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FDA panel votes against new use for J&J's Xarelto
A majority of Food and Drug Administration panelists voted against a new use for Johnson & Johnson's blood thinner Xarelto to reduce life-threatening blood clots. The FDA's panel of experts voted 6-4 Wednesday against the new use for the pill, saying too much information was missing from company studies to ...
Bryant signs laws affecting students and veterans
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed a bill Wednesday that requires kindergarteners or first-graders to be tested for dyslexia, a reading disorder that can sometimes go undiagnosed for years and leave children struggling to learn. The matter is intensely personal for Bryant. He was in fourth grade before a caring teacher ...
Man says Ore. psychiatrist told him he wasn't gay
Max Hirsh says he sensed something wasn't quite right when the psychiatrist focused on his failures with sports and teenage girls, as well as his deficient relationships with older men, particularly his father. Hirsh became convinced of the psychiatrist's rationale for those questions by the fourth session, when he essentially ...
Injury forces Michael McKean out of Broadway show
Broadway producers scrambled Wednesday to fill Michael McKean's part in a revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" as the actor recovers from a broken leg after being struck by a car. Producer Jeffrey Richards said that McKean's role will be played by James Lecesne from now on after Tuesday ...
Person visited neonatal units before TB diagnosis
A person with an active case of tuberculosis who visited two Northern California neonatal intensive care units had a valid reason to be there and had not been diagnosed at the time, officials said Wednesday. Little information has been released about the contagious individual, who was not a hospital employee ...
Iowa sports announcer gets clean bill of health
The University of Iowa's football and men's basketball announcer Gary Dolphin says he's gotten a clean bill of health after undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. Dolphin told The Des Moines Register (http://dmreg.co/JI2QnG ) on Wednesday that's he's "ready to go for a great year of Hawkeye football." He's entering his ...
Gov. Deal launches childhood obesity initiative
Georgia's governor and the state health department have launched a program aimed at addressing childhood obesity through government, philanthropic and academic efforts. In announcing the SHAPE program on Wednesday, Gov. Nathan Deal's Office said Georgia has the second highest obesity rate in the country for children ages 10 to 17. ...
Lawsuit alleges toxic exposure at prison in Fla.
More than 160 current and former employees and family members are suing the federal prison agency over ailments they blame on exposure to toxins at an electronics recycling facility at a penitentiary in the Florida Panhandle. Many are suffering from sores, joint pain, memory loss and internal bleeding as well ...
Peru agency says cause of dolphin deaths unsolved
The mass die-off of nearly 900 dolphins and porpoises along Peru's coast remains unsolved, Peru's government marine research agency says. Tuesday's final report by the Sea Institute ruled out viral and bacterial infections, human intervention, pesticides or heavy metals as causes for the deaths, which were first noticed on Feb. ...
NC company wants to use art to encourage health
A new company in High Point is hoping to color the world with its art prints that encourage folks to eat smarter, think positively and exercise. Paradigm Nutrition Inc., formed in late 2011, offers "nutritional facts in a nonthreatening, easy-to-understand way," said Bill McKenzie, who owns the company with his ...
Auction claims it's selling vial with Reagan blood
A Channel Islands auction house says it's selling a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from Ronald Reagan — a move denounced Tuesday by the late U.S. president's family and his foundation. The vial being auctioned online was used by the laboratory that tested Reagan's blood when he was treated ...
OH docs can't reveal drilling chemicals to public
Doctors given new access to the proprietary chemical recipes that oil and gas drillers use to crack into Ohio shale would be prohibited from sharing the information with the public under an energy proposal moving through the Ohio House. Environmentalists liken the restriction to a gag order on medical professionals. ...
Officials: 35 babies exposed to TB in 2 hospitals
Health officials are warning parents that their babies were exposed to tuberculosis while in neonatal-intensive care units at hospitals in Sacramento and Fairfield. The Sacramento Bee (http://bit.ly/KJsKqT) reports health officials on Tuesday notified the parents of 20 infants who spent time at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento from March 14 ...
Kuna school closing after lice outbreak
A southwestern Idaho school district is closing an elementary school due to an outbreak of head lice. The Kuna School District closed Indian Creek Elementary Tuesday because more than 60 students and nine staff members have head lice. District officials said the school was being closed for the day so ...
NM health official resigns after condoms comment
The chief medical officer for the state Department of Health said she was asked to resign after giving a television interview in which she advocated condom use to slow the growth of sexually transmitted diseases among teens. Chief Medical Officer Erin Bouquin said she got an email an hour after ...
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