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Wine and beer to carry health-warning labels

The latest overhaul of food labeling laws may require wine and beer to carry a health-warning labels equivalent to the labels on cigarette boxes.

Factbox: Republicans urge modest U.S. healthcare changes

Republicans have called on President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats to scrap their legislation overhauling the U.S. healthcare system and start over with some Republican ideas.

Screening athletes could prevent sudden deaths

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Several of the nearly 100 young U.S. athletes who die suddenly and unexpectedly during sports every year could be saved through more effective screening for heart problems, US researchers suggested in a new study published Monday. The measures, according to another study, will cost less than $100 per athlete.

Snacks mean U.S. kids moving toward constant eating

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. children eat an average three snacks a day on top of three regular meals, a finding that could explain why the childhood obesity rate has risen to more than 16 percent, researchers said on Tuesday.

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Roche's Avastin helps in ovarian cancer

Roche, the world's largest maker of cancer drugs, said on Thursday it was the first positive Phase III study of an anti-angiogenic therapy, which uses drugs to stop tumors from making new blood vessels, in advanced ovarian cancer.

IVF stillbirth risk four times higher, study finds

Researchers from Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark studied 20,000 single pregnancies and found a fourfold increased risk of stillbirths for women who had IVF or ICSI compared with women who conceived naturally.

Woman has 2 babies in first for ovarian transplant

Claus Yding Andersen, the Danish doctor who treated the woman, said the case showed how this method of storing ovarian tissue was a valid method of fertility preservation and should encourage the technique to be used more in girls and young women facing treatment that may damage their ovaries.

WHO to assess whether H1N1 has peaked within weeks

The WHO's emergency committee decided on Tuesday that it was premature to declare the pandemic, which was declared in June and was the first in more than 40 years, was past its worst.

Are non-smokers smarter than smokers?

Young men who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day or more had IQ scores 7.5 points lower than non-smokers, Dr. Mark Weiser of Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer and his colleagues found.

Medtronic beats, but sales of spinal products soft

Medtronic Inc on Tuesday posted a 19 percent rise in quarterly profit, driven by lower operating expenses and higher sales of its devices to treat heart disease, diabetes and other chronic disorders.

Diabetes to exact huge costs on poor countries

Diabetes is moving from being a disease of developed countries to a disease in developing countries like India and China, and this could put pressure on healthcare systems through rising healthcare costs, said Philip Clarke, associate professor at University of Sydney's School of Public Health.

Italy targets Facebook site attacking Down's kids

An Italian Facebook group proposing that children with Down's syndrome be used for target practice has been shut down and Italy's equality minister threatened the thousands of idiots involved with legal action on Tuesday.

Medtronic quarterly profit up 19 percent

Medtronic Inc on Tuesday reported a 19 percent rise in quarterly profit on higher sales of its implantable devices to treat heart disease, diabetes and other chronic disorders.

Roche's Avastin fails in stomach cancer trial

Roche had indicated peak sales of the drug for the disease could have hit between 500 million and 1 billion Swiss francs ($466-$933 million), according to Deutsche Bank analysts.

U.S. backs Novartis vaccine, MS drug wins priority

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has licensed the vaccine to help protect people aged between 11 and 55 years against potentially deadly meningitis.

Reviewers urge Glaxo's Avandia come off market

Two U.S. drug safety reviewers have recommended that GlaxoSmithKline PLC's diabetes drug Avandia be pulled from the market after concluding it is more dangerous to the heart than a rival medicine, according to documents released on Saturday.

Occasional binges may undo alcohol's heart benefits

Pooling data from 14 previous studies of moderate drinkers, researchers found that those who drank heavily every so often were 45 percent more likely to develop coronary heart disease -- where plaque buildup in the heart arteries impedes the flow of blood and oxygen.

AIDS vaccine effects may wear off, researchers say

That may explain why results of the experimental vaccine have been so difficult to interpret, said Dr. Nelson Michael, a colonel at the Walter Reed Army Research Institute of Research in Maryland, who helped lead the trial,

New seasonal flu vaccine to contain H1N1 strain

The composition of the vaccine, announced at the end of a closed-door four-day meeting of influenza experts that is closely followed by the world's vaccine makers, means governments that have stockpiled doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine may now use them for part of the seasonal flu vaccine mix.

WHO to decide new flu vaccine formula

Flu vaccine makers anxiously await the decision, scheduled to be announced at 5 a.m. EST/1000 GMT, because they need this guidance to start formulating vaccines for the Northern Hemisphere's fall vaccine mix.

Many patients may not fill new prescriptions: study

Researchers found that among more than 75,000 Massachusetts patients given drug prescriptions over one year, 22 percent of the prescriptions were never filled. The rate was even higher -- 28 percent -- when the researchers looked only at first-time prescriptions.