Reuters - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday cast doubt on recent studies that suggested possible cancer risk with Sanofi-Aventis' widely used Lantus diabetes drug, boosting investor confidence in the blockbuster product. -- read full article
Reuters - U.S. health officials on Wednesday ordered Pfizer Inc and GlaxoSmithKline PLC to add strong "black box" warnings on their anti-smoking drugs to highlight the risk of serious mental health problems, including suicidal thoughts. -- read full article
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly men who exercised
and received the growth hormone known as "mechano growth factor" (MGF)
showed increased muscle mass, according to a British study. -- read full article
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Repeated use of antibiotics to
treat acute ear infections in young children increases the risk of
recurrent ear infections by 20 percent, according to researchers in the
Netherlands who called for more prudent use of antibiotics in young
children. -- read full article
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- The rates of adult obesity
in the United States increased in 23 states during the past year and did
not decrease in any state. -- read full article
AP - The World Health Organization said Wednesday it is working to mathematically model the spread of swine flu in an attempt to better understand how the outbreak developed from a handful of cases to a global epidemic in less than two months.
AP - The percentage of Americans with private health insurance has hit its lowest mark in 50 years, according to two new government reports. -- read full article
AP - In a perverse twist of medical fate, Farrah Fawcett has become the poster girl for anal cancer, a rare disease often linked to a sexually transmitted virus.
AP - You don't have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a big Medicare study concludes. -- read full article
AP - When Michael Jackson went into cardiac arrest, rescuers took him to a place known for bringing the dead back to life. A world-renowned surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center has pioneered a way to revive people that most doctors would have long written off, including a woman whose heart had stopped for 2 1/2 hours.
Reuters - Obesity rates continued to climb in the past year with 23 U.S. states reporting adults in their states are fatter now than they were a year ago, two advocacy groups said on Wednesday. -- read full article
AFP - Malawi is supplying 250,000 HIV positive citizens with free anti-retrovirals (ARVs) and plans to start producing anti-AIDS drugs locally, President Bingu wa Mutharika said Sunday.
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Watching food ads on TV leads to
a boost in snacking among children and adults, increasing the risk of
weight gain, U.S. researchers say. -- read full article
