U.S. abortion rights group pulls anti-Roberts ad
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A leading U.S. abortion rights advocacy group pulled a controversial television advertisement on Thursday that accuses Supreme Court nominee John Roberts of supporting an abortion clinic bomber and excusing violence.
NARAL Pro-Choice America withdrew the advertisement after Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter complained in a letter that it was a blatantly unfair attack on Roberts for his participation, as deputy solicitor general, in an abortion clinic case.
US FDA unveils tighter restrictions on acne drug
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Patients and doctors must register with manufacturers before using or prescribing Roche Holding AG’s acne drug Accutane or its generic versions, U.S. regulators said on Friday.
The requirement is part of a plan to strengthen safeguards meant to keep pregnant women from taking Accutane, the Food and Drug Administration said in a statement. The drug can cause birth defects.
New approach flushes out hidden HIV
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A strategy used by the wily AIDS virus to perpetuate infection may be susceptible to attack, according to a new report.
One of the fundamental difficulties in trying to eradicate HIV in people infected with the virus is that, even with the best antiviral treatment, small numbers of the virus can lie dormant in immune cells, ready to break out and multiply rapidly when the opportunity occurs.
This week, researchers report a way to flush the latent virus out of its hiding place in resting CD4 cells (immune cells that have not been activated to fight off microbes), and then pick it off with potent drugs.
Treating postpartum depression involves much more than taking a pill
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Q: My daughter is suffering from Postpartum Depression. Antidepressants prescribed by her obstetrician have done nothing. Is there anywhere else to turn?
A: As you know, Postpartum Depression has been in the news recently, sometimes with tragic results. Your daughter is very lucky to have you watching out for her.
It’s a problem that the medical community has only begun to take seriously, says Kathleen Fields, a nurse-midwife affiliated with Warren Hospital. She also teaches in the maternal/child unit of the nursing department at Cedar Crest College.
Lung cancer kills more Victorian women
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Lung Cancer is expected to overtake breast cancer as Victoria’s leading cause of cancer deaths in women.
The Cancer Council has released figures showing Lung Cancer killed more than 1,100 men and nearly 700 women in Victoria in 2003.
The figure represents a slight increase on the previous year.
When calories attack
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If you’ve cut out junk food, increased the exercise, ditched the salt shaker and still 10 pounds cling, it may be because ...
Weight gain during life’s changes frustrates women
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For most of her life, Janice Hall was small. Not just petite, at 4-foot-10, but thin, too.
But after having her second child, a son, at age 40, her body seemed to shift. “I noticed a huge difference in being unable to lose weight,” recalls the Rochester nurse.
Over time, she attributed it to the postpartum period, then age, then stress. But after she hit 50, meticulously trimmed her calories, continued her workouts and still saw the scale number climb, Hall got irked.
Too many Indigenous kids dying, AMA says
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The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says a survey showing an alarmingly high mortality rate among Indigenous children highlights the need for urgent antenatal care funding.
The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey found a 3.2 per cent mortality rate among Indigenous children under the age of five.
The figure is almost five times higher than for children from other backgrounds.
Confused About Fats?
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Are you confused about fat? Do you think that fat is a four letter word when it comes to eating healthy? What’s a “healthy fat” and which fats should be avoided?
The good news is that the government is working to clear the air about fats. We’re closer to the day when you’ll be able to read a package label to learn both the total amount of fat in a product, and also the type of fat that’s in it. That’s so important, because all fats are not equal. Some fats are healthy and some are not.
The Obesity Epidemic and Its Effects on Eating Distress
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What is Eating Distress?
Eating Distress is a condition that effects people of all ages, gender and culture. The sufferer uses food obsession either through thoughts and/or behaviour to self harm which reinforces their negative mindset. Eating Distress is the negativity which fuels Eating Disorders.
Estrogen patch helpful in prostate cancer
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Men with advanced Prostate cancer are prone to develop dangerous blood clots, but treatment with an estrogen patch may reduce this risk, UK researchers report
The patch is also a helpful anti-tumor agent, since Prostate cancer is driven by male hormones, the team reports in the Journal of Urology.
They lose a lot, and gain even more
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Cathy Lombardo says she will never diet again.
Over the years, the 41-year-old Chadds Ford, Pa., resident tried just about every new diet that came her way—Weight Watchers, NutriSystem, Slim Fast, Optifast. With each attempt, Lombardo would lose about 20 pounds, but, inevitably, she would tire of the plan and the weight would come back, and then some.
The successive failures were discouraging, but there would always be another diet just around the corner, she reasoned. Maybe the next one would do the trick.
Bird deaths in Russian flu epidemic up sharply
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The number of bird deaths in a Russian bird flu outbreak jumped sharply in the past 24 hours but there were no cases of the virus spreading to humans, the Emergencies Ministry said on Wednesday.
The ministry said in a note the total number of bird deaths jumped to 8,347 on Wednesday from 5,583 on Tuesday in an epidemic that has been spreading in Russia’s Siberia since mid-July.
Hong Kong woman contracts pig disease
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A 78-year-old woman in Hong Kong has contracted a pig-borne disease that has killed 39 people in southwest China in recent weeks.
The case is the third in Hong Kong since an outbreak of the disease, caused by the Streptococcus suis bacteria, began in China’s Sichuan province around June. None of the three people had travelled recently outside Hong Kong.
China premier under fire over rising medical costs
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, under fire from political rivals over the disintegration of medical welfare, has pledged to expand a pilot programme that provides subsidised care to rural residents, sources and state media said.
The vow came days after a 42-year-old farmer with terminal lung cancer set off a home-made bomb aboard a bus in the southeastern province of Fujian in a suicide attack one political source said was linked to his inability to afford treatment.
