Month: October 2013

Stronger breed of lice has developed resistance to over-the-counter lice shampoos.        

By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Evidence is still shaky on whether ditching the sneakers and hitting the streets barefoot will help runners avoid injuries, a new review concludes. Despite the “media craze” surrounding the potential benefits of barefoot running, it may not be the answer to every stress fracture or shin splint, researchers said. “Barefoot running is not a panacea,” Daniel Lieberman, chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said. …

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(Reuters) – The Food and Drug Administration has turned to pet owners for help in an ongoing investigation into jerky products, most made in China, that have killed nearly 600 dogs and cats. Since 2007, roughly 3,600 dogs and 10 cats have fallen ill – and more than 580 have died – from eating the sliced and dried meat products, the food inspection agency said in an update on Tuesday. …

By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A 22-year-old Ohio man who confessed in an online video to killing a man in a drunken driving crash was sentenced on Wednesday to 6-1/2 years in prison. Matthew Cordle, who lives in the Columbus suburb of Dublin, Ohio, had pleaded guilty on September 18 to aggravated vehicular homicide and driving a vehicle under the influence of alcohol at the time of the wrong-way highway crash that killed Vincent Canzani, 61, in June. …

(Reuters) – A former Bristol-Myers Squibb Co finance executive who pleaded guilty to insider trading was sentenced on Wednesday to one year and one day in prison, federal prosecutors said. Robert Ramnarine, of East Brunswick, New Jersey, admitted in June to one count of securities fraud for trading in Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc stock options before Bristol-Myers agreed to buy the biotechnology company in June 2012 for $5.3 billion. …

With mutant bugs and bacteria on the loose, ABC News asked infectious disease experts which superbugs pose the biggest threats.        

By Mary Wisniewski (Reuters) – Six Ohio Republican lawmakers have filed a lawsuit to challenge Governor John Kasich’s plan to expand Medicaid coverage for the poor under President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law. An Ohio legislative panel voted in favor of the expansion on Monday at Kasich’s request. Kasich, a Republican, opposes the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, but wants the $2.5 billion in federal money for his state that a Medicaid provision of the law provides. …

By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The troubled launch of Democratic President Barack Obama's healthcare website could give Republicans a chance to regain some of the political ground they lost during the recent government shutdown, Republican Senator John McCain said on Monday. The Arizona senator, a vocal critic of conservative Republicans who held up government funding for 16 days while demanding changes to Obama's healthcare law, said the federal shutdown was devastating to many people in his state. …

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) – Patients infected with the liver-destroying hepatitis C virus should soon have better treatment options as new tablets from Gilead Sciences and others approach U.S. regulatory approval. Gilead’s experimental drug sofosbuvir is the first of a new wave of oral therapies to be considered by the Food and Drug Administration, which has convened an advisory panel for Friday. The treatment is seen as the crown jewel of Gilead’s $11 billion purchase of biotechnology company Pharmasset and aims to replace some of the pills and injections now on the market. …