Reuters - Two top Democratic lawmakers on
Thursday questioned recent claims by Merck & Co Inc and
Schering Plough Corp that incidents of cancer in patients
taking their cholesterol drug Vytorin were a fluke.more...
AP - The number of measles cases in the U.S. is at its highest level since 1997, and nearly half of those involve children whose parents rejected vaccination, government health officials reported Thursday.more...
Reuters - Parents refusing to have their
children vaccinated against measles have helped drive cases of
the illness to their worst levels in a dozen years in the
United States, health officials reported on Thursday.more...
AP - Many people in Medicare with diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic conditions stop taking their medicine when faced with picking up the entire cost of their prescriptions, researchers say.more...
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Mercury is found in many types of fish and
shellfish. Because significant amounts of mercury can harm unborn babies
and young children, women who are or may become pregnant, those who are
nursing, and young children shouldmore...
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) -- The osteoporosis drug
Zometa (zoledronic acid) prevented bone loss at 12 months in premenopausal
women undergoing chemotherapy after they had surgery for early stage
breast cancer, a new study found.more...
AP - An expensive vaccine aimed at preventing cervical cancer makes sense for young teens when it comes to cost-effectiveness, but not for women in their 20s, contends a new report.more...
AP - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a research company to supply an experimental drug to a 16-year-old Minnesota boy who is terminally ill with a rare form of muscular dystrophy.more...
AP - A new analysis of government data is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with Type 2 diabetes, researchers say. The study's limitations make more research necessary. And public water systems were on their way tmore...
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A daily dose of the erectile
dysfunction drug tadalafil (Cialis) helped relieve lower urinary tract
symptoms in men with signs of enlarged prostates, according to a new
study.more...
AP - The government has confirmed that five people have died because of yellow fever in Brazil, including a Spanish citizen, but the president of Latin America's largest nation insisted that the outbreak is under control.more...
