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• Colonoscopy repeats greater with non-specialists

  Fetched: September 4th, 2010, 1:03am CDT

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older adults who have a colonoscopy performed by a family doctor, internist or general surgeon are somewhat more likely to need another one within a year compared with those who have the procedure done by a gastroenterologist, a new report finds.

• Protein test ups diabetes diagnoses in some races

  Fetched: September 4th, 2010, 1:03am CDT

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Efforts to adopt a more accurate test for diagnosing diabetes may have hit a snag. Comparing the age-old oral glucose tolerance test to the newer hemoglobin A1c test confirms earlier evidence that race may influence test results, Danish researchers report.

• Antidepressant patch doesn't help smokers quit

  Fetched: September 4th, 2010, 1:03am CDT

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An antidepressant drug delivered through a patch on the skin is no better than placebo for helping smokers kick the habit, new research shows.

• Odds of getting new kidney uneven

  Fetched: September 4th, 2010, 1:03am CDT

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with kidney disease are more likely to be added to the waiting list for a kidney transplant if they've had a previous heart, lung or liver transplant, a new study suggests.

• CORRECTION: Timer may help kids' bladder control problems

  Fetched: September 4th, 2010, 1:03am CDT

  [Changes numbers of patients in first sentence of paragraph 4 (replaces 58 and 35 with 30 and 18), and replaces old para 5 with new para, in story posted Sep 2, 2010.]

• Early day care may promote eczema development

  Fetched: September 4th, 2010, 1:03am CDT

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids who spend their earliest years in day care may be at higher risk of eczema than kids cared for at home, according to a new study from Germany.

• Outgunned FDA tries to get tough with drug ads

  Fetched: September 4th, 2010, 1:03am CDT

  SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - It wasn't what you would call a casual get-together.

• Common bone drugs linked to esophageal cancer risk

  Fetched: September 4th, 2010, 1:03am CDT

  LONDON (Reuters) - People who take a commonly used class of osteoporosis drugs called bisphosphonates for more than five years may be doubling their risk of developing cancer of the gullet or esophagus, a British study found on Friday.

• U.S. medical plans missing millions of kids: report

  Fetched: September 4th, 2010, 1:03am CDT

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An estimated five million uninsured children in the United States were eligible for Medicaid or the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) but were not enrolled in either plan, according to a new report.

• Food safety a "priority" for U.S. Senate-Reid aide

  Fetched: September 4th, 2010, 1:03am CDT

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Passing food safety reform legislation this year is a "priority" for the U.S. Senate, said a spokesman for Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, as Congress feels pressure from consumer groups to act following the latest recall to highlight weaknesses in the system.

• Aqua Bounty biotech salmon OK to eat: FDA staff

  Fetched: September 4th, 2010, 1:03am CDT

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Aqua Bounty Technologies Inc's genetically engineered salmon are as safe to eat as other Atlantic salmon, U.S. regulators said in a preliminary analysis released on Friday as they weigh whether to approve the fish for Americans' dinner plates.

• Timer may help kids' bladder control problems

  Fetched: September 2nd, 2010, 7:09pm CDT

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Wearing a programmable wristwatch could help children manage their daytime bladder control problems, a new study suggests.

• Text messages little help in remembering the Pill

  Fetched: September 2nd, 2010, 7:09pm CDT

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A cell phone text message -- and the buzz or beep that signals its arrival -- may not help a woman remember to pop her birth control pill, a new study suggests.

• Starting periods early tied to greater asthma risk

  Fetched: September 2nd, 2010, 7:09pm CDT

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who start menstruating early may be at increased risk of asthma and poor lung function, new research shows.

• How often do antidepressants make people suicidal?

  Fetched: September 2nd, 2010, 7:09pm CDT

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Antidepressants rarely trigger suicidal thoughts or behaviors, suggests a new study of more than 140,000 patients in European psychiatric hospitals.

