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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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Tempeh Starter Yeast recalled over salmonella
A Rockville company is recalling all packages of a food product because of potential salmonella contamination. Indonesianfoodmart.com announced the recall of Tempeh Starter Yeast and Super Starter Yeast on Tuesday. The products were distributed nationwide and abroad. The product was imported from Indonesia. It comes in sealed, clear, plastic packages ...
UNC, WakeMed hospitals end Raleigh turf battle
One of North Carolina's largest private hospital systems and the University of North Carolina Health Care System ended a turf battle Tuesday over the Research Triangle region's health care market. Public university system President Tom Ross and the heads of UNC Health Care and Raleigh-based WakeMed Health & Hospitals announced ...
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 ...
Hundreds face tuberculosis tests at Indiana school
A suspected case of tuberculosis at an Indiana middle school has health officials preparing to test up to 1,000 students and school employees for the disease. The parents of Woodrow Wilson Middle School students were notified by phone calls Monday about the illness, but Vigo County health officials wouldn't disclose ...
Brandon Cronenberg is a chip off the bloody block
You wait years for a new Cronenberg movie at Cannes, and then two come along at once. Macabre master David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis" screens at the film festival on Friday — but first off the bat was "Antiviral," the debut feature by his son, Brandon Cronenberg. A horror-meets-satire take on celebrity ...
Born to run barefoot? Some end up getting injured
Swept by the barefoot running craze, ultramarathoner Ryan Carter ditched his sneakers for footwear that mimics the experience of striding unshod. The first time he tried it two years ago, he ran a third of a mile on grass. Within three weeks of switching over, he was clocking six miles ...
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