Reuters: Health News

Insecticide resistance threatens malaria fight

Tue, 15 May 2012 08:09:26 -0400

LONDON (Reuters) - Malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Africa and India are becoming resistant to insecticides, putting millions of lives at greater risk and threatening eradication efforts, health experts said on Tuesday.

Revealing brain damage from battlefield to playing field

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:09:17 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Traumatic brain injury, the signature wound of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, is doubly cruel: it leaves many victims emotionally shattered and cognitively crippled. But because mild and moderate brain injuries do not show up on CT or other imaging, doctors and even family members are often skeptical that any real damage exists.

Steroids cut sinus infection symptoms slightly

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:49:59 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Nasal spray steroids, taken for three weeks, help to shorten the length of time people feel pain and congestion from a sinus infection, according to a new review of several studies.

Back pain tends to improve quickly, not completely

Wed, 16 May 2012 12:26:46 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Lower back pain often fades fairly quickly, but it may stubbornly linger to some extent for months or more, a new study finds.

India's Piramal Healthcare to buy U.S. firm to boost R&D

Wed, 16 May 2012 01:12:50 -0400

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian drugmaker Piramal Healthcare has agreed to buy a U.S.-based healthcare data provider for $635 million to boost research and development, the company said on Wednesday, a month after it acquired the new molecules division of Germany's Bayer's.

WHO warns of high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity

Wed, 16 May 2012 04:01:45 -0400

LONDON (Reuters) - Health data released on Wednesday provided the clearest evidence to date of the spread of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease from developed nations to poorer regions such as Africa, as lifestyles and diets there change.

U.S. HIV aid has prevented 741,000 deaths: study

Wed, 16 May 2012 09:07:59 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The United States foreign aid program that sends billions of dollars to African countries for HIV treatment and prevention has cut the number of people dying for any reason in those nations, a new study suggests.

Acupuncture may help some people with COPD: study

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:28:35 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Three months of acupuncture improved breathing problems in people with chronic lung disease, in a new study from Japan.

FDA panel backs OraSure's In-Home HIV test

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:59:12 -0400

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel of outside experts concluded that OraSure Technologies Inc's over-the-counter, in-home HIV test is reasonably safe and effective for determining whether someone has the AIDS virus.

Young adults with autism lag in school, work

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:21:56 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young adults with autism are less likely to go to college or hold down a job than their peers with other types of disabilities, a new U.S. study finds.