UPI Health Business articles from February 2007

UPI Health Business archives from February 2007

Analysis: Part D not reaching poorest.
February 1, 2007... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- More than 3 million low-income seniors still lack Medicare drug coverage, and hurdles to their enrollment need to be removed, experts testified Wednesday before the Senate Special Committee...

Analysis: Street impressed by Gilead.
February 1, 2007... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Gilead's fourth-quarter earnings and revenues beat Wall Street's expectations, impressing analysts who see a strong year ahead for the company. Credit Suisse analyst Michael Aberman...

Interview: Gender, race gaps in ER care.
February 1, 2007... Byline: CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Many studies have focused on racial and gender differences in healthcare, but few have investigated whether these disparities exist in the emergency room. That's why Liliana Pezzin,...

Analysis: Microbicide trial a 'setback'.
February 1, 2007... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Clinical trials of cellulose sulfate, one of the most promising anti-HIV microbicide compounds, have ended in disappointment, researchers announced late Wednesday. But advocates for...

Caregiving: Long-term cancer impact -- 5.
February 1, 2007... Byline: ALEX CUKAN ALBANY, N.Y., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Many people with cancer -- or any other disease -- complain of pain, but that pain is often not acknowledged. A couple of years ago I was told that a member of a prominent American...

Analysis: Fibroid therapy queries answered.
February 1, 2007... Byline: ED SUSMAN HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Researchers suggested Thursday that lingering questions over the general safety of the procedure known as uterine fibroid embolization have been answered -- and the answer is that the...

Analysis: Remicade fights severe psoriasis.
February 2, 2007... Byline: BRUCE SYLVESTER WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A new analysis of data from three major clinical trials shows that, 10 weeks after initial treatment, more than three-quarters of patients with severe psoriasis receiving Centocor's...

Eat To Live: Score on Super Bowl snacks.
February 2, 2007... Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- This Sunday will be the first Super Bowl aired on CBS since Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction three years ago. While network execs are keeping their fingers crossed that nothing untoward...

Ped Med: Seeing faces, autism in new light.
February 2, 2007... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Neuroscientists looking at faces from the brain's point of view are starting to see autism in a new light. In one convention-crashing investigation, researchers at Georgetown...

Analysis: New drugs aid catheter therapy.
February 2, 2007... Byline: ED SUSMAN HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Along with efforts of interventional radiologists to snake catheters into smaller and smaller blood vessels, allowing for "Band-Aid" surgeries that replace major open operations, come new...

Analysis: New target for Alzheimer's.
February 5, 2007... Byline: ASTARA MARCH WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- New insight into a misfolded protein and an anti-inflammatory drug used in transplant procedures may make major contributions to the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, according to...

Eat To Live: Eating the Oldways way.
February 5, 2007... Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Carlo Petrini, Italian founding father of Slow Food, and Boston-based K. Dun Gifford of Oldways are brothers-in-arms in the movement to promote good food worth eating. Both recognized --...

eHarmony offers relationship 'e-therapy'.
February 5, 2007... Byline: ANTHONY ROTUNNO WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Executives at eHarmony, the Internet dating Web site that boasts an average of 90 users' marriages each day, launched eHarmonyLabs on Monday, an interactive relationship advice service...

Analysis: Newer/older epilepsy drugs equal.
February 5, 2007... Byline: ED SUSMAN WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- In a head-to-head comparison, the newer anti-epileptic drug levetiracetam -- marketed as Keppra -- proved it was the equal of an established older medication in keeping patients...

Spring conception raises risk of preemies.
February 5, 2007... Byline: ANTHONY ROTUNNO WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Women who conceive in the spring run a higher risk of delivering a baby prematurely than those who get pregnant in other seasons, according to a study released Monday by researchers from...

Analysis: Street likes AstraZeneca.
February 5, 2007... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- AstraZeneca's fourth-quarter earnings fell short of Wall Street's expectations as the company said it plans to cut 3,000 jobs, but analysts see a positive outlook for the pharmaceutical...

Analysis: Bush budget pinches entitlements.
February 6, 2007... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The Bush administration's 2008 budget for the Department of Health and Human Services features belt-tightening -- especially for the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Administration...

