Health and Medical News Headlines for September 29, 2009

Nestle mulls shift to 'well-being' company-chairman

FRANKFURT, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Nestle is mulling a move towards a greater focus on "well-being" as it seeks higher-margin business for the future, its chairman said.
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Sep 2009 | 4:00 am

UPDATE 3-China CNOOC silent on report of Nigeria oil talks

(Adds analyst comment, changes story tag to NIGERIA-OIL)
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Sep 2009 | 3:57 am

Paulson mulls CIT and IndyMac merger -NY Post

Sept 29 (Reuters) - Hedge fund manager John Paulson is considering merging troubled U.S. finance company CIT Group with failed mortgage lender IndyMac Federal Bank , the New York Post said, citing people...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Sep 2009 | 3:55 am

Paulson mulls CIT and IndyMac merger -NY Post

IOC to shut Panipat units from end-Oct- Co source

NEW DELHI, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Indian Oil Corp (IOC) has deferred a planned shutdown of half of its 240,000 barrels-per-day Panipat refinery in north India by a month to end-October, a company source said...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Sep 2009 | 3:21 am

Ukraine's president calls Odessa sale illegal

KIEV, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko called on Tuesday the privatisation of the Odessa Port chemical plant "hasty and illegal" after issuing a decree earlier this month banning...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Sep 2009 | 3:14 am

US studio Summit eyes deals, to hire M.Stanley-paper

Sept 29 (Reuters) - Summit Entertainment, the studio behind teen vampire movie "Twilight," is close to hiring Morgan Stanley to help it identify potential acquisitions that could include Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Sep 2009 | 3:10 am

British health authorities investigate as girl dies after receiving cervical cancer vaccine

LONDON - Health authorities are investigating after a 14-year-old girl died a few hours after receiving a cervical cancer vaccine. Health officials in Coventry, about 100 miles (160...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Sep 2009 | 2:52 am

UPDATE 1-Uncertainty overhangs Independent's refinancing deal

* 75% of bondholders need to agree; 39% approval so far
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Sep 2009 | 2:45 am

Cancer jab alert after girl dies

An urgent inquiry is under way into the death of a 14-year-old girl after she was given a cervical cancer vaccine at school.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 29 Sep 2009 | 2:36 am

CORRECTED - Clean tech investments soar worldwide in Q3-report

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Global investment in clean technology roared back in the third quarter, driven by solar power and a public offering that underscores growing enthusiasm for the sector,...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Sep 2009 | 2:34 am

'A real shock'

A man with Asperger's on meeting his father
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 29 Sep 2009 | 2:22 am

When Medicare is the piggy bank (AP)

AP - Medicare is looking like a big fat piggy bank for health care overhaul.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 Sep 2009 | 1:12 am

Pregnant? Get a flu shot but it may be a hassle (AP)

AP - It's hard for pregnant women to escape the message: You're at extra risk from swine flu it could trigger premature labor, hospitalize you for weeks, even kill you so be among the first in line for vaccine next month. But only about one in seven pregnant women gets a flu shot each winter.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 Sep 2009 | 1:06 am

Boehringer Ingelheim`s Diabetes Pipeline Continues To Advance As The Company Announces Conclusion Of The Linagliptin Pivotal Phase III Clinical Trials

Following the release of linagliptin Phase II data earlier this year, Boehringer Ingelheim has now announced the conclusion of the linagliptin pivotal Phase III clinical trials.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am

Children Of Working Mothers Are More Likely To Lead Unhealthier Lifestyles

Research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health reports that children of working mothers are likely to lead unhealthier lifestyles than those whose mothers do not work. The study suggests they are more sedentary and are more likely to be driven to school.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am

New Route To Leukaemia Uncovered

Cancer Research Uk Scientists have discovered a completely new route by which leukaemia develops, according to research published in Nature. Scientists from the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge studied a gene called JAK2 which is faulty in many cases of leukaemia - but until now its role was not clear.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am

Cancer Research Takes Turn, Offers Potential Treatment For Macular Degeneration

Indiana University School of Medicine research and a federal small business grant have set an Indianapolis startup company on a path to develop potential new treatments for age-related macular degeneration. The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $225,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant to ApeX Therapeutics and its co-founder Mark R. Kelley, Ph.D.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am

Ethnicity And Language Linked To Medication Use

There are significant health care disparities among children, especially Hispanic children, living in the United States.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am

HSE Prosecutes Water Filtration Company After Worker Is Severely Injured, UK

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging companies to ensure that their equipment is fit for purpose and that safe and effective working systems are put into place, to protect employees.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am

