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Reuters - Novo Nordisk’s experimental type 2
diabetes drug, liraglutide, was superior in controlling blood
sugar in a clinical trial to Eli Lilly and Co and Amylin
Pharmaceuticals Inc’s Byetta, the Danish company said on
Friday.

AP - Cuba has authorized sex-change operations and will offer them free for qualifying citizens, an official said Friday. The move is the latest in a series of changes implemented by President Raul Castro since he succeeded his elder brother, Fidel, in February. Raul Castro’s daughter, Mariela, heads Cuba’s National Center for Sex Education, which […]

AP - Aggressively treating diabetes doesn’t prevent heart problems and deaths any better than standard treatment for lowering blood sugar, Australian researchers reported Friday.

AP - A British man despondent over his sex life and his mounting debt shot his wife and baby daughter to death as they lay in bed together, covered them with a comforter, then bought a one-way ticket home to England, a prosecutor told a jury Friday.

AP - The Food and Drug Administration warned patients Friday that using large amounts of a Johnson & Johnson foot ulcer medication could heighten their risk of dying from cancer.

Reuters - Cuba, in the latest change since
President Raul Castro took office in February, has allowed
doctors to perform sex change operations, a specialist at the
National Center for Sex Education said on Friday.

HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 6 (HealthDay News) — A popular type of surgery for
removing abnormal cells from the cervix — a problem that could lead to
cervical cancer if left untreated — may put women at risk of pregnancy
complications.

AFP - Norwegian police accused a Gambian couple on Friday of subjecting five daughters to genital mutilation in the country’s first-ever case against the illegal act of female circumcision.

June 5 — Adequate sun exposure and vitamin D levels may play an important role in helping to prevent type 1 diabetes in children, a new study suggests.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, analyzed type 1 diabetes incidence rates and found that populations living at or near the equator — where there […]

Reuters - Survivors of childhood cancer
who had aggressive chemotherapy are at increased risk of
structural and functional heart problems, a new study
indicates.

Reuters - The number of U.S. adults on
cholesterol-lowering medication could rise by one-quarter to
one-half if doctors were to routinely scan adults’ arteries for
plaque buildup, a study suggests.

Data published in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine demonstrate that the first-in-class direct renin inhibitor Rasilez® (aliskiren), known as Tekturna® in the US, may have potential kidney-protective benefits that are independent of its already proven ability to provide powerful blood pressure reductions1,3. Damage to the kidneys caused by diabetes is the leading […]

Reuters - Johnson & Johnson has added a strong
“black box” warning about the risk of cancer in patients
treated with the company’s Regranex diabetic foot gel, U.S.
regulators said on Friday.

Reuters - Police in Norway have arrested a
Gambian-born man and charged him and his wife with subjecting
five of their six daughters to genital mutilation, officials
said on Friday.

Reuters - Beijing will send a medical team to
China’s earthquake zone to reverse sterilization operations on
parents who have lost children in the disaster to allow them to
have another child, Xinhua said on Friday.