The Mississippi State Department of Health confirmed two more chikungunya cases, in residents who had returned from the Dominican Republic and Haiti, following a case reported in June. Officials urged Caribbean travelers to use DEET repellent and cover up, since these mosquitoes bite by day.
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Miscellaneous
Veran Medical Publishes Lung Cancer Patient Management Study
Veran Medical Technologies reported final results from its first SPiNPerc study, which calculated hospital savings of $693,327 per 200 lung cancer screening patients with positive findings and supported percutaneous biopsy when bronchoscopy is not possible. A Johns Hopkins trial continues.
Miscellaneous
Hospira Lactated Ringer's And 5% Dextrose Injection, 1000 ML, Flexible Containers: Recall (One Lot) - Mold Contamination
Hospira is recalling one lot of Lactated Ringer's and 5% Dextrose Injection in 1,000 mL flexible containers after a customer found particulate indicative of mold, traced to a puncture that let the container leak. No adverse events have been reported for the lot.
Disease
Kidney stones linked to cardiovascular disease
Pooling six cohort studies, researchers linked kidney stones to 19% higher coronary heart disease risk and 40% higher stroke risk, with a stronger association in women. The piece notes the link does not show stones cause cardiovascular disease.
Drug
Testosterone may help fight obesity in men
An Asian Journal of Andrology report describes how obesity lowers total and free testosterone and how low testosterone in turn promotes fat gain, and suggests testosterone might treat moderate obesity in men once randomized trials establish its safety and efficacy.
Miscellaneous
Young adults more likely to attend college
A Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics report finds Americans aged 18-24 are more diverse, likelier to finish high school and attend college, and less likely to smoke than earlier generations. They also carry more student debt, earn less than in 2000, and over 1 in 5 are obese.
Lifestyle
Circumcision cuts risk of prostate cancer in Black men
In a Montreal case-control study of 1,590 men with prostate cancer and 1,618 controls, circumcised men were 11% less likely to have the disease, a difference the authors call insignificant. Men circumcised at 36 or older were 45% less likely, and Black men 60%. Causation was not shown.
Disease
Sexually transmitted diseases may raise prostate cancer risk
A systematic review of 47 studies published between 1971 and 2011 found men who had ever had a sexually transmitted infection faced a 49 percent higher risk of prostate cancer, with gonorrhoea specifically linked to a 20 percent higher risk.
Miscellaneous
Charging Kits, Neck Knives, Power Adaptor/Chargers Recalled
CPSC posted three recalls: about 25,400 Lifeguard Press charging kits sold under the Ban.do, Jonathan Adler and Lilly Pulitzer names, whose wall chargers can overheat or shed prongs in the outlet; Master Cutlery neck knives over a laceration hazard; and Gemini power adaptors over burns.
Drug
Premarin boosts gallstone risk
In 29 anovulatory women, Premarin raised the lithogenic index of bile and biliary cholesterol while cutting the chenodeoxycholate pool and its synthesis. The researchers concluded the drug diverts dietary cholesterol into bile; added dietary cholesterol offset the bile acid drop.
Miscellaneous
Funds passport to create 170K jobs, save USD20 bln: study
An APEC Policy Support Unit cost-benefit analysis estimates the Asia Region Funds Passport could save the region's investors USD 20 billion a year in fund management costs and create 170,000 jobs in APEC economies within five years by easing cross-border marketing of managed funds.
Miscellaneous
Cytokinetics Announced Additional Results Relating to Tirasemtiv from Pre-Specificed Subgroup Analyses of BENEFIT-ALS
Pre-specified subgroup analyses of BENEFIT-ALS, presented in Nice, found the smaller decline in slow vital capacity on tirasemtiv versus placebo held consistently across ALS patient subgroups defined by age, sex, geography, riluzole use, disease onset, weight and body-mass index.
Drug
New treatment fights female infertility disorder
In an NIH-funded study, women with polycystic ovary syndrome who took letrozole were more likely to ovulate and to have a live birth than those given the standard drug clomiphene. PCOS affects 5 to 10 percent of reproductive-age women.
Environment
Skin Deep: 10 years later
EWG marks ten years of its Skin Deep cosmetics database, grown from 7,500 products in 2004 to nearly 70,000, and notes that the government still requires no long-term safety studies or pre-market testing for most personal care ingredients.
Miscellaneous
Koch Exposed: Like His Father, Charles Koch Was a Bircher!
A newsletter from PRWatch editor Lisa Graves announcing the group's report that Charles Koch belonged to the John Birch Society in the early 1960s, and previewing The Progressive magazine's “Robber Barons” edition.
Drug
Rehabilitation helps prevent depression from age-related vision loss
An NIH-funded study in Ophthalmology found a rehabilitation therapy cut in half the risk of depression among people losing vision to age-related macular degeneration. Researchers say it shows the value of care that bridges eye care, psychiatry, psychology and rehabilitation.
Miscellaneous
United Fresh to Honor Industry Champion in Washington
United Fresh Produce Association is taking nominations for its 13th annual Produce Industry Advocate of the Year, which recognizes one member company for federal policy advocacy on behalf of the fresh fruit and vegetable industry. The award goes out in September at The Washington Conference.
Miscellaneous
Brain tumor invasion along blood vessels may lead to new cancer treatments
In mice, invading glioblastoma cells hijacked cerebral blood vessels early in the disease and damaged the blood-brain barrier. The NINDS-funded authors, writing in Nature Communications, say this could let therapies reach the cells sooner than previously thought possible.
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