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Study finds increase in unused transplant livers

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The number of donor livers thrown away in the U.S. has increased since 2004 due – in part – to a population growing older and heavier, according to a new study that also points to changes in medical practice that may make some donor livers less viable. “The rationale for looking at this question in the first place is that the number of liver transplants done in the U.S. has gone down,” said the study’s lead author Dr. Eric Orman, a fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. …

Chapel Hill, Eric Orman, North Carolina

Researchers: NFL’s Seau had from brain disease

01/10/2013 majac Your Health Matters

When he ended his life last year by shooting himself in the chest, Junior Seau had a degenerative brain disease often linked with repeated blows to the head.

Junior Seau

Drugmakers report U.S. shortages of flu vaccine, Tamiflu

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(Reuters) – This year's U.S. flu season has created shortages of the Tamiflu treatment for children and of the most widely used flu vaccine, their manufacturers said. Roche Holding AG told Reuters late on Wednesday that it had a shortage of the liquid form of Tamiflu, given to children who already have the flu to slow or stop symptoms. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirmed that there have been supply interruptions in some locations. Roche said it told wholesalers and distributors in recent weeks that temporary delays in shipments were imminent. …

Drug Administration

Weightlessness no cure for "morning clumsies," astronaut says

01/10/2013 majac Your Health Matters

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – Like many people, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield confesses that he’s sometimes clumsy in the morning just after waking up. The three-time astronaut, now living aboard the International Space Station, was surprised to learn that did not change in the weightless environment of space. “When I come out of my sleeping berth to go into our galley and our bathroom, I bump into things even though I’m floating weightless,” the 53-year-old pilot told reporters during an in-flight press conference on Thursday. …

Chris Hadfield, International Space Station

Watch: Australian Woman Documents Her Gender Change

01/10/2013 majac Your Health Matters

Ashley Caccamo’s time-lapse video shows her transformation from man into woman.

Scientists urge end to limits on gun safety research

01/10/2013 majac Your Health Matters

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Research restrictions pushed by the National Rifle Association have stopped the United States from finding solutions to firearms violence, more than a hundred scientists from virtually every major U.S. university told Vice President Joe Biden’s task force on gun violence in a letter on Thursday. In the wake of the December school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, and other mass homicides, the group of economists, health researchers, educators, doctors and criminologists said funding should be restored to a range of study areas, from gun safety to tracking illegal …

health, National Rifle Association, United States

China’s one-child law: Less competitive adults?

01/10/2013 majac Your Health Matters

BEIJING (AP) — They're called "little emperors" — the children born in China under a law that generally limits urban families to having just one child.

China

Planned Parenthood Fights Defunding

01/10/2013 majac Your Health Matters

Can Texas Handle Displaced Planned Parenthood Patients?

Florida slashes estimated cost of Medicaid expansion to $3 billion

01/10/2013 majac Your Health Matters

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) – In a dramatic about-face, Florida’s health agency now says the cost to state taxpayers of expanding Medicaid under President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law would be barely more than a tenth of its original estimate. Governor Rick Scott, a Republican who had fought hard against the reform law known as Obamacare, had complained on Monday that the optional expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare would cost Florida taxpayers $26 billion over the next decade, using the original estimate by the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration. …

Governor Rick Scott, President Barack Obama

Herbalife defends its honor as Ackman presses case

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(Reuters) – Herbalife Ltd executives defended their business on Thursday as a “legitimate company” with customers outside the network of people who sign up to sell its nutrition products, stepping up the defense against pyramid scheme accusations by short seller Bill Ackman. The hedge fund operator, who has placed a huge bet that Herbalife stock will fall, has argued that the company is an unsustainable scheme because distributors earn more than 10 times as much from recruitment as they do by selling company products. …

Bill Ackman

Screen time not linked to kids’ physical activity

01/10/2013 majac Your Health Matters

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cutting back kids’ time watching TV and playing video games may not encourage them to spend more of the day running around outside, a new study suggests. Just four in 10 U.S. kids met dual national guidelines for getting enough physical activity and for limiting “screen time,” researchers found – but the likelihood of kids exercising regularly didn’t depend on whether they kept away from screens. …

How to tell a cold from the flu

01/10/2013 majac Your Health Matters

The common cold and flu are caused by different viruses but can have some similar symptoms, making them tough to tell apart. In general, the flu is worse and symptoms are more intense.

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