Day: December 19, 2016

How to party on – without the hangover

… number from 10 years ago. And while more of us than ever are employing the help of professionals when it comes to our health (a recent report charted a 272 per cent increase in independent nutritionists and dieticians over the past five years), the …

Dutch bill proposes euthanasia for over 75s

Dutch MP Pia Dijkstra proposed a bill that would allow euthanasia for anyone over the age of 75 who no longer wants to live. To be eligible a person would need to have “an intrinsic and consistent” wish to die, which would be confirmed by a second interview at least two months after the initial request.

New Ovarian Cancer Drug Wins Speedy FDA Approval

U.S. health officials have approved a new option for some women battling ovarian cancer: a drug that targets a genetic mutation seen in a subset of hard-to-treat tumors. The Food and Drug Administration cleared the drug, Rubraca, from Clovis Oncology Inc. for women in advanced stages of the disease who have already tried at least two chemotherapy drugs.

Press release distribution, EDGAR filing, XBRL, regulatory filings

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Ontario Proposes New Thre Year Plan To OMA

December, Ontario shared with the Ontario Medical Association a proposed three-year plan that would improve patient access to care, provide more support for family physicians, and build stability into Ontario’s health-care budget. Under the terms of the proposed plan, patients would receive more timely access to family physicians; family doctors would receive additional support; and fees paid to specialists would be reduced for certain procedures that can now be conducted with greater ease and at lesser cost.

Largest public pension system to sell all tobacco stocks

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System decided Monday to sell its last $550 million worth of tobacco-related investments nearly two decades after trading away the bulk of them. In a 9-3 vote, the CalPERS investment committee disregarded the advice from its own financial advisers who recommended reversing a sell-off approved in 2000, which has cost the system more than $3 billion in lost earnings.

Sushma discharged

… and unrelated donor. “She has been advised to remain at home for a few weeks, and AIIMS doctors will follow up on her health in the coming weeks and months,” a senior AIIMS official said.

What is your cough trying to tell you?

… be of any use.” He recommends that vulnerable groups – people aged over 65, pregnant women and those with long-term health problems – get the flu jab to reduce susceptibility to chest infections. Solution: Paracetamol or ibuprofen for symptoms of …

TGA decision will boost Maxigesic sales in Australia

The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration has today confirmed an interim decision that all medicines containing codeine be rescheduled to prescription-only medicines effective 1 February 2018. The TGA will up-schedule these products due to the risk of dependence and adverse events compared to safer analgesic products also available over-the-counter, including paracetamol-ibuprofen combinations such as Maxigesic .

The nation’s largest public pension system is giving up tobacco.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System decided Monday to sell off its last $550 million worth of tobacco-related investments nearly two decades after trading away the bulk of them. In a 9-3 vote, the CalPERS investment committee disregarded the advice from its own financial advisers who recommended reversing a sell-off approved in 2000, which has cost the system more than $3 billion in lost earnings.

Good Shepherd rehab moves to St. Lukes

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network is leasing nearly 13,000-square-feet at St. Luke’s University Health Network’s Monroe Campus to open a 12-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit. The new hospital opened in October, and the Good Shepherd unit is expected to open in January.

Taking Psychiatric Meds Is Way More Common Than You Think

Even though there’s been a lot of buzz about destigmatizing mental health issues lately-everyone from Demi Lovato to Selena Gomez has been open about their ongoing struggles-we still have a long way to go in terms of normalizing seeking help for mental disorders. That’s why we were interested to see new research that appeared earlier this month in JAMA Internal Medicine , which examined exactly how many people in the United States are taking antidepressants, anxiety meds, and anti-psychotic medications.

Researchers Develop First Chikungunya Vaccine From Benign Insect-Specific Virus

Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have developed the first vaccine for chikungunya fever made from an insect-specific virus that doesn’t have any effect on people, making the vaccine safe and effective. The newly developed vaccine quickly produces a strong immune defense and completely protects mice and nonhuman primates from disease when exposed to the chikungunya virus.

Increased Cases Of Respiratory Illness In Barbados

The Ministry of Health in a statement did not give figures to indicate the number of cases, but noted that “for the subset of cases tested, the causative organism was not the flu virus but mostly Respiratory Syncytial Virus . “Nevertheless, PAHO has advised that the incidence of seasonal flu is starting to increase in North America and sporadic cases are also being seen in neighbouring islands.”

GOP Says It Plans to Replace Obamacare With “Universal Access”

Responding to criticism that repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would leave millions without health insurance, House Republicans have announced that their goal in replacing the PPACA is to guarantee “universal access” to health care and coverage, not necessarily to ensure that everyone has insurance, according to an article in The New York Times. “Our goal here is to make sure that everybody can buy coverage or find coverage if they choose to,” a House leadership aide told journalists.

FDA Drops Boxed Warning From Chantix Label

… be observed for the occurrence of such symptoms and should be instructed to discontinue varenicline and contact a health care provider if they experience such symptoms. The E valuating A dverse Events in a GL obal Smoking C E ssation S tudy (EAGLES) …

ContraVir expands mid-stage study of tenofovir prodrug analog into higher dose

ContraVir Pharmaceuticals broadens its ongoing Phase 2a study evaluating tenofovir exalidex against Gilead Sciences’ tenofovir disoproxil fumarate in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection by increasing the highest planned dose to 150 mg/day from 100 mg/day. The 84-subject sequential dose escalation study is assessing once-daily doses of TXL for four weeks against 300 mg of TDF once daily.

Therapy Focus – Immunotherapy Closes In On Triple-Negative Tumors

Celgene admitted as much last week by saying it would not push a promising Abraxane-containing chemotherapy regimen into pivotal trials in this Several studies are already under way, most notably a large first-line phase III trial of Abraxane plus Roche’s anti-PD-L1 antibody Tecentriq. Early data are encouraging, and hopes are high that meaningful survival benefits will emerge in the next couple of years.

What is Fluimucil and why would Wiggins need it?

In Monday’s hearing in front of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford at last revealed the contents of a package that was delivered to the team at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine. Brailsford said: “Doctor Freeman told me that it was Fluimucil that was in the package, a product that is for a nebuliser.”