Roche to show investors strength in and beyond cancer drugs

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche will highlight its most promising treatments in oncology, immunology and ophthalmology at an investor event on Tuesday, as it seeks to show its potential in and beyond its core cancer expertise. The world's biggest maker of cancer medicines cited etrolizumab in inflammatory bowel disease and lampalizumab, a treatment for the dry form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), as among its most promising therapies. The Basel-based firm is also developing so-called "follow on" drugs that it hopes will replace or breathe new life into old cancer products. ...



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In historic step, Japan PM hikes tax; will cushion blow to economy

By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took a step on Tuesday that none of his predecessors had managed in more than 15 years - making a dent in the government's runaway debt. Abe, riding a wave of popularity with economic policies that have begun to stir the world's third-biggest economy out of years of lethargy, said the government will raise the national sales tax to 8 percent in April from 5 percent. But at the same time he will soften the blow to the nascent recovery. As the tax increase is set to raise an additional 8 trillion yen ($81. ...

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Analysis: For House Republicans, confrontation is safer than compromise

By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For most Republicans in the House of Representatives, the only greater peril than shutting down the federal government would have been fighting to keep it open. While a shutdown could hurt the Republican Party's ability to win the Senate next year or take the White House in 2016, that's not the concern of party members in the House, who led the push to pair continued government funding with measures that would delay President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law. ...

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Obamacare launch poised to reach millions despite shutdown drama

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Millions of Americans will learn on Tuesday what President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law actually means for them, as the administration opens new insurance marketplaces in 50 states despite the government shutdown. The launch marks a milestone for Obama's signature domestic policy achievement, which aims to provide subsidized healthcare to millions of the uninsured, the most ambitious U.S. social program since Medicare was introduced in the 1960s. ...

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Deadlocked Congress takes U.S. government to brink of shutdown

By David Lawder and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress, still in partisan deadlock on Monday over Republican efforts to halt President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms, was on the verge of shutting down most of the U.S. government starting on Tuesday morning. With the law funding thousands of routine government activities set to expire at midnight, Republicans in the U.S. ...

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In historic step, Japan PM to hike tax; will cushion blow to economy

By Shinji Kitamura and Takaya Yamaguchi TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will take a step on Tuesday that none of his predecessors has tried in more than 15 years - making a dent in the government's runaway debt. Abe, riding a wave of popularity with economic policies that have begun to stir the world's third-biggest economy out of years of lethargy, will announce that the government will raise the national sales tax to 8 percent in April from 5 percent, a final draft of the government economic plan, seen by Reuters, shows. ...

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Obama, in phone call to Speaker Boehner, urges House to vote on funding bill, avoid shutdown

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Monday to back legislation to fund the government for six weeks and to vote on it quickly to avoid a government shutdown in hours. The White House said Obama, in a phone call to the top Republican in Congress, asked Boehner to drop House Republican attempts to tie continued funding of the government to cutting money for Obama's signature healthcare law, the central obstacle holding up an agreement. ...



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Obama calls congressional leaders as shutdown deadline draws closer

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama placed separate calls to congressional leaders on Monday evening as a midnight deadline for a government shutdown drew closer, a White House official said. It was Obama's first call to House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner in more than a week, and a spokesman for Boehner said it lasted less than 10 minutes and covered Obama's healthcare law. ...



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FDA approves Lundbeck's antidepressant Brintellix

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Lundbeck's antidepressant Brintellix to treat adults with major depressive disorder. The drug, which Lundbeck will co-market with Japanese partner Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, will be available in four doses. Brintellix, like other antidepressants, will carry a boxed warning alerting patients and doctors to an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in children, adolescents and young adults aged 18-24 during initial treatment. ...



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Breast cancer survivor posts time-lapse video of treatment

When Emily Helck began treatment for breast cancer, she decided to document each day of with photos. At the end of a year, Helck put the photos together in a time-lapse video.



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U.S. Postal Service defaults on $5.6 billion for future health benefits

By Elvina Nawaguna WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service on Monday defaulted yet again on a prepayment for the healthcare of its future retirees as its finances remain in the red and legislative reform remains elusive. The agency has blamed the payments, more than $5 billion a year as mandated by Congress to prefund the Postal Service's future retirees' healthcare, for contributing to annual losses of billions of dollars. The requirement was set in 2006 when the agency was still thriving and before the economic crisis. ...

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Obamacare push accelerates as government shutdown nears

By David Morgan and Sharon Begley (Reuters) - The Obama administration accelerated its push to persuade individual Americans to sign up for the most extensive overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system in 50 years, even as the program's foes in Congress fought to delay its launch with the threat of a federal government shutdown. The new online health insurance marketplaces at the heart of President Barack Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, are set to open on Tuesday. ...

