Day October 21, 2015

(Reuters) – Endo International Plc said a majority of its drugs are not distributed using specialty pharmacies. Endo’s statement follows a similar announcement from Allergan Plc after the New York Times reported on Monday that drugmakers were using specialty distributors…

By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – As attitudes and laws in the U.S. have become more tolerant of marijuana, the proportion of adults using and abusing the substance at least doubled between 2001 and 2013, according to a new…

California health officials are investigating a bacterial outbreak after at least 80 people were sickened, sending 12 of them to the intensive care unit at a hospital. An outbreak of shigella occurred at the Mariscos San Juan Restaurant on 4th…

IMAGE: Truck drivers who are frequently fatigued after work, use cell phones while driving, or have an elevated pulse pressure — a potential predictor of cardiovascular disease — may be at… view more Credit: Matthew Thiese, Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational…

Latinos with African ancestry are at a higher risk for high pressure within the eye, a condition that if untreated can damage the optic nerve and impair vision, according to a report in the journal Ophthalmology. Greater African ancestry carried…

IMAGE: The Harvard RoboBee, designed in Wood’s lab, is a microrobot, smaller than a paperclip, that flies and hovers like an insect, flapping its tiny, nearly invisible wings 120 times per… view more Credit: Harvard Microrobotics Lab In 1939, a Russian…

IMAGE: This is Lazar holding a recently collected subaqueous soil core on Pond C, along Roaring Brook in Washington County, RI, USA. Cores were extracted with the metal soil corer from… view more Credit: Photo credit Richard A. McKinney. Beavers, once…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–It’s a well-known characteristic of metals that repeated bending in the same place can cause the material to weaken and eventually break; this phenomenon, known as metal fatigue, can cause serious damage to metal components subjected to repeated stress.…

IMAGE: On the left, La Nina cools off the ocean surface (greens and blues) in the winter of 1988. On the right, El Nino warms up it up (oranges and reds)… view more Credit: Jin-Ho Yoon/PNNL RICHLAND, Wash. – In the…

October 21, 2015, 7:30 PM|A seafood restaurant in San Jose, California, has been shut down by the health department after at least 80 people got sick from an outbreak of Shigella bacteria. KPIX-TV’s Devin Fehely reports.

The American Cancer Society now recommends cutting back on screening for a large number of American women — including starting mammogram screening at a later age. The recommendations are for women at “average risk” — women who are not at…

By Laura Williams Credit: Shuttershock If personal trainers spent all their time correcting the mistakes they see other people making, they’d never get anything done. So when I put out the call for trainers to chime in on the subject,…

There are myriad ways that treating celiac disease can lead to improved health. But are there ways in which treating the disease could contribute to the development of addiction? According to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, alcohol…

Everyone with a job is looking for that perfect work-life balance, but some industries tip the scales better than others.

My life changed abruptly in April of 2010: blurred vision that I had had on and off since my 20s became double vision; occasional hearing fluctuations in my left ear that I had had on and off since my 20s…

This study provides an overview of the limitations of OSAT literature, using multiple resources including results from a well-designed systematic review, 41] and an application of the findings within a clinical sample of opioid-dependent patients 45]. This study also provides…

Twelve retrospective studies that examined a total of 1593 patients were included in the current investigation. All of these studies were descriptive cohort studies, and they provided moderately strong evidence. Given that HNMM is rare and is associated with an…

HPGLs overall are rare tumours and are known to have hereditary-familial tendency. Their association with thymic tumour is not well known. To our knowledge thymoma associated with paraganglioma has been reported only once before in the literature (Refior and Mees…

Evolving surgical strategies, such as OPCAB and MICS, are specifically developed to improve short- and long-term outcomes and to reduce the level of invasiveness of CABG. However, although prone to be beneficial for the patients in terms of reduced rates…

In all three species studied, we show that the cells of the cumulus internalize first and in concert. There is then a pause in the internalization process, after which non-cumulus mesendoderm cells begin to internalize. There is variation between the…

