Shares of Dendreon Corporation (DNDN) are higher again on Thursday, gaining 3.46 percent to $36.77, after rising to $37.03 earlier, the highest PPS intraday since Jan. 18. The stock is attracting significant volume after Dendreon’s Provenge prostate cancer treatment, which costs $93,000 per patient, was approved to be covered by Medicare. The Centers for Medicare [...]
Food dye makers argued on Thursday there is no proof their colorings make kids more hyperactive, aiming to fend off a consumer group’s call for a government ban or warning on artificially brightened snacks and sodas. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has long deemed the dyes safe but is reviewing recent studies of the [...]
•Pharmacies OK’d to Make Cheaper Version of Pre-Term Birth Drug: FDA •Medicare Should Cover Costly Prostate Cancer Drug: Officials •Radiation Levels High Outside Japanese Nuke Plant Exclusion Zone •Report Assesses Health in U.S. Counties •Another Batch of Tylenol Recalled •Fewer U.S. Adult Diabetics Having Annual Tests Here are some of the latest health and medical [...]
I was in the security line at an airport a few months ago when I watched a fellow passenger do something I’d never seen done before: He dissed the scan. “I’d like to opt out,” he said, as a security agent went scurrying for a male agent to give this man a full-body pat-down, the [...]
The ‘fat stigma’ is going global: Parts of the world that once viewed plumpness favorably now hold negative attitudes toward extra pounds, new research suggests. Anthropologists at Arizona State University asked 700 people in 10 countries or regions to answer true or false to statements like “Fat people are lazy” and “A big woman is [...]
After a year of marriage, Ivette Zurita Serrano and her husband, Herbert, were ready to have a baby. But that changed when Ivette lost her job in 2009. I was let go right when we started thinking about having a family,” Serrano said. “And who was going to hire me if I was pregnant?” The [...]
Scientists only recently learned how certain diseases affect women differently than men, and blacks differently than whites. Now a major new report says it’s time to study the unique health needs of gay and transgender people, too. Stigma often keeps lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from seeking health care — and when they do, [...]
The rules lay out a path for doctors, hospitals and other providers of care to form teams called “accountable care organizations” that advocates say would save money by better coordinating medical services for Medicare patients. Under the rules, teams that treat patients for less money would be rewarded financially by the government if they also [...]
One third of Americans aged at least 1 year are at risk of inadequate vitamin D levels and 8% are at risk of vitamin D deficiency, a new report issued by the National Center for Health Statistics revealed. The report added that 1% had excessive blood levels of vitamin D. Vitamin D encourages the absorption [...]
Freeborn County has dropped a few spots among counties in Minnesota for health factors and outcomes. However, some local officials challenge the accuracy of the rankings The rankings compare counties in each state and are compiled by the University of Wisconsin and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Eighty-five of Minnesota’s 87 counties were ranked last [...]
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