Pregnancy belt for lifelogging in the womb

A belt that can monitor a developing baby’s heartbeat, sleep and motion 24/7 could allow doctors to monitor high-risk pregnancies without hospitalising women















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New drugs still out of reach for most in India, world TB hotspot

MUMBAI (Reuters) - The case of a Mumbai tailor cured of an extremely resistant form of tuberculosis this week has revived debate over a new drug to which the Indian government has limited access, prompting calls for change.

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Spike in Ebola in Guinea could reflect access to hidden patients

DAKAR, Mar 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The latest spike in Guinea’s Ebola cases could be a sign that aid teams are at last gaining access to hidden patients, rather than a surge of new cases, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official said.

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Biogen's Alzheimer's drug slows mental decline in early study

(Reuters) - An experimental drug from Biogen Idec became the first Alzheimer’s treatment to significantly slow cognitive decline and reduce what is believed to be brain-destroying plaque in patients with early and mild forms of the disease, according to a small study likely to reignite hopes of a treatment.

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Spike in Ebola in Guinea could reflect access to hidden patients

By Misha Hussain DAKAR, Mar 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The latest spike in Guinea’s Ebola cases could be a sign that aid teams are at last gaining access to hidden patients, rather than a surge of new cases, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official said. The number of suspected cases in the West African country has more than doubled from last month, according to the health ministry, prompting fears the epidemic could mushroom as it did in Liberia and Sierra Leone in September. “Unfortunately this has led to the discovery, not unexpected, of a large number of hidden cases and community deaths,” Dangou told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an email. “It also explains why most new cases are not linked to contacts under follow-up.” The worst Ebola outbreak in history, which has killed more than 10,000 people in West Africa, appears to be on the wane, especially in Liberia where there are no current cases.

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Battle Over Namenda Swap Has Big Stakes for Drugmakers, Consumers

(MedPage Today) — At issue: an aggressive, some say unethical and illegal, drug sales tactic.

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Does Whiplash Really Trigger Fibromyalgia? (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) — Less than 1% of whiplash injury sufferers developed fibromyalgia a year later.

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Morning Break: Pseudoscience Finds a Home at the NYT

(MedPage Today) — Health news and commentary from around the Web, gathered by the MedPage Today staff.

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Biogen's Alzheimer's drug slows mental decline in early study

An experimental drug from Biogen Idec became the first Alzheimer’s treatment to significantly slow cognitive decline and reduce what is believed to be brain-destroying plaque in patients with early and mild forms of the disease, according to a small study likely to reignite hopes of a treatment. Biogen is entering a field littered with expensive failures from such players as Pfizer Inc and Eli Lilly and Co. The 166-patient trial of the Biogen drug, aducanumab, tested four groups who each received a different dose against a fifth group who received a placebo. The plaque reduction was more pronounced as the dose of the drug increased and over time. It marks the first time an experimental drug demonstrated both a statistically significant reduction in amyloid plaque and a slowing of clinical impairment in patients with mild disease, said Alfred Sandrock, Biogen’s chief medical officer.

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New drugs still out of reach for most in India, world TB hotspot

By Zeba Siddiqui MUMBAI (Reuters) - The case of a Mumbai tailor cured of an extremely resistant form of tuberculosis this week has revived debate over a new drug to which the Indian government has limited access, prompting calls for change. Dr Zarir Udwadia, the chest physician who treated the tailor, said the government needed to do a “a lot more” to control tuberculosis in India, home to the world’s largest number of TB patients. Experts say the government is hesitant to allow the drug’s wider use as a lack of supervision, incorrect diagnostics and mismanagement of drugs are commonplace in the private sector. Such mismanagement can result in patients developing resistance, which Soumya Swaminathan, Director of India’s National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, said was a major risk.

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Defense hawks in U.S. Congress move to boost military budgets

By David Lawder and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican defense hawks in the U.S. Congress moved on Thursday to boost military funding in their budget plans, setting up a clash with fiscal conservatives in their party as the spending blueprints head to crucial votes next week. The Republican-controlled Senate Budget Committee approved its plan with an amendment to add $38 billion to an off-budget war funding account to boost military spending for fiscal 2016. The move, aimed at skirting statutory spending caps, matches a $38 billion increase also now proposed in the House of Representatives. House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday directed the House Rules Committee to add another $2 billion to the $36 billion increase originally proposed for the war funding account, and delete language in the House budget that would require alternate savings.

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U.S. air power in Afghanistan at five-year low as aid to Afghan forces wanes

By Krista Mahr KABUL (Reuters) - The United States’ use of air power in Afghanistan in the first two months of 2015 was its lowest in five years, as the reduced international military coalition sharply cut battlefield aid to Afghan security forces. The reduction reflects the smaller U.S. role in its longest war, even as Washington mulls slowing down the planned drawdown of American troops. None of the 503 air support sorties by American air assets this year have been flown to support Afghan security forces in battle, a coalition spokesman said. “The vast majority of those missions were in support of the U.S. counter-terrorism mission,” Col. Brian Tribus, a spokesman for Resolute Support, the new non-combat NATO mission that launched in January, wrote in an email.

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A Sense of Purpose May Benefit Your Brain

Study finds seniors with a positive mental state less likely to have cerebral tissue damage

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Could In-Car Breathalyzers Slash Rate of Booze-Linked Crashes?

Study says yes, but experts say the technology must first be refined and gain wider acceptance

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HIV Patients May Fare as Well as Others with Kidney Transplants

But study also found that survival rates were lower if organ recipient also had hepatitis C

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Gender and Memory

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Live Liver Transplants Seem Safe, Effective for Sudden Liver Failure

And live donors do well after the procedure, study reports

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Decline in U.S. Tuberculosis Rates Slows: CDC

Latest statistics reported as health officials work to contain outbreak at Kansas high school

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IVF Kids May Have Higher Odds of Autism, Study Finds

But multiple births, mother’s age may account for the increased risk, researchers say

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Cancer Patients Who Smoke, Drink May Face Longer Feeding Tube Use

But it’s not clear from study if dropping these habits would shorten the time people need outside nutrition

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