Stem cell implants boost monkeys with Parkinson’s
Monkeys suffering from Parkinson’s disease show a marked improvement when human embryonic stem cells are implanted in their brains, in what a Japanese researcher said Wednesday was a world first.
Virginia holds back on abortion ultrasound bill
Lawmakers in Virginia put off a final vote Tuesday on a highly contested bill that would require women in the eastern US state to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound prior to an abortion.
US to import short-supply cancer drug from India
US health authorities said Tuesday they will import a drug to treat ovarian, bone marrow and AIDS-related skin cancer from India in order to ward off a worrying shortage.
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Bird flu claims third victim this year in Indonesia
Tests on a 19-year-old woman who died last week showed she had contracted the bird flu virus, Indonesia’s third human death from the deadly disease this year, the health ministry said on Tuesday.
Sex-changing treatment for kids: It’s on the rise
A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics.… Continue reading
British minister heckled over health reforms
Britain’s health minister was angrily heckled Monday over health care reforms that the government says will improve efficiency but opponents claim threaten the foundation of the country’s state-funded health care service.
EU approves skin cancer fighting drug: Roche
Swiss drug giant Roche said on Monday it had been given European Union approval for its treatment to fight a highly aggressive form of skin cancer.
South Africa grapples with toll of heavy drinking
Tisha Lourens suffered brain damage when her mother drank during pregnancy. Now the slight teenager who was abandoned as a baby in a Cape Town hospital battles with learning problems.
New approach urged for late-talking bilingual babies
Babies who are raised in homes where two or more languages are spoken may appear to talk later than those learning just one language, leaving parents puzzled and concerned as to the reasons why.
Total rethink needed on dieting, scientists say
Everything you know about dieting is wrong, say US scientists who have devised a new formula for calculating calories and weight loss that they hope will revolutionize the way people tackle obesity.
First test-tube hamburger ready this fall: researchers
The world’s first “test-tube” meat, a hamburger made from a cow’s stem cells, will be produced this fall, Dutch scientist Mark Post told a major science conference on Sunday.
Sunburnt Australia to pull plug on sunbed tans
Jay Allen used to love having what he thought was a healthy tan — so much so that he would regularly expose his body to the lights of a sunbed to ensure he maintained his overall colour.
APNewsBreak: FDA to review inhalable caffeine
U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement.
System to catch fake drugs has idled for years
The news this week that a fake version of the cancer medicine Avastin has made its way into the United States highlights a longtime concern: There are few safeguards to make sure fake drugs can be spotted before they make… Continue reading
‘Nodding disease’ confounds experts, kills children
Patrick Anywar, 14, lies curled up naked in the dust and midday heat of a Ugandan village, struggling to look up at his younger brother and sister playing in front of the family home.
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Afghanistan’s toxic cocktail of drugs, graft, mafia
It’s below freezing, but the Afghan lies rigid in the snow of Kabul. He doesn’t move. His arms and legs are bare. He has overdosed on heroin. He only lives to see another day because of a charity.
Flu season off to latest start in decades
Health officials say the flu season is finally here — the slowest start in nearly 25 years.
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Violent videogame boosts vision in some adults
Playing a videogame that involves shooting enemies on a battlefield has helped some adults who were born with a rare eye disorder improve their vision later in life, scientists said Friday.
Grape-flavored Infants’ Tylenol recalled
Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary McNeil issued a recall Friday of 574,000 bottles of an infants version of its popular Tylenol pain and fever relief drug over problems with the dosing system.
Go-ahead for bird flu study publication after security check
Bird flu experts meeting in Geneva on Friday ruled that controversial research on a mutant form of the virus potentially capable of being spread among humans should be made public.