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Obama says government shutdown still preventable

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday a government shutdown was entirely preventable and accused Republicans in the House of Representatives of manufacturing a crisis that would hurt the economy and citizens across the country. "A shutdown will have a very real economic impact on real people right away," Obama told reporters at the White House. Obama said his hope and expectation was that lawmakers would still do the right thing and prevent a shutdown. (Reporting by Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton; Editing by Eric Beech)

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Regular doc visits tied to fewer colon cancers, deaths

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older Americans who visit their doctors regularly are less likely to develop or die from colon and rectal cancers, according to a new study. Researchers credit screening that catches precancerous growths and early cancers for the differences seen in rates of both cancers and deaths among people on Medicare. "The main takeaway here is that we need to improve access to primary care and encourage elderly people to use primary care," Dr. Jeanne Ferrante, the study's lead author from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Somerset, New Jersey, ...



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Wall Street declines as government shutdown nears

By Angela Moon NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks closed lower on Monday with just hours to go before a midnight deadline to avert a federal government shutdown, but major indexes ended September with solid monthly gains. Losses were broad across the board and the decline accelerated in late trading but the benchmark S&P 500 index still ended up 3 percent for the month and 4.7 percent for the quarter. The Nasdaq jumped more than 10 percent for the quarter, its biggest quarterly gain since the first quarter of 2012. ...

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In historic step, Japan PM to hike tax; will cushion blow to economy

By Shinji Kitamura and Takaya Yamaguchi TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will take a step on Tuesday that none of his predecessors has tried in more than 15 years - making a dent in the government's runaway debt. Abe, riding a wave of popularity with economic policies that have begun to stir the world's third-biggest economy out of years of lethargy, will announce that the government will raise the national sales to 8 percent in April from 5 percent, a final draft of the government economic plan, seen by Reuters, shows. ...

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Travelers in U.S. won't see snarls from government shutdown

By Deborah Charles WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Air and rail travelers in the United States should not feel a big impact if Congress fails to avert a government shutdown on Tuesday, since passport inspectors, security officers and air traffic controllers will all continue to work as usual. The Department of Homeland Security said that most employees of the Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) and Customs and Border Protection are exempt from furloughs that will be put in place if the government shuts down. ...

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Lawyers for accused Colorado theater gunman want witness list

By Keith Coffman CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - Attorneys defending accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes, who could face execution if convicted of murdering 12 moviegoers, said on Monday they need a witness list from the prosecution soon if they are to be ready to try the case early next year. At a brief hearing in Arapahoe County District Court, public defender Daniel King argued that the names of probable witnesses from among a list of nearly 4,000 people endorsed by prosecutors had not been turned over. ...

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More babies share parents' beds despite SIDS risks

CHICAGO (AP) — The government's latest infant bed-sharing numbers show a troubling trend: the percentage of U.S. babies sleeping with parents or another child more than doubled since the early 1990s, despite public health messages linking the practice with sudden infant death syndrome.



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Bed-sharing increasing among minority families

By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More parents are putting their babies to sleep next to them in bed, a new study suggests. Researchers found that over the past 20 years, bed-sharing has become more common, especially among black and Hispanic families. The practice is controversial. Some evidence suggests mothers who share a bed with their babies also tend to keep breastfeeding for longer (see Reuters Health story of September 23, 2013 here: http://reut.rs/1bBVlvX). ...



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Slightly early birth tied to lower adult achievement

By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Being born just a couple of weeks early may influence a child's long-term education and job prospects, hints a new study from Finland. Researchers found that infants born "late preterm" - between 34 and 36 weeks - were more likely to be manual workers and earned less money as adults than their peers who were born on time. Past studies have suggested children born slightly early have more behavioral and emotional problems and don't do as well academically, Katri Räikkönen from the University of Helsinki and her colleagues noted. ...



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House OKs bill aimed at improving drug safety

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House easily approved bipartisan legislation Saturday aimed at improving the safety of drugs produced by compounding pharmacies that mix customized pharmaceuticals.



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Boehner says 'clean' funding bill 'not going to happen'

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Monday that Republicans in the chamber will not pass a government funding bill unless it contains some concessions from Democrats on President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law. Asked if Republicans would consider a "clean" bill to keep the government funding as a midnight deadline for a shutdown draws closer, Boehner said: "That's not going to happen." (Reporting by Kim Dixon; Editing by Eric Beech)

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Health-Insurance Exchanges Open Tomorrow: Here s What You Need to Know

Health-Insurance Exchanges Open Tomorrow: Here s What You Need to Know

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Lilly mulls options as Medicare shuns Alzheimer's diagnostic

By Ransdell Pierson (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co on Monday said the federal government has unfairly blocked patient access to its Amyvid diagnostic test for Alzheimer's disease by denying reimbursement for such products, and said a requested new study of the test could create additional delay. "We are committed to this space and aren't letting this product go by the wayside," Eric Dozier, senior director of Lilly's Alzheimer's business division, said in an interview. The U.S. ...