Universal Screening Lowers Risk Of Severe Hyperbilirubinemia

Screening all newborns for hyperbilirubinemia (which causes jaundice) resulted in a significantly lower incidence of severe cases in the study, "Impact of Universal Bilirubin Screening on Severe Hyperbilirubinemia and Phototherapy Use in a Managed Care Organization.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am

Growth Charts Stump Parents

While physicians routinely use growth charts as a visual aid for parents when discussing growth rates, do parents understand them? Several organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, encourage parents to partner with pediatricians in using the charts to track their children's growth patterns.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am

Children Who Are Leaders In School Benefit From Better Health As Adults

Research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health reports that children who are popular and exert power among their school classmates enjoy better health as adults. Researchers reviewed more than 14,000 children who were born in Sweden in 1953 and who were part of the Stockholm Birth Cohort Study.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am

University Of Queensland Psychology Clinic Offers Treatment For Social Phobia, Australia

In the lead up to end of year celebrations and social functions the UQ Psychology Clinic is offering a group treatment program for people with social phobias. According to clinical psychologist Amanda Smith a social phobia is a fear of criticism and rejection by others. "Social phobia affects about three percent of the population and often starts in childhood or adolescence.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am

Giving Heroin to Addicts: A New Treatment Gains Ground (Time.com)

Time.com - After a successful trial, Britain may soon set up clinics across the countrywhere heroin addicts would receive supervised injections of the drug. Theaim: to reduce crime and eventually wean them off drugs permanently
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 Sep 2009 | 12:40 am

Biotech Company Fires Chief and Others Over Handling of Data

The dismissals were related to the company’s findings that test results for a groundbreaking blood test for Down syndrome could not be trusted.

Source: NYT > Health | 29 Sep 2009 | 12:04 am

Global Update: Saudi Arabia: Pilgrims Who Travel to Mecca This Fall Will Get an Oral Polio Vaccine on Arrival

The country announced it is giving $30 million to efforts to eradicate the disease worldwide.

Source: NYT > Health | 29 Sep 2009 | 12:03 am

Vital Signs: Awareness: In Medical Schools, Some Rudeness Online

A study that looked at the posting of unprofessional content by medical students found the practice was more common than anticipated.

Source: NYT > Health | 29 Sep 2009 | 12:02 am

After a Death, the Pain That Doesn’t Go Away

For some people, a death can produce feelings of loss that become debilitating and remove them from humanity.

Source: NYT > Health | 29 Sep 2009 | 12:02 am

Essay: Pregnancy Is No Time to Refuse a Flu Shot

Some women and providers have become so concerned about negative effects of drugs that they have forgotten the negative effects of the diseases they are intended to treat.

Source: NYT > Health | 28 Sep 2009 | 11:51 pm

Abortion Fight Complicates Debate on Health Care

Abortion opponents in Congress are seeking to block people who might receive federal subsidies for health insurance from using the money on plans that cover abortion.

Source: NYT > Health | 28 Sep 2009 | 11:48 pm

Mathematics to build cancer model

Mathematicians in Dundee are to develop a virtual model of cancer growth in an effort to predict how it spreads.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Sep 2009 | 11:24 pm

Personal Health: From Birth, Engage Your Child With Talk

All too often, mothers and nannies are tuned in to their cellphones, BlackBerrys and iPods, not their young children.

Source: NYT > Health | 28 Sep 2009 | 11:22 pm

Vital Statistics: Hurt at Home, and a Fall Is Likely to Blame

The top cause in the United States for injuries requiring medical attention cuts across age groups, federal health statistics showed.

Source: NYT > Health | 28 Sep 2009 | 11:22 pm

Vital Signs: Having a Baby: Training and the Quality of an Obstetrician

Researchers evaluated doctor residency programs and complications during deliveries.

Source: NYT > Health | 28 Sep 2009 | 11:20 pm

Vital Signs: Risks: Diabetes Tied to Heart Rhythm in Women

Researchers found that the disease increased the risk of developing atrial fibrillation, a potentially dangerous problem that doctors often missed.

