000 Genomes Project — an effort that aims to sequence the genomes of thousands of human genomes to understand ...
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Financial Express
Fast food may harm your kid's academic performance
Fast food may slow the brain and make children perform worse in school, a new study has warned. Fast food may slow the brain and make children perform worse in school, a new study has warned. (Reuters) ...
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Press-Enterprise
Inland Catholics laud pope's candor
A photograph of Pope Francis hangs on the wall as Youth Minister Archie La Salle walks down the hall at St. Catherine of Alexandria on Monday in Riverside. STAN LIM, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER. Related article ». Pope Francis' criticism Monday of members ...
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Mirror.co.uk
Bedtime reading on glowing screens might keep you awake
You might want to think twice about curling up with your cellphone, iPad, or laptop at bedtime. Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital reported Monday that people who read a book on a glowing screen before bedtime took longer to fall asleep and ...
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AsiaOne
Pope says Vatican administration is sick with power and greed
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican's top administrators would have been expecting an exchange of pleasantries at their annual Christmas meeting with Pope Francis on Monday. Instead, he chose the occasion to issue a stinging critique, telling the priests, bishops ...
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Times of India
Fast food may lead to lower school results for US kids
WASHINGTON, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Eating fast food may lead to lower student test scores in math, science and reading, a recent study of U.S. school children said. Advertisement. Video; Print. Northwest Technical College. A degree from NTC is your fast track ...
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New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio
Flu season picking up steam in NJ
Just a few days into the winter season, a growing number of New Jersey residents are getting sick with the flu. (Piotr Marcinski, ThinkStock). "Right now we're at moderate flu activity, so we're definitely seeing influenza-like illness all over the state," said New ...
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CBC.ca
Hospitalization Risk Seen With Clarithromycin + Certain Statins
Combining clarithromycin with certain statins increases the risk of adverse outcomes that can lead to hospitalization or even death, according to a new study published online Dec. 22 in CMAJ, the journal of the Canadian Medical Association. MONDAY, Dec.
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CBS News
Be wary of advice from TV doctors, U of A study says
EDMONTON - A team of medical researchers at the University of Alberta has two words of advice when it comes to the recommendations you hear on medical talk shows: be skeptical. In a newly published British Medical Journal study, the U of A's ...
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Zee News
Trial rules Ebola vaccine safe for human use in Africa
London: Scientists have revealed that the experimental DNA vaccines to prevent Ebola virus and the closely related Marburg virus are safe for human use. In the first trial of filovirus vaccines in Africa, the researchers developed the DNA vaccines that code for ...
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NDTV
Ebola Vaccine Declared Safe For Use In Africa
Scientists hail an "encouraging" breakthrough in the search for a vaccine for the disease that has killed over 7,000 people. 06:27, UK, Tuesday 23 December 2014. Play video "Ebola Vaccine Declared Safe To Use" ...
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