The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Pediatric Advisory Committee recommended to the agency yesterday, Tuesday 27th November, that makers of the flu drug Tamiflu be urged to change the drug’s warning label to include the fact that the psychiatric symptoms experienced by children on the drug could be caused by having the flu. [click link for full article]

A new, high-tech identification system developed in Japan will improve accuracy and significantly reduce the time it takes to identify victims of mass disasters, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).”Families waiting to hear news regarding loved ones experience trauma while waiting for the identification process to resolve,” said Eiko Kosuge, D.D.S. [click link for full article]

Researchers are improving the chances of women faced with an aggressive and difficult to diagnose form of breast cancer. Inflammatory breast cancer spreads quickly and can be lethal in six to nine months. [click link for full article]

A mouse resistant to cancer, even highly-aggressive types, has been created by researchers at the University of Kentucky. The breakthrough stems from a discovery by UK College of Medicine professor of radiation medicine Vivek Rangnekar and a team of researchers who found a tumor-suppressor gene called “Par-4″ in the prostate.The researchers discovered that the Par-4 gene kills cancer cells, but not normal cells. [click link for full article]

Following a heart attack, part of the heart tissue dies. It is still not possible to restore the scar tissue arising as a result of this. The majority of stem cell researchers attempt to make new heart muscle cells from stem cells. [click link for full article]

“Sixty years ago, Americans smoked, drank and ate too much of the wrong things — then died of heart disease and stroke at higher and higher rates,” but the ongoing Framingham Heart Study, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at [click link for full article]

Statins, the popular class of drugs used to lower cholesterol, are among the most commonly prescribed medications in developed countries. But for some patients, accompanying side effects of muscle weakness and pain become chronic problems and, in rare cases, can escalate to debilitating and even life-threatening damage.Now a study led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), helps explain the source of these problems. [click link for full article]

As part of a CMS initiative to investigate the sales tactics of insurance agents marketing Medicare Advantage plans to seniors, acting agency Administrator Kerry Weems on Wednesday attended a promotional presentation for an MA plan as a “secret shopper,” the [click link for full article]

Researchers in the US have developed a better way to predict breast cancer risk in African American women. Until now scientists were using a model based on data from white women, but this new model was developed using data from studies on African American women. [click link for full article]

Minority women are more likely than white women to have severe pain related to metastatic breast cancer, according to a recent study, HealthDay/Washington Post reports. For the study, [click link for full article]