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5/11/2006 5:27:00 PM | LA County Aquatics Warns Commercial & Residential Swimming ... 
=(0) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has designated May 22-29 as "National Recreation Water Illness Prevention Week". People are vulnerable to E. Coli infection from improperly maintained pools. This condition can lead to severe illness, kidney failure and even death particularly in children. Even pools with adequate chlorin...
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5/11/2006 4:22:00 PM | Corticosteroid Therapy May Be Associated with Irregular Heartbeat =(0) Patients on high doses of corticosteroids, used to treat conditions such as asthma, arthritis and some blood cancers, are at higher risk of developing atrial fibrillation, one type of irregular heartbeat. While not immediately fatal, atrial fibrillation in turn increases risk of stroke and other heart conditions. This finding comes from a...
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5/11/2006 3:26:00 AM | Poor adherence to blood pressure medications may fuel growing =(0) Canadian health officials warn that high blood pressure is on the increase, and part of the reason is that people are not faithfully taking their medications, with many stopping the drugs in the first year. This puts them at risk for many health problems such as stroke and heart and kidney disease. Doctors are urged to simplify the procedure b...
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5/10/2006 2:46:00 PM | Owens Corning to pay 5.2 billion-dollar asbestos settlement - TODAYonline =(0) Owens Corning has agreed to a settlement of $5.2 billion for asbestos claims against the company, as part of its bankrupcy restructuring process. Asbestos was used in the manufacturing of many products, including insulation and automobile brakes, until the mid 1970s, and millions of workers and their families were exposed and run a long-term h...
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5/10/2006 9:59:00 AM | Stroke sufferers missing out on clot-busting drug =(0) An Oxford University medical professor has criticized treatment of stroke victims in the UK. According to Professor Alastair Buchan, stroke patients should be treated with the same urgency as heart attack patients, as time is critical to brain survival. He also believes that clot-busting drugs commonly used in the US, Canada and Australia...
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5/5/2006 10:26:00 AM | Speedy Stroke Treatment =(0) Early treatment of stroke victims is vital to their long-term prospects of recovery. If a patient can get to a hospital within three hours of the onset of a stroke, they may be given a new clot-busting drug, tPA. However this is only useful for the type of stroke caused by a blood clot, may not work for larger clots, may be harmful to the bra...
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4/29/2006 7:17:00 PM | Tainted blood victims 'were not informed' =(0) People who received blood transfusions in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s may have been infected with Hepatitis and HIV because donor screening only began in 1991. However it was recently revealed that efforts to inform these patients have fallen short, resulting in delay of treatment and the risk of passing on the infections. Hepatitis infe...
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4/29/2006 7:13:00 PM | Drug 'to cut heart attack damage' =(0) Researchers in the UK are developing a drug intended to limit the permanent damage done to heart tissue by a heart attack. Heart damage is proportional to the levels of a certain protein, CRP, deposited around the affected area. The drug is designed to inhibit the protein and block its action. This is important for the long-term health an...
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4/29/2006 3:20:00 AM | VA biopsies could have infected men =(0) Over 20,000 Veterans who have undergone prostate biopsies with a specific instrument, the "B-K Medical transrectal ultrasound transducer", have been contacted because sterilization of that equipment may have been inadequate, leading to risk of Hepatitis, HIV and other infections. Those affected can be tested for no cost. Only 16 of the V...
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4/28/2006 10:50:00 PM | Lawsuit Filed In Kansas Over Benzene Drinks =(0) Consumers in several parts of the US have filed a class-action lawsuit against Talking Rain Beverage, Zone Beverages and Polar Beverages, alleging that ingredients in the fruit drinks they make can react to form benzene, which causes health problems including cancer. The companies and other beverage makers say they have changed their formulation t...
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4/28/2006 7:05:00 PM | Dual Stent Could Help Save Lives =(0) Doctors in Cincinnati have combined two common medical devices to produce a "dual stent" intended to save the lives of some trauma victims. If the main artery in the body, the aorta, is damaged, people can bleed to death in seconds; but a doctor on the scene can quickly pass the dual stent through a small incision, and it can plug up the arte...
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4/28/2006 4:28:00 PM | Too Little Sleep Could Cause Diabetes =(0) A study finds that people who sleep fewer than five hours a night have 2.5 times the risk of developing diabetes. The increased rate lessens as sleeping hours increase, but rises again for those sleeping more than nine hours. The theory is that sleep deprivation interferes with the body's glucose metabolism. As well as a cause-effect rela...
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4/28/2006 3:03:00 PM | MS drug Tysabri closer to EU launch =(0) The controversial Multiple Sclerosis drug Tysabri is a step closer to approval in the European Union. An advisory committee has recommended its use in certain cases of MS, as a stand-alone therapy (that is, not in combination with other drugs). No further cases of the deadly brain condition PML have been detected in Tysabri users. This co...
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4/27/2006 10:41:00 AM | Eli Lilly wants AG's suit moved to Federal Court =(0) The State of West Virginia is among several that are suing Eli Lilly & Co. over alleged deceptive practices in its marketing of the psychiatric drug Zyprexa. Allegations are that Lilly's sales people promoted the drug for various off-label uses and downplayed serious side effects such as an increased risk of diabetes. The State is asking ...
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4/27/2006 12:51:00 AM | Lawyers: Nyanza lawsuit would be tough =(0) It would be difficult but not impossible for families of those who contracted cancer after exposure to the chemicals dumped by Nyanza Inc. in Ashland Massachusetts, to sue for damages. The site, inactive since 1978, became an EPA superfund cleanup site shortly thereafter, and the dye companies who operated there are long insolvent. Howeve...
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4/26/2006 5:05:00 PM | Wyeth faces thousands of Prempro lawsuits =(0) Drugmaker Wyeth has been hit with thousands of lawsuits alleging that its menopause drug, Prempro, causes breast cancer. Prempro is a hormone preparation intended to reduce the symptoms of menopause and lower the risk of osteoporosis. Allegations are that Prempro, which remains on the market, is overprescribed and prescribed for too long...
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4/26/2006 7:14:00 AM | Sunscreen no panacea for UV rays =(0) A class-action suit has been filed in California against sunscreen manufacturers, alleging that the claims they make about their product are exaggerated. Sunscreen alone does not completely prevent skin cancers such as melanoma, according to dermatologists. It blocks some types of UV rays (UVB) better than others (UVA) but both can cause damage, in...
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4/25/2006 11:07:00 PM | Lawsuit: Chemical Plant Caused 3 Neighbors' Cancer =(0) Three neighbors in the tiny Illinois town of McCullom Lake, northwest of Chicago, have sued the Rohm and Hass Chemical Company who operates a factory near their homes. Members of all three families have contracted brain cancer, and they allege it is the result of toxic chemicals dumped in the area for years and that vinyl chloride, a carcinoge...
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4/25/2006 6:52:00 AM | Woman launches class action suit after eardrum surgery =(0) A Vancouver B.C. woman has started the process for a class-action lawsuit against various defendants including a hospital and an ear bank. The woman had surgery on her eardrums after they were damaged during an airplane flight. The surgery involved donor cadaver tissue from an ear bank that has since been revealed as negligent in record-keepin...
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4/24/2006 7:35:00 AM | Non Smokers Respond Better To Lung Cancer Treatment =(0) A new study finds that smoking not only causes lung cancer but hinders its treatment. People with non-small cell lung cancer who had never smoked responded better to chemotherapy and had better survival statistics than previous smokers or current smokers. The reason for this may lie in the genetic damage done to cells by cigarette smoke a...
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