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After Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Doses of Humor and Humility Spark Hope

FIRST PERSON | Breast cancer hit home for me when I found myself on the floor with my head wedged between a trash can and a wall. Very rock and roll.



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Once infertile, woman gives birth after surgery

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists say they've overcome infertility in a 30-year-old Japanese woman by removing her ovaries and putting back some of the tissue after treating it in a lab.

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House Republicans ignore Democrats' warning on funding

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives will offer a new emergency government spending bill on Monday but add on new moves to change the federal healthcare law known as Obamacare, in defiance of Senate Democrats and President Barack Obama. A senior House Republican aide said the measure will propose delaying for one year the "individual mandate" requiring those without health insurance to sign up for Obamacare. The measure also would require the president, senior administration officials and members of Congress and their aides to participate in Obamacare. ...

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House to seek spending bill with new Obamacare provision

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives will make yet another attempt to change President Barack Obama's healthcare law by attaching it to a government funding bill needed by midnight Monday. Representative Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told reporters the provision being attached to the emergency spending bill would require the president and high-level officials in his administration to get healthcare through the Obamacare program. ...

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House Republican predicts no government shutdown

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Republican in the House of Representatives on Monday said he thought there would not be a shutdown of federal government agencies at midnight, but he did not provide details on how that might be avoided. "I think we are not going to shut down the government. We are going to do the right thing," said Representative Pete Sessions, the chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee. "This is halftime," Sessions said. Sessions made his remark to reporters before entering a closed meeting of House Republicans. (Reporting by Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Eric Beech)



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Senate defeats House move to delay Obamacare

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats on Monday killed a proposal by the Republican-led House of Representatives to delay Obamacare for a year in return for temporary funding of the federal government beyond Monday. By a partisan vote of 54 to 46, the Democratic-controlled Senate defeated the Obamacare delay and a House amendment repealing a medical device tax that were attached to an emergency spending bill. The straight-forward funding bill that would run through November 15 is aimed at averting a government shutdown. It now goes back to the House, where its fate is unknown. ...



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Senate Democrats oppose very short-term spending bill: Baucus

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats are united against an idea being floated in Congress to fund the government for a few days in order to avoid a government shutdown at midnight, Democratic Senator Max Baucus said. Baucus, a senior Democrat, made the remark to reporters after a closed meeting of Senate Democrats. (Reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Eric Beech)

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Americans are split over tying 'Obamacare' to funding plan: Reuters/Ipsos poll

By Gabriel Debenedetti WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans are split over whether funding for President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law should be linked to measures that pay for U.S. government operations, but more will blame Republicans if the government has to shut down on Tuesday, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. ...



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Obamacare push accelerates as U.S. government shutdown nears

By David Morgan and Sharon Begley (Reuters) - The Obama administration accelerated its push to persuade individual Americans to sign up for the most extensive overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system in 50 years on Monday, as the program's foes in Congress fought to delay its launch with the threat of a federal government shutdown. ...



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FDA approves first pre-surgical breast cancer drug

WASHINGTON (AP) — A biotech drug from Roche has become the first medicine approved to treat breast cancer before surgery, offering an earlier approach against one of the deadliest forms of the disease.



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Obama says he is not resigned to government shutdown amid budget stalemate

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday he is not resigned to a government shutdown taking place with a midnight deadline looming and said he would talk to congressional leaders later. During an Oval Office appearance with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama said he supported a Senate bill that would allow for a short-term funding of the government without cutting funding from his signature healthcare law, which Republicans are seeking to gut. Obama said he planned to talk to congressional leaders later on Monday as well as on Tuesday and Wednesday. ...

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Roche breast cancer drug gets U.S. pre-surgery approval

(Reuters) - U.S. health regulators expanded the approval of Roche Holding AG's breast cancer drug Perjeta and will now allow its use to help shrink tumors prior to surgery, the Food and Drug Administration said on Monday. The decision followed a 13-0 vote by an FDA advisory panel earlier this month in favor of the expanded approval. Perjeta was originally approved in 2012 to treat patients with advanced or late-stage HER2-positive breast cancer. ...



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Japan ministry to probe legality of Novartis claims on Diovan -media

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's health ministry will investigate the Japanese unit of Novartis AG, Japanese media said, after a ministry panel said it may have violated Japanese law when it cited studies based on manipulated data to promote its blood pressure drug Diovan. "Japan, as a part of its growth strategy, is pushing for high-quality clinical studies necessary to develop pharmaceuticals originating in Japan," a ministry investigative committee said in a draft interim report. ...



