A Science study found the retrovirus XMRV in 67 percent of people with chronic fatigue syndrome against 3 percent of healthy controls. The researchers stress they have shown only an association, and plan to try antiretroviral drugs to test whether the virus causes the illness.
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Healthcare
Massachusetts School To Implement Breathalyzer Analysis
A Foxborough school district plan, pending an October 19 vote, would let officials give breathalyzer tests to students suspected of drinking during school hours. The ACLU objects, warning the threat could push students toward illicit drugs instead.
Disease
Massive Numbers of Flu Cases Make Specific Diagnoses Impossible
Doctors stopped counting confirmed swine flu cases in July, and patients are often told they have it without any test, so no accurate tally exists. CDC now lets states report either lab-confirmed hospitalizations and deaths or looser “syndromic” cases.
Disease
Children's deaths increase from H1N1 virus, protection is critical: CDC
The CDC reported 76 pediatric deaths from H1N1, 19 of them in a single week, with the virus now widespread in 37 states, up from 27. Dr. Anne Schuchat says most people in a given community are susceptible, while a CBS poll found over a third of parents would not vaccinate their children.
Drug
Gardasil for Boys Deemed Fiscally Imprudent
FDA analysis so far suggests vaccinating boys against HPV would not be cost-effective, since girls are already urged to be immunized. The researchers assumed 75 percent of young women will eventually be vaccinated; a lower figure would prompt a re-evaluation.
Environment
Air pollution may trigger appendicitis
Examining 5,191 adults admitted to hospital in Calgary, researchers found high levels of ozone and nitrogen dioxide correlated with appendicitis, particularly in men. The Canadian Medical Association Journal authors say it is not clear whether air pollution actually raises the risk.
Government
Police Soon Authorized to Vaccinate Massachusetts
Mercola claims Massachusetts is close to passing a law that would let police imprison people who refuse the H1N1 vaccine, force children to be vaccinated, and quarantine without a warrant once the governor declares an emergency.
Lifestyle
Obesity: America’s New Health Obsession
A 2005 CDC survey found only 40 percent of obese patients are told by their doctors to lose weight. The piece weighs city responses, from New York's menu labeling to Los Angeles's moratorium on new fast food outlets, alongside critics who point to the lack of fresh produce instead.
Lifestyle
Simple Steps to Lower Your Breast Cancer Risk
An update adding 81 studies lists steps women can take: stay lean without being underweight, exercise at least 30 minutes a day, limit alcohol to one drink, and breast-feed. Separate studies warn that more screening brings false positives and unnecessary treatment.
Disease
Virus linked to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Researchers found the XMRV virus in 67 percent of 101 chronic fatigue syndrome patients and in 8 of 218 healthy people. The virus, also linked to prostate cancer, has not been shown to cause either illness. The findings, published in Science, raise hopes for antiviral treatment.
Drug
Microchips to Make Breast Cancer Screenings Less Invasive
University of Toronto researchers describe a lab-on-a-chip that uses digital microfluidics to measure hormones in tiny samples of blood, serum and breast tissue, avoiding large biopsies. They say it may someday allow routine estrogen screening in high-risk women.
Miscellaneous
Arkansas ranks near bottom in health care scorecard
The Commonwealth Fund ranked states on 38 health care indicators and placed Arkansas 48th, one spot better than the prior year, helped by improvements in children's care. More than 37 percent of the state's children are overweight and 23 percent of adults smoke.
Drug
Hepatitis B Vaccine Triples the Risk of Autism in Infant Boys
A study using National Health Interview Survey data from 1997 to 2002 concluded that US male newborns vaccinated against hepatitis B had a threefold greater risk of an autism spectrum disorder. Mercola argues the vaccine should never have entered the newborn schedule.
Drug
Mild H1N1 flu and over-hyped vaccine
The piece argues H1N1 is likely no more harmful than seasonal flu and that coverage is overheated. It notes polls showing fewer than half of Americans would take the vaccine, a New York rule requiring nurses to be vaccinated or fired, and Mercola's complaint about limited testing.
Drug
Cocaine vaccine shows moderate efficacy
In a 150-person randomized trial led from Yale, five injections of a cocaine vaccine raised anticocaine antibodies above 43 micrograms per mL in only 38% of subjects, and those who reached that level had more cocaine-free urine samples. Protection lasted about two months; side effects were local.
Miscellaneous
Is Eli Lilly Milking Cancer by Promoting AND Treating It?
Jeffrey Smith writes that Eli Lilly paid $300 million in 2008 for Monsanto's bovine growth hormone rbGH, a drug banned in most industrialized countries over concerns that IGF-1 in milk from treated cows raises cancer risk. Breast Cancer Action wants Lilly to withdraw it.
Government
Arkansas announces statewide school flu clinics
Arkansas received its first 17,000 H1N1 doses as nasal mist, with children aged 6 months to 24 years among the priority groups, said the health department's Dr. James Phillips. Pregnant women and people with chronic conditions cannot take the mist; shots were expected by mid-October.
Miscellaneous
Olympic bid 2016
Chicago was eliminated in the first round of IOC voting and Rio de Janeiro won the 2016 Summer Games. Bid chairman Pat Ryan pointed to limits on regional presentations and strained USOC-IOC relations; some local sports groups welcomed the loss of park space.
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