RedLine Solutions of Santa Clara named Adrian Down marketing director. He was previously VP of sales and marketing and general manager at VIPColor Technologies USA; RedLine sells barcode and wireless traceability systems to growers, packers and shippers.
Section archive
Page 7 of 288
Health News
Drugs, disease, healthcare, government and lifestyle: health news beyond the plate.
- All desks
- Abortion
- Accutane
- Acetaminophen
- Acid Reflux
- Acidic Foods
- Acne
- Acrylamide
- Acupuncture
- Additives
- ADHD
- Adiposity
- Advisories
- Aerobic Exercise
- Aflatoxin
- Agave
- Agent Orange
- Aging
- Agriculture
- AIDS
- Air Pollution
- Airline Passengers
- Airport
- ALA
- Alcohol
- Alcoholic Beverage
- Alerts
- Allergy
- Alli
- Aloe Vera
- ALS
- Alternative Medicine
- Aluminum
- Alzheimer's
- Amalgam
- AMD
- Ampyra
- Amygdala
- Anal Cancer
- And
- Anemia
- Angiogenesis
- Animal Protein
- Animals
- Anorexia
- Anthocyanins
- Anthrax
- Anti-Angiogenesis
- Anti-Obesity
- Antibacterial
- Antibiotic
Miscellaneous
Crawford & Company® Receives 2015 CIO 100 Award
Crawford & Company won a CIO 100 Award for the second consecutive year, recognized for Crawford iQ, its internally developed desktop, mobile and social applications for claims adjusting management.
Drug
Could flu someday be prevented without a vaccine?
Ohio State researchers raised the level of a protein effective against every influenza strain tested, blocking infection in mouse and human cells without the virus or interferon. The lab has started testing experimental drugs in mice; the team says human use is still many years away.
Disease
Half of all cancers - news email 080515 from EWG
An EWG newsletter promoting its report “Rethinking Carcinogens,” which draws on Halifax Project research suggesting that combinations of chemicals — including some not carcinogenic on their own — may cause cancer by disrupting several cancer-related pathways at once.
Miscellaneous
You pay tax to support abortion
Planned Parenthood performed about 332,000 abortions in 2009 and took in $164 million from those services, according to Wikipedia. A Fox News report puts a taxpayer earning $50,000 to $100,000 at $15.51 contributed to the group through income tax.
Government
Do not kiss pet chicken - warns the CDC
The CDC warns against kissing or hugging pet poultry, which may carry salmonella. The illness is not life-threatening for most people, but the elderly, infants, young children and people with chronic disease or weakened immunity face higher risk.
Government
FDA authorizes use of prosthesis for rehabilitation of above-the-knee amputations
The FDA authorized the OPRA device, the first prosthesis marketed in the US for adults with above-the-knee amputations who cannot use a conventional socket. Fixtures and screws implanted into the thigh bone in two surgeries, about six months apart, anchor an external limb.
Drug
FDA Warning: Proglycem Linked to Pulmonary Hypertension in Infants and Newborns
FDA has counted 11 cases of pulmonary hypertension in infants and newborns given Proglycem (diazoxide) for low blood sugar since the drug's 1973 approval. In every case it resolved or improved after the drug stopped. The agency is still investigating and urges close monitoring.
Environment
Following up re: asbestos 071315 newsletter from EWG
EWG Action Fund says tests it commissioned at a government-certified lab found asbestos in four brands of crayons and two children's fingerprint kits, and that asbestos-related disease kills up to 15,000 Americans a year. It asks readers to sign a petition and back the READ Act.
Lifestyle
Exercise, weight loss cure type 2 diabetes mellitus
In a Preventive Medicine commentary, Philip Ades of the University of Vermont argues exercise and weight loss can prevent type 2 diabetes in high-risk people and can push new-onset cases into remission without glucose-lowering drugs. Insurers rarely cover such programs, he notes.
Government
FDA Strengthens Warning of Heart Attack and Stroke Risk for Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
The FDA is strengthening warnings on prescription and over-the-counter NSAID labels to say the drugs can raise the chance of heart attack or stroke. Those effects can appear within the first few weeks of use and the risk may rise the longer they are taken. Aspirin is exempt.
Miscellaneous
Crawford Contractor Connection® Conference & Expo Attracts 3,000+
More than 3,000 contractors, insurance carrier representatives and service provider partners attended Crawford's 17th annual Contractor Connection Conference & Expo in Orlando, a record. The three-day event drew 175 exhibitors under the theme “Be There When It Counts.”
Miscellaneous
Stormwater best management practices at Texas A&M AgriLife Dallas center show statewide promise
Texas A&M AgriLife specialist Fouad Jaber says demonstrations of permeable pavements, green roofs and a bioretention rain garden at the Dallas center point to broader statewide use of low impact development to cut urban stormwater runoff and the pollutants it carries.
Drug
69% statin users experience adverse effects
Among 718 patients at two university hospital clinics in northeast Thailand, 76% taking statins reported one or more symptoms, and 69% had effects attributed to the drugs: 39.4% musculoskeletal and 18.7% liver-related.
Environment
Vitamin D deficiency may be a major risk for melanoma
A Dermato-Endocrinology report argues that avoiding sun lowers vitamin D and that the resulting deficiency may raise melanoma risk, noting the disease rose among fair-skinned indoor workers while outdoor workers had lower rates. The authors still advise avoiding sunburn.
Government
FDA Updates for Health Professionals
The FDA's roundup for clinicians collects announcements, guidances, approvals, safety notices and meetings, including its new Health Professionals site and Operation Pangea VIII, in which 115 countries took 2,400 websites offline and seized $81 million in illegal medical products.
Drug
Viagra boosts risk of melanoma
Among 25,848 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, recent sildenafil users were 84 percent more likely to be diagnosed with melanoma than non-users, with no rise in squamous or basal cell carcinoma. The authors note the link does not establish cause.
Drug
Statins do not help healthy men with elevated cholesterol
Two Archives of Internal Medicine editors argue in JAMA that healthy men with high cholesterol should skip statins, citing reviews, one pooling 11 trials of 65,229 healthy but high-risk people, that found no reduction in mortality. They also note statins carry adverse effects.
5182 stories