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Chicago train accident injures 33

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two Chicago Transit Authority trains collided in a western suburb of Chicago during Monday morning's rush hour, resulting in 33 injuries, the agency reported. The incident happened at the Harlem Station in Forest Park, Illinois, west of Chicago. One train was standing at the station at the time of the accident at 7:45 a.m. local time, according to CTA spokeswoman Catherine Hosinski. The cause is under investigation. Thirty-three people were transported to nine area hospitals with what appeared to be non-serious injuries, Hosinski said. ...



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Senate Democrats say will defeat Obamacare delay as government shutdown looms

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats who control the Senate were confident that they would defeat Republicans' efforts to delay "Obamacare" health reforms on Monday and send a "clean" bill to keep the federal government operating back to the House of Representatives. As a midnight shutdown deadline loomed, senior Democratic aides said the Senate would take a simple majority vote shortly after 2 p.m. ...



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Crowdfunding: What's in It for Scientists?

Crowdfunding: What's in It for Scientists?

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More kids protected from flu; CDC says keep it up

WASHINGTON (AP) — More children than ever got vaccinated against the flu last year, and health officials urged families Thursday to do even better this time around.

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GSK sells thrombosis drugs to Aspen for $1 billion

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline agreed the 700 million pounds ($1.13 billion) sale of its thrombosis drug brands and a related factory to Aspen Pharmacare , as part of its strategy to focus on growth products. The company said on Monday the divestment to South Africa's biggest generic drug maker would earn it proceeds of 600 million pounds and 100 million pounds of the headline price related to inventory. ...



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Oncologists call for industry-led global fund to fight cancer

By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The world faces a rapidly growing burden of cancer which will overwhelm governments unless the medical and pharma industry takes the lead on a multi-billion dollar private-public fund, oncologists said on Monday. In a report on how rates of cancer diagnosis and death are rising across the world while access to diagnosis and treatment is extremely patchy, experts described the economics of the problem as daunting and current financing models as broken. ...



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Pharma industry should support China curbs on corruption: Sanofi CEO

MUMBAI (Reuters) - The pharmaceutical industry should support the Chinese government's efforts to curb corruption, French drugmaker Sanofi's Chief Executive Chris Viehbacher said on Monday. A crackdown on corruption in China's pharmaceutical sector has hurt sales at international and local firms. (Reporting by Sumeet Chatterjee; Editing by Tony Munroe)

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Should Kratom Use Be Legal?

Should Kratom Use Be Legal?



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Insight: How new cancer drugs can skip randomized trials

By Julie Steenhuysen and Ben Hirschler CHICAGO/LONDON (Reuters) - In 2006 when doctors started testing a melanoma treatment made by Roche Holding AG on patients, they were used to facing slim odds - about one in eight - that the tumors would shrink on chemotherapy. This time, they couldn't believe their eyes. With Zelboraf, a drug that targets specific mutations in cancer cells, eight out of 10 patients in an early-stage trial experienced significant tumor shrinkage. Roche clearly had a remarkable drug, though it only worked for people with a specific genetic makeup. ...

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Obama mocks GOP for 'crazy' Obamacare predictions

LARGO, Maryland (AP) — With just five days to go before Americans can begin signing up for health care under his signature law, President Barack Obama on Thursday ridiculed Republican opponents for "crazy" doomsday predictions of the impact and forecast that even those who didn't vote for him are going to enroll.

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AstraZeneca CEO gets two cheers after first year in job

By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Fixing ailing drugmaker AstraZeneca remains a work in progress for Chief Executive Pascal Soriot, with sales and profits still heading firmly downhill after his first year in the job. Yet confidence is slowly building that he may have the right long-term prescription for the British group, helped by some lessons learnt at his past employer Roche. ...

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India seeks to regulate its booming 'rent-a-womb' industry

By Nita Bhalla and Mansi Thapliyal ANAND, India, Sept 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dressed in a green surgical gown and cap, British restaurateur Rekha Patel cradled her newborn daughter at the Akanksha clinic in northwestern India as her husband Daniel smiled warmly, peering in through a glass door. "I can't believe we have our own child at last," said Patel, 42, gazing in wonderment at five-day-old Gabrielle. "We are really grateful to our surrogate mother who managed to get pregnant and kept our little daughter healthy. She gave nine months of her life to give us a child. ...

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For yogi Hilaria Baldwin, pregnancy was an easy stretch

By Dorene Internicola NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yoga teacher and fitness expert Hilaria Baldwin practices what she preaches and credits her easy pregnancy and labor to exercising - every day and sometimes during the night. During her pregnancy, the wife of Emmy award-winning actor Alec Baldwin and new mother to 5-week-old Carmen Gabriela, said she gave up spinning classes for a less vigorous fitness regimen that included jogging. But yoga, the 3,000-year-old practice that marries movement to breath, was the 29-year-old's primary thing. ...



