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AP - A Los Angeles hospital provided liver transplants to four Japanese gang figures, including one of Japan’s most powerful gang bosses, over a period when several hundred area patients died while awaiting transplants, according to a published report.

AP - Old-fashioned asthma inhalers that contain environment-harming chemicals will no longer be sold at year’s end — and the government is urging patients not to wait until the last minute to switch to newer alternatives.

AFP - European doctors said Friday they had identified a genetic characteristic that strongly worsens survival chances for women with breast cancer who are treated with a common form of chemotherapy.

AP - Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration said Friday a blood-clotting drug from GlaxoSmithKline and Ligand Pharmaceuticals is effective for short-term use, despite reservations by FDA scientists.

Reuters - Protein accumulations, or
plaques, characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease can be
eliminated from the brains of mice, researchers report, by
encouraging scavenger immune cells called macrophages to do
their work.

Reuters - A new analysis of current
research provides “the strongest evidence to date” that giving
small children supplemental vitamin D will help prevent them
from developing type 1 diabetes later on, according to the
review’s co-author.

Reuters - “I’m sorry. You don’t have breast
cancer,” the oncologist told Charmaine Atkenson.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of CenterWatch:

AP - Old-fashioned asthma inhalers that contain environment-harming chemicals will quit selling at year’s end — and the government is urging patients not to wait until the last minute to switch to newer alternatives.

Reuters - An older person’s likelihood of
entering a nursing home or other long-term care facility is
particularly high immediately after the death of a spouse, new
research indicates.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Caring for a person with Alzheimer’s disease
often includes helping with all daily activities, including eating.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) has awarded more than ￡3million to fund a research centre that will investigate the causes of type 1 diabetes - a condition that results from an immune attack on the body’s insulin producing cells. The study, known as the JDRF Centre for Diabetes Genes, Autoimmunity and Prevention (D-GAP), aims to […]

AFP - The World Health Organisation said Friday that only a total ban on all forms of tobacco advertising can stop the “constantly mutating virus” of the marketing industry and protect vulnerable young people.

AP - A woman in a northern Australian city gave birth to a healthy baby girl after a rare full-term ectopic pregnancy, a hospital official said Friday.

AP - Tobacco companies are targeting the half billion young people in the Asia Pacific region by linking smoking to glamorous and attractive lifestyles, the U.N. World Health Organization said Friday.