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| Peanut plant did not wait for outside testing: FDA
February 6, 2009 at 7:31 pm
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| CHICAGO (Reuters) - A peanut plant in Georgia at the center of an outbreak of salmonella shipped out products managers knew might have been tainted without waiting for a second set of lab tests showing they had fixed the problem, U.S. health officials said on Friday. |
| High cancer rates confirmed near Canada's oil sands
February 6, 2009 at 5:10 pm
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| CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Health officials in Alberta confirmed on Friday that there are more cases of cancer than expected in a small aboriginal village downstream from the Canadian province's massive oil sands plants, but they said there was no cause for residents to be alarmed. |
| Sense of balance predicts hip fracture risk
February 6, 2009 at 3:26 pm
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| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Swedish researchers have found a simple way to estimate the risk of hip fracture in older adults; ask them if they have impaired balance. |
| U.S. approves first drug from DNA-altered animals
February 6, 2009 at 2:17 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials on Friday approved the first drug made using genetically engineered animals, amid lingering concerns about genetic implications. |
| Mood disorders common in polycystic ovary syndrome
February 6, 2009 at 2:14 pm
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| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The prevalence of depression and anxiety among patients with polycystic ovary syndrome is high and warrants routine screening and aggressive treatment, investigators report in the journal Fertility and Sterility. |
| Measles cases up for third year in England
February 6, 2009 at 2:14 pm
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| LONDON (Reuters) - Measles cases in England and Wales rose by more than 70 percent in 2008 from the previous year, mostly because of unvaccinated children, government health officials said on Friday. |
| FDA lacks access to food safety records: Congress
February 6, 2009 at 2:13 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lacks access to food safety tests that could have helped identify problems at a peanut plant at the center of one of the biggest food recalls in U.S. history, members of Congress said on Thursday. |
| Ovaries can be saved in some endometrial cancers
February 6, 2009 at 2:07 pm
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| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research suggests that the ovaries can be safely retained in premenopausal women with early-stage endometrial cancer. |
| U.S. blacks continue to bear the brunt of HIV/AIDS
February 6, 2009 at 2:07 pm
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| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In the United States, African American men and women continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases noted in a statement issued to coincide with the 9th annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on February 7. |
| Magnesium sulfate can lower risk of cerebral palsy
February 6, 2009 at 2:06 pm
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| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among women who are at risk of delivering prematurely, treatment with magnesium sulfate reduces the risk of cerebral palsy in the offspring, |
| Study questions routine X-rays, MRIs for back pain
February 6, 2009 at 12:16 pm
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Routine use of costly X-ray, MRI and CT scans on patients with lower back pain may be unnecessary and, in the case of two of the tests, expose people to low-dose radiation, researchers said on Thursday. |
| Protein predicts chronic kidney disease progression
February 6, 2009 at 11:15 am
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| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In patients with chronic kidney disease that has not yet advanced, elevated levels of a protein called neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) in the urine and blood is a strong and independent predictor of disease progression, researchers from Italy report. | | | 
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