Many people with asthma avoid exercise, especially because it’s a common trigger for most asthmatics. But, this may be the wrong approach. Most physicians have encouraged their patients with asthma…

A team of researchers led by biologists at the University of California, San Diego has discovered a completely new mechanism that mammalian cells employ to fight infections of the Hepatitis C virus, which affects approximately 2.7 million Americans and 170 million people worldwide. [click link for full article]

Summaries appear below of editorials, opinion pieces and a letter to the editor addressing President Bush’s veto of legislation that would have reauthorized and expanded SCHIP. Editorials [click link for full article]

Mental Health America released results from a national study of Latino parents to better understand parent-child communication about bullying, sexual orientation and prejudice. Despite the fact that nearly all Latino parents surveyed believe information on sexual orientation should come from parents, two-thirds have not started such conversations with their children. [click link for full article]

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received 30 reports so far of patients developing acute pancreatitis which could be linked to taking the Diabetes Type 2 drug Byetta. Acute pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas - none of the cases has been fatal, 21 have been hospitalized. The FDA is advising anybody who is taking Byetta and experiences severe abdominal pain, with nausea/vomiting or without, to contact their health care professional immediately. [click link for full article]

The AP/Google.com on Sunday examined “cause marketing” campaigns, where companies partner with not-for-profit groups with the aim of raising money for both. Campaigns involving pink products or packaging to raise awareness and funding for breast cancer research are “probably the biggest and best-known efforts” of cause marketing, the AP/Google.com reports. [click link for full article]

Medicare beneficiaries who receive care in the highest-ranked U.S. hospitals are 71% less likely to die than those who receive care in the lowest-ranked facilities, according to the 10th annual Hospital Quality in America Study released on Monday by HealthGrades, HealthDay/Washington Post reports. [click link for full article]

The number of uninsured children in North Carolina increased by 20% since 2001, according to an annual report by Action for Children North Carolina and North Carolina Institute of Medicine, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. According to the report, 13. [click link for full article]

Insulin, long known as an important regulator of blood glucose levels, now has a newly appreciated role in the brain.Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers, working with colleagues in Texas, have found that insulin levels affect the brain’s dopamine systems, which are involved in drug addiction and many neuropsychiatric conditions. [click link for full article]

An Ostrava, Czech Republic, regional court on Friday ordered a local hospital to pay a Romani, or Gypsy, woman 500,000 koruna, or $25,800, in damages for performing a sterilization procedure without first obtaining her consent, Agence France-Presse reports (Agence France-Presse, 10/12). [click link for full article]