HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Insurers last year placed three
times more ads and spent twice as much money to promote more comprehensive
Medicare Advantage plans than they did for stand-alone Medicare drug
plans, according to a new study. -- read full article
Reuters - China has vowed to overhaul its
"chaotic" dairy industry in the wake of a toxic milk scandal
that has killed three infants and made thousands more ill, as
worried parents flocked to hospitals to have their children
examined.
Reuters - Patients are more likely to choose a
money-saving generic drug over more expensive branded medicines
when using a home delivery pharmacy instead of a retail drug
store, according to a study by Express Scripts Inc.
AP - A government agency has dropped plans for a study of a controversial treatment for autism that critics had called an unethical experiment on children.
AP - Police arrested 12 more people Thursday as China expanded a crackdown in a scandal involving tainted milk powder as a fourth death was announced and more than 6,200 other babies were sick from the powder.
AP - A long-awaited federal study of an X-ray alternative to the dreaded colonoscopy confirms its effectiveness at spotting most cancers, although it was far from perfect.
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDay News) -- A promising new
chemotherapy target for a deadly form of leukemia has been discovered by
researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine in
California. -- read full article
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Insurers last year placed
three times more ads and spent twice as much money to promote more
comprehensive Medicare Advantage plans than they did for stand-alone
Medicare drug plans, according to a new study. -- read full article
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- When children reach about 40 pounds, it's
probably time for them to graduate from an infant car seat to a booster
seat. -- read full article
AP - India's government sent thousands of ineffective vaccines to a northern Indian state, halting a planned immunization drive against a deadly outbreak of Japanese encephalitis that has killed more than 200 children since June, officials said Wednesday. -- read full article
AP - Medical experts told lawmakers Wednesday that new television advertisements for medical devices pose even greater risks to patients than ads for drugs, which have been scrutinized for years. -- read full article
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Sept. 16 (HealthDay News) -- For people coping with advanced
cancer, massage therapy may offer some relief from pain and depressed
mood, according to a new study. -- read full article
Reuters - The use of cholesterol-lowering
statin drugs by elderly patients with clogged arteries or
"atherosclerosis" remains suboptimal despite improvements in
the last 10 years, according to a study conducted in Canada. -- read full article
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Sept. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Soft-tissue defects that
contribute to hearing loss in children can be detected using MRI, say U.S.
researchers who analyzed the medical records of hundreds of children
diagnosed with sensorineural (related to sensory nerves) hearing loss. -- read full article