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Pesticide ban cuts South Korea's high suicide rate - a bit

By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - Jang Chang-yoon was drunk and weepy one rainy night, troubled by debts from his divorce. On a dark impulse, the South Korean waiter bought a bottle of pesticide to end it all with a few toxic swigs. At the last minute, he changed his mind when his young daughter grabbed his arm and begged him: "Daddy, don't die." Unlike Jang, many people do not pull back from the brink in South Korea, which has had the highest suicide rate in the developed world for nine straight years, often drinking pesticide as their way out. ...

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FDA clears UCB's Cimzia for psoriatic arthritis treatment

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. regulators have cleared UCB's Cimzia for the treatments of adult patients with active psoriatic arthritis, the Belgian group said on Monday. Psoriatic arthritis is an inflammatory disease that affects joints and tendons, and usually occurs in combination with psoriasis. In the United States, Cimzia is already approved for the treatment of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis and for reducing the signs and symptoms of Crohn's disease, UCB said. (Reporting by Robert-Jan Bartunek)



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Psychiatric drug use in preschoolers stabilizing

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - By the end of the last decade, psychiatric medications were being used less often in very young children, a new study suggests. Researchers found the percentage of children prescribed antipsychotics, stimulants and antidepressants at doctors' visits spiked in the mid-2000s but leveled off again between 2006 and 2009. "I'm very excited that the use of these drugs in this age group seems to be stabilizing," Dr. Tanya Froehlich, the study's senior author from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio, told Reuters Health. ...



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Italian cookbook author Marcella Hazan dies at 89

(Reuters) - Marcella Hazan, whose cookbooks brought the rich taste of authentic Italian food into kitchens across the United States, has died at the age of 89, her family said. Hazan lived in Longboat Key, Florida, with her husband and lifelong collaborator and writing partner Victor. Her death was announced by her daughter-in-law Lael Sara Caplan Hazan on her Facebook page. "The world of authentic home cooking has lost a giant today. My mother-in-law Marcella Hazan, melted away peacefully, my father-in-law Victor, was at her side," Caplan Hazan wrote. ...



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TV So Good It Hurts: The Psychology of Watching Breaking Bad

TV So Good It Hurts: The Psychology of Watching Breaking Bad

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Race to get Obamacare online sites running goes to the wire

By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - Just days before the launch of the new U.S. state health insurance exchanges that are the centerpiece of the Affordable Care Act, a nationwide push is still under way to test and patch the technology behind the online sites. Officials working on the sites have acknowledged that information technology (IT) failures will prevent many of them from functioning fully for weeks, and perhaps longer. That will slow the government's drive to enroll millions of uninsured Americans under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law starting Tuesday. ...

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Ruling French coalition split over Roma ejection call

By Mark John PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande is battling to heal a rift in his ruling coalition over treatment of France's Roma population after his interior minister said most of them should leave France. Manuel Valls enraged left-wingers in Hollande's government this week by arguing that the vast majority of 20,000 Roma living in makeshift camps outside French cities could never be integrated into society and so should be "taken back to the border" for transfer back to Romania and Bulgaria. ...

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Roche immunotherapy drug may be 'game changer' in lung cancer

By Kate Kelland AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - An experimental Roche drug that seems to work particularly well against lung cancer in smokers may be a "game changer" for these normally difficult-to-treat patients, researchers said on Sunday. Presenting detailed data from an early-stage trial of the drug, called MPDL3280A, in patients with a form of the disease called non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), investigators said what they had found was "great news for lung cancer patients". ...

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Top Saudi cleric says women who drive risk damaging their ovaries

RIYADH (Reuters) - One of Saudi Arabia's top conservative clerics has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems, countering activists who are trying to end the Islamic kingdom's male-only driving rules. A campaign calling for women to defy the ban in a protest drive on October 26 has spread rapidly online over the past week and gained support from some prominent women activists. On Sunday the campaign's website was blocked inside the kingdom. ...



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Unfit DVLA staff are driven to the gym by fitness guru Tara Hammett

WalesOnlineUnfit DVLA staff are driven to the gym by fitness guru Tara HammettWalesOnline“I know how easy it can be to keep putting off doing some fitness or going to the gym, you keep telling yourself you'll go tomorrow and before you know it's Friday night and you're buying a bag of chips and a bottle of wine.” She added: “My role was to ...