The medical community needs a better understanding of people suffering from severe brain injuries, argues a Weill Cornell Medicine professor of medical ethics, whose new book calls for advocacy and awareness. “Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics, and the…

Some infants carry the diarrhea-causing bacteria Clostridium difficile in their guts without any symptoms, but the bacteria may rapidly disappear when these infants switch from drinking breast milk to cow’s milk, a new study suggests. The study included only one…

 (Copyright Reuters 2015) Almost half of elderly people don’t have an accurate sense of how much longer they’re likely to live, a problem that may lead some of them to make poorly informed medical decisions, a U.S. study suggests. Doctors…

Men and women will always have their differences, but a new analysis finds that these differences extend to heart anatomy.  The “hearty” differences became apparent only after researchers studied nearly 3,000 adults for about 10 years. By the end of…

 (iStock Photo/Zoran Mircetic) People who have 11 or more moles on one of their arms could have a higher risk of the deadly skin cancer melanoma, according to a new study. Researchers counted the number of moles that study participants…

By Carey Gillam (Reuters) – The battle over whether states can mandate that food containing genetically engineered crops must be labeled moves to the U.S. Senate on Wednesday. The hearing in the Senate agriculture committee comes after the U.S. House…

LONDON (Reuters) – Doctors treating Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey, the first known Ebola survivor to have suffered an apparent relapse of the virus, are to give details of her case on Wednesday. Cafferkey was transferred from the Queen Elizabeth University…

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican denied an Italian newspaper report on Wednesday that Pope Francis has a benign brain tumor, saying the 78-year-old pontiff was in good health and denouncing the article as utterly reprehensible. In…

(Reuters) – Biogen Inc said it would cut 11 pct of its global workforce by the end of this year and stop a late-stage study on its blockbuster drug Tecfidera for secondary progressive MS, sending its shares up 7 percent…

(Reuters) – Abbott Laboratories Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly sales as demand rose for its generic drugs in emerging markets, including Latin America and China. Abbott said on Wednesday sales of its generic drugs grew in double digits in emerging markets,…

Interview conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, MA (Cantab) insights from industryPatrick MylesPresident of Huron Digital Pathology How important are advances in imaging and IT to the progress of neuroscience research? The ability to image the brain, so that it can be…

A study of nearly 400 people finds that those who exhibited more ‘dispositional mindfulness’, or awareness of and attention to their current feelings and thoughts, were less likely to be obese and had less abdominal fat than people who did…

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Scientists have identified a new way to stop the growth of lung cancer cells, by blocking their ability to use alternative sources of nutrition. The discovery was made possible by identifying the metabolic programs used by cancer cells to fuel…

Ovarian cancer is associated with a high mortality rate in comparison with other cancers. In the United States, the incidence of ovarian cancer is estimated to be around 22,200 annually. About 14,000 of these women are expected to die of…

This is the full text of a paper I presented to the Oceania Tobacco Control Conference, Perth on October 21, 2015. E-cigarettes are the latest innovation in nicotine delivery products to fly the harm-reduction flag. They follow the massive failures…

Credit: National Cancer Institute/public domain Among the changes in the American Cancer Society’s updated breast cancer screening guideline is that women with an average risk of breast cancer should undergo regular, annual screening mammography beginning at age 45 years, with…

A US study says that a good way of improving the quality of a man’s sperm and thereby increasing his fertility is for him to sleep naked at night and wear boxers during the day. This study from the US…

Talk therapy coupled with early intervention and low doses of anti-psychotic medication can be more effective for people with schizophrenia than routine treatment, a major US study said Tuesday. The research published in The American Journal of Psychiatry suggests a…

LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s first fund focused on preventing and treating dementia was launched on Wednesday, backed by leading drug companies, with venture capital firm SV Life Sciences appointed as fund manager. The $100 million Dementia Discovery Fund is…