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"Closantel, an older drug used to treat a parasitic liver disease in animals, may prove effective at combating river blindness in humans, a major cause of infection-related blindness, U.S. researchers said on Monday," Reuters reports (Steenhuysen, 2/8).
"India has postponed the launch of its first genetically modified (GM) vegetable, saying it would adopt a cautious approach and wait for more scientific studies on the impact of the new variety of eggplant," Reuters reports (Majumdar, 2/9).
The death toll from the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti has risen to 230,000, Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue, the country's communications minister, said on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. She said the new number is only an estimate and it does not include people who had private burials and were buried by family members. The death toll is higher than the previous estimate of 212,000 and the government says some bodies still have not been counted (2/9).
Proposed changes for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders include new terminology.
The gap in California between state funding and liabilities for state retirees' health and dental benefits is nearly $52 billion. Meanwhile, Nevada officials say cuts in Medicaid program will include rationing of adult diapers and elimination of dentures and hearing aids programs.
Statements and messages from Democratic lawmakers are all over the board this week.
Efforts are part of a campaign in about three dozen states to fight possible federal mandate, which conservatives argue is unconstitutional.
Today, we feature opinions and editorials on preventable medical errors, GOP ideas for health reform and chicken soup for the legislative soul.
The Food and Drug Administration will step up oversight of three medical techniques in an effort to reduce patients' exposure to unnecessary radiation, including CT scans.
Hospitals with doctors and executives who committed Medicare fraud are dealing with paying back the millions their employees took from the system.
The COBRA subsidy program would be extended under the draft Senate jobs bill, Business Insurance reports.
"Lawsuits, state inspections and federal statistics paint a troubling picture of the care offered at some hospitals," writes The New York Times in an investigation of long-term care hospitals.
Larger, for-profit hospitals may be using feeding tubes on patients with advanced dementia without improving the quality of their care, a study finds.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports on a bipartisan meeting between President Obama and congressional leaders -- health reform was among the items discussed.
After a long meeting with congressional leaders, President Obama talked to reporters about his openness to ideas that help promote goals such as health care and job creation.
As the number of new H1N1 (swine flu) infections worldwide drops, U.S. health officials on Friday cautioned the virus continues to circulate and can still be deadly, Reuters reports. According to the WHO, H1N1 remains the dominant strain worldwide, but there are reports of the recent emergence of the seasonal flu in Africa and China, according to the news agency.
A study released on Monday found that between 26 percent and 44 percent of artemisinin-based malaria drugs sold in Madagascar, Senegal and Uganda "failed quality testing" because of impurities or insufficient amounts of active ingredient, the Associated Press reports.
At a press conference on Saturday, "Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said he and his G-7 colleagues would forgive bilateral loans extended to poverty-stricken Haiti, which estimates it could have lost 200,000 residents in the major earthquake that hit last month," Dow Jones Newswires reports. Flaherty also said Haiti's multilateral debt should be nullified as soon as possible (Thiruvengadam, 2/6).
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