AP - Super Chicken strutted a step closer to the dinner table Thursday. The government said it will start considering proposals to sell genetically engineered animals as food, a move that could lead to faster growing fish, cattle that can resist mad cow disease, or perhaps heart-healthier eggs laid by a new breed of chicken. -- 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
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
