Health Tip: Who's a Candidate for Gastric Bypass Surgery? (HealthDay)
January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Gastric bypass surgery, sometimes recommended
for obese people, involves re-routing the path that food takes, including
shrinking the size of the stomach. But the procedure has a number of
risks, including the possibility of post-surgical infection, blood clots
or developing gallstones.
Source:Health Tip: Who's a Candidate for Gastric Bypass Surgery?
(HealthDay)
Walmart pendants recalled as Disney bans cadmium (AP)
January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment
AP - Federal consumer safety regulators on Friday announced the recall of “The Princess and The Frog” pendants sold at Walmart stores because of high levels of the toxic metal cadmium, an unprecedented action that reflects concerns of an emerging threat in children’s jewelry.
Source:Walmart pendants recalled as Disney bans cadmium
(AP)
Increased patient cost-sharing may hurt elderly (AP)
January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment
AP - Higher Medicare copays, sometimes just a few dollars more, led to fewer doctors visits and to more and longer hospital stays, a large new study reveals.
Source:Increased patient cost-sharing may hurt elderly
(AP)
Gates makes $10 billion vaccines pledge (AP)
January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment
AP - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world’s poorest countries, the Microsoft co-founder and his wife said Friday.
Source:Gates makes $10 billion vaccines pledge
(AP)
Doc Who Tied Vaccine to Autism Ruled Unethical (Time.com)
January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Time.com - British medical authorities rule that Andrew Wakefield, the doctor behind research that linked the triple Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine with autism, acted “dishonestly and with “callous disregard” for the children involved in his study
Source:Doc Who Tied Vaccine to Autism Ruled Unethical
(Time.com)