House approves one-year 'Obamacare' delay in spending bill

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives on Sunday, ignoring a White House veto threat, approved a one-year delay in funding major provisions of President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law as part of a government funding bill. Republicans attached the amendment to a bill that is needed to keep federal agencies operating beyond September 30 when a new fiscal year begins. The move brought the U.S. government closer to shutting down on Tuesday amid deep divisions between Republicans and Democrats. (Reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Paul Simao)

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House approves medical care device tax repeal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led House of Representatives early on Sunday moved the government closer to a shutdown by rejecting the Democratic-led Senate's supposed final offer for funding federal agencies beyond Monday. In a mostly partisan vote, the House defied a White House veto threat and added to a Senate-passed spending bill a provision repealing a medical device tax intended to help fund President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law. (Reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Paul Simao)



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House advances spending bill Obama says he'll veto

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to fund the U.S. government in the new fiscal year starting on Tuesday but delay President Barack Obama's healthcare law cleared a procedural hurdle in the House of Representatives on Saturday. By a vote of 231-191, the Republican-controlled House set up final debate of the legislation with a vote on passage expected soon, despite a White House promise to veto the legislation because it would gut "Obamacare." (Reporting By Richard Cowan; Editing by Peter Cooney)



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Special Report: Myanmar old guard clings to $8 billion jade empire

By Andrew R.C. Marshall and Min Zayar Oo HPAKANT, Myanmar (Reuters) - Tin Tun picked all night through teetering heaps of rubble to find the palm-sized lump of jade he now holds in his hand. He hopes it will make him a fortune. It's happened before. "Last year I found a stone worth 50 million kyat," he said, trekking past the craters and slag heaps of this notorious jade-mining region in northwest Myanmar. That's about $50,000 - and it was more than enough money for Tin Tun, 38, to buy land and build a house in his home village. ...

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U.S. Senate likely to meet Monday on government spending bill -aide

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate is unlikely to hold a Sunday session and instead probably will convene as planned on Monday to consider any government funding bill passed this weekend by the House of Representatives, a Senate Democratic aide said on Saturday. The aide added that the Senate would likely use a parliamentary maneuver allowing it to strip out objectionable amendments to the emergency funding bill the Republican-controlled House is expected to attach. ...



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Obama urges feuding Congress to avoid shutdown

By Rachelle Younglai and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sternly warned the Congress on Friday against a government shutdown on October 1 as lawmakers struggled to pass an emergency spending bill that Republicans want to use to defund Obama's healthcare reform law. While there was still a chance of averting a shutdown, time was running out as House of Representatives Republicans fought with each other over the next steps. ...

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White House warns U.S. House it's moving toward government shutdown

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House press secretary Jay Carney said on Saturday that any lawmaker who votes for a new House Republican government funding bill is "voting for a shutdown." In a brief statement, Carney said the Republican-led House of Representatives needed to pass instead the measure approved by the Democratic-led Senate on Friday that, unlike the House alternative, would fund the healthcare law known as Obamacare. (Reporting By Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Peter Cooney)



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House OKs bill aimed at improving drug safety

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved legislation aimed at improving the safety of drugs made by compounding pharmacies, which mix customized medicines.



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U.S. Senate will reject new House bill to fund government: Reid

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Saturday his Democratic-led chamber was certain to kill legislation moving through the House of Representatives to delay "Obamacare" for one year and repeal a medical device tax that would be attached to a government-funding bill. "After weeks of futile political games from Republicans, we are still at square one: Republicans must decide whether to pass the Senate's clean CR (continuing resolution to fund the government beyond September 30), or force a Republican government shutdown," Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said in a statement. ...

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U.S. House passes bill to regulate drug compounding

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday passed legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration more authority to regulate companies that compound sterile drugs and ship them across state lines. The bill, called the Drug Quality and Security Act, now goes to the Senate for a vote. House and Senate committees agreed on the legislation on Wednesday. ...



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Race to get Obamacare online sites running goes to the wire

By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - Just days before the launch of the new U.S. state health insurance exchanges that are the centerpiece of the Affordable Care Act, a nationwide push is still under way to test and patch the technology behind the online sites. Officials working on the sites have acknowledged that information technology (IT) failures will prevent many of them from functioning fully for weeks, and perhaps longer. That will slow the government's drive to enroll millions of uninsured Americans under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law starting Tuesday. ...

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Europe should shift focus to bowel cancer screening to save lives: scientists

By Kate Kelland AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - European governments should divert funds to routine bowel cancer tests from less effective breast and prostate screening programs, scientists said on Saturday, presenting what they called "irrefutable" evidence that bowel screening saves lives. Many governments devote significant funds to breast cancer screening, but studies in recent years have found that routine breast mammograms can also lead to so-called "over-diagnosis" when tests pick up tumors that would not have caused a problem. ...



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Pakistan quake toll reaches 515, insurgents hamper aid efforts

By Gul Yousufzai ARAWAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - The death toll from an earthquake in southwestern Pakistan has reached 515, a provincial official said Friday, as insurgent attacks threaten relief efforts and survivors complain of lack of shelter from the scorching sun. Babar Yaqoob, the Chief Secretary of Baluchistan, gave the updated death toll as he toured the destroyed region of Awaran, where the 7.7 magnitude quake struck on Tuesday. A 6.8 magnitude aftershock jolted the same region on Saturday, bringing down more buildings amid ongoing search and rescue efforts. ...

