By Reuters StaffWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday pushed lawmakers debating tax reform proposals in the Republican-controlled Congress to end the Obamacare individual mandate and cut the top income tax rate to 35%.Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate were debating their respective plans this week before heading home for the U.S. Thanksgiving Day holida
By Marilynn LarkinNEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? Transplanting older donor lungs into younger patients may result in “reasonable outcomes,” but mainly for double lung transplants, according to an analysis of younger recipients.Surgeons often are reluctant to use lungs from people over age 60, especially for recipients under age 50, Dr. Matthew Fox of the University of Louisville in Kentucky told Reut
By Reuters StaffWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday said he will nominate former pharmaceutical executive and industry lobbyist Alex Azar to serve as U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, saying Azar would push to lower the price of medicines.If confirmed, Azar also would take the lead in implementing Trump's campaign promise to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, the 20
By Reuters StaffNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A larger bolus of intravenous fluid given at the time of epidural placement in pregnant women with narrow pulse pressure reduces the risk of fetal heart rate (FHR) abnormalities, post-epidural hypotension and resuscitative intervention, according to a randomized controlled trial.“Admission pulse pressure, as a peripheral surrogate of central volume statu
By Reuters StaffNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Wrist-worn multimodal seizure detectors provide accurate convulsive seizure counts and autonomic data in patients with epilepsy, a small study suggests.The gold standard for monitoring seizures is video EEG in epilepsy monitoring units (EMUs), but this method is impractical for long-term surveillance. Tracking seizure events over longer periods might all
By Julie SteenhuysenCHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have used nanotechnology plus the powerful CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool to turn off a key cholesterol-related gene in mouse liver cells, an advance that could lead to new ways to correct genes that cause high cholesterol and other liver diseases.Nanotechnology is the design and manipulation of materials thousands of times smaller than the w
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) - Most people who worry that having sex might stop their heart can probably just relax and enjoy themselves, a new study suggests.Researchers examined data on 4,557 adults who died from a sudden cardiac arrest. They found just 34 cases (
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) - Most people who worry that having sex might stop their heart can probably just relax and enjoy themselves, a new study suggests.Researchers examined data on 4,557 adults who died from a sudden cardiac arrest, which is essentially a short circuit in the heart’s electrical system. They found just 34 cases linked to sexual activity.Put another way, less than 1 perce
WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday pushed lawmakers debating tax reform proposals in the Republican-controlled Congress to end the Obamacare individual mandate and cut the top income tax rate to 35 percent.Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate were debating their respective plans this week before heading home for the U.S. Thanksgiving Day holiday
By Rupam JainNEW DELHI (Reuters) - A thick cloud of toxic smog 10 times the recommended limit enveloped India's capital, New Delhi, on Monday, as government officials struggled to tackle a public health crisis that is well into its second week.A U.S. embassy measure showed levels of poisonous airborne particles, known as PM 2.5, had reached 498 on Monday afternoon, compared with the upper limi
By Kate KellandLONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease.The investment - a personal one and not part of Gates' philanthropic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - will be followed by another $50 m
By Dan WhitcombLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Disneyland has shut down and decontaminated two cooling towers following an outbreak of Legionnaires disease that sickened 12 people, nine of them guests or employees at the theme park in Anaheim, county health officials said on Saturday.One of the three cases of the respiratory illness not linked to Disneyland was fatal in an individual who had additional he
By Megan BrooksNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) is not associated with an increased risk of bone fracture in children with asthma, according to results of population-based study from Ontario, Canada.Daily ICS therapy is recommended for mild persistent asthma in children, but there is concern that, similar to systemic corticosteroids, ICS may have harmful effects
By Julie SteenhuysenCHICAGO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have used nanotechnology plus the powerful CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool to turn off a key cholesterol-related gene in mouse liver cells, an advance that could lead to new ways to correct genes that cause high cholesterol and other liver diseases.Nanotechnology is the design and manipulation of materials thousands of times smaller th