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| Exclusive: Community Health, others interested in Health Management Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 12:22 PM PDT By Soyoung Kim, Jessica Toonkel and Greg Roumeliotis NEW YORK (Reuters) - Health Management Associates Inc has attracted takeover interest from Community Health Systems Inc and other rivals about buying the $4 billion hospital operator, three people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Other hospital chains that have been exploring a potential deal include HCA Holdings Inc and LifePoint Hospitals Inc, some of the people said. They asked not to be named because the matter is not public. ... Full Story | Top |
| Wall Street on track for fourth day of gains, FedEx jumps Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 11:51 AM PDT  By Leah Schnurr NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose for the fourth session in a row on Tuesday, as investors bet companies will be able to surpass the low bar that has been set for earnings season, leaving room for better-than-expected results that could fuel the rally further. The push higher in recent days has put the benchmark S&P 500 about 1 percent below its all-time closing high of 1,669.16 reached in late May. ... Full Story | Top |
| African American blood cancer patients do fare worse Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 11:44 AM PDT By Kerry Grens NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite receiving similar cancer treatment as other patients, African Americans with a common form of leukemia didn't live as long in a new study that was aimed at understanding the racial disparity in cancer outcomes. "We don't have an answer" to explain it, said Dr. Alessandra Ferrajoli, the study's senior author and an associate professor of medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. ... Full Story | Top |
| Apps aim to help people get fit and stay fit Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 11:16 AM PDT By Natasha Baker TORONTO (Reuters) - There's no shortage of health and fitness apps monitoring everything from sleep patterns to calories and caffeine consumption. Free apps such as MyFitnessPal track diet and weight and can connect with apps like RunKeeper, which monitors fitness, to adjust calorie intake based on the speed and duration of a run. Sleep 101, for the iPhone, and Sleep Bot, for Android devices, monitor sleep patterns and quality. Now there's Argus, a free app for iPhones released last week. ... Full Story | Top |
| Texas House nears vote on proposed abortion restrictions Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 10:46 AM PDT  By Corrie MacLaggan AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters and opponents of abortion rights converged on the Texas Capitol on Monday for hours of protests as the state House of Representatives prepares to debate the proposed abortion restrictions on Tuesday. The state House could vote on the bill as early as Tuesday, two weeks after Democratic state Senator Wendy Davis filibustered for 11 hours to prevent passage of the legislation. ... Full Story | Top |
| Opera tenor Placido Domingo hospitalized in Spain Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 10:41 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES/MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish opera tenor Placido Domingo has been admitted to a Madrid hospital after suffering a pulmonary embolism - a blood clot in his lung, his U.S. publicist said on Tuesday. Domingo, 72, was hospitalized on Monday in his hometown and is expected to make a full recovery in about three to four weeks, publicist Nancy Seltzer said. "He's doing very well and responding very well to treatment," she said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Condition of Kerry's wife improves; stroke, brain tumor ruled out Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 10:39 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The health of Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, continues to improve and doctors have ruled out a heart attack, stroke or brain tumor as causing her "seizure-like" symptoms, the State Department said on Tuesday. Kerry will travel briefly to Washington on Tuesday to open this week's U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue meetings, Glen Johnson, a State Department official who is his personal spokesman, said in a statement released by the department. ... Full Story | Top |
| Vivus signs impotence drug deal as proxy vote looms Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 10:20 AM PDT (Reuters) - Vivus Inc, which is under intense pressure from its top shareholder over its marketing, said it signed a deal worth up to 95 million euros ($121.47 million) with Italy's Menarini Group to introduce its erectile dysfunction drug in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Vivus shares rose as much as 6 percent in morning trading on the Nasdaq before easing back to be up 2.5 percent in early afternoon trading. Privately held Menarini will sell the drug, avanafil, as Spedra in Australia, New Zealand and 40 European countries. ... Full Story | Top |
| First child to receive windpipe grown from own stem cells dies Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 10:10 AM PDT  By Chris Francescani (Reuters) - Two-year-old Hannah Warren, the first child to receive a windpipe grown from her own stem cells, has died three months after a rare operation, the Children's Hospital of Illinois in Peoria said. The child was diagnosed with an uncommon congenital abnormality known as tracheal agenesis, which means her windpipe failed to develop. She could not talk, eat or swallow on her own, according to a website by her parents, Darryl and Young-Mi Warren. ... Full Story | Top |
| Concern at undetected cases as WHO holds coronavirus talks Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 09:04 AM PDT  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - International health experts began urgent talks on the Middle East coronavirus (MERS) on Tuesday amid concerns about larger numbers of milder infections possibly going undetected, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The United Nations agency announced last Friday that it was forming an emergency committee, to convene this week, to prepare for a possible worsening of the SARS-like virus. ... Full Story | Top |
| UK angry over European court ruling on life jail terms Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 08:42 AM PDT By Gilbert Reilhac and Estelle Shirbon STRASBOURG/LONDON (Reuters) - A European court ruled on Tuesday that Britain had violated the rights of three murderers by jailing them for life with no prospect of release, angering Conservatives who seek to remove European human rights laws from British legislation. Prime Minister David Cameron said he "profoundly disagrees" with the court's ruling and signalled that he may join others in his Conservative Party in calling for Britain to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights altogether. ... Full Story | Top |
| Central African Republic in chaos, abandoned: MSF Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 07:36 AM PDT  BANGUI (Reuters) - Armed groups in Central African Republic have forced thousands to flee and pushed government and medical services close to collapse four months after rebels seized the capital, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) said on Tuesday. Attacks and looting were common in Bangui, where a transitional government that includes some of the rebels has failed to keep order, MSF said in a report ahead of a visit by U.N. and European Union humanitarian chiefs on Thursday. ... Full Story | Top |
| Elton John postpones summer tour due to appendicitis Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 07:01 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - British singer Elton John has postponed a summer tour because he is suffering from appendicitis, his website said on Tuesday. The 66-year-old "Candle in the Wind" singer was due to perform in London's Hyde Park on Friday as part of a European tour, but called in the doctors after falling ill and was diagnosed with appendicitis. ... Full Story | Top |
| Vivus says activist investor criticisms are off base Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 06:52 AM PDT (Reuters) - Obesity drugmaker Vivus Inc on Tuesday said its biggest investor, First Manhattan Co, has been offering only "uncertainty and delay" in its efforts to shake up the company's board of directors. "FMC's 'plan' - to the extent they have one - appears to revolve solely around doing things that the Vivus board and management team are already doing, 'fixing' things that aren't broken," Vivus said in a release. First Manhattan, an activist investor that owns 9. ... Full Story | Top |
| Some tanners return to the booth after skin cancer Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013 06:31 AM PDT  By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One in seven people goes back to a tanning bed after being diagnosed with skin cancer, according to a new research letter. Indoor tanning is known to increase a person's risk for cancer. "The situation may be analogous to that of lung cancer patients who continue to smoke after diagnosis," said lead author Brenda Cartmel, a cancer prevention researcher at the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Connecticut. ... Full Story | Top |
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