Saturday, February 14, 2009

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Kids problems related to drinking in pregnancy (Reuters)
February 13, 2009 at 7:59 pm

Reuters - Looking at the overall pattern of alcohol consumption during pregnancy is better at predicting problems in the offspring than are individual alcohol-related risk factors, researchers have found.

Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 13, 2009 (HealthDay)
February 13, 2009 at 7:03 pm

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:

New Anti-Clotting Treatment Urged for Cancer Patients (HealthDay)
February 13, 2009 at 7:03 pm

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- The blood thinner warfarin does not reduce catheter-related blood clots in cancer patients, so new treatments are needed to prevent this complication, says a U.K. study.

VA clinic warns of possible contaminant exposure (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 6:24 pm

AP - Thousands of patients at a Veterans Administration clinic in Tennessee may have been exposed to the infectious body fluids of other patients when they had colonoscopies in recent years, and now VA medical facilities all over the U.S. are reviewing their own procedures.

Moms offer sober reality check on multiple births (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 3:09 pm

Jenny Ferrill, 31, of Danville, Ill., plays with her 2-year-old quintuplets at their home on Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. The children from left are, Layne, Drayden, Kieran, Irelyn and Landyn. Ferrill and other parents of multiples say they would advise the California mother of 14 that donations that seem plentiful now will taper off after the first year; somehow free formula and diapers never morph into free shoes or forgiven medical bills. Requests for TV interviews dwindle. Offers to baby-sit, if they ever existed, vanish. (AP Photo/Robin Scholz)AP - Nadya Suleman's daunting future of raising octuplets into adulthood may best be understood by the exhausted but proud parents of other multiples and the researchers who study them.


Estrogen tied to restless legs during pregnancy (Reuters)
February 13, 2009 at 2:26 pm

Reuters - A study indicates that estrogen plays an important role in triggering restless legs syndrome (RLS) during pregnancy, researchers from Germany report in the journal Sleep.

Loss of height linked to breathlessness in elderly (Reuters)
February 13, 2009 at 2:24 pm

Reuters - Among seniors, an increase in the ratio of their arm span to their height -- indicating a probable loss of height -- is strongly associated with shortness of breath and reduced lung capacity, according to a new study.

No spread of cancer for Supreme Court's Ginsburg (Reuters)
February 13, 2009 at 2:24 pm

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stands as Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States pose for a 2006 class photo inside the Supreme Court in Washington March 3, 2006. (Larry Downing/Reuters)Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Friday that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's pancreatic cancer had not spread and she was released from the hospital.


Survey: Peanut recall known but misunderstood (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 2:13 pm

House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., left, watches as Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., right, holds up a container of food items that were recalled due to the recent salmonella outbreak associated with peanut products manufactured by the Peanut Corporation of America, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Most Americans know about a peanut-based national salmonella outbreak but many are wrong about what products are involved and few have confidence in food safeguards, according to a Harvard survey released Friday.


Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 13, 2009 (HealthDay)
February 13, 2009 at 2:02 pm

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:


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