By Ronnie Cohen(Reuters Health) - U.S. police killed 1,166 people - more than three a day - in 2015, but an official government count missed a majority of the deaths, a new study shows.The Guardian, a U.K.-based newspaper and media company with U.S. and international editions, counted 93% of the U.S. police-related deaths, while the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statisti
By Ronnie Cohen(Reuters Health) - U.S. police killed 1,166 people - more than three a day - in 2015, but an official government count missed a majority of the deaths, a new study shows.The Guardian, a U.K.-based newspaper and media company with U.S. and international editions, counted 93 percent of the U.S. police-related deaths, while the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) s
By Lorraine L. JaneczkoNEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? Fungi are more likely to grow when donor corneal tissue is processed for endothelial keratoplasty than for other uses, perhaps because of the greater time spent at room temperature, according to data from the Eversight Eyebank Study."Tissues exposed to less time at room temperature (penetrating keratoplasty and anterior lamellar keratoplasty tiss
By Tom AllardCOX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) began distributing 900,000 doses of cholera vaccine on Tuesday in Bangladesh’s camps for Rohingya refugees fleeing from Myanmar, as authorities rush to prevent a major outbreak of the deadly disease.More than 10,000 cases of diarrhea have been reported in the past week alone, the WHO said.Doctors in two clinic
(Corrects gender of expert quoted in paragraph 15)By Marilynn LarkinNEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? A newly developed genomic-risk scoring system may significantly improve outcome predictions for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) compared with clinical parameters alone, researchers say.“IPF is a lethal disease with a variable and unpredictable course,” Dr. Jose Herazo-Maya of Yale Scho
By Scott BalticNEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? A substantial number of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) do not take oral anticoagulants (OACs) because of increased bleeding risk, and they are “at considerable risk of both ischemic and hemorrhagic events,” according to a study by U.S.-based researchers.The team analyzed administrative claims data from what, to their knowledge, is the largest coho
Oct 5 (Reuters) - A federal patent review board on Thursday rejected a challenge to a patent covering Eli Lilly and Co's Alimta drug to treat some lung cancers and mesothelioma.The U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board said Neptune Generics LLC and other companies failed to show it was more likely than not that 22 claims underlying the Lilly patent could not be patented.Alimta is Lilly's thir
By Scott MaloneCAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) - Two of the U.S. scientists awarded the Nobel prize on Tuesday for opening up a new era of astronomy by detecting gravitational waves said they hoped the attention would make Americans less inclined to dismiss scientific consensus in favor of politics.A trio of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the California Institute o
By Carolyn Crist(Reuters Health) ? Patients’ online ratings of physicians often don’t match up with the scientific data about the doctors’ quality of care, according to a new study.“When you’re trying to choose a restaurant online, it’s OK if you get a bad recommendation, but the stakes are high here,” coauthor Dr. Timothy Daskivich of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles said in a phone int
By Megan BrooksNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Combining several commonly prescribed medications with non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants (NOACs) may increase the risk of major bleeding in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF), suggest results of an observational study from Taiwan.“Physicians should consider the potential risks associated with the concurrent use of NOACs and other drugs,” D
By Alex WhitingROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Giving farm animals too many antibiotics can stoke resistance to the drugs, and despite countries taking measures to curb their use in agriculture, in populous nations such as China and India antibiotic use on farms is expected to soar.Farming experts say action is needed - especially as global demand for meat rises - to curb drug resistance.Infec
By Ben HirschlerLONDON (Reuters) - Access to new medicines and safety checks on existing treatments will be jeopardized if politicians pick a new home for Europe's London-based drugs regulator that is unacceptable to staff, its executive director told Reuters.Cancer drugs and therapies for rare diseases could be particularly affected by an exodus of key scientific and administrative staff duri