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| Report: Nation's kids need to get more physical | Thu, May 23 08:20 AM |
 WASHINGTON (AP) — Reading, writing, arithmetic — and PE?
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| Nearly all US states see hefty drop in teen births | Thu, May 23 12:12 PM |
 NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report.
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| Shuttered NM plant resumes making peanut butter | Thu, May 23 11:14 AM |
| ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The eastern New Mexico peanut butter plant shuttered eight months ago after a salmonella outbreak is back in production, and company officials say their coveted natural and organic butters could be back on store shelves within a month. | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Marijuana tied to better blood sugar control | Thu, May 23 12:43 PM |
| By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who had used marijuana in the past month had smaller waists and lower levels of insulin resistance - a diabetes precursor - than those who never tried the drug, in a new study. The findings, based on surveys and blood tests of about 4,700 U.S. adults, aren't enough to prove marijuana keeps users thin or wards off disease. And among current pot smokers, higher amounts of marijuana use weren't linked to any added health benefits, researchers reported in The American Journal of Medicine. "These are preliminary findings," said Dr. ... | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Maine lawmakers, governor in stand-off on Medicaid expansion | Thu, May 23 11:18 AM |
| By Dave Sherwood BOWDOINHAM, Maine (Reuters) - Maine's Democratic-controlled legislature on Thursday passed a bill that would expand access to its Medicaid program as outlined by the Affordable Care Act, setting up a showdown with the state's Republican governor, who has vowed a veto. At issue is lawmakers' effort to link expanded access to the health insurance program for low-income residents to a plan to pay the state's share of $484 million in debt owed to Maine's hospitals. ... | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Labs reject dramatic findings on cancer drug in Alzheimer's mice | Thu, May 23 11:05 AM |
| By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists say a dramatic result last year suggesting that a cancer drug already approved by U.S. regulators could quickly clear out Alzheimer's plaques in mice was too good to be true. The study, published last year in the journal Science, showed the skin cancer drug bexarotene cut the amount of an Alzheimer's-linked protein called beta amyloid by half in three days. It also reversed Alzheimer's symptoms, restoring a sense of smell in treated mice and allowing them to resume nest building activities. ... | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| WHO warns countries not to hoard secrets of coronavirus | Thu, May 23 11:04 AM |
 By Tom Miles and Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) warned countries with possible cases of the SARS-like novel coronavirus on Thursday that they must share information and not allow commercial labs to profit from the virus, which has killed 22 people worldwide. Saudi Arabia, where the first case occurred, has said the development of diagnostic tests for the disease has been delayed by a foreign laboratory's patent rights on the SARS-like virus. ...
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| New advice didn't change breast screening rates | Thu, May 23 11:02 AM |
| By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women in their 40s didn't cut back on mammograms during 2010, the year after a government-backed panel said annual breast cancer screening should be optional for them, says a new study. Researchers found that the odds of U.S. women between the ages of 40 and 49 getting a mammogram remained stable from 2006 to 2010. So did mammography rates among women in their 40s relative to those of older women, who were still advised to get regular breast cancer screenings. ... | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| WHO: 22 deaths worldwide from coronavirus | Thu, May 23 10:38 AM |
| GENEVA (AP) — World Health Organization officials said Thursday that their probe into the deadly new coronavirus that has now claimed 22 lives is being delayed because of a dispute over the ownership rights to a sample — a claim disputed by the researcher at the center of the issue. | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| New J&J anti-depressant related to 'Special K' party drug | Thu, May 23 10:32 AM |
| By Ransdell Pierson NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson said it plans to seek approvals for 11 new drugs by 2017, including a treatment for patients with depression who have failed to benefit from standard medications. The intranasal drug, called esketamine, is closely related to a pediatric anesthetic called ketamine that has been shown in academic studies to ease symptoms rapidly in such patients, including a reduction in suicidal thoughts. Ketamine is also the active ingredient of the mood-altering party drug known as "Special K". ... | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Schools should make exercise 'core' subject, U.S. panel urges | Thu, May 23 10:31 AM |
 By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. schools need to boost efforts to get students moving, and make gym class as critical as other core subjects if they want to increase test scores as well as students' general well-being, a leading group of health advisers said on Thursday. The Institute of Medicine called for younger students to get at least 30 minutes of physical activity per day in school and older students 45 minutes, with at least half that time spent moving vigorously. ...
