After police identified a murdered woman by the serial number on her breast implants, the piece reprints FDA background on the saline-filled and silicone gel-filled implants approved for augmentation and reconstruction.
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Lifestyle
Pregnant women, children under five need flu treatment
WHO says doctors should not wait for test results before treating suspected H1N1 and should give oseltamivir as soon as possible to severely ill or worsening patients, including pregnant women and children under five. Healthy people usually recover in a week untreated.
Drug
Antidepressant Therapy: Risky for Pregnant Women?
A joint report from the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology finds doctors still unsure whether SSRIs pose significant risk in pregnancy. Both urge women to weigh risks with their doctors, and flag patients who should not stop treatment.
Government
FDA Thwarts Marketing of Ibuprofen Pain Relief Ointments
The FDA sent warning letters to six companies selling ibuprofen ointments, a form the drug has never been cleared for. Marketers claim the gels avoid the stomach and cardiovascular risks of pills; the agency says no verifiable proof backs that. The firms have two weeks to respond.
Drug
Canadian Study Encouraging to Medical Heroin Backers
A Canadian trial in the New England Journal of Medicine divided 251 heroin addicts among methadone, medical heroin and the painkiller Dilaudid. Sixty-seven percent of those given heroin stayed in treatment, against 48 percent on methadone. Up to a quarter of addicts respond poorly to methadone.
Miscellaneous
Tips on Coping with Unemployment Stress
Extended unemployment predicted later depressive symptoms in an American Journal of Public Health analysis of youth surveyed from 1979 to 1994, and WebMD reports 80% of Americans feel financial stress. The piece suggests daily exercise and a news fast to blunt it.
Lifestyle
Stay fit and live longer
Among 4,400 adults given treadmill tests between 1986 and 2006, the least fit were twice as likely to die over the next nine years as people only 20 percent fitter, researchers report. Recent activity offered the greatest protection, and it is never too late to start.
Disease
Key Flu Indicators
CDC's FluView for August 9-15, 2009 found influenza activity down slightly from the previous week but still above normal for summer. Hospitalization rates stayed low, two states reported widespread activity, and nearly all viruses identified were the new 2009 H1N1.
Government
CDC Guidance for Businesses and Employers To Plan and Respond to the 2009–2010 Influenza Season
CDC guidance tells employers outside health care what to do to slow seasonal and 2009 H1N1 flu at work and keep operating through the 2009-2010 season, including extra measures if conditions worsen and new advice on when a worker who is ill may return.
Drug
Diabetes drug linked to increased risk of heart failure
A cohort study of 40,000 Canadian diabetes patients aged 66 and older found significantly lower rates of heart failure and death with pioglitazone than rosiglitazone, though heart attack rates were similar. The authors stop short of calling pioglitazone safer.
Miscellaneous
Prostate Cancer Treatment Choices
Options run from watchful waiting to removing the prostate or radiation, with proton therapy costing around $100,000. The author says prostate cancer kills an estimated 35,000 US men a year and cites reporting that no serious study shows high-tech treatments keep men alive longer.
Environment
Spices work like valium hammer on pests
Murry Isman of the University of British Columbia says a blend of rosemary, clove, thyme and peppermint oils kills ants, roaches, flies and other pests by blocking octopamine in the insect's nervous system. It breaks down in water within 24 hours.
Lifestyle
Paraffin candles may smell trouble
Researchers at South Carolina State University reported that paraffin candle smoke emits benzene, toluene and ketones, pollutants linked to cancer, asthma and birth defects. They said an occasional candle is unlikely to harm, but frequent use in unventilated rooms may cause problems.
Miscellaneous
Is Forced Experimental Vaccination On the Way?
Mercola relays claims from Info Wars and Global Research that five regional military teams could back FEMA during swine flu vaccination and impose mass quarantines. He calls much media coverage fear-mongering, doubts forced vaccination would be tolerated, and questions the vaccine's evidence base.
Miscellaneous
Legal Immunity Set for Swine Flu Vaccine Makers
Under the 2006 PREP Act, the HHS Secretary granted makers of Tamiflu, Relenza and future swine flu vaccines and adjuvants near-total immunity from liability. The writer argues this removes any financial incentive to test for safety, and notes concerns over thimerosal in the coming doses.
Disease
Sleep apnea increases chance of chronic disease, death
A Johns Hopkins cohort study that followed 6,441 adults aged 40 to 70 for about eight years found people with severe sleep apnea faced a 46 percent higher risk of dying early, with the risk more than doubling in men. Mild apnea carried no added risk. Published in PLoS Medicine.
Miscellaneous
Army retraining for emotional well-being
The Army will require all soldiers to take resiliency training under a $117 million program modeled on middle-school courses, after finding one in five suffers from a mental illness. An introductory class trained 1,500 sergeants at the University of Pennsylvania.
Disease
New Study Reveals Sleep Apnea Health Risk
A Johns Hopkins study that surveyed 6,400 people over eight years found those with severe sleep apnea were 43 percent more likely to die early. The piece describes CPAP as the most successful treatment and lists weight loss, avoiding alcohol, quitting smoking and side-sleeping.
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