Kids given healthier snacks eat fewer calories

- Kids given a combination of cheese and vegetables will eat only about a quarter as many calories as those given potato chips, according to a new study."Like it or not, children like foods that are energy-dense and not those that are nutrient-rich. That is because children are still growing. That is basic physiology," said Adam Drewnowski, director of the Nutritional Sciences Program at the University...

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FDA approves Roche's Tamiflu for infants with new flu symptoms

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday expanded the use of Tamiflu, the flu drug from Roche, to children as young as two weeks old who have shown flu symptoms for no more than two days.The FDA said the drug cannot be used to prevent flu infection in this age group. The drug is currently approved as both a flu treatment and preventative flu drug for children ages 1 and older, and adults. It...

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Spending on food advertising to kids fell in '09 - U.S. FTC

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Food companies spent considerably less to advertise to children in 2009 than they did in 2006 as they shifted to the Internet, and products pitched to kids got slightly healthier, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said in a report on Friday. Cereal makers, fast food restaurants and other food companies spent $1.79 billion to advertise to children aged 2 to 17 in 2009, down almost...

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Chelation doesn't help kids with autism: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Removing heavy metals from the body through a process traditionally used to treat mercury and lead poisoning doesn't help relieve autism symptoms, a new analysis suggests.During chelation therapy, patients are given injections of a chemical that binds to heavy metals, lowering their concentration in the blood and ultimately allowing the metals to be excreted through urine.Chelation...

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Violence, fear & suspicion imperil Pakistan's war on polio

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani health worker Bushra Bibi spent eight years trekking to remote villages, carefully dripping polio vaccine into toddlers' pursed mouths to protect them from the crippling disease.Now the 35-year-old mother is too scared to go to work after masked men on motorbikes gunned down nine of her fellow health workers in a string of attacks this week."I have seen so...

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AP IMPACT: Steroids loom in major-college football

WASHINGTON (AP) — With steroids easy to buy, testing weak and punishments inconsistent, college football players are packing on significant weight — 30 pounds or more in a single year, sometimes — without drawing much attention from their schools or the NCAA in a sport that earns tens of billions of dollars for teams.Rules vary so widely that, on any given game day, a team with a strict no-steroid...

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AP IMPACT: Big Pharma cashes in on HGH abuse

A federal crackdown on illicit foreign supplies of human growth hormone has failed to stop rampant misuse, and instead has driven record sales of the drug by some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies, an Associated Press investigation shows.The crackdown, which began in 2006, reduced the illegal flow of unregulated supplies from China, India and Mexico.But since then, Big Pharma has been...

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Women’s Excellence in Endometriosis Presents a New State-of-the-Art Center for Pelvic Pain, Painful Intercourse, and Painful Periods in Lake Orion, MI

Pelvic pain, painful intercourse, and painful periods are all common symptoms of disabling disease in women called “endometriosis”. Women’s Excellence in Endometriosis has opened a unique center to help women dealing with this chronic painful condition.Lake Orion, MI (PRWEB) December 21, 2012Endometriosis is a disease affecting the female reproductive tract in which the endometrial lining of the uterus...

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US Drug Watchdog Urges Victims Of A Transvaginal Mesh Product Failure To Call them For The Names Of The Best Possible Women Attorneys-During The Holidays

The US Drug Watchdog intends to stay open everyday during the holidays in the hopes of helping victims of a transvaginal mesh, tape, or bladder sling failure get to the best possible attorneys, and for obvious reasons the attorneys will all be women. For more information please call the US Drug Watchdog at 866-714-6466. http://USDrugWatchdog.Com(PRWEB) December 21, 2012The US Drug Watchdog will stay...

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Study: Solo stars at higher death risk than bands

LONDON (AP) — Rock 'n' roll will never die — but it's a hazardous occupation.An academic study published Thursday confirms that rock and pop musicians are more likely to die prematurely than the general population, and finds that solo artists are twice as likely to die young as members of bands.Researchers from Liverpool John Moores University and Britain's Health Department studied 1,489 rock, pop,...

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Lilly tests therapy to rid brain plaques in mice with Alzheimer's

(Reuters) - Drugmaker Eli Lilly  & Co said it may have found a way to remove plaque from the brains of forgetful, old mice using an experimental therapy it hopes someday will be used to treat Alzheimer's disease in humans.Previous animal studies have demonstrated that it is possible to prevent the formation of brain plaques, which are thought to be a hallmark of the progressive memory-robbing...

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U.S. House Democrats introduce new meningitis legislation

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation on Wednesday aimed at bolstering federal oversight of compounded drugs like the tainted steroid injections blamed for a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak.But the legislation is not likely to move forward in the Republican-controlled chamber. In fact, aides from both parties said neither the...

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Pfizer breast cancer drug delays progression 18 months

(Reuters) - An experimental drug showed impressive effectiveness and safety in a mid-stage trial against a common form of advanced breast cancer, lifting Pfizer Inc shares nearly 2 percent.The favorable results prompted the drugmaker to plan large late-stage trials of the drug next year. If approved, the medicine could fetch multi-billion dollar sales, industry analysts said.The drug, called PD-0332991,...

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Dueling Fiscal Cliff Deceptions

A fog of misinformation has settled on the fiscal cliff, as both House Speaker John Boehner and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner have traded conflicting, misleading and false statements in recent days on the president’s deficit-reduction plan:    * Geithner falsely claimed on “Fox News Sunday” that the president’s proposals to slow Medicare growth are “not shifting costs to seniors.”...

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Longer tamoxifen use cuts breast cancer deaths

Breast cancer  patients taking the drug tamoxifen can cut their chances of having the disease come back or kill them if they stay on the pills for 10 years instead of five years as doctors recommend now, a major study finds.The results could change treatment, especially for younger women. The findings are a surprise because earlier research suggested that taking the hormone-blocking drug for...

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