HealthWrap: Nerve therapy for hypertension.
February 6, 2007... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ Disrupting signals from a nerve to the liver prevented or reversed high blood pressure and diabetes in mice predisposed to the disorders, scientists report in the February issue of the journal Cell Metabolism. ...

Government selling house dust for $450.
February 6, 2007... Byline: MICHAEL SCHER WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- For $450 you can buy a unit of SRM-2585 from the U.S. government. SRM-2585 is a sample of household dust designed and sold by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a U.S....

Analysis: Debate over generic user fees.
February 6, 2007... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The generic-drug industry is objecting to user fees for generic-drug reviews proposed in President Bush's 2008 budget, saying the measure won't bring generics to market any faster. ...

Eat To Live: 1 million against GM food.
February 7, 2007... Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- It would be a treat to be able to take a leaf out of the supermarket tabloids and start this column with a headline that sounds like one of theirs but is pinched from the BBC: "Astronaut in...

Analysis: Veterans push for no-cost plan.
February 7, 2007... Byline: DIANA VU WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- While the Bush administration made a big push this week to improve healthcare for U.S. military veterans, there seems to be a growing divide between the government and veterans as to whether...

U.S. overdue for bird flu, experts warn.
February 7, 2007... Byline: JESSICA BRAUNSCHWEIG WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- The threat of avian influenza has returned. But public-health officials at the recent 2007 Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza conference said the risk never left. In fact, the...

Caregiving: Long-term cancer impact -- 6.
February 7, 2007... Byline: ALEX CUKAN ALBANY, N.Y., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Only recently has cancer been considered a trauma akin to combat or a terrorist attack -- causing post-traumatic stress disorder in a small percentage. I wrote a series of stories on...

Ped Med: Autism tied to flawed cell armor.
February 7, 2007... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- While some researchers are looking inside the nerve-cell package in the brain for clues to autism, others think it's all in the wrapping. A novel model of human brain development...

African-Americans show dairy deficiency.
February 7, 2007... Byline: REBECCA PEARSEY WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- If you haven't consumed any milk today and you're African-American, you're not alone in lacking key nutrients found in dairy. A recently published study shows that African-Americans...

Analysis: Mixed reviews on MedImmune.
February 7, 2007... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- MedImmune's fourth-quarter earnings beat Wall Street's expectations, but sales of FluMist and its respiratory syncytial virus treatment Synagis came up short. The Gaithersburg,...

Analysis: Kids' strokes undertreated.
February 8, 2007... Byline: ED SUSMAN SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Doctors said Wednesday that treatment of children who suffer strokes tends to range all over the lot -- generally due to lack of guidelines on therapy for the uncommon but potentially...

Analysis: Robotic arm aids stroke victims.
February 8, 2007... Byline: ED SUSMAN SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A robotic arm appears to help stroke patients regain some of the function lost in the brain attack that cost them partial use of their limbs, doctors demonstrated Wednesday. "We haven't...

Analysis: Bill aims to fix ailing ERs.
February 8, 2007... Byline: DEVIN GREENLEAF WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. House lawmakers this week reintroduced legislation that is aimed at bolstering America's overwrought emergency care systems. Sponsored by Reps. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., and Pete...

Analysis: Bright future for GSK.
February 8, 2007... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- GlaxoSmithKline's fourth-quarter earnings fell short of Wall Street's expectations, but analysts see a bright future for the pharmaceutical giant. Dresdner Kleinwort analyst Benjamin...

Analysis: AIDS vaccine closer, yet elusive.
February 8, 2007... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The launch of the first large-scale AIDS vaccine trial could bring the world one step closer to the elusive goal of preventing the disease's spread, researchers say, but there is still a long...

Analysis: Dems miffed at Bush health plans.
February 9, 2007... Byline: TODD ZWILLICH WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- House Democrats railed against President Bush's health proposals Thursday, criticizing a plan designed to spread basic insurance coverage and attacking planned cuts to Medicare. ...

