Chronic heart-failure patients with nonischemic etiology and without kidney dysfunction or severe N-terminal pro-brain-natriuretic peptide expression appear to benefit from the device. The data are hypothesis generating at this point, say investigators, and decisions will need to be made about where to go next with the aortic flow therapy.
Heartwire

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A study shows that use of paracetamol (acetaminophen) during the first year of life and in later childhood may increase the risk for asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema at ages 6 to 7 years.
Medscape Medical News

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One study shows a limited effect of antibiotics for women with preterm rupture of membranes on the health of children at age 7 years; another study shows an increased risk for cerebral palsy.
Medscape Medical News

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BOSTON, September 22, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts has preliminarily approved the settlement of a class action against publishers of wholesale drug prices, and certified a…

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WILMINGTON, Del., September 22, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — AstraZeneca today announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an additional six-month period of exclusivity to market CASODEX(R) (bicalutamide) for…

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Hospitals, hospices and nursing homes dump at least 250 million pounds of unused medications and contaminated packaging into the U.S. drinking water supply each year, according to an ongoing Associated Press investigation, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports.

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The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America has contributed $11.3 million to the advocacy group America’s Agenda: Health Care for Kids for advertisements supporting SCHIP expansion, CQ HealthBeat reports.

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Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) and members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Friday sent a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice requesting information about alleged safety problems with antiretrovirals manufactured by the Indian generic pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy and distributed through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the AP/International Herald Tribune reports (AP/International Herald Tribune, 9/19).

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Utah’s Medicaid preferred prescription drug list in its first year has reduced spending by nearly $546,000, but the savings fell about $2.75 million short of original estimates by the Utah Department of Health, according to Michael Hales, the director of the state Division of Health Care Financing, the

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