High Risk for Breast Cancer May Be Normalized With Healthy Living, Study Finds and other top stories.

• High Risk for Breast Cancer May Be Normalized With Healthy Living, Study Finds

  

  Some women at high risk for breast cancer may be able to lower their risk to that of an average woman by making healthy lifestyle choices, according to a new study published today in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA). Dr. Robert Shenk ...

  >> view original



• At G7, Britain presses for global reward system for new antibiotics

  

  ISE-SHIMA, Japan Britain is pushing for a global plan to reward drugs companies for developing new antibiotics, while also pledging to cut antibiotic use in England.A review commissioned by the British government and published last week said drug companies should agree to "pay or play" in the urgent race to find new antimicrobial medicines to fight the global threat posed by drug-resistant superbug infections.Former Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O'Neill, who led the review, said a reward o..

  >> view original



• Dreaded Superbug Found For First Time In US Patient - A Physician's Perspective

  

  false

  >> view original



• Python Bites Man's Penis While He Goes To Bathroom

  

  I've been afraid of a snake biting my penis for 30 years, ever since my mom told me about the time a snake somehow ended up in the toilet and bit a man while he went to the bathroom.  I still look for snakes every time I go to the bathroom. Hell, my mom has me so terrified of snakes that I won't even go walk in high grass if I lose a golf ball. I totally expect to get bitten every time I go on a hike outside. I've only seen one snake in the wild in the last ten years and I nearly fainted. Bas..

  >> view original



• To Kill Mosquitoes That Spread Zika, Strike Before They Fly

  

  Maureen LoCascio, with the mosquito control team in Hudson County, N.J., uses a backpack sprayer to spread insecticide against mosquito larvae. Hansi Lo Wang/NPR hide caption toggle caption Hansi Lo Wang/NPR Maureen LoCascio, with the mosquito control team in Hudson County, N.J., uses a backpack sprayer to spread insecticide against mosquito larvae. ..

  >> view original



• Nearly Half Of Antidepressant Prescriptions Aren't For Depression

  

  Photographed by Tayler Smith. At this point, about one in 10 Americans is taking an antidepressant, according to CDC estimates. But a new study shows that nearly half of those prescriptions weren't given to treat depression.The study, published as a research letter in the most recent issue of JAMA, analyzed electronic records for 101,759 antidepressant prescriptions given out between 2006 and 2015 in Quebec, Canada. They found that only 55% of those were prescribed specifically to treat depr..

  >> view original



• FDA approves first buprenorphine implant for treatment of opioid dependence

  

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Probuphine, the first buprenorphine implant for the maintenance treatment of opioid dependence. Probuphine is designed to provide a constant, low-level dose of buprenorphine for six months in patients who are already stable on low-to-moderate doses of other forms of buprenorphine, as part of a complete treatment program.Until today, buprenorphine for the treatment of opioid dependence was only approved as a pill or a film placed under the ton..

  >> view original



• Harvard researchers unveil new Alzheimer's theory

  

  Karen Weintraub, Special for USA TODAY 8:28 p.m. EDT May 26, 2016In this June 21, 2013 photograph, a poster with information about Alzheimer's Disease is posted on a shelf that holds books in the library at the Alzheimer's Association Headquarters in Chicago.(Photo: Scott Eisen, AP)Researchers at Harvard this week offered a new theory of Alzheimer’s Disease that - if true - would upend our understanding of the disease and suggest new routes for treatment and prevention.The researche..

  >> view original



• New York City Can Enforce Salt Warnings on Menus, Court Says

  

  Photo This symbol will start appearing on menus to indicate that a dish has high salt content. Credit Antonio D'Angelo/New York City Health Department, via The Associated Press Salt must soon be on the menu — very visibly — at hundreds more chain restaurants in New York City, after a court on Thursday cleared the way for the city to enforce a rule requiring many eateries to alert consumers to food items with high salt content.Some chains, such as Applebee’s, T.G.I. Frid..

  >> view original

High-Salt Diets May Up Kidney Patients' Heart Risk .	76-year-old man hurt, 2 arrested in Hialeah home-invasion robbery .
Stocks dip, yields inch up on Fed rate hike talk .	STR: US hotel performance for April 2016 .