Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit is recalling 53,892 packages, or one lot, of the diarrhea treatment Imodium from distributors after discovering some of the packages could have a slight tear or hole.
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The launch of “gluten-free” pizza that still should be avoided by people with full-blown celiac disease has prompted a physicians group to call for the standardization of the labeling of gluten-free foods.
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One mom explains how her family made the tough choice to enroll a daughter in a clinical trial of a cancer drug, and how it was the right thing to do.
Read more from the original source: Why Expose a Child to the Risks of a Clinical Trial? One Mom Explains
Also: A study shows chain restaurants largely don’t meet U.S. government nutritional guidelines; an antibiotic is linked with rare, but fatal, heart risk; and two paralyzed people moved a robot arm with their thoughts.
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Healthy food isn’t necessarily more expensive than junk food, according to a new government report.
More: Healthy Food Is a Better Deal Than Junk, USDA Says
Coffee drinkers are getting a bit more reassurance that their beverage of choice may not be bad for them, and might even be linked to living longer.
Excerpt from: Study Suggests Coffee May Be Linked to Longer Life, But…
Here’s what’s making health news this morning:
New Bid to Prevent Alzheimer’s Early (WSJ): An Alzheimer’s drug to be tested mostly on an extended family predisposed to the disease will mark the first large-scale trial of an experimental treatment on people who don’t yet show signs of memory loss.
Cardinal Health Settles With U.S. Over Pills (WSJ): The U.S. government on Tuesday settled with Cardinal Health over allegations the company distributed large quantities of addictive pain pills in Florida, backing away from ..read more
Memory-foam mattresses are the fastest-growing category of mattresses, but for some buyers, there’s a tradeoff….
Original post: Sleep or Sex: Do You Have to Choose?
Cheaper genome sequencing means relatively soon you may get a chance to find your risks for different diseases. But do you really want to know?
Read more: What Geneticists Think You Should Know
Here’s what’s making health news this morning:
Websites Use DNA to Create Family Trees (WSJ): Detailed maps of the human genome have become less expensive, and they’re going social, enabling users to build personal online networks that become more useful as more people sign up. Ancestry.com, a genealogy website with about 1.9 million subscribers, rolled out a $99 DNA service that lets users compare points on their own genome with others.
Making Gene Mapping Part of Everyday Care (WSJ): The cost of ..read more
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