Health Care Tips: May 2016

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Health News Alerts: 28.9% of all breast cancers can be prevented by controlling 4 risk factors

According to a study published on JAMA Oncology last Thursday, 28.9% of all breast cancers diagnosed on white women from the United States can be prevented by taking into account 4 risk factors.
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Healthcare Tips: White House scrapped FDA plan to restrict flavored e-cigarettes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House office deleted language in a recently introduced tobacco regulation that would have removed flavored e-cigarettes from the market until they had been authorized by the Food and Drug Administration, an edited version of the document shows.

Health News Alerts: Living organ donors deserve insurance protection

Living organ donors today experience higher premiums or denial of insurance coverage based solely on their status as a donor. Is it right that a person making such a sacrifice to save the life of a stranger or family member should be required to deal ...
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Healthcare Tips: Better-trained doctors would improve healthcare for trans youths: study

(Reuters Health) - Pediatricians rarely receive training in gender-affirming health care, and as a result, few transgender youths who are eligible for such healthcare actually receive it, experts say.

Health News Alerts: New UN treatment targets for HIV/AIDS would be 'expensive but worth every penny'

A new study finds that implementing the United Nations targets for HIV testing and treatment would be an expensive but ultimately very cost-effective way to increase survival, reduce the number of children orphaned by HIV, and contain the global AIDS ...
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Healthcare Tips: Canada to make plain packaging for tobacco products compulsory

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada, following the lead of Britain and Australia, will make plain packaging of cigarettes compulsory in a bid to cut the rate of smoking, Health Minister Jane Philpott said on Tuesday.

Healthcare Tips: Air pollution tied to high blood pressure risk

(Reuters Health) - Short and long-term exposure to air pollution from vehicle exhaust or burning coal is associated with high blood pressure, according to a review of 17 studies.

Healthcare Tips: General Mills recalls flour over possible link to E.coli outbreak

(Reuters) - General Mills Inc on Tuesday issued a voluntary recall of about 10 million pounds of flour, saying it was working with health officials to investigate an outbreak of E. coli that had sickened 38 people in 20 states.

Healthcare Tips: For some U.K. teens, sun doesn’t provide enough vitamin D

(Reuters Health) - At one point in the year, almost 80 percent of teens in a UK study had insufficient vitamin D that should come from sun exposure, and one quarter had insufficient levels even at the peak of summer, according to a new study.

Healthcare Tips: AC Immune files for U.S. IPO to develop Alzheimer's drug

(Reuters) - Swiss biotech firm AC Immune SA filed with U.S. regulators on Tuesday to raise up to $50 million in an initial public offering of common stock.

Healthcare Tips: When seniors stop driving, social isolation looms

(Reuters Health) - When elderly drivers have to stop getting behind the wheel, they run the risk of social isolation, especially if they don’t have an alternative transportation plan, a recent study suggests.

Healthcare Tips: Burden of pricey hepatitis C drugs heaviest in eastern Europe

LONDON (Reuters) - New hepatitis C drugs that can cure the liver-destroying disease are revolutionizing treatment but their high price is a huge burden in some countries, particularly in central and eastern Europe, according to a new study.

Health News Alerts: Superbugs spark fears of 'antibiotic apocalypse'

Scientists are warning that the world could be in for an "antibiotic apocalypse", with a rise in drug-resistant superbugs killing 10 million people every year by 2050.
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Health News Alerts: Superbugs to kill 10 million a year by 2050

The bacteria are coming for us. A new report commissioned by the UK government predicts that “superbugs” could kill more than 10 million people annually by 2050.
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Health News Alerts: Kids, Parents & Mental Health: It's Time to Talk

More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease combined.
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Health News Alerts: 11 measles cases confirmed: What you need to know about the outbreak

Arizona health officials Monday announced another case of measles - bringing the total to 11 cases - and warned of more than one dozen places in Pinal and Maricopa counties where the public may have been exposed to the disease.
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Health News Alerts: Prescription Pain Killers May Worsen And Lengthen Chronic Pain

News from a research team studying the effects of opioids may help explain the explosion in prescription pain-killer addictions of the last several years.
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Health News Alerts: Gasol considering not playing in Rio Games

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA - MARCH 29: Pau Gasol #16 of the Chicago Bulls dribbles the ball during the game against the Indiana Pacers at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on March 29, 2016 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Health News Alerts: Plain tobacco packaging likely for early next year

Associate Health Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga shows how plain-packaged cigarettes could soon look. Photo / NZME. Here's how cigarette packs could soon look - a standard package with gruesome warning image.
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