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| Novo Nordisk says obesity drug trial confirms weight loss | Thu, May 23 09:57 AM |
| COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's Novo Nordisk, the world's biggest insulin producer, said Phase III study results had shown people treated with its liraglutide drug had an 8 percent weight loss. "These data, together with previously reported Phase III trials, consistently demonstrate clinically significant weight loss and improvements in obesity-related risk factors in people with obesity," chief science officer Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen said in the statement. Just how big the product could be is fiercely debated by analysts. ... | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Face Transplant Saves Man's Life | Thu, May 23 09:13 AM |
| Polish doctors perform the first lifesaving face transplant. | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Face Transplant Saves Polish Man's Life | Thu, May 23 09:11 AM |
| Polish doctors perform the first lifesaving face transplant. | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Birth control coverage up for federal appeal | Thu, May 23 08:43 AM |
 DENVER (AP) — In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.
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| Push for PE to Fight Childhood Obesity | Thu, May 23 08:32 AM |
| An Institute of Medicine report out today makes some ambitious recommendations for physical education requirements in schools, including at least 30 minutes a day of movement during school hours. | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| UN: 22 deaths worldwide from coronavirus | Thu, May 23 08:25 AM |
| GENEVA (AP) — A new coronavirus has now claimed 22 lives worldwide out of 44 lab-confirmed cases, mostly in Saudi Arabia, World Health Organization officials said Thursday. | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Scientists Locate Biomarkers for Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Thu, May 23 07:55 AM |
| Researchers trying to find the key to a mysterious group of digestive ailments have located a number of biomarkers for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Their discovery could lead to earlier diagnoses and intervention for individuals still asymptomatic. | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Marine Protected Areas and Catalina Island: Conserve, Maintain and Enrich | Thu, May 23 07:23 AM |
 Marine Protected Areas and Catalina Island: Conserve, Maintain and Enrich
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| The Art and Science of the Diagram: Communicating the Knowledge of the Heavens, the Earth and the Arcane, Final Part | Thu, May 23 05:23 AM |
 The Art and Science of the Diagram: Communicating the Knowledge of the Heavens, the Earth and the Arcane, Final Part
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| Saudi Arabia confirms another death from SARS-like virus | Thu, May 23 05:11 AM |
 DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has announced another death from the SARS-like novel coronavirus (nCoV) in its central al-Qassim region, bringing the total number of deaths in the kingdom to 17. A non-Saudi, whose nationality and age were not given, died on Tuesday, the Health Ministry said on its website late on Wednesday. It said he had been admitted to a hospital in al-Qassim several days ago with an "acute respiratory syndrome". "Most cases recorded so far are among elderly patients and people with multiple chronic diseases," it added. ...
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| BTG says interventional medicine buys could boost sales to $1 bln | Thu, May 23 05:07 AM |
| By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - British pharmaceutical company BTG announced two deals on Thursday that it said could create an interventional medicine business with potential sales of $1 billion. Chief Executive Louise Makin told Reuters the deals would more than double BTG's revenues in the fast-growing market of targeting specific areas rather than administering drugs to the whole body. BTG added to its liver cancer treatments by agreeing to buy the targeted therapies division of Nordion Inc for about $200 million, adding Therasphere radioactive glass beads to its chemotherapy beads unit. ... | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Ala. Mystery Illness May Be Coincidence | Thu, May 23 04:40 AM |
| A mystery illness has sickened seven people in southeastern Alabama, killing two of them, according to the state Health Department, but it's not clear whether the patients – or their symptoms – are connected. | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| GSK flu shot may raise adult narcolepsy risk: Finnish scientists | Thu, May 23 04:13 AM |
| HELSINKI/LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc's H1N1 pandemic flu shot may put adults at higher risk of developing narcolepsy, not only children as previous studies found, Finland's National Institute for Health and Welfare said on Thursday. Growing evidence of a link between GSK's Pandemrix vaccine and an increase in narcolepsy, a rare sleep disorder, among children who received it in Europe has delayed approval of a similar vaccine in the United States. ... | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
| Lawyers in Colorado shooting case to challenge insanity defense law | Thu, May 23 03:31 AM |
| By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Public defenders representing James Holmes, accused of killing 12 moviegoers in Colorado last summer, will return to court on Thursday to challenge the state's insanity defense law in a bid to try to avoid the death penalty for their client. Lawyers representing Holmes, 25, are challenging Colorado's capital punishment statute on several fronts, and on Thursday are arguing that it unconstitutionally bars him from calling his own mental health experts at sentencing if he refuses to cooperate with court-appointed psychiatrists. ... | Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News |
