| Vote on pot shops could end lingering LA issue | Wed, May 22 04:37 PM |
| LOS ANGELES (AP) — Voters approved a law limiting the number of medical pot shops in Los Angeles after politicians failed for years to corral the blossoming industry. | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Senate committee advances drug compounding bill | Wed, May 22 03:58 PM |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that would increase federal oversight for companies that compound and sell sterile drugs across state lines.
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| Senate committee advances drug compounding bill | Wed, May 22 03:58 PM |
| By Jessica Dye NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that would increase federal oversight for companies that compound and sell sterile drugs across state lines. The proposed legislation was introduced in response to a meningitis outbreak last fall that killed more than 50 people and sickened more than 700. The outbreak was traced to contamination found in steroid injections made by the New England Compounding Center. The bill was passed unanimously on a voice vote by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee. ... | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| FDA panel says Merck's sleep drug safe, effective at lower dose | Wed, May 22 03:57 PM |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Merck & Co's experimental insomnia drug was safe and effective at the lower of two doses studied, a panel of medical experts said on Wednesday, increasing the chance it will be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.  | Reuters: Health News |
| FDA panel says Merck's sleep drug safe, effective at lower dose | Wed, May 22 03:57 PM |
 By Toni Clarke WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Merck & Co's experimental insomnia drug was safe and effective at the lower of two doses studied, a panel of medical experts said on Wednesday, increasing the chance it will be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The advisory panel was convened to help the FDA decide whether to approve the drug, suvorexant, which would be the first in a new class of sedatives designed to help people fall asleep and stay asleep. ...
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| Doctors save Ohio boy by 'printing' an airway tube | Wed, May 22 03:09 PM |
 In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day.
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| Health officials probe deadly respiratory illness in Alabama | Wed, May 22 02:49 PM |
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - U.S. and state health authorities are investigating an unidentified respiratory illness that has killed two of 10 people hospitalized with it in Alabama since last week.  | Reuters: Health News |
| Health officials probe deadly respiratory illness in Alabama | Wed, May 22 02:49 PM |
| By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - U.S. and state health authorities are investigating an unidentified respiratory illness that has killed two of 10 people hospitalized with it in Alabama since last week. Preliminary tests do not indicate the bird flu, nor a new mutation of any known influenza virus, said Dr. Mary McIntyre, an assistant state health officer at the Alabama Department of Public Health. Two patients did test positive for the H1N1 strain of the flu. ... | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Online tool helps control blood pressure long term | Wed, May 22 02:13 PM |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a new study, people with high blood pressure who could communicate with their pharmacists online had better blood pressure control a year after that service ended.  | Reuters: Health News |
| Los Angeles voters approve limiting medical marijuana shops | Wed, May 22 02:11 PM |
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles, which has more storefront medical marijuana shops than any other U.S. city, will close hundreds of the dispensaries and hike taxes on those that will be allowed to remain under a ballot measure approved by a wide margin of voters.
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| Vitamin C may not treat gout: study | Wed, May 22 01:37 PM |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Daily vitamin C supplements don't lower uric acid as much as drugs used to treat high levels of the acid that's responsible for gout, says a new study from New Zealand.
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| Polish man gets quick face transplant after injury | Wed, May 22 01:18 PM |
 WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest time frame to date for such an operation. It was Poland's first face transplant.
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| Sugary drinks tied to kidney stone risk | Wed, May 22 01:08 PM |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adults who drink at least one sugar-sweetened drink a day are slightly more likely to develop kidney stones than people who rarely imbibe them, according to a new study.  | Reuters: Health News |
| New Drug May Decrease Asthma Attacks By 87% | Wed, May 22 12:00 PM |
A novel, lab-made molecule was able to stick to certain inflammatory proteins and decrease and minimize acute breathing issues among people with moderate-to-severe asthma, according to new research by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and were also presented in Philadelphia at the annual meeting of the American Thoracic Society. Nearly 24.6 million Americans suffer from asthma, and 10 to 20% of them do not have good control of their symptoms even when taking medications... | Health News from Medical News Today |
| Antidepressant Escitalopram Helps Heart Problem Caused By Stress | Wed, May 22 12:00 PM |
Researchers at Duke Medicine have revealed that a commonly prescribed antidepressant - escitalopram (Lexapro) - could be used to treat a heart condition caused by stress among people suffering from stable coronary heart disease. The findings of the study, published in the May 22/29, 2013 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that people with stable coronary heart disease and mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia (MSIMI) taking escitalopram - a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) used to treat depression and anxiety - experienced lower rates of MSIMI... | Health News from Medical News Today |
| Radioactive Bacteria Dramatically Reduce Spread Of Pancreatic Cancer In Mice | Wed, May 22 11:00 AM |
Using bacteria to ferry radioisotopes commonly used in cancer therapy directly into pancreatic cancer cells in mice, researchers in the US were able dramatically to reduce the number of secondary tumors that arise when the cancer spreads to other parts of the body (metastases). Claudia Gravekamp and colleagues at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, write about their successful experiment in a paper that was published this week in the print issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences... | Health News from Medical News Today |
| Vitamin C Can Kill Drug-Resistant TB Bacteria | Wed, May 22 11:00 AM |
Vitamin C can kill drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture, according to a new, surprising discovery by experts at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The research, published in Nature Communications, indicates that adding vitamin C to existing TB drugs could shorten TB therapy. The finding calls attention to a novel area for drug design. TB results from infection with the bacterium M. tuberculosis. About 8.7 million people were affected by TB in 2011, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), while approximately 1... | Health News from Medical News Today |
| Cancer Society hits 100 as US cancer rate falls | Wed, May 22 12:14 AM |
 NEW YORK (AP) — The American Cancer Society — one of the nation's best known and influential health advocacy groups — is 100 years old this week.
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