Reuters Health

• Stocking EpiPens at Restaurants Might Reduce Fatal Allergic Reactions If restaurants and other food establishments stocked epinephrine autoinjectors, the number of fatal allergic reactions, known as anaphylaxis, could decrease, a small study in Canada suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• T-Cell Immune Responses Drive Neurodegeneration in Glaucoma
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• Ultrasound Surveillance More Cost-Effective Than Biopsy for Certain Thyroid Nodules
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• Women With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Less Likely to Receive Effective Contraceptives Women with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are less likely to receive effective reversible contraception, a large study shows.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• Familial Hypercholesterolemia Linked to Increased PAD Risk
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• Gut Transporter Protein Mediates Beneficial Endocannabinoid Release
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• Chinese Vaccine Maker Made 500,000 Substandard Baby Vaccines-Xinhua A Chinese drug company produced nearly 500,000 substandard vaccines for babies, roughly double an earlier estimate by authorities investigating a safety scandal, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• Similar Rates of Fetal Growth Restriction Seen With Two Popular Bariatric Procedures Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and sleeve gastrectomy (SG) appear to result in similar rates of fetal growth restriction, according to French researchers.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• Express Scripts Staking Out Million Dollar Gene Therapies
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• Adult Smokers More Apt to Use E-Cigarettes Than Nonsmokers Current smokers are more likely than ex-smokers or adults who have never smoked to use e-cigarettes, according to a Swedish study that concludes e-cigarettes might not work as a cessation aid.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• White House Cannot Shield Information on Transgender Military Ban -Judge A federal judge in Baltimore rejected the Trump administration's request to shield information it employed when deciding to ban transgender people from the U.S. military.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• Hospitals Scrap Surgeries, Venezuelans Forgo Showers as Taps Run Dry At one of Caracas' biggest public hospitals, most bathrooms are closed. Patients fill jugs from a tiny tap on the ground floor that sometimes has a trickle of water. Operations are postponed or canceled.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• Trump Administration Sued Over Arkansas' Medicaid Work Requirements Advocacy groups on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the decision by President Donald Trump's administration to allow Arkansas to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients in the state.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• Getting Too Little Sleep May 'Age' the Heart Adults who sleep too little or too much may have an increased risk of heart attack or stroke, say researchers who argue that the best way to think of the harmful effect is in terms of "excess heart age."
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• Traumatic Brain Injury Tied to Increased Risk of Suicide People who have traumatic brain injuries may be nearly twice as likely to die by suicide as individuals who don't have a history of TBI, a large Danish study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• Paris Residents Peeved at Very Public Eco-Friendly Urinals A new set of eco-friendly but completely exposed urinals deployed on the streets of Paris are provoking uproar from locals.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• HIV PrEP Use May Be a Gateway to Primary Care People who use HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) are also more likely to get routine care like flu shots and recommended screenings for common health problems, a U.S. study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• Southwest to Allow Only Dogs, Cats as Emotional Support Animals
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• Popular Fecal Immunochemical Tests Equally Effective for Detecting Colorectal Cancer
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• HIV-Prevention Intervention for Young Transgender Women Reduces Risky Sex
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018