Analysis: Clues for a 'Lazarus' recovery.
February 9, 2007... Byline: ED SUSMAN SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The stroke patient arrived at the Ohio State Medical Center comatose and was rushed to the radiology department where doctors identified a clot in his vertebrobasilar artery system -- an...

HealthWrap: Quercetin fights infection.(Clinical report)
February 9, 2007... Byline: ALEX CUKAN Appalachian State University researchers say quercetin, a naturally occurring, powerful antioxidant found in red grapes, red wine, red apples, green tea and broccoli, is the first plant compound proven in a controlled...

Eat To Live: Pie in the sky but tasty!
February 9, 2007... Byline: JULIA WATSON OVER THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Ever since the New Year, the travel sections and magazines that come with our newspapers have been urging us to leave the comfort of our homes. They want us to fly, fly away...

Ped Med: Autism as extreme maleness.
February 9, 2007... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- While among reported cases, autism appears gender-related, affecting some four times as many boys as girls, some scientists go so far as to argue the disorder is nothing more than an...

Analysis: 'New' heparin stops clots.
February 9, 2007... Byline: ED SUSMAN SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Doctors said Friday that low-molecular-weight heparin is superior to regular unfractionated heparin in preventing dangerous clots from forming in the leg veins of paralyzed stroke patients....

Analysis: Vaccine market to top $23B.
February 9, 2007... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The global vaccine market is expected to top $10 billion this year and $23.8 billion by 2012, according to an analyst report released Friday. Pediatric vaccines have historically...

Analysis: Bush health plan impact unclear.
February 9, 2007... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- President Bush's tax plan could either increase or decrease the number of uninsured Americans by as much as 10 million, experts said Friday, and much of the outcome will be determined by the...

Analysis: Going further to stop strokes.
February 12, 2007... Byline: ED SUSMAN SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- "To boldly go where no man has gone before" was the catch phase of Star Trek, but for Dr. Osama Zaidat it means reaching deeper and deeper into the brain, implanting tiny coils that may...

Eat To Live: Learn to love real food.(Recipe)
February 12, 2007... Byline: JULIA WATSON RYE, England, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- In the week when love is officially in the air, here is a plea to fall in love again -- with food. We've stopped loving it, and look where our betrayal is getting us: We're overweight and...

Caregiving: Dear Gov. Schwarzenegger -- 1.
February 12, 2007... Byline: ALEX CUKAN ALBANY, N.Y., Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Dear Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: There are published reports that you have been hobbling on crutches and complaining of considerable pain from a badly broken femur, an injury more...

Analysis: FDA pares Ketek indications.
February 12, 2007... Byline: TODD ZWILLICH WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration curbed the approved uses of the Sanofi-Aventis antibiotic Ketek Monday and also said it would issue new safety warnings for the drug. The move is...

Analysis: Bloomberg pushes ehealth records.
February 12, 2007... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called for universal electronic health records by 2012 at a major health policy conference Monday. "Putting (electronic health records) into effect...

Passive smoke linked to heart precursors.
February 12, 2007... WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Breathing in secondhand smoke has been linked to an increase in certain precursors of coronary heart disease, researchers at the University of Nottingham in Britain announced Monday. People exposed to low and...

Analysis: Mice cloned from adult stem cell.
February 12, 2007... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Scientists, for the first time, have cloned mice from adult stem cells found in the skin, but cloning remains so inefficient it won't reach the clinic anytime soon. Although the...

HealthWrap: Stillbirth risk rises with age.
February 13, 2007... Byline: ANTHONY ROTUNNO AND JESSICA BRAUNSCHWEIG WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Pregnant women age 40 or older have a higher chance of stillbirths, Yale School of Medicine researchers said Saturday at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine...

HealthWrap: Yes, you can be too thin.
February 13, 2007... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ If you think thin is beautiful, think again, says Julia Knowlton, professor at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta and author of "Body Story," (Swallow Press, 2004), a personal account of her battle with anorexia nervosa....

Analysis: AMA wants R-rating for smoking.
February 13, 2007... Byline: OWEN PRASKIEVICZ WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- The American Medical Association is calling on Hollywood to give an R-rating to movies that depict smoking and to air anti-smoking trailers at theaters that show those movies. ...

