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| Child TB deaths set to fall as Kenya launches new drugs |
| Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:18:35 -0400 |
| By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More children are likely to survive tuberculosis, the leading infectious disease killer, after Kenya introduces child-friendly medicines on Oct. 1 - the first country in the world to do so. Some 155,000 children with TB are set to benefit across 18 countries that have already ordered the new medicines and are preparing to roll them out, starting with Kenya, according to the TB Alliance campaign group that oversaw their development. "Now, with the appropriate treatments, we can make rapid progress in finding and treating children with TB so we can achieve a TB free generation," Kenya's health minister Cleopa Mailu said in a statement on Tuesday. |
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| Mother sues U.S. hospital for discriminating against dead transgender son |
| Mon, 26 Sep 2016 18:13:16 -0400 |
| The mother of a transgender boy filed a lawsuit against a U.S. hospital on Monday claiming its medical staff repeatedly addressed her son - who later committed suicide - as a girl. In the landmark case, Katharine Prescott argues the Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego (RCHSD) in California discriminated against her transgender son based on his sex. The 14-year-old transgender boy, Kyler Prescott, committed suicide about five weeks after staying at the hospital in 2015 where he was treated for having suicidal thoughts and self-inflicted wounds. |
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| Cancer patients may be overly optimistic about early drug trial participation |
| Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:58:06 -0400 |
| By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) - People with cancer may overestimate the possible benefits to them of participating in an early trial of a new medicine, even after talking with a doctor about what to expect, according to a new study from the U.K. So-called phase 1 trials of experimental treatments are intended to test the drug's safety. Just 4 percent to 20 percent of participants may see their cancer respond to the drug, the authors write in the journal Cancer. |
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| Kite immunotherapy drug helps blood cancer patients in study |
| Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:40:37 -0400 |
| (Reuters) - Kite Pharma Inc on Monday said its experimental CAR T-cell therapy, which helps the immune system fight cancer, was highly effective in treating aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma, although two deaths were related to the drug, according to interim data from a midstage trial. Shares of Kite, which had been halted before the release of the news, rose 11 percent when trading resumed. Some 76 percent of patients taking the drug, called KTE-C19, showed significant tumor shrinkage, including 47 percent who had no remaining signs of cancer at least three months after receiving the treatment, Kite said. |
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| More U.S. babies born addicted to opiates like heroin |
| Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:40:13 -0400 |
| By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - The proportion of U.S. babies born suffering from withdrawal syndrome after exposure to heroin or prescription opiates in utero has more than doubled in less than a decade, a study suggests. Researchers focused on what’s known as neonatal abstinence syndrome, a condition akin to withdrawal that develops when babies essentially become addicted to drugs their mothers use during pregnancy. Nationally, the rate of neonatal abstinence syndrome involving mothers’ use of opiates - which includes heroin as well as prescription narcotics like codeine and Vicodin - surged from 2.8 cases for every 1,000 births in 2009 to 7.3 cases for every 1,000 births in 2013, the study found. |
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| Walking is medicine? It helped high-risk seniors stay mobile |
| Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:08:26 -0400 |
 WASHINGTON (AP) — It's not too late to get moving: Simple physical activity — mostly walking — helped high-risk seniors stay mobile after disability-inducing ailments even if, at 70 and beyond, they'd long been couch potatoes.
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| Poor exercise habits may follow teens into adulthood |
| Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:08:31 -0400 |
 By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - Most American teenagers don’t get enough exercise, and they often stick with their sedentary ways as they enter adulthood, a U.S. study suggests. More than 9 in 10 adolescents fail to get the minimum 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous daily physical activity recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), researchers report in the journal Pediatrics. “Physical inactivity is one of the major predictors of childhood and adolescent obesity, the consequences of which increases incidence of obesity as well as metabolic syndrome in adulthood,” said lead study author Kaigang Li, a researcher at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
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| Mylan faces scrutiny over EpiPen profit data shown to Congress |
| Mon, 26 Sep 2016 15:39:41 -0400 |
 Mylan has been widely criticized for sharply raising the price of EpiPens, which are carried by people with life-threatening allergies. Mylan, which acquired the product in 2007, has raised the list price for a pair of EpiPens to $600 from about $100 in 2008. Lawmakers are trying to determine whether Mylan made more money on EpiPen than warranted from state Medicaid programs by having it classified as a generic product, resulting in much smaller rebates to the government health plans.
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| Nestle executive Cantarell quits after 40 years, sparking reshuffle |
| Mon, 26 Sep 2016 15:27:10 -0400 |
 Luis Cantarell, who heads Nestle's Europe, Middle East and North Africa zone and has been an advocate of blurring the lines between food and pharmaceuticals, is stepping down after 40 years, the Swiss company said on Monday. Cantarell will be replaced in January by Marco Settembri, head of Nestle's water division, which will now be run by Maurizio Paternello, who moves from Nestle Russia and Eurasia, the company said in a statement.
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| Drugmaker Pfizer decides not to break up business |
| Mon, 26 Sep 2016 15:12:11 -0400 |
 TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Drug giant Pfizer says it won't split into two publicly traded companies, despite pressure from investors frustrated by its lagging stock price, ending years of Wall Street speculation over its strategy and future.
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| 'Smart drug' warning for students |
| Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:38:56 GMT |
| The government's watchdog issues a warning to students about the dangers of taking cognitive enhancers or "smart drugs". |
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| Body fat link to bacteria in faeces |
| Sun, 25 Sep 2016 23:35:05 GMT |
| The make up of the bacteria found in human faeces may influence levels of dangerous fat in our bodies, say researchers from King's College London. |
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| What a button battery can do to a child's throat |
| Thu, 22 Sep 2016 10:32:33 GMT |
| Medical correspondent Fergus Walsh demonstrates what can happen if a button battery gets lodged in a child's throat, after a warning from surgeons over the dangers. |
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| Smiling with sadness |
| Mon, 19 Sep 2016 10:54:01 GMT |
| The black women using art to talk about mental health. |
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