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Impounded
Flu Shots Unlikely to be Cleared
The
Food and Drug Administration is unlikely to clear influenza vaccine
made by Chiron Corp. as safe for Americans to use this flu season,
Dr. Lester M. Crawford, the agency’s acting commissioner, said
Friday.
Learn
more the FDA's reasoning behind this action from MSNBC
and the FDA.
Hormone
Leptin May Treat Infertility
 An
appetite-curbing hormone that failed to live up to its early buzz as
a possible key to slowing obesity is now being probed as a potential
aid for women who suffer from infertility and eating disorders.
A
very small study, led by researchers at the Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center and at Massachusetts General Hospital and published
recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that
leptin restored menstrual periods in a few female athletes who
hadn't had periods for an average of 5.5 years.
Learn
more about additional research findings and potential uses on USA
Today's website.
States
Under Pressure to End Disparities in Newborn Testing
 Gracie
Clay's mother says her child still could be alive had she been born
in, say, Mississippi instead of Georgia: Which state you live in
determines whether your newborn is tested for several dozen rare but
devastating inherited diseases.
Many
of these illnesses, like the one that killed 19-month-old Gracie
last February, easily can be treated if parents know in time.
Testing requires a single drop of blood. But many states mandate
newborn testing for only a fraction of the diseases.
Learn
more about how the government is looking to end this geographic
disparity by reading CNN's
complete coverage.
Drug
Bargains in the US
 A
task force led by the U.S. Surgeon General is still drafting its
report on drug importation, but one conclusion is already clear:
Savvy shoppers can find cheaper prescription drugs in American
pharmacies.
Click
here to read CNN's information on actual saving available.
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CDC
Invests $73 Million to Improve Health Information Services for the
Public
The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced in
September the award of a seven-year, $73 million contract to provide a
single point of contact for consumers and health professionals to
access comprehensive, timely, and credible health information.
Click
here to read the CDC's press release for details on exactly how
the funds will be spent.
Hospital
Care Varies Greatly
 New
data show that patients get vastly different levels of care at the
nation's teaching hospitals and that top institutions offering more
intensive and expensive health care often don't achieve better
results.
Researchers even found that hospitals deemed the best in the U.S. for
geriatric health care routinely provide elderly patients with
treatment that widely differs from other top hospitals on the list.
Analysts say they are largely at a loss to explain the variability in
care but that it is a sign of widespread waste and inefficiency in the
U.S. hospital care system.
Click
here to understand more about possible causes on the CBS News
website.
Health
Impact from 9/11 Extensive
Read
the Center
for Disease Control and Prevention's in-depth report on these
health issues.
The
Real Story About Carbs and Breast Cancer
 Many
women tired of low-carb diets may fearfully keep on counting carbs
because of a recently published study that links eating a lot of
carbohydrates with an increased risk of breast cancer. But fears about
carbs based on this study stem from a misinterpretation of what it
really says. The details must be examined.
The study compares the eating habits of women diagnosed with breast
cancer to women who were cancer-free in Mexico. The women ranged in
age from 20 to 75 years old. Women with the highest proportion of
their calories coming from carbohydrates were more than twice as
likely to have breast cancer as those with the lowest carbohydrate
consumption.
However,
the study is dependent on a number of issues that may not equate to
similar results on a nationwide basis. Read MSNBC's
complete coverage on this case to learn more.
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