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Drug 'Molly' is taking a party toll in the United States

By Victoria Cavaliere NEW YORK (Reuters) - Artist and therapy student Anna and her friends marked a birthday in New York recently with a familiar ritual: They pumped up the electronic music, danced, and celebrated with a special guest called Molly. "It was a group of about 12 people at someone's house and we were all just celebrating," Anna recalled. "Somebody had it and, and you know, it was a pretty electronic music kind of crowd. ...

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Chinese doctor builds new nose on man's forehead

BEIJING (AP) — A surgeon in China says he has constructed an extra nose out of a man's rib cartilage and implanted it under the skin of his forehead to prepare for a transplant in probably the first operation of its kind.

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Achillion stock plunges as FDA maintains clinical hold on hep C drug

(Reuters) - Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration decided not to lift a clinical hold it had placed on the firm's hepatitis C drug, sovaprevir, leaving an uncertain fate for the company's most promising drug. The news caused Achillion's shares to plunge 45 percent in after-market trade on Friday. The FDA asked the company to halt development of sovaprevir in June, after detecting elevated liver enzymes, an indication of liver damage, in multiple patients who were given the drug in a clinical study. ...



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Obama: Government shutdown won't delay healthcare exchange launch

By Lewis Krauskopf (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday that the new state insurance exchanges created by his healthcare reform law will launch as scheduled on Tuesday even if the federal government shuts down due to Republican efforts to defund Obamacare. The new online health exchanges at the heart of Obama's Affordable Care Act are set to open for enrollment on October 1 after years of political attack, offering subsidized health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans. ...



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House Republican says has big support for Obamacare delay

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A conservative Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday said that he and 61 colleagues will push for a one-year delay in Obamacare as part of a government funding measure the chamber will consider this weekend. This significant level of support for the proposed amendment by Representative Tom Graves of Georgia could indicate that Republicans cannot simply pass a straight-forward funding bill to keep the government open beyond September 30, which President Barack Obama is insisting upon. (Reporting By David Lawder; Editing by Sandra Maler)



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Hundreds NC Students Suspended for Vaccination Lapse

Sixth Graders are Required to Get Vaccination Against Whooping Cough, Diptheria

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Why Do We Watch Stressful TV?

We’ve all been there: hands over our open mouths in horror as we watch our favorite characters bite the dust on a TV show. Then comes the shouting at the television and the digging of our nails into the couch cushions as we wait for...

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Cruz-a-thon, Part II

We are still reviewing the 21-hour, overnight talk-a-thon by Sen. Ted Cruz, and we found some more claims about Obamacare that are false: Cruz said unions, including the International Brotherhood [...]



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Kids of gay and lesbian parents lag on insurance

By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids with same-sex parents are less likely to have private insurance than those with opposite-sex married parents, according to a new study. But some of those differences go away when states allow same-sex marriage or civil unions, researchers found. The connection isn't surprising but is important, lead author Gilbert Gonzales, from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, said. Evidence links insurance coverage with better general health among children, including fewer deaths, he told Reuters Health. ...



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U.S. physician payments vary widely, mysteriously: study

By Kathleen Raven NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Private insurance companies across the U.S. pay doctors dramatically different amounts for the same routine office visits and services, according to a new study. Physicians at the high end of the reimbursement spectrum get more than twice as much as those at the low end for the same service, with little apparent reason for the difference, researchers say. ...



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Immune drugs hold hope of "clinical cure" for deadly skin cancer

By Kate Kelland AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A new generation of drugs designed to trigger the immune system to fight cancer is offering the prospect of a "clinical cure" for some melanoma skin cancer patients who until a few years ago were more likely to be facing a swift death. Cancer specialists gathering for a European conference at the weekend said the so-called immunotherapy drugs, a class led by Bristol-Myers Squibb's Yervoy, or ipilimumab, have transformed an area of oncology in which until recently doctors barely had time to get to know their patients. ...



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Possible China partner for Peugeot no worry for GM

By Ben Klayman NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Motors Co , which has been seeking to fix its ailing European operations, believes a crucial partnership in France would survive even if the French partner ties up with China's Dongfeng Motor Group Co Ltd , a top GM executive said on Friday. Reuters reported in June that the founding family of PSA Peugeot Citroen had offered to give up control of the automaker as it tried to revive plans for a closer tie-up with GM backed by a fresh capital injection. "We're not PSA's only partner ... ...

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FDA adds most severe warning to Pfizer's Tygacil

NEW YORK (AP) — Regulators are putting their harshest warning on Pfizer's antibiotic Tygacil, saying the drug is associated with an increased risk of death.



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Report ponders: How sensitive is climate to CO2?

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists are more confident than ever that pumping carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels is warming the planet. The question is, by how much?

