Health News

Title: Teen Pot Smoking Won't Lead to Other Drugs as Adults
Category: Health News
Created: 9/3/2010 9:08:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/3/2010 9:08:05 AM

AP - Federal regulators have backed off a plan to remove a Shire PLC low blood-pressure treatment from the market after warning in August that the drug has not been proven effective.

As schools start back into session around the country, some parents face a difficult question: Send their little ones to kindergarten as soon as they become age-eligible, or hold them back?

Even before the recent salmonella outbreak, America's egg industry was struggling to fend off another threat: allegations that it was cruel to chickens.


Business - Poultry - Meat and Seafood - Food and Related Products - United States

LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia should be pulled from sale because of concerns about heart risks, British drug regulators said on Monday ahead of a special European meeting on the drug's safety.

Title: Prescription Drug Use on the Rise in U.S.
Category: Health News
Created: 9/3/2010 9:03:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/3/2010 9:03:48 AM

AP - It's hard to predict which pills will best lower which patient's high blood pressure, but researchers are hunting ways to better personalize therapy — perhaps even using a blood test.

Wanda Rodriguez never knew  Victor Peraza growing up. He split from her mother just months after she was born and was never a part of their lives. But in an uncanny coincidence, the New York nurse was reunited with her terminally dad some 41 years later.

BEIJING - If all goes according to plan, this fall a girl somewhere in China's Yunnan province will tell her boyfriend she can't have sex with him. And he'll have an abstinence program from the United States to thank.


Sex education - Education - Abstinence-Only - Sexuality - United States

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh issued a red alert on Sunday over an outbreak of anthrax which has infected nearly 300 people and killed about 150 cattle in the north of the country in the past two weeks.