Analysis: Blues launch healthcare bank.
February 13, 2007... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- A new range of health-insurance products has blurred the line between health insurance and banking -- and now the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association has become the first insurer to start...

Analysis: Sanofi's shaky future.
February 13, 2007... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Sanofi-aventis's fourth-quarter earnings fell 5.6 percent and the company's future doesn't look so bright either, with the Food and Drug Administration taking potentially negative actions...

Analysis: Critics blast FDA culture.
February 13, 2007... Byline: TODD ZWILLICH WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- The Food and Drug Administration's pullback on the use of a controversial antibiotic yesterday did little to quell its critics, who today went before Congress to condemn the agency's...

Eat To Live: Kids eating like adults? Wow!
February 14, 2007... Byline: JULIA WATSON LONDON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- The small boy sitting at the refectory table at Canteen in London's Spitalfields was wearing a bow tie and tweed blazer and tucking into a plate of deviled kidneys. Appropriately for this sharp...

Ped Med: Autism myths abound.
February 14, 2007... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Misrepresented for decades and still suffering from an identity crisis, autism serves as a lightning rod for myths and misconceptions, researchers say. A newfound influx of...

Playing Cupid all year round.
February 14, 2007... Byline: DIANA VU WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- It's the little romantic things year round that count, the experts say, not just the big things on Valentine's Day. Lori Miller, singles and dating expert for e-dating site Lavalife, says,...

Analysis: Analysts split on Onyx's Nexavar.
February 14, 2007... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Onyx rises and falls on its drug Nexavar, but analysts are split on the potential of the cancer treatment in light of promising results released this week. Onyx said it stopped a...

Analysis: Live flu vaccine protects kids.
February 14, 2007... Byline: ED SUSMAN WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 14 (UPI) -- An inhaled influenza vaccine appears to be more potent in protecting children younger than 5 from the flu than does a vaccine that requires injections. In an international...

Analysis: Bush child-health limit divisive.
February 15, 2007... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Most U.S. House members agree that the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) should be reauthorized later this year, but dissension on the issue surfaced at a subcommittee...

HealthWrap: Plastics may affect fertility.
February 15, 2007... Byline: ALEX CUKAN If you're pregnant or hope to be, pay heed -- a new study says to stay away from several common contaminants. The contaminant bisphenol-A, or BPA, used to make many plastics found in food storage containers and baby...

Analysis: Street eyeing Biogen's Tysabri.
February 15, 2007... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Biogen Idec's fourth quarter net income more than doubled, but the company's earnings fell short of Wall Street's expectations. Analysts are lukewarm on the company predominantly due...

Analysis:Chronic but cheaper.
February 15, 2007... Byline: LAURA GILCREST WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- With a cascade of popular drugs for chronic conditions -- like the cholesterol drug Lipitor -- set to go off patent soon, employers see an unprecedented cost-saving opportunity in...

Analysis: Are embryo stem cells necessary?
February 15, 2007... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- All stem cell advances are welcome, but the door should be left open for embryonic stem cell research, advocates said Thursday. "Every three months you're going to read about a new...

Ped Med: The autism treatment challenge.
February 16, 2007... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Without a clear-cut cause to serve as a compass, treatments devised for autism have spread out in dizzyingly divergent directions -- from behavioral to dietary to medical to...

Outside View: End the black AIDS plague.
February 16, 2007... Byline: JUDITH LIGHTFOOT VOORHEES, N.J., Feb. 16 (UPI) -- African-American medical and political leaders gathered this week in Philadelphia to turn the national spotlight on the growing impact of HIV/AIDS on the black community; the...

Eat To Live: Happy Year of the Pig!
February 16, 2007... Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Happy New Year from a Rat to all you Pigs out there aged 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72, 84 or 96 years old, or just newborn in this Chinese calendar year of 4704! The new moon on Sunday ushers...

Analysis: Weighing the rotavirus vaccine.
February 16, 2007... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- A recent announcement by the Food and Drug Administration has raised concerns about the RotaTeq vaccine against the rotavirus. But some experts advise against ringing the warning bell...