• Soy may ease sleep problems in older women

  Fetched: September 2nd, 2010, 7:09pm CDT

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The estrogen-like compounds found in soy could help postmenopausal women get a better night's sleep, according to a small study.

• Too little sleep bad for teenagers' diets: study

  Fetched: September 2nd, 2010, 7:09pm CDT

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Teenagers who sleep less than eight hours a night on weeknights eat more fatty foods and snacks than those who get more than eight hours of sleep a night, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

• New test can diagnose tuberculosis in just hours

  Fetched: September 2nd, 2010, 7:09pm CDT

  LONDON (Reuters) - A new molecular test for tuberculosis made by Cepheid can diagnose TB and detect a drug-resistant form of it far more easily and rapidly than other tests currently available, scientists said on Wednesday.

• Abbott diet drug study renews calls for U.S. ban

  Fetched: September 2nd, 2010, 7:09pm CDT

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A study funded by Abbott Laboratories offered more detailed evidence that its weight-loss drug Meridia increases heart risks, prompting renewed calls by consumer advocates and others to pull the drug from the market.

• U.S. workers see higher health costs, less care

  Fetched: September 2nd, 2010, 7:09pm CDT

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. companies are cutting healthcare costs further amid a continuing sour economy, scaling back benefits and shifting a greater share of the expense to employees.

• Experimental Novartis drug shows malaria promise

  Fetched: September 2nd, 2010, 7:09pm CDT

  LONDON (Reuters) - An experimental Novartis drug can clear malaria infection in mice with a single dose and scientists say it shows promise as a possible future treatment for one of the world's major killer diseases.

• Groups of friends key to health behavior changes

  Fetched: September 2nd, 2010, 7:09pm CDT

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - When it comes to changing health behaviors, it takes more than a far-flung network of friends on Facebook egging you on. It takes a jostling herd, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

• Women, children most vulnerable in Pakistan crisis

  Fetched: September 2nd, 2010, 7:09pm CDT

  NOWSHERA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's displaced flood victims say a lack of clean water and high temperatures are causing illnesses sweeping through relief camps with children most at risk.

• More evidence hormone therapy can muddy mammograms

  Fetched: August 31st, 2010, 11:56pm CDT

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hormone replacement therapy after menopause may interfere with the accuracy of mammograms used to screen for breast cancer -- and the risk may be greater with hormones delivered by patch or injection compared with pills, a new study finds.

• Early and late birth ups cerebral palsy risk

  Fetched: August 31st, 2010, 11:56pm CDT

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Full-term babies born a bit on the early or late side are at higher risk of cerebral palsy, according to a new study in nearly 1.7 million Norwegian children.

• Monkeypox rising in wake of smallpox eradication

  Fetched: August 31st, 2010, 11:56pm CDT

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Some thirty years after authorities doled out the last dose of smallpox vaccine, the world faces another multiplying menace: monkeypox.

• Finland's emphysema rates hold steady

  Fetched: August 31st, 2010, 11:56pm CDT

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Finland's prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a group of serious lung diseases closely related to smoking, has held relatively steady in recent decades, a new study finds.

• Proposed diabetes test misses most cases: study

  Fetched: August 31st, 2010, 11:56pm CDT

  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new proposed diabetes test could miss millions of cases of diabetes and pre-diabetes and also over-diagnose black Americans if it was used as a screening tool, suggests a new study.

• U.S. egg producers failed to follow own safety plans

  Fetched: August 31st, 2010, 11:56pm CDT

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two Iowa egg farms linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened thousands failed to follow their own safety plans, allowing rodents and other animals into poultry houses, U.S. Food and Drug Administration inspectors found.

• Scientist devises faster test for detecting E.coli

  Fetched: August 31st, 2010, 11:56pm CDT

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Purdue University food scientist using infrared spectroscopy took only an hour to find harmful E. coli bacteria in ground beef, a discovery that could cut days off investigations of outbreaks, the university said in a statement on Monday.