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Senate panel OKs negotiating drug prices
Apr 12 2007 10:21PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - An effort to let the government negotiate drug prices on behalf of the elderly and the disabled moved a step closer to reality Thursday with the approval of legislation by a Senate committee.
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People with gene variant may weigh more
Apr 12 2007 10:21PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers have found another gene that may keep you from fitting in your jeans. You can't blame this gene, named FTO, for all the extra inches. But British scientists discovered that people who carry two copies of a variation of the FTO gene weighed, on average, 7 pounds more than people who lack it.
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CDC says gonorrhea is drug-resistant
Apr 12 2007 10:20PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is now among the "superbugs" resistant to common antibiotics, leading U.S. health officials to recommend wider use of a different class of drugs to avert a public health crisis.
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FDA panel frowns on Vioxx successor
Apr 12 2007 8:45PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A painkiller proposed as a successor to Vioxx should not be approved, a panel of federal health advisers overwhelmingly recommended Thursday.
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Retailers urged to check pet food again
Apr 12 2007 7:46PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal officials still can't give the all clear when it comes to the nation's pet food supply, though they assured lawmakers they're aggressively checking stores and suppliers.
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Scientists map DNA of research monkeys
Apr 12 2007 3:40PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have unraveled the DNA of another of our primate relatives, this time a monkey named the rhesus macaque _ and the work has far more immediate impact than just to study evolution.
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