[Health] FDA approves first new tuberculosis drug in 40 years

FDA approves first new tuberculosis drug in 40 years
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/fda-approves-tuberculosis-40-years-18100650
Sirturo is the first new medicine to fight the deadly infection in more than four decades. Johnson & Johnson. Johnson & Johnson's pill Sirturo has been approved to fight tuberculosis.

Weekly challenge: safety tips for ringing in the New Year
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/01/all_my_wasted_new_years/
Not to put a damper on the joys of ringing in the New Year, but studies show that on New Year's Eve, nearly four times as many people are admitted to the emergency room than on any other day of the year.

Fiscal cliff deal -- if it happens -- doesnt settle much of health care future
http://www.politico.com/story/2012/12/cliff-deal-if-it-happens-doesnt-settle-much-of-health-care-future-85635.html
For the health care world, the on-again, off-again, on-again resolution of the fiscal cliff is only the beginning of the story. If the deal to fix the cliff goes through in the next few days, the big questions about health and entitlement spending - particularly Medicare ...

What's Going Around â€" New Year's Resolutions
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/want-the-world-to-know-your-2013-new-years-resolution-add-it-to-google/313199-11.html
Today is the first day of many determined efforts to make some change for the better. The most common resolutions include getting more fit, losing weight and quitting smoking.

Ninewells and Stracathro wards reopen after norovirus outbreaks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-20877227
NHS Tayside has reopened three hospital wards that were closed to new admissions due to an outbreak of norovirus. Wards 5 and 33 at Dundee's Ninewells Hospital are now accepting new patients, as is ward 2 at Stracathro Hospital in Angus.

Judges lets Texas cut Planned Parenthood funds
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/31/texas-cut-funding-planned-parenthood-judge
AUSTIN - Texas can bar Planned Parenthood from a program that provides contraceptive and health-screening services to low-income women, at least for now, under a Monday ruling by a state district judge.

Are recession babies prone to be delinquent teens?
http://psychcentral.com/news/2012/12/31/economy-during-infancy-linked-to-adolescent-substance-abuse/49851.html
By Kerry Grens. NEW YORK | Mon Dec 31, 2012 4:10pm EST. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new analysis of data on U.S. teens born during the early 1980s ties slightly higher rates of adolescent smoking, drinking, arrests and thefts to macroeconomic ...

First flu-related death of the season strikes Orange County
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2012/12/30/to-flu-surge.html
Public heath officials announced Monday that the death of a 51-year-old Fountain Valley man marks the first flu-related death of the season in Orange County.

VIDEO: How to Open a Bottle of Champagne
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/12/31/heres-a-cork-in-your-eye/
For something so glamorous, it can also be so dangerous. Opening a bottle of champagne to toast the new year could injure those who don't know proper technique or take adequate measures.

FDA Approves First Antidiarrheal Drug for HIV/AIDS
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/776946
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved crofelemer ( Fulyzaq, Salix Pharmaceuticals under license from Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc) to relieve diarrhea in patients with HIV/AIDS who are undergoing antiretroviral therapy.

A New Year's resolution to keep
http://www.counselheal.com/articles/3429/20121230/new-year-resolution-quit-smoking-tips-american.htm
Another year gone, already? Man, they just whiz by once you reach the point of having gone through 50 of them. There's barely enough time to really mess up my hypothetical New Year's resolutions before the occasion is here once again to ponder making ...

New Year's Resolutions: Apps, Websites Offer Motivation
http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/31/seven-apps-that-will-keep-your-new-years-resolutions-alive/
The New Year's resolution is a time-honored tradition. Make the resolve on Dec. 31 and very often the resolution is a fail by the end of Jan. 1. Technology is here to help us feeble humans make our resolutions and do our best to keep them.

Tigard Public Library holds American Red Cross blood drive
http://whmi.com/news/article/16021
Think you missed the end-of-year donation benefits? Think again and start the New Year off right by considering a different kind of donation that's not taxing at all.

Acquisition of Complete Genomics by Chinese Company Gets Green Light
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100346407
California-based DNA sequencer Complete Genomics has announced that China's BGI-Shenzhen has received clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to proceed with buying the company.

Yemen health officials on alert after five deaths from H1N1 virus
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iU5xHXcz4xWR95zqd_yAHUEfzZRA?docId=CNG.097fb5282095628bac325b8c9743d228.b1
SANAA, Yemen, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Public health officials in Yemen say they are setting up an operations center to deal with a potential outbreak of swine flu after the deaths of five people.