Feed: Health Yahoo UKPosted on: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 05:06Author: Health Yahoo UKSubject: Living in US raises risk of allergies Children born outside the United States have a lower risk of asthma, skin and food allergies, and living in the United States for a decade may raise a person's allergy risk, said a study on Monday. The research in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that certain environmental exposures could trigger allergies later in life, overcoming the protective effects of microbial exposure in childhood.The study examined records from 2007-2008 phone ...
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Saturday, 27 April 2013
FW: Some Asian governments tighten airport controls on bird flu fears
Feed: Health Yahoo UKPosted on: Thursday, April 25, 2013 17:58Author: Health Yahoo UKSubject: Some Asian governments tighten airport controls on bird flu fears By Sui-Lee WeeBEIJING (Reuters) - Several governments in Asia have ordered tougher screening of air travellers from China in an effort to contain a possible spread of a new strain of bird flu that has killed 23 people in the mainland and infected one visitor from Taiwan.The H7N9 virus has infected 109 people in China since it was first detected in March. The Geneva-based World Health Organization said it has no evidence ...
FW: AstraZeneca hit by generic drugs and Crestor shortfall
Feed: Health Yahoo UKPosted on: Thursday, April 25, 2013 17:12Author: Health Yahoo UKSubject: AstraZeneca hit by generic drugs and Crestor shortfall By Ben HirschlerLONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca's sales fell by a bigger-than-expected 13 percent in the first quarter as patent expiries took a heavy toll, underscoring the turnaround challenge facing Britain's second-largest drugmaker.Much of the damage was caused by loss of exclusivity on antipsychotic medicine Seroquel and heart drug Atacand in many markets.But the company's top-selling cholesterol fighter Crestor was also hit ...
FW: Japan, Russia to boost business ties, restart territorial talks
Feed: Health Yahoo UKPosted on: Thursday, April 25, 2013 16:33Author: Health Yahoo UKSubject: Japan, Russia to boost business ties, restart territorial talks By Antoni SlodkowskiTOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and Russia expect to clinch up to 20 deals, launch an investment fund and reopen talks on a territorial row that has kept them from signing a peace treaty formally ending World War Two when Japan's prime minister goes to Moscow next week.Japan also expects Russia to present a proposal for Japan's participation in building a pipeline connecting East Siberian gas fields and a planned ...
FW: AstraZeneca gets U.S. subpoena over UK drug factory
Feed: Health Yahoo UKPosted on: Thursday, April 25, 2013 16:32Author: Health Yahoo UKSubject: AstraZeneca gets U.S. subpoena over UK drug factory LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca said on Thursday it had received a subpoena from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston, Massachusetts, related to manufacturing standards at its Macclesfield facility in the north of England.Britain's second biggest drugmaker said the approach was made on March 28 and the company was coordinating its response and intended to cooperate with the inquiry.Chief Financial Officer Simon Lowth declined to go into ...
FW: England prepares mass-vaccination as measles cases rise
Feed: Health Yahoo UKPosted on: Thursday, April 25, 2013 13:13Author: Health Yahoo UKSubject: England prepares mass-vaccination as measles cases rise View article ...
FW: Algerian president in France for medical tests after minor stroke
Feed: Health Yahoo UKPosted on: Sunday, April 28, 2013 10:56Author: Health Yahoo UKSubject: Algerian president in France for medical tests after minor stroke By Lamine ChikhiALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been transferred to France for further medical tests after suffering a minor stroke on Saturday, Algeria's official news agency said.The APS agency said late on Saturday that Bouteflika, 76, was in Paris at the recommendation of his doctors.He was hospitalised after a minor stroke, according to an earlier state press agency report that quoted ...
