MedReader: News

• ACC: Devices May Trump Drugs in Atlanta March 12, 2010
  ATLANTA (MedPage Today) -- The buzz preceding Sunday's opening of the annual American College of Cardiology meeting is that a bumper crop of late-breaking trials is likely to yield little that will change clinical practice, but results from the interventional arena may ignite excitement here.
• FDA warning: some patients cannot process Plavix (AP) March 12, 2010
  AP - The Food and Drug Administration is adding its strongest warning to the label for Plavix, cautioning that some patients do not respond to the blockbuster blood thinner.
• Obesity, Drinking a Double Threat to the Liver (HealthDay) March 12, 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.
• Health Tip: Symptoms of Ketoacidosis (HealthDay) March 12, 2010
  HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Ketoacidosis occurs when diabetic people develop dangerously high levels of ketones, which are produced when stored fat is burned for energy.
• Health Tip: Having an Epidural (HealthDay) March 12, 2010
  HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- An epidural is an injected anesthetic often used during labor and delivery to ease the pain of childbirth.
• Clinical Trials Update: March 12, 2010 (HealthDay) March 12, 2010
  HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:
• Bad Behavior in Youth Linked to Chronic Pain Later in Life (HealthDay) March 12, 2010
  HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- Children with behavioral problems are at increased risk for chronic pain when they reach adulthood, new Scottish research has found.
• BREAKING NEWS: Boxed Warning Added to Clopidogrel Label March 12, 2010
  WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Prescribing information for clopidogrel (Plavix) will now include a warning that the drug can be less effective in poor metabolizers, the FDA indicated. Developing story.
• Women on the pill may live longer, study says (AP) March 12, 2010
  AP - Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says.
• Experts say US doctors overtesting, overtreating (AP) March 12, 2010
  AP - Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans — maybe even President Barack Obama — are being overtreated.