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  • Why Didn’t Teen Moms Use Birth Control?

    Friday, January 20th, 2012 at 09:22 | Comments Off

    Teen birth rates in the U.S. have been generally declining since 1991, but are still higher than in other developed countries.

    Now, new stats from the CDC show that about half of teen moms who got pregnant unintentionally weren’t using any form of birth control at the time of conception. The survey also asked the next question that might spring to mind: For the love of Mike, why not?

    Of those contraception non-users, more than 31% said they didn’t think they could ..read more

  • Informed Patient: Diagnostic Errors Highlight Need for Second Opinions

    Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 at 01:15 | Comments Off

    For patients diagnosed with cancer and other serious diseases, a second opinion can make the difference between getting the right and the wrong care, today’s Informed Patient column reports.

    Diagnostic error is of increasing concern, studies show. A new report from QuantiaMD, a mobile and  online physician community, found that almost half of 6,400 physicians surveyed said they encounter diagnostic errors — missed, late, or wrong diagnoses — at their practice at least monthly. About two-thirds said that up to 10% ..read more

  • Keeping Holiday Leftovers Safe to Eat

    Friday, December 30th, 2011 at 06:15 | Comments Off

    It’s the time of year where refrigerators are stuffed to the brim with holiday leftovers. But is that aging food safe from bacterial contamination?

    That depends on how you prepare and store it, says Elizabeth Scott, an assistant professor at Simmons College and co-director of the school’s Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community.

    She says food must be prepared correctly in the first place — including separating raw meat and vegetables during preparation to avoid cross-contamination and cooking meals ..read more

  • Ex-Medicare Chief Berwick Takes Gloves Off

    Friday, December 9th, 2011 at 09:04 | Comments Off

    Now that he’s not running the Medicare and Medicaid programs, Donald Berwick is taking off the gloves to attack his Washington critics.

    Berwick, a pediatrician, ran the two programs until last week, when he stepped down because his recess appointment was about to run out. Senate Republicans showed no signs of confirming him, so Marilyn Tavenner, already a top official at the agency, took over.

    In a speech today in Orlando, Fla., Berwick had particularly sharp words for those who described the ..read more

  • How Much Money Will Generic Lipitor Save?

    Friday, December 9th, 2011 at 04:40 | Comments Off

    We’ve written about some of the most common consumer questions about the newly launched generic version of Pfizer’s cholesterol-lowering Lipitor.

    One remaining question is how much money will be saved from the generic iterations of the name-brand blockbuster — the U.S. sales of which were $7.8 billion in the year ended Sept. 30, according to IMS Health.

    A group of researchers takes a stab at that issue in a perspective piece published online by the New England Journal of Medicine. Their conclusion: ..read more

  • A.M. Vitals: Most HIV Patients Lack Medications, Care

    Thursday, December 1st, 2011 at 00:45 | Comments Off

    Managing HIV: New CDC research shows that the majority of patients with HIV in the U.S. aren’t receiving medications and care necessary to control the virus enough to prevent them from passing it to others or impacting their own health, partly because some don’t know they’re infected, the WSJ reports. Only about 28% of the 1.2 million infected people in the U.S. are estimated to get regular care and have their infections under control, the report says.

    Changes ..read more

  • Countdown to Generic Lipitor: What’s In It for Drugstores?

    Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 at 02:56 | Comments Off

    Retail pharmacies are usually thrilled when a popular brand-name drug rolls off patent. For the 180 days when a single manufacturer produces a generic pill and its wholesale price remains strong, drug stores reap a nice profit.

    But Pfizer’s cholesterol-lowering blockbuster Lipitor is a different story.

    On the eve of tomorrow’s launch of a generic Lipitor, drug stores are anything but giddy. Most are taking a wait-and-see approach, when normally they’d be aggressively pitching customers on the cheaper, generic alternative and drawing ..read more

  • Reader Consult: Would You Get Medical Care at Walmart?

    Thursday, November 10th, 2011 at 06:48 | Comments Off

    Walmart wants to make a big push into primary health care — or does it?

    As NPR and Kaiser Health News report, the retailing behemoth has sent out a 14-page request for information seeking vendors to help it become the “largest provider of primary healthcare services” in the U.S. That, Walmart says in its request, will expand access to health care while lowering costs — while “maintaining or improving outcomes.”

    The WSJ reports that a Walmart spokesman confirmed the proposal is authentic ..read more

  • A.M. Vitals: Scientists Stop or Delay Age-Related Diseases in Mice

    Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 at 23:58 | Comments Off

    Slowing March of Age-Related Diseases in Mice: Research published in Nature demonstrates how scientists used a drug in mice to clear out old cells that had stopped dividing in order to delay or halt age-related deterioration in certain tissues, the WSJ reports. An author of the study tells the paper that if the so-called senescent cells could be cleared in humans, age-related diseases might be treated as a group rather than one at a time.

    Another Listeriosis Death: ..read more

  • Study in Mice Suggests Way to Slow Aging

    Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 at 07:14 | Comments Off

    For the first time, scientists showed in mice that removing a type of aging cell from the body that has stopped dividing — known as a senescent cell — can delay or prevent age-related health issues. Shirley Wang has details on The News Hub.

    Originally posted here:  Study in Mice Suggests Way to Slow Aging/a>