Germany’s Merck halts supply of cancer drug to Greek hospitals
November 3rd, 2012
FRANKFURT | Sat Nov 3, 2012 8:10am EDT FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German pharmaceuticals firm Merck KGaA is no longer delivering cancer drug Erbitux to Greek hospitals, a spokesman said on Saturday, the latest sign of how an economic and budget crisis is hurting frontline public services. Drugmakers raised concerns with EU leaders earlier this year over supplies to the euro zone’s crisis-hit southern half and Germany’s Biotest in June was the first to stop shipments to Greece because of unpaid bills. Publicly-owned hospitals in some countries worst hit by the euro zone debt crisis had been struggling to pay their bills, Merck’s chief financial officer, Matthias Zachert, was quoted as saying by German paper Boersen-Zeitung in an interview on Saturday
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U.S. jury awards troops $85 million over Iraq chemical exposure
November 3rd, 2012
By Teresa Carson PORTLAND, Oregon | Fri Nov 2, 2012 8:51pm EDT PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) – An Oregon jury awarded 12 Army National Guardsmen $85 million in damages from defense contractor KBR Inc. on Friday after finding that the company failed to protect them from exposure to cancer-causing chemicals when they served in Iraq
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Removing trays from dining halls cuts food waste
November 2nd, 2012
Students sit down to eat a healthy lunch at Marston Middle School in San Diego, California, March 7, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Mike Blake By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK | Fri Nov 2, 2012 2:06pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – University students eating at one buffet-style dining hall produced less food waste when the facility removed the trays students had used to carry food, a new study has found. At the single facility, researchers estimated the switch away from using trays saved about 25 total pounds of solid food waste at each lunch and dinner meal
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Mumps outbreak traced to face-to-face schooling: study
October 31st, 2012
Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:59pm EDT (Reuters) – A face-to-face educational method used among Orthodox Jews apparently led to a U.S. outbreak of mumps in 2009 and 2010 even though most of those infected had been properly vaccinated, according to a U.S
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Meningitis death toll rises to 29 with fatality in Virginia
October 31st, 2012
Tweet Share this Email Print Exserohilum rostratum, a type of fungi, is seen in this handout image from the Centres for Disease Control, October 13, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Centres for Disease Control/Handout Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:18pm EDT (Reuters) – Another patient has died in Virginia after contracting fungal meningitis from potentially tainted steroid injections supplied by a Massachusetts company, the U.S.
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Analysis: Employees to face healthcare sticker shock
October 28th, 2012
By Caroline Humer NEW YORK | Sun Oct 28, 2012 1:46pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – Visit to New York City orthopedist: $223. One X-ray: $50. One follow-up magnetic resonance imaging test: $766.
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Pitch counts don’t add up to more injuries, says study
October 26th, 2012
By Ivan Oransky NEW YORK | Fri Oct 26, 2012 5:13pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – It is impossible to watch a Major League Baseball (MLB) game nowadays – such as those in the World Series now underway – without hearing about how many pitches a player has thrown. But a new study suggests that when it comes to preventing injuries, the obsession of many teams with those kinds of numbers may be misplaced. “I don’t necessarily think that pitch counts or innings pitched are the best way to measure the demands of pitching,” Thomas Karakolis, the lead author on the study, told Reuters Health
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Meningitis outbreak spreads to 18 states with South Carolina case
October 25th, 2012
Tweet Share this Email Print A sample of Cladosporium species, one of the fungi diagnosed in the fungal meningitis outbreak sweeping the United States, in Nashville, Tennessee on October 19, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Harrison McClary Thu Oct 25, 2012 2:34pm EDT (Reuters) – The deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis tied to tainted steroid medications from a Massachusetts company expanded to 18 states on Thursday with South Carolina reporting its first probable case of the disease
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New CEO has work cut out as AstraZeneca sales fall
October 25th, 2012
1 of 2. AstraZeneca Chief Executive Pascal Soriot poses for a photograph in this undated handout photograph released in London October 24, 2012.
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