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FDA: biotech knockoffs earn lower status
Mar 15 2007 5:44PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Copycat versions of pricey biotech drugs may be relegated to a status below that of generic versions of traditional chemical drugs, the head of the Food and Drug Administration suggested Thursday.
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CDC: Too few eating fruits, vegetables
Mar 15 2007 5:22PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Fewer than a third of American adults eat the amount of fruits and vegetables the government recommends, a trend that's remained steady for more than a decade, health officials said Thursday. That's "well below" the government's goal of getting 75 percent of Americans to eat two servings of fruits and having half of the population consume three servings of vegetables each day by 2010, said Dr. Larry Cohen of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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N.Y. newborns potentially exposed to TB
Mar 15 2007 5:21PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of patients including newborn babies may have been exposed to tuberculosis by an infected hospital employee, city health officials said Thursday. The employee, whose identity was not disclosed, was diagnosed with active TB on Jan. 30, said Andrew Tucker, a spokesman for the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
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FDA says pills can cause 'sleep-driving'
Mar 15 2007 5:16PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - All prescription sleeping pills may sometimes cause sleep-driving, federal health officials warned Wednesday, almost a year after the bizarre side effect first made headlines when Rep. Patrick Kennedy crashed his car after taking Ambien.
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Study: Weekend heart attacks riskier
Mar 15 2007 5:16PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Heart attack patients have a slightly higher risk of death if they go to the hospital on the weekend, when they are more likely to miss or wait longer for crucial treatments, one of the largest studies of the issue finds.
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Number of Kazakh children with HIV 96
Mar 15 2007 11:09AM (CT)
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) - The number of children who contracted HIV in southern Kazakhstan in an outbreak blamed on doctors' negligence has reached 96, health authorities said Thursday. The two most recent victims, aged 3 and 4, were diagnosed with HIV in the Sairam district and the city of Turkestan respectively, said regional health department spokeswoman Ayzhan Umarova.
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