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• New Knee May Improve Balance (HealthDay) March 11, 2010
  HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- A knee replacement can help improve an elderly person's balance, according to a new study.
• Young Kids to Benefit From Broader Pneumococcal Vaccine (HealthDay) March 11, 2010
  HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- The recent approval of a new, more broadly effective pneumococcal vaccine (PCV13) for young children could greatly reduce the prevalence of pneumococcal disease in that age group, a new government report suggests.
• Body's Response to Foods' Smell, Taste Could Be Diabetes Risk Factor (HealthDay) March 11, 2010
  HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- A mutation that affects how the body responds when a person smells or tastes food may play a role in the development of type 2 diabetes in some people, U.S. researchers report.
• Obesity, Drinking a Double Threat to the Liver (HealthDay) March 11, 2010
  HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity plus daily drinking boosts the risk of liver disease in men and women, researchers report in two new studies.
• No Increased Risk of Death with 'The Pill' (CME/CE) March 11, 2010
  Oral contraceptives won't increase a woman's risk of death (MedPage Today) -- in fact, birth control pill users may live longer, researchers said.
• Home Specimen Collection Boosts Cervical Cancer Screening (CME/CE) March 11, 2010
  Allowing women to collect their own cervicovaginal lavage specimens for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing increased coverage and cervical abnormality detection rates in a community-based cervical cancer screening program, Dutch researchers said.
• BP Variation Predicts Stroke Better than Mean Values (CME/CE) March 11, 2010
  Blood pressure variability over time, not merely its average level, is a powerful risk factor for stroke, myocardial infarction, and other cardiovascular events, researchers said.
• Big first trimester weight gain ups diabetes risk (Reuters) March 11, 2010
  Reuters - Women who gain weight too quickly during the first three months of pregnancy are more prone to develop pregnancy-related diabetes, new research shows.
• Use Shot that Targets 13 Strains of Pneumococci (CME/CE) March 11, 2010
  Giving kids the new 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine may further decrease disease burden, researchers have found.
• Request For Re-Examination Of Ceftobiprole Submitted To CHMP March 11, 2010
  Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd. (SWISS: BSLN) announces that the Applicant Janssen-Cilag International NV (Janssen- Cilag), a Johnson & Johnson company, has submitted a request for re-examination of the negative opinion by the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) on the Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for ceftobiprole for the treatment of complicated skin and soft tissue infections (cSSTI). On February 18, 2010, the CHMP adopted a negative opinion on the MAA for ceftobiprole for the treatment of cSSTI...