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FDA Adds Cancer Warning to Foot Cream
The Food and Drug Administration warned patients Friday that using large amounts of a Johnson & Johnson foot ulcer medication could heighten their risk of dying from cancer.
The FDA added its most serious warning to the company’s cream medication Regranex, which is prescribed to treat severe foot and leg ulcers in diabetics. The new boxed […]
Baby born after rare ovarian pregnancy
A woman in a northern Australian city gave birth to a healthy baby girl after a rare full-term ectopic pregnancy, a hospital official said Friday.
Meera Thangarajah, 34, had no symptoms or complications during her pregnancy, so doctors performing a routine Caesarean section Thursday were shocked to find that the baby had developed in the ovary […]
Omega-3 may ease depression during pregnancy
For pregnant women diagnosed with major depressive disorder, treatment with omega-3 fatty acid supplements may reduce depressive symptoms, according to the findings of a small clinical trial.
“Perinatal depression is common, and treatment remains challenging,” Dr. Kuan-Pin Su, of China Medical University Hospital, Taiwan, and colleagues explain in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
Bond bill for California prison health care fails
California’s state Senate failed on Tuesday to pass a bill approving nearly $7 billion in bond financing for prison health-care facilities but its advocates plan to bring the legislation back for a vote on Thursday.
“It fell five votes short,” said Clark Kelso, the court-appointed receiver who is pushing lawmakers to fund new construction to improve […]
Taste for Quick Boost Tied to Taste for Risk
Health researchers have identified a surprising new predictor for risky behavior among teenagers and young adults: the energy drink.
Super-caffeinated energy drinks, with names like Red Bull, Monster, Full Throttle and Amp, have surged in popularity in the past decade. About a third of 12- to 24-year-olds say they regularly down energy drinks, which account for […]
South Africa wages intensified war on AIDS
The abused and orphaned children in Pastor Julius Bonani’s church are the face of an AIDS epidemic that is killing nearly 1,000 South Africans a day and infecting even more.
And yet, the 18 children who live in Bonani’s heartbreak home, in a shanty town filled with dust and despair, also personify a tortuous journey toward […]
Hormone Therapy Safe, Effective for Women Entering Menopause
Many women, and even some physicians, quickly abandoned the use of hormone replacement therapy in 2002, after the large Women’s Health Study suggested that the treatment might harm women who were long past menopause.
But now a team of international experts has concluded that for women in early menopause, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can safely provide […]
For an All-Organic Formula, Baby, That’s Sweet
Amy Chase started feeding Similac Organic infant formula to her second son, Amos, as soon as he was born in November 2006.
“When I saw the organic at Publix, I bought it, no questions asked,” said Ms. Chase, a self-described “yoga mom” in Atlanta.
Like Ms. Chase, many American parents have rushed to embrace Similac Organic formula, […]
HRT hype ‘means women miss out’
Some of the concerns over HRT and heart disease and breast cancer are not justified by the clinical evidence, the International Menopause Society said.
However, cancer expert Professor Valerie Beral, of Oxford University, dismissed the research as flawed.