Month: January 2015

(Reuters) – Staff reviewers at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended approval for Novartis AG’s copy of Amgen Inc’s blockbuster cancer drug Neupogen. Novartis’s drug is the first to be reviewed in the United States under the so-called biosimilar pathway. The reviewers found no “clinically meaningful differences” between the two drugs, the FDA said. (http://1.usa.gov/1DoT7eb) The injectable biotech medicine is designed to prevent infections in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, which reduces white blood cells, giving rise to a condition called neutropenia. …
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MONROVIA (Reuters) – Liberia plans to reopen schools in February, six months after the government ordered them closed because of the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 3,400 people in the West African nation, an official said on Monday. The rate of new Ebola cases has slowed in recent weeks in Liberia where the government and international organizations with support from the United States stepped up efforts to stop the spread of the disease. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf announced at the weekend that schools would reopen on Feb. …
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Patrick, who got married a year ago, puts his weight loss down to healthy eating, exercise and cutting back on booze. Now 15st 4lbs, he explained: “I …
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Did you know that certain foods can adversely affect how you feel by triggering some reactions in your brain and by influencing your metabolic …
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Losing weight can seem like a daunting task, but it's easier than it looks. … There are fad diets (Atkins, Paleo, juice fasts, I did a cabbage soup diet in … Probably the best thing to do is develop healthy hobbies, like running or biking.
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TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israel’s BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics said final results from a clinical trial of its adult stem cell treatment in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) were positive, with most patients showing a slowing in the disease’s progression. According to the ALS Association, 5,600 people in the United States are diagnosed each year with the neurodegenerative disease, which has severely disabled British physicist Stephen Hawking. …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – A three-year-old Egyptian child died from bird flu on Monday, the second death from the virus in the country this year and the twelfth in recent months, the health ministry said. The child was from in the Giza governorate, outside Cairo, the ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency MENA. Egypt's H5N1 cases have largely been in poor rural areas in the south, where villagers tend to keep and slaughter poultry in the home. Three other cases are currently being treated, the ministry said. …

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