France may curb use of newer oral contraceptives
PARIS (Reuters) - French health regulators are studying limiting the use of contraceptive pills that
carry health risks and will stop reimbursing prescription costs of some types from March, after a woman sued
drugmaker Bayer over alleged side-effects. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 3, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Medicaid payments rise for child health care
Beginning January 1, Medicaid payment rates for pediatricians and physicians who care for children
increased to at least those of Medicare for immunizations and primary care. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 3, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Work-life balance among biggest challenges facing primary care doctors
Lower reimbursements and maintaining a healthy balance between their work and personal lives are the
top challenge facing primary care physicians today, according to a recent survey. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 3, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Nexavar (sorafenib) meets goal in thyroid cancer trial
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German drugmaker Bayer said its cancer treatment Nexavar (sorafenib) reached a
goal of improving the survival of patients with radioactive iodine (RAI) refractory differentiated thyroid cancer
in a late-stage clinical trial. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 3, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Everolimus more effective than sirolimus in coronary stents
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Mortality rates are similar, but pooled data show other advantages when
coronary stents are coated with everolimus rather than sirolimus, researchers say. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 3, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
U.S. approves health exchanges in four Republican-governed states
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials on Thursday gave four states currently governed by Republicans
the green light to set up their own health insurance exchanges under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform
law, an initiative largely opposed by Republicans. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 3, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Findings support shift away from hospitalization for pediatric pneumonia
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Researchers who earlier showed that kids with severe pneumonia can usually
be managed as outpatients are now reporting some ways to identify the ones more likely to need
hospitalization. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 3, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Pediatric professionals support strict gun control
The AAP is calling for federal action on stricter gun control and pledging its support for changes
that will ensure the safety of children in their schools and communities. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 3, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Breast cancer survivors at no extra risk of second malignancy
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older breast cancer survivors are no more likely than their peers to
develop another malignancy over the next 15 years, a new study shows. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 3, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Primaquine protects against P. vivax malaria relapse
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Primaquine combined with newer non-chloroquine antimalarials killed
dormant Plasmodium vivax parasites and prevented malaria relapse in a recent study of Indonesian
soldiers. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 3, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Annual Pap tests? For some in US, old habits die hard
CHICAGO (Reuters) - An increasing number of younger women in the United States are delaying their
first Pap test for cervical cancer until after they reach 21, reflecting new U.S. guidelines, health officials said
on Thursday. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 3, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Most countries offer the Pill over-the-counter
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Unlike women in the U.S., Canada and much of Europe, most women in the
world can access the birth control pill without a prescription, according to a new study. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 3, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Sperm donor to resist petition for child support
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (Reuters) - A Kansas man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple so they could have a
child and now faces a petition for child support will resist the demand in court next week, one of his lawyers said
on Wednesday. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 3, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Gambian leader plans herbal AIDS-cure hospital
BANJUL (Reuters) - AIDS patients would be offered an herbal cure at a 1,111-bed hospital in Gambia
that the president said on Tuesday he plans to build despite medical concerns the treatment is
dangerous. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 3, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
OPINION: Cliff deal offers hope of long-term care solution
CHICAGO (Reuters) - There's a lot of complaining about the fiscal cliff deal, but there is one notable
bright spot: Congress agreed to take a hard look at long-term care. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - January 3, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