Source: NYT > Health | 28 Sep 2009 | 11:18 pm

Health Tip: Choosing a Child Safety Seat (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- A child safety seat could save your youngster's life in the event of a serious automobile accident.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 Sep 2009 | 9:49 pm

Children's Growth Charts Don't Measure Up With Parents (HealthDay)

HealthDay - MONDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Parents want to know how their children measure up on the growth charts widely used in pediatrician's offices, but many parents don't understand how to read or interpret the information, a new survey shows.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 Sep 2009 | 9:49 pm

Irregular Heartbeat Risk Higher in Women With Type 2 Diabetes (HealthDay)

HealthDay - MONDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Women with type 2 diabetes have a 26 percent increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation, a potentially life-threatening irregular heartbeat, new findings suggest.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 Sep 2009 | 9:49 pm

School stars 'enjoy good health'

Children who impress their peers at school tend to go on to enjoy better health as adults, research suggests.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Sep 2009 | 5:40 pm

Working mothers' children unfit

Children whose mothers work are less likely to lead healthy lives than those with "stay at home" mothers, a study says.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Sep 2009 | 5:30 pm

Fergus on flu

Swine flu vaccines' first UK trial gets under way
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Sep 2009 | 4:04 pm

PLATO-Invasive: Impressive Ticagrelor Results Mirror Overall Trial Findings

The prespecified subset analysis helps clarify the performance of the drug in patients managed invasively, including adding new insights into its benefits over both the 300-mg and 600-mg loading doses of clopidogrel.
Heartwire
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 Sep 2009 | 3:11 pm

Reduced Bleeding and Comparable Stent Thrombosis With DES and Bare-Metal Stents: HORIZONS-AMI at Two Years

Two-year data showed significant reductions in bleeding and cardiac mortality in patients treated with bivalirudin when compared with those treated with heparin plus a GP IIb/IIIa inhibitor. In the stent arm of the trial, researchers showed that stent thrombosis rates were equivalent between DES and bare-metal stents, although both rates were high, at 4.1%.
Heartwire
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 Sep 2009 | 3:11 pm

Weight Loss Should Improve OSA in Obese Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

In a 4-center randomized study, weight loss led to significant and clinically relevant improvements in obstructive sleep apnea among obese patients with type 2 diabetes.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 Sep 2009 | 2:50 pm

Polypropylene Mesh Superior to Xenograft or Surgery for Paravaginal Repair

Anatomic success was significantly higher with polypropylene mesh placement than with colporrhaphy or porcine dermis graft placement for paravaginal repair in a randomized controlled trial.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 Sep 2009 | 2:09 pm

EPA tells schools to test aging caulk for PCBs (AP)

AP - Hundreds of school buildings across the United States have caulk around windows and doors containing potentially cancer-causing PCBs, the Environmental Protection Agency says.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 Sep 2009 | 2:09 pm

Who cares about cholesterol? You should

When 48-year-old Erin Peiffer learned that she had high cholesterol in her 20s, she never thought it would pose a problem. But at 39, she had to have open-heart surgery. Find out why you should care about your numbers.

Source: CNN.com - Health | 28 Sep 2009 | 1:22 pm

Secret to Champagne Flavor is Right Under Your Nose

Scientists find bubbles bring champagne's flavor to your nose.
Source: Livescience.com - Health | 28 Sep 2009 | 1:01 pm

New Blood Tests Offer Noninvasive Method of Detecting GI Cancers

Data are still early, but 2 new blood tests might offer a noninvasive option for detecting gastrointestinal (GI) cancers and for identifying tumors that are likely to metastasize.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 Sep 2009 | 12:48 pm

Stroke Sonothrombolysis Speeds Clot Breakup but Raises Risk of Hemorrhage

Microbubbles added to sonothrombolysis and tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) treatment of acute stroke is associated with early recanalization, but they also lead to a high rate of asymptomatic hemorrhagic transformation, according to findings from a case-control study.
Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 Sep 2009 | 11:18 am

Contrast Agents Deemed Safe During Stress Echocardiography

In a large cohort study, the use of contrast agents during stress echocardiography was not associated with an increased risk of death or myocardial infarction during short-term or long-term follow-up.
Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 Sep 2009 | 11:18 am

First RCT Shows Similar Efficacy Among Nonsurgical Treatments for Stress Urinary Incontinence

Behavioral therapy was significantly better than the continence pessary in alleviating symptoms of stress urinary incontinence at 3 months, but by 1 year, the 2 treatments showed similar efficacy.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 Sep 2009 | 10:58 am

More cancer patients have healthy breast removed (AFP)

AFP - More women are having both breasts removed after cancer is diagnosed in one, even though there is little evidence that a double mastectomy can improve survival, a study showed Monday.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 Sep 2009 | 10:56 am

Retinal Microvascular Changes Linked to Cognitive Decline

Retinopathy and focal retinal arteriolar narrowing in middle age are associated with significant declines in cognitive decline later in life, research indicates.
Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 Sep 2009 | 9:59 am

Bullous Skin Disease Mortality Stable Overall, but Higher for Pemphigoid and in Blacks

Over the last few decades, the overall rate of death from bullous skin diseases has remained stable in the US, but mortality from pemphigoid disorders has increased while deaths from pemphigus disorders have decreased.
Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 Sep 2009 | 9:59 am

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