Archive for October 5th, 2009

Vaccine-like shots help fight cocaine addiction (AP)

Monday, October 5th, 2009

AP – Vaccine-like shots to keep cocaine abusers from getting high also helped them fight their addiction in the first successful rigorous study of this approach to treating illicit drug use.

Obama pitches health care plan in front of doctors (AP)

Monday, October 5th, 2009

AP – On the cusp of a key legislative push, President Barack Obama on Monday filled the Rose Garden with doctors supportive of his health care overhaul, saying “nobody has more credibility with the American people on this issue than you do.”

3 Americans share Nobel medicine prize (AP)

Monday, October 5th, 2009

AP – Three Americans won the Nobel prize in medicine on Monday for discovering how chromosomes protect themselves as cells divide, work that has inspired experimental cancer therapies and may offer insights into aging.

U.S. trio wins medicine Nobel for telomerase (Reuters)

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Reuters – Three Americans won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for revealing the existence and nature of telomerase, an enzyme that helps prevent the fraying of chromosomes that underlies aging and cancer.

Bristol-Myers gets EU approval for diabetes drug (AP)

Monday, October 5th, 2009

AP – Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. said Monday that its new diabetes drug, Onglyza, has been approved for sale in the European Union’s 27 countries.

Babies born to abused moms more likely to get sick (Reuters)

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Reuters – Domestic violence doesn’t only hurt women, according to a new study. It harms their kids, too: Infants born to mothers who report family violence suffer more bouts of diarrhea and infections of the airways such as pneumonia, which are the two leading causes of death and illness among children in the developing world.

Senate panel awaits report before health vote (Reuters)

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Reuters – Democratic hopes for a quick Senate Finance Committee vote on a broad U.S. healthcare overhaul were dashed on Monday as budget experts took longer than expected with their estimate of the bill’s cost.