Scientists tackle questions of taste.
February 17, 2007... Byline: CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Why do some of us abhor broccoli or adore garlic? Scientists may be getting closer to figuring out what controls the human mechanism of taste. It could be that taste bud...

Analysis: Labopharm hinges on tramadol.
February 19, 2007... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Labopharm delivered a solid fourth quarter performance and analysts think the company has a bright future that will be driven by its pain medication, once-daily tramadol. Prakash...

EcoWellness: Obesity's chemical roots.
February 19, 2007... Byline: CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- It's easy to label fast food and television as the prime offenders in the worldwide explosion of obesity. But as scientists begin to peel back the layers of how manmade chemicals...

Analysis: Primary care in sickly state.
February 19, 2007... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Family doctors are highly skilled, cost-effective -- and increasingly hard to find. Faced with lower salaries, longer hours, high debt loads and high expectations, medical students are...

Analysis: Avastin halts brain cancer.
February 20, 2007... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Genentech may get a boost from a new pilot study showing its drug Avastin slows the growth of the most common and deadly form of brain cancer. Avastin, which is approved for treating...

HealthWrap: Sexy ads may harm girls.
February 20, 2007... Byline: LIDIA WASOWICZ Advertising that looks at girls and young women through a sexual lens can do harm to their mental and physical health, states a report released by the American Psychological Association. The members of the APA...

Analysis: Amgen's Aranesp may be safe.
February 21, 2007... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Amgen shares slipped Friday after it was revealed a trial involving Aranesp was halted early due to an increased risk of recurrence of tumors in cancer patients, but some analysts don't...

Analysis: Healthcare costs grow, shift.
February 21, 2007... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- In the next decade U.S. healthcare spending will continue a steady, steep climb, according to the latest government forecast. But as total healthcare spending doubles to account for 20...

Eat To Live: At last a glamour health book.
February 21, 2007... Byline: JULIA WATSON WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Good nutrition suffers from a bad image. It's hard for a slice of toast to compete with a Krispy Kreme. Which is going to make you salivate more? In any field we're really not smitten...

Caregiving: Dear Gov. Schwarzenegger -- 2.
February 21, 2007... Byline: ALEX CUKAN ALBANY, N.Y., Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Dear Gov. Schwarzenegger: You may have wondered why doctors keep telling you to avoid putting your weight on your broken leg and why you are being told to keep the leg elevated. ...

Analysis: Adults feel in charge of health.
February 21, 2007... Byline: CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Most Americans feel they wield near-total or total control over their personal health, according to a new Zogby/UPI poll. But the public-health community has done a poor job in...

Analysis: Raves for Shire's Vyvance deal.
February 21, 2007... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Shire's plans to acquire New River for $2.6 billion to gain full control of Vyvanse, a potential treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, is a good move, according to...

Analysis: Herpes treatment cuts AIDS virus.
February 21, 2007... Byline: ED SUSMAN WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Treating people infected with the viruses that cause genital herpes and AIDS with anti-herpes medication appears to upset the synergy between the microbes, reducing herpes attacks...

Analysis: AARP pushes healthcare reform.
February 21, 2007... Byline: OLGA PIERCE WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Healthcare will be a top item on the AARP's 2007 political agenda, the largest U.S. senior citizens' group announced Wednesday. "The need for health and financial security is something...

Analysis: Men seek prostate treatment.
February 22, 2007... Byline: ED SUSMAN KISSIMMEE, Fla., Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Even if there is a very low risk that prostate cancer could be fatal, the vast majority of men would rather undergo surgery than chance the disease might spread. In fact, among men...

Copper may spur postpartum depression.
February 22, 2007... Byline: CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Elevated levels of natural copper in a new mother's body may contribute to postpartum depression, a crushing disorder that can occur without warning, researchers report in a new...

Analysis: Analysts split on Amylin.
February 22, 2007... Byline: STEVE MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration removed the requirement that Amylin's Byetta be refrigerated, but analysts are split on whether this will lead to a boost in sales of the diabetes...