Noticias de Hoy

NEWARK, N. J. (AP) ? Gov. Chris Christie, who once famously called himself "the healthiest fat guy you’ve ever seen," disclosed Tuesday he had secretly undergone weight-loss surgery, a major new step by the potential Republican presidential contender to address both his health and a political vulnerability.

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NEW YORK (AP) ? A federal judge, asked by the government on Tuesday to freeze his plan giving teenage girls broader access to morning-after birth control, instead seized the chance to accuse health officials of taking steps that would end up hurting poor people and improve their chances of prevailing in a protracted legal fight with reproductive rights advocates.

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DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP) ? Baxter International Inc. says that a blood product it was testing failed to slow mental decline or to preserve physical function in a major study of 390 patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease.

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ? A new report says more than 1 million babies die on the day they are born every year.

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BEIJING (Reuters) – Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing to 31 the number of deaths from the mysterious H7N9 virus, with the number of infections rising by two to 129, according to Chinese health authorities. Among the deaths, two occurred in the eastern province of Jiangsu; one was from eastern Zhejiang; while another was from central Anhui, based on a Reuters analysis of the data provided by Chinese health authorities on Monday. The government did not provide more details of the victims. . . .

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? U. S. health regulators are warning doctors and women of child-bearing age that half-a-dozen medications used to treat migraine headaches can decrease children’s intelligence if taken while their mothers are pregnant.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Indoor tanning beds would come with new warnings about the risk of cancer and be subject to more stringent federal oversight under a proposal unveiled Monday by the Food and Drug Administration.

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(Reuters) – The Food and Drug Administration warned on Monday that using a shorter name for Roche’s new breast cancer drug Kadcyla may lead to the treatment being confused with an older therapy and cause potential harm to patients. The FDA issued a warning on its website saying that some third-party publications, health information systems and websites were incorrectly using a truncated version of Kadcyla’s generic name. . . .

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TRENTON, N. J. (AP) ? Men who are bashful about needing help in the bedroom no longer have to go to the drugstore to buy that little blue pill.

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By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Toddlers are less likely to have asthma and itchy rashes if their parents "cleaned" their pacifiers by sucking on them when the kids were infants, a small new study suggests. The findings don’t prove that technique protects kids against asthma, eczema or other allergies. But researchers said it’s possible the transfer of mouth microbes from parents to baby may help boost the bacterial diversity of the young child’s digestive system and foster immunity. "We know these bacteria are important for development," said Dr. . . .

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