2015年1月14日 星期三

2015-01-15 U.S. Health


SavingAdvice.com
   
More Than 1 in 10 Taking Aspirin for Their Heart Are Inappropriately Doing So   
SavingAdvice.com
Many people have heard of the regimen of taking a daily low-dose aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) to help ward off heart attacks, and for certain people, it's a routine which has the potential to save their life. On the other hand, a new study published in the Journal ...

Studies reveal that 11% of people who take aspirin to prevent heart disease ...   Geek Infinite
Aspirin Could Be Doing More Harm Than Good   Viral Global News
12% of patients taking aspirin unnecessarily for heart attack prevention   The Hoops News
Capitalberg   
The Westside Story   
myCentralOregon.com   
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USA TODAY
   
Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea making Ebola strides   
USA TODAY
Ebola cases in Sierra Leone have fallen for the second straight week and health experts say the region could be turning a corner in the battle against the disease. The number of new cases in the three hardest hit nations – Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea ...

Fear of Ebola Curtails Female Genital Mutilation, Offers Hope of Curbing Brutal ...   Bloomberg
Ebola Cases Drop Off in West Africa   NBCNews.com
Ebola's Causing A Preventable Hunger Crisis, But No One's Stopping It   Huffington Post
Voice of America   
Al Jazeera America   
Sierra Express Media   
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BBC News
   
Inactivity 'kills more than obesity'   
BBC News
A lack of exercise could be killing twice as many people in Europe as obesity, a 12-year study of more than 300,000 people suggests. University of Cambridge researchers said about 676,000 deaths each year were down to inactivity, compared with 337,000 ...

Lack of Exercise More Deadly Than Obesity: Study   WebMD
Inactivity is bigger killer than obesity, claims study   Irish Independent
Lack Of Exercise Causes 2X As Many Deaths As Obesity   Science 2.0
Herald Sun   
The Guardian   
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Healthline
   
An ADHD drug may tame binge eating disorder   
Los Angeles Times
Binge eating disorder, a newly recognized condition in which bouts of voracious eating lead to guilt, shame and often obesity, may yield to lisdexamfetamine (marketed as Vyvanse), a medication that has been used for several years to treat attention deficit ...

ADHD Drug May Be Effective for Binge-Eating Disorder   Healthline
ADHD Drug May Be Approved to Treat Binge-Eating   Tech Times
ADHD drug helps binge eating disorder   WWSB ABC 7
Capitalberg   
Wall Street Hedge   
Newsmax Health   
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Capital OTC
   
Hepatitis C Virus's widespread screening may not be completely beneficial ...   
The Hoops News
Hepatitis C, caused by Hepatitis C virus is considered as a serious health threat worldwide. To prevent untimely deaths caused by this liver disease and also in order to provide better medications to the existing patients, public health officials keep ...

To screen or not to screen for hepatitis C   Scope (blog)
New study casts doubt on wisdom of mass hepatitis C testing   SFGate
Experts warn widespread HCV screening harms may outweigh benefits   Healio
Clinical Advisor   
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer   
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9NEWS.com
   
US Painkiller Abuse 'Epidemic' May Be Declining   
WebMD
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 14, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. "epidemic" of prescription-painkiller abuse may be starting to reverse course, a new study suggests. Experts said the findings, published Jan. 15 in the New England Journal of Medicine, are ...

Abuse of opiate-based painkillers seen declining in US   WTAQ

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Health.com
   
This Kid's 3D-Printed 'Stormtrooper' Prosthetic Arm Is the Definition of Cool   
Health.com
That 7-year-old Liam Porter, who was born without part of his left arm, got a fitted for a working prosthetic last weekend is sweet enough—but that it was a Star Wars Stormtrooper arm 3D-printed especially for him makes it a-mazing. The arm was presented to ...

This Seven Year Old Got A Badass 'Stars Wars'-Themed Prosthetic Arm   Uproxx
Boy given 3D-printed Star Wars Stormtrooper prosthetic arm   Digital Spy

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New York Times
   
Johnson & Johnson Will Make Clinical Data Available to Outside Researchers   
New York Times
The health care giant Johnson & Johnson has agreed to make detailed clinical trial data on its medical devices and diagnostic tests available to outside researchers through a collaboration with Yale University, making it the first large device manufacturer to ...

Buried Clinical Trial Data: The Dam Is About To Burst   Forbes
Institute of Medicine Urges Broader Sharing of Clinical Trial Data   Wall Street Journal (blog)
Johnson & Johnson Sends More Data to Yale for Researchers   Businessweek
Vox   
ModernHealthcare.com   
Medical Xpress   
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U-T San Diego
   
Venter signs sequencing deal with Genentech   
U-T San Diego
A company co-founded by La Jolla biologist J. Craig Venter plans to decode tens of thousands of human genomes for drug developer Genentech, advancing his goal of sequencing 1 million genomes by 2020. Venter declined to discuss the financial terms of ...

Genome wiz Venter partners with Roche in DNA sequencing deal   Reuters
Human Longevity, Genentech Ink Deal to Sequence Thousands of Genomes   GenomeWeb
Human Longevity signs agreement with Genentech   San Diego Source (subscription)

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Medical Xpress
   
Depression Can Precede Memory Loss in Alzheimer's   
WebMD
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 14, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Depression, sleep problems and behavioral changes can show up before signs of memory loss in people who go on to develop Alzheimer's disease, a new study suggests. "I wouldn't worry at this point if ...

Alzheimer's may first show itself as depression: study   New York Daily News
Depression may precede Alzheimer's   WJXT Jacksonville
Depressive symptoms may present before Alzheimer's disease diagnosis   Healio
TheChronicleHerald.ca (registration)   
TIME   
Newsmax Health   
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