 | | | | An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday voted against approving Alkermes Plc's treatment for depression in patients with an inadequate response to standard antidepressant therapies. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Men with prostate cancer who get surgery or radiation are also more likely start taking antidepressants than their counterparts who don't get aggressive treatment, a recent study suggests. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women who develop preeclampsia, a condition involving dangerously high blood pressure, have more than three times higher risk of dementia later in life than women who don't have this pregnancy complication, researchers say. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - African American women with abnormal mammograms may be less likely than those from other ethnic and racial groups to recognize the barriers to follow-up care that can delay a breast cancer diagnosis or to seek help overcoming them, a U.S. study suggests. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - A range of common mental health conditions are being diagnosed more often in U.S. university students, according to a study that also finds students are more willing to seek help than in the past. | | | | | | (Reuters Health) - Nearly half of women over age 50 report bladder leakage and many say it's a major problem for them, according to a new U.S. survey. | | | | | | A 10th child died has in a viral outbreak at a rehabilitation center in northern New Jersey, where 27 young patients with compromised immune systems have been confirmed with adenovirus infections, state health officials said. | | | | | | (This Oct 31 story corrects paragraph one to say targeted therapy, not immunotherapy) | | | | | | WH Group, China's top pork processor, said on Thursday it was trying to verify a Taiwan government statement that the African swine fever virus was found in a sausage made by a subsidiary that was brought to the island by a traveler. | | | | | | The school groundskeeper who won a jury trial against Bayer AG's Monsanto unit over allegations that the company's glyphosate-containing weed-killers caused his cancer, accepted a court-mandated reduced punitive damages award on Wednesday. | | | | | | China's birth rate is set to decline further this year as well as over the next few years, despite the country's 2016 move to relax its controversial "one-child policy", the China Daily newspaper said on Thursday, citing population experts. | | | | | |
