Health Glance
A health center offering abortions is set to open up in Wichita, Kan., this week — four years after the building’s former owner was gunned down by an abortion opponent.
Renamed the South Wind Women’s Center, the building will be opening with tightened security. But the new operators’ tactics are different. While former owner Dr. George Tiller was known for providing late-term abortions, the new clinic will only do procedures through the fourteenth week of pregnancy.
Kansas abortion clinic will open this week in building previously owned by slain abortion provider
Landmark court ruling allows cheap drug access
India’s Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Swiss pharmaceutical company’s effort to patent an updated version of its cancer drug, a decision aimed at boosting a domestic generic drug manufacturing industry that supplies cheap versions of lifesaving cancer and HIV medicines for much of the developing world.
In a case closely watched by global drugmakers, Switzerland’s Novartis AG has been fighting since 2006 to patent its leukemia-treating drug Glivec in India on the grounds that it is a newer version. India revised its patent protection law in 2005.
U.S. launches new batch of graphic anti-smoking ads
Government health officials launched the second round of a graphic ad campaign Thursday that is designed to get smokers off tobacco, saying they believe the last effort convinced tens of thousands to quit.
The ads feature sad, real-life stories: There is Terrie, a North Carolina woman who lost her voice box. Bill, a diabetic smoker from Michigan who lost his leg. And Aden, a 7-year-old boy from New York, who has asthma attacks from secondhand smoke.
"Most smokers want to quit. These ads encourage them to try," said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Smokers are already quitting in Staten Island and throughout New York City, according to data for the last decade.
On Staten Island, 13.5 percent of residents smoke, according to the most recent statistics from the New York City Coalition for a Smoke-Free City, and another 2,000 borough high schoolers light up. That figure is down significantly over the last 10 years, with the borough no longer having the city's highest rate of smoking. The sharp decline in smoking on Staten Island has helped bring down the rate citywide.
Tulsa dentist may have put 7,000 patients at HIV risk
Health officials in the US state of Oklahoma have warned 7,000 patients their dentist may have exposed them to HIV and hepatitis B and C. Patients of Dr W Scott Harrington's practice in Tulsa were advised to test themselves at a free clinic set up by the state, health officials said.
Health inspectors found rusty dental instruments and poor hygiene standards at the clinic.
Dr Harrington has voluntarily closed the practice, officials said.
Frozen foods recalled due to E. coli
At least 24 people in 18 states have been sickened by a bacteria outbreak that appears to be linked to products of a frozen food firm in Buffalo, N.Y.
Rich Products voluntarily recalled nearly 200,000 pounds of frozen chicken quesadillas and other frozen foods after its samples tested positive at the New York State Department of Health Wadsworth Laboratory for a rare strain of E. coli bacteria, USA Today reported Friday.
Scientists unravel genetic causes of prostate, breast and ovarian cancer
A national screening programme for prostate cancer could be introduced by the NHS following an international effort by more than 1,000 scientists to unravel the genetic causes of prostate, breast and ovarian cancer.
The study, the largest to look for the faulty DNA that drives the cancers, revealed scores of genetic markers that can identify people most likely to develop the diseases.
Food Safety Modernization Act Testing Requirement Axed In White House Review
At the very beginning of 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released its proposals for the most important food safety regulations in a generation.
The proposed rule on "Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls For Human Food," lays out the procedures that food manufacturers -- cookie factories, grocery warehouses, frozen foods packagers -- would need to implement in order to reduce the risk that their products would harbor pathogens. The proposal grew out of the landmark Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) passed exactly two years earlier, and it aimed to prevent one million illnesses a year.
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