Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard sued the New York City Board of Health over its rule requiring graphic anti-smoking posters near cigarette registers, calling it a First Amendment restriction on speech about a lawful product. The health department defends the posters as deterring teens.
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Avoiding Illness
How diet and lifestyle affect cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other illnesses.
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Heart & Blood
Rue Mcclanahan Dead at 75
Actress Rue McClanahan, best known as Blanche Devereaux on Golden Girls, died at home at 75 after a massive stroke, her manager said. The piece lists stroke risk factors and warning signs such as sudden numbness, blurred vision and difficulty speaking.
Autoimmune Diseases
Lady Gaga Discusses Lupus
On Larry King Live, Lady Gaga said she had tested borderline positive for lupus but shows no signs or symptoms. The piece reviews the disease: fatigue and joint pain are common early signs, nine in ten patients are women, and drugs control symptoms but do not cure it.
Cancer
Breast Cancer Vaccine Promising
Cleveland Clinic researchers vaccinated mice bred to develop breast cancer against a protein found in most breast cancer cells, and none developed the disease, while all the placebo mice grew tumors. Lead researcher Vincent Tuohy stresses the human result is still unknown.
Cancer
Cigarette Ads Target Women Worldwide
WHO surveyed 151 countries and found half reported as many young girls smoking as boys. The agency warns that tobacco marketing increasingly targets women and girls in developing countries, and is especially concerned about China.
Obesity
Obesity boosts cancer risk big time
Reviewing the epidemiological evidence in Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, Oxford's T.J. Key reports each 10 kg/m2 rise in body mass index goes with higher risks of esophageal, colon, breast, endometrial and kidney cancer. The editor cautions the link may not be causal.
Avoiding Illness
FDA Approves Egrifta
An FDA advisory committee voted unanimously in favor of tesamorelin acetate, marketed as Egrifta, for abdominal lipodystrophy in HIV patients. In the trial it reviewed, 57 percent of those given the drug lost 8 percent or more abdominal fat against 29 percent on placebo.
Avoiding Illness
Prescribed Heroin Proves Successful
In a King's College London study, 127 severely addicted patients were randomly assigned heroin injections, methadone injections or methadone pills. More than 66 percent of those given heroin had no street heroin in their urine at least half the time, after daily use beforehand.
Avoiding Illness
Oral Hygeine is Good for the Heart
A survey of 11,000 people in Scotland found those who brushed their teeth less than twice a day were 70 percent more likely to have had a heart attack, and more often tested positive for inflammatory markers. Researchers adjusted for obesity, family history, smoking and social class.
Other Diseases
FDA Issues Warning About PPIs
The FDA warned doctors and patients that proton pump inhibitors such as Nexium, Prilosec, Aciphex and Prevacid carry a raised risk of hip, spine and wrist fractures, and said packaging will now carry a warning. It urged weighing benefits case by case or shortening treatment.
Avoiding Illness
Study: Pregnant Women Suffer Direct Hit from H1N1
Reviewing records of 18 pregnant women hospitalized with H1N1 in Brooklyn between May and June 2009, researchers found three needed intensive care and seven gave birth there, six of those births premature. Two infants died and four were delivered by emergency C-section.
Autoimmune Diseases
Female to Male AIDS Transmission Higher in Pregnancy
Researchers at the University of Nairobi and Kenyatta National Hospital studied more than 3,300 couples with one infected partner and found men whose pregnant partners had HIV faced double the infection risk; why remains unclear. The piece also reports rising infections in Uganda.
Avoiding Illness
Many Public Pools Harbor Dangerous Bacteria
CDC data collected across 13 states in 2008 found one in eight public pools carried enough microorganisms to concern health officials, and more than 12 percent had to close for serious code violations. Cryptosporidium, E. coli and Giardia drive most recreational water illness.
Cancer
Rats on Junk Food Pass Cancer Down the Generations
Research presented at a 2010 AACR meeting found rats fed a fatty diet in pregnancy had daughters and granddaughters at greater breast cancer risk, even when the second generation ate well. New Scientist reports a fatty diet may cause heritable epigenetic DNA changes.
Cancer
Broccoli compound fights breast cancer
University of Michigan researchers injected sulforaphane from broccoli into mice with breast cancer and counted fewer cancer stem cells in the tumors. Cells from treated mice could not seed new tumors, and human breast cancer cells behaved similarly.
Obesity
Too lazy or too busy to exercise? No problem!
Randall Johnson's team knocked out the gene for the enzyme FIH in mice, and the animals stayed thin and healthy even on a high-fat diet, while hyperventilating and drinking more than usual. The researchers suggest a drug might one day suppress the gene to raise metabolism.
Cancer
New evidence: Vitamin D supplements reduce breast cancer risk
In a Canadian case-control study of 3,101 breast cancer patients and 3,471 controls, women taking 400 IU of vitamin D a day had 24 percent lower risk than non-users. Vitamin D from food showed no association, and calcium supplements were not significantly linked to risk.
Cancer
Comment: Fruit, veggies can't cut cancer risk?
Sir Tim Hunt told a cancer conference that eating fruit and vegetables does nothing to cut cancer risk. The piece notes he was not on the research team, and that neither the BBC report nor the cited abstract explains which levels of intake were compared.
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