Following the death of 17 Michigan residents who contracted meningitis from contaminated steroids, the states attorney general said on Tuesday he is launching a criminal investigation into a Massachusetts pharmaceutical company linked to the deadly outbreak of...
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Too much plaque-building protein produced in people with certain genes, study finds
People with genetic mutations that lead to inherited, early onset Alzheimer’s disease overproduce a longer, stickier form of amyloid beta, the protein fragment that clumps into plaques in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, a small new study has...
Men’s restless legs tied to earlier death: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men with restless legs syndrome (RLS) were more likely to die during an eight-year study than those without the condition, even after their age and other health problems were taken into account, researchers found. The condition, which...
Schools Need to Get Kids Moving, IOM Says
WASHINGTON - Physical activity should be incorporated into all school-related policy decisions to ensure children have at least 60 minutes of physical activity a day, a government body recommended. Such a "whole-of-school approach" was one conclusion of...
Program Cuts Use of Antibiotics in Kids
An educational intervention combined with regular feedback to pediatricians reduced inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics for children treated for respiratory infections in an outpatient setting, a randomized trial showed. Within the first year, the percentage of...
Prepping for a Colonoscopy: Why It’s a Necessary Evil
THURSDAY, May 30 (HealthDay News) -- Let's face it: the very mention of the word "colonoscopy" is enough to make many people shudder, at least a bit. But, colonoscopy is an extremely effective cancer screening tool, and it's the only cancer screening that can actually...
Overweight Women Risk Delivering Baby Early
The risk of preterm delivery increased significantly in women who were overweight or obese at conception, a large retrospective cohort study showed. Obese and severely obese women had a two to three times greater risk of extreme preterm delivery (at 22 to 27 weeks of...
More Infections Linked to Tainted Steroids
More Infections Linked to Tainted Steroids By John Gever, Deputy Managing Editor, MedPage TodayPublished: May 31, 2013 ATLANTA - The CDC said it has now received reports of 20 infections in three states linked to injectable steroids distributed by a...
Moneta woman, Roanoke man still feel effects of meningitis outbreak
SAM OWENS | The Roanoke Times Michelle Powell is attached to a device that provides therapeutic shocks to her back to ease her pain when getting around. SAM OWENS | The Roanoke Times Michelle Powell says that most of the time while she was recovering from the fungal...
Meningitis outbreak: Clinic didn’t ‘sell’ tainted medicine, lawyers say
Saint Thomas Hospital Citing multiple court decisions in Tennessee and more than 20 other states, lawyers for the outpatient center where patients were injected with a fungus-tainted steroid have asked that one of the major claims against the facility be...
