December 2007
Doyle calls on Legislature to pass smoking ban, autism coverage
There’s no reason why the Legislature can’t vote next week to ban smoking statewide and force insurance companies to cover autism, Gov. Jim Doyle said Monday.
Even though Doyle called on the Legislature to pass both proposals, that is highly unlikely to happen next week given strong opposition to each and where the bills are in […]
CNA issues strike notice to Sutter Health hospitals
The California Nurses Association has delivered a 10-day strike notice to Sutter Health hospitals in Northern California for a strike that could take place Dec. 13 and 14, reprising an earlier two-day walkout in October.
Honey works best to calm kids’ coughs, study finds
A spoonful of buckwheat honey quells a child’s nighttime chest cold coughing better than the most common cough suppressant in nonprescription medicines, researchers said on Monday.
Early findings of beluga whale’s death at US aquarium inconclusive
Early results from a necropsy performed on a beluga whale that died at the Georgia Aquarium produced no conclusive findings on the cause of death, officials said Monday.Marina had fallen ill at the aquarium and died early Saturday morning.
Peanut Allergies Showing Up At Much Earlier Ages
The study, which appears in the current issue of the journal Pediatrics, looked at a group of children born during or after 2000 and compared them to a group of children born between 1995 and 1997. The younger group reported exposure to peanuts at 12 months, and reported their first adverse reaction at […]
CDC Stresses New HIV/AIDS Estimates Are Not Yet Final
Despite current media reports about CDC’s estimates of new HIV infections in the USA, Dr. Kevin Fenton, Director, , National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) stresses the new estimates are not yet final.
F.D.A. Cites Risks in a Genentech Cancer Drug
Genentech’s drug Avastin did not help women with breast cancer live meaningfully longer, and it caused significant side effects, including a few deaths, the Food and Drug Administration said today in a review of the drug.
The analysis by the agency’s staff appeared to dim the prospects that Avastin, would win a approval as a treatment […]