‘Health’ Archives
Tokyo-area hospital battling multi-drug resistant bacteria and legal issues
Nearly four dozen patients at Teikyo University Hospital in Tokyo has been infected with an extremely resistant bacteria known as Acinetobacter since last August. Of the 46 patients infected with Acinetobacter, 27 patients have died with 9 deaths being directly attributed to the infection. The nine patients who died as a result of the [...]
Goodbye smallpox, hello…monkeypox?
At least as far as the Democratic Republic of the Congo is concerned. This according to researchers led by Anne Rimoin of the UCLA School of Public Health in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Since the last doses of smallpox vaccine were given in 1980 and smallpox was officially eradicated, cases of [...]
Osteoporosis drugs linked to certain cancers
Sept. 2, 2010 -- The long-term use of oral bisphosphonate osteoporosis drugs such as Actonel, Boniva, and Fosamax may be associated with a doubling in esophageal cancer risk, but the risk to individual users remains small, researchers say. Compared to people who had never taken the medications, long-term users of the bone-building drugs known [...]
Meat from Toronto store could have E. coli: CFIA
OTTAWA — Ontario residents are being advised by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to dispose of beef products sold at a Toronto store that could be contaminated with E. coli. The agency issued a statement Thursday that said all beef products sold on Aug. 6 from the Kabul Farms store in the North York region of Toronto should not be [...]
Botox maker to pay $600M to resolve federal investigation
WASHINGTON — Allergan, the maker of wrinkle-smoothing Botox, says it will pay $600 million to settle a yearslong federal investigation into its marketing of the top-selling, botulin-based drug. The company said Wednesday that it will plead guilty to one misdemeanor charge of "misbranding," in which the company's marketing led physicians to [...]
High fat diet during puberty linked to breast cancer in women
ScienceDaily (Aug. 31, 2010) — Girls eating a high-fat diet during puberty, even those who do not become overweight or obese, may be at a greater risk of developing breast cancer later in life, according to Michigan State University researchers. The implications -- that a high-fat diet may have detrimental effects independent of its effect to [...]
“Forbidden Rice” helps fight heart disease and cancer
BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A spoonful of black rice bran contains more health promoting anthocyanin antioxidants than a spoonful of blueberries, U.S. researchers say. Zhimin Xu of the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center in Baton Rouge, La., black rice is one variety of the "Forbidden Rice" in ancient China that was kept by [...]
Three more swine flu deaths in New Dehli
New Dehli: The national capital reported three more swine flu deaths even as another 37 patients tested positive for H1N1 virus taking the total number of people infected by the disease to 873 so far this year. "Three men succumbed to H1N1 virus in the last three days. Two were from outside the city and one person was a resident of Delhi. With [...]
More Bad News for Pakistan: Dengue Fever cases on the Rise
KARACHI - Dengue Fever has resurfaced here in the provincial metropolis following the heavy monsoon rains, as dozens of patients with symptoms of the fever are said to have been reported in different hospitals of the city. The patients are rushing to different health facilities with the symptoms of bleeding, high fever and vomiting, as rainy [...]
7 year old dies from rare brain amoeba
The Minnesota Department of Public Health confirmed in a press release that a 7 year old girl has died as a result of a rare form of meningitis called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). PAM is caused by the amoeba, Naegleria fowleri. This relatively rare, pathogenic amoeba is found in warm or hot freshwater like lakes, rivers and hot [...]
