Month: April 2013

By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The costs linked to heart failure in the United States are expected to more than double within the next two decades as the population ages and treatments help patients with the disease live longer, a study released on Wednesday found. The American Heart Association predicted that the number of Americans with the fatal condition will grow to 8 million in 2030 from about 5 million in 2012. The costs to treat them will rise to $53 billion from $21 billion, the group said in its analysis. …

By Toni Clarke (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has developed a hand-held device capable of identifying counterfeit or substandard malaria drugs and has signed a letter of intent with Corning Inc to manufacture the product. The device, known as CD-3, is a battery-operated tool that uses different wavelengths of light to compare an authentic malaria drug with a potentially fake product, the FDA said on Wednesday. Malaria is a potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease that often causes fever, chills and flu-like symptoms. …

WASHINGTON (AP) — We're in denial: Americans underestimate their chances of needing long-term care as they get older — and are taking few steps to get ready.

By Emily Lane JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) – Federal law enforcement agencies investigating ricin-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and other officials broadened their search for clues on Wednesday by targeting the former business of a Mississippi martial arts instructor. Members of an anti-terrorist response team from the Mississippi National Guard wearing hazmat suits had already searched the Tupelo home of Everett Dutschke on Tuesday, accompanied by agents from the FBI and the U.S. Capitol Police, according to law enforcement sources and Dutschke's attorney, Lori Nail Basham. …

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – An earthquake in Afghanistan's east and flash floods in the north killed at least 33 people on Wednesday as hundreds of traditional mud-brick homes collapsed, officials said. The 5.7 magnitude quake, which hit before 2 p.m. (0930 GMT) was felt as far away as the Indian capital New Delhi and was the latest in a spate of tremors to shake Asia this month. The quake was 65 km (40 miles) deep with an epicenter 11 km (seven miles) from Mehtar Lam, capital of the eastern province of Laghman, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. …

A Taiwanese man has contracted a deadly strain of bird flu once confined to mainland China, health officials said today.        

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By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women who eat diets high in fruit, certain vegetables, pasta and red wine are less likely to have hot flashes and night sweats during menopause, a new study from Australia suggests. Researchers found that of about 6,000 women followed over nine years, those who ate a lot of strawberries, pineapple and melon and most closely followed a Mediterranean-style diet were about 20 percent less likely to report those common symptoms. …

Chase Adam had six months left in his Peace Corps assignment in Costa Rica in December 2010 when a villager boarded a bus he was riding in the small town of Watsi, near the Panama border. The woman walked down the aisle of the bus handing passengers a file showing her son’s medical records.

Thanks to the Clean Air Act, a lot of people in the United States are breathing a little easier. The American Lung Association’s “State of the Air 2013? report, which analyzed ozone and particle levels in the air from 2009 to 20011, showed that the…        

By Bill Berkrot (Reuters) – Laboratory equipment maker Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc, which this month agreed to acquire Life Technologies Inc for more than $13 billion, on Wednesday reported a higher-than-expected first-quarter profit, helped by a 10 percent rise in specialty diagnostics sales. Excluding one-time items, Thermo Fisher posted earnings of $1.37 per share, topping analysts average expectations by 8 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Thermo Fisher shares were up 1 percent. …