Month: June 2013

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Despite the well-known advantages to breast milk and vigorous campaigns around the world championing breast as best, Mexican mothers say the bottle is better.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A 10-year old girl with cystic fibrosis who had been kept off an adult organ transplant list due to an age-restriction rule will now be eligible for an adult lung transplant, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled on Wednesday. The family of Sarah Murnaghan, a patient at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s intensive care unit, sued to prevent the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from enforcing a policy that prevents children under 12 from getting adult lung transplants regardless of how ill they are. U.S. …

A federal court judge granted a temporary restraining order that would make 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan eligible for adult lungs.        

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A dying 10-year-old girl has become eligible to seek donor lungs from an adult transplant list, after a federal judge Wednesday granted her family's emergency petition.

NEW YORK (AP) — Generic versions of emergency contraception can be sold without a prescription or age restrictions while the federal government appeals a judge’s ruling allowing the sales, an appeals court said Wednesday.

Duke University researchers studying brain health have found a link between the width of blood vessels in the retina and intelligence quotient (IQ). Their findings could eventually have a significant impact on understanding dementia and other cognitive issues years before any deficits occur.

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday said that some emergency contraception pills now can be sold over-the-counter without age restrictions while the federal government fights a lower court judge’s order allowing unrestricted sales. In a brief order, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the two-pill version of emergency contraception to be sold without limits, including to girls under age 17, saying the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had not met the legal standard to justify limits. …

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel of outside experts reopened one of the biggest drug controversies in recent years on Wednesday at a meeting where they will decide whether to recommend lifting marketing restrictions on GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Avandia diabetes drug. The two-day FDA advisory committee meeting is not expected to bring about a major boost in sales for the onetime multibillion dollar product. But its findings may help revive the credibility of the British drugmaker's original research and shed light on the current U.S. …

By Gene Emery NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Group therapy works better than individual support for women in low-income countries who have been victims of sexual violence, according to the results of a new study done in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The method has already been shown to be effective in wealthier countries. …

MIAMI (Reuters) – The founder of the Miami anti-aging clinic suspected of supplying performance enhancing drugs to Major League Baseball players has agreed to cooperate with investigators, according to U.S. media reports on Wednesday. Any evidence he provides could determine whether or not any MLB players are charged with drug offenses and possibly suspended. The media reports have stated more than a dozen players could be implicated, making it one of the biggest doping scandals in the history of American professional sports. Various U.S. …

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite reminders, people scheduled for a colonoscopy didn’t access an Internet video designed to educate them about proper preparation for the screening, in a new study. “We were really surprised. It wasn’t just that nobody had Internet access… People just didn’t want to go the extra step (and watch the video),” said Dr. Brian Jacobson, a gastroenterologist at Boston University Medical Center. …