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FDA warns Pfizer's drug Tygacil raises risk of death

(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc's antibacterial drug Tygacil increases the risk of death whether used as authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or for unapproved conditions, the agency warned on Friday. Pfizer must place a warning inside a black box on the drug's label, indicating the risk is of the most serious nature. The FDA said the drug, which is usually given intravenously, should only be used when alternative treatments are not suitable. The drug is approved to treat complicated skin and abdominal infections and community-acquired bacterial pneumonia. ...



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More kids protected from flu; CDC says keep it up

WASHINGTON (AP) — More children than ever got vaccinated against the flu last year, and health officials urged families Thursday to do even better this time around.

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Can the White House sell America on health care exchanges?

The race to enroll Americans in the health insurance marketplaces established by President Barack Obama’s 2010 health care law begins Tuesday. But the Obama administration has an uphill climb to explain what exactly the exchanges are.



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Teen health program fights obesity, depression

By Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A skills-building program offered as part of high school health classes may help prevent obesity, depression and drinking among teenagers, a new study suggests. "Our hope is that schools after seeing these outcomes will say, ‘Hey, we want to implement this in our curriculum,'" Bernadette Melnyk, from The Ohio State University in Columbus, told Reuters Health. "We're talking about 15 hours in a high schooler's education that can have some pretty profound positive (outcomes). ...



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U.S. government approves Arkansas Medicaid expansion proposal

(Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Friday that it had approved Arkansas' proposal to use federal money targeted for expanding the Medicaid health program for the poor to help low-income residents buy private insurance under President Barack Obama's healthcare law. The request was approved by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the department said on Friday. It will allow more than 200,000 uninsured state residents to receive government help to access health coverage. The Arkansas proposal has been used as a basis for similar requests by Iowa and Pennsylvania. ...



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The citizen food safety project

The citizen food safety project

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Words Are Thinking Tools: Praxotype

Words Are Thinking Tools: Praxotype

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Obama mocks GOP for 'crazy' Obamacare predictions

LARGO, Maryland (AP) — With just five days to go before Americans can begin signing up for health care under his signature law, President Barack Obama on Thursday ridiculed Republican opponents for "crazy" doomsday predictions of the impact and forecast that even those who didn't vote for him are going to enroll.

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Study Says Combining Two Tests Yields Better Asthma Diagnosis

Swedish researchers have completed a study of the methods of diagnosing asthma. Their findings suggest that administering a combination of the two primary tests used to detect the condition leads to a better diagnosis and more appropriate treatment.



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EU lawmakers back strict new approval system for medical devices

By Charlie Dunmore BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers backed a strict new approval system for high-tech medical devices on Wednesday, raising industry fears of added delays in getting new products to market that could dull Europe's competitive edge. Members of the European Parliament's environment committee voted in favor of a new pre-market authorization system of randomized clinical trials for implantable devices, covering everything from hip replacements to artificial heart valves. ...



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New delays hit Obamacare rollout before October 1 launch

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Thursday announced new delays in rolling out President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, saying small business and Spanish-language health insurance enrollment services would not begin on October 1 as planned. The postponements amount to a few weeks out of a months-long enrollment period aimed at signing up millions of uninsured Americans for health benefits. ...

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U.S. approves first artificial pancreas system for diabetics

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first artificial pancreas system for diabetics that reads blood sugar levels and automatically shuts off the flow of insulin. The device, made by Medtronic Inc, could help the 3 million Americans living with type 1 diabetes better manage their disease, which causes the immune system to destroy cells in the pancreas that make insulin. Patients suffering from type 1 diabetes, the inherited version of the disease, have to regularly monitor their blood sugar levels and take insulin several times a day. ...



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ArQule up on hope for lung cancer drug revival

(Reuters) - ArQule Inc shares jumped 19 percent on hopes that additional data from a discontinued trial could revive its experimental drug, tivantinib, as a treatment for lung cancer. Last October, ArQule and Daiichi Sankyo Inc stopped a late-stage trial of tivantinib to treat lung cancer after determining that the drug did not improve patient survival. ArQule is expected to present additional data from the trial at the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) conference in Amsterdam, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Adnan Butt. ...



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State-wide gun ownership tied to suicide deaths

By Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Twice as many Americans commit suicide in states where most households have a gun than in states with low rates of gun ownership, according to a new study. Several studies have linked gun ownership to the risk of suicide by firearm, according to Dr. Matthew Miller, the new study's lead author from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. But some critics question whether people living in states where lots of residents own guns are inherently more suicidal than those who live in places where ownership is less common. ...



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Planned Parenthood sues Texas over abortion restrictions

(Reuters) - The United States' largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, said on Friday that it filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging part of a new Texas law restricting abortions in the state. "We're in court today to stop a terrible situation for women in Texas from getting even worse," Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement. ...



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