FW: Gates' foundation to fund $1.8bn to eradicate polio
Feed: Health Yahoo UKPosted on: Thursday, April 25, 2013 22:38Author: Health Yahoo UKSubject: Gates' foundation to fund $1.8bn to eradicate polio Bill Gates announced in Abu Dhabi on Thursday his foundation will contribute $1.8 billion to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a third of the total funds needed."I am pleased to announce for the foundation that we are committed to fund a third of what is needed for this campaign," the Microsoft co-founder told the Global Vaccine Summit in Abu Dhabi. "So for the fully funded campaign, that would be $1.8 billion that we are committed ...
FW: Scientists confirm new H7N9 bird flu has come from chickens
Feed: Health Yahoo UKPosted on: Thursday, April 25, 2013 20:48Author: Health Yahoo UKSubject: Scientists confirm new H7N9 bird flu has come from chickens By Kate KellandLONDON (Reuters) - Chinese scientists have confirmed for the first time that a new strain of bird flu that has killed 23 people in China has been transmitted to humans from chickens.In a study published online in the Lancet medical journal, the scientists echoed previous statements from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Chinese officials that there is as yet no evidence of human-to-human transmission of this ...
FW: New $5.5 billion plan aims to rid world of polio by 2018
Feed: Health Yahoo UKPosted on: Thursday, April 25, 2013 18:49Author: Health Yahoo UKSubject: New $5.5 billion plan aims to rid world of polio by 2018 By Kate Kelland, Health and Science CorrespondentLONDON (Reuters) - Health groups said on Thursday they could rid the world of polio by 2018 with a $5.5 billion (3.5 billion pounds) vaccination and monitoring plan to stop the disease taking hold once more now there are only a handful of cases worldwide.Experts say the plan offers the best chance yet to eradicate a disease that until the 1950s crippled many thousands of people every ...
Fireplace eliminates many within Ruskies psychological medical center
Feed: Health Yahoo UKPosted on: Friday, April 26, 2013 22:15Author: Health Yahoo UKSubject: Fire kills dozens in Russian psychiatric hospital Thirty-eight people were killed, most of them in their beds, in a fire that raged through a psychiatric hospital near Moscow on Friday, raising questions about the care of mentally ill patients in Russia.The fire, which broke out at around 2 a.m. (2300 BST on Thursday), swept through a single-storey building at the hospital, a collection of wood and brick huts with bars on some windows that was home to people sent there on grounds of mental illness ...
Friday, 19 April 2013
OFT accuses GSK more than "pay-for-delay" medicine offers
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) accused GlaxoSmithKline of market abuse for striking deals with three generic drugmakers that paid them to delay launching cheap copies of its antidepressant Seroxat.GSK, Britain's biggest drugmaker, said it believed it had acted lawfully. If it is found to have broken the law, it could be fined up to 10 percent of its worldwide turnover, which amounted to 26.4 billion pounds in 2012.The move by the OFT is the latest example of regulators trying to curb "pay-for-delay" deals, following a series of investigations against drug companies by U.S. and European antitrust ...
Sunday, 14 April 2013
Indian native woman along with inflamed mind requirements 'miracle': moms and dads
The eager Indian native dad in whose young lad is suffering from an ailment which triggered the girl visit enlarge as much as a massive dimension stated Weekend he could be praying for any "miracle" in order to save the girl living.Eighteen-month-old Roona Begum was diagnosed with hydrocephalus, in which cerebrospinal fluid builds up in the brain, just weeks after her birth in a government-run hospital in remote Tripura state in northeast India.The ...
Friday, 12 April 2013
US public health experts said developing a vaccine for the H7N9 strain of bird flu could take "many months"
Chinese authorities have confirmed 43 human cases of H7N9 avian influenza since announcing nearly two weeks ago that they had found the strain in humans for the first time.Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Timothy Uyeki and Nancy Cox of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said worldwide efforts to develop a vaccine had started, but it would take time."Even if new vaccine manufacturing technologies... are utilised, the process from vaccine development to availability will probably take many months," said the article posted on the journal's website on Thursday.China ...
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