[Health] Hundreds of women to recount suffering at PIP breast implant trial

Hundreds of women to recount suffering at PIP breast implant trial
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10000511/Hundreds-of-women-to-recount-suffering-at-PIP-breast-implant-trial.html
Jean-Claude Mas, 73, the founder of the French firm Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP), whose leaky implants were sold to 47,000 British woman and more than 300,000 women around the world, faced hundreds of them for the first time today.

Hospital finances are broken. How to fix them.
http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/17/hospitals-health-care-pricing/?section=magazines_fortune
A new study has found that hospitals benefit immensely from surgical complications. How employers like Wal-Mart and health care providers are tackling this problem.

Is light drinking during pregnancy harmful?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health/Is-light-drinking-during-pregnancy-harmful/articleshow/19596695.cms
A new study has suggested that light drinking during pregnancy is not linked to adverse behavioural or cognitive outcomes in childhood.

Screening younger men for prostate cancer could reduce deaths by nearly HALF
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2310375/Screening-younger-men-reduce-prostate-cancer-deaths-nearly-HALF.html
Offering tests to men in their late forties could reduce prostate cancer deaths by half, say experts. Prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening is used to detect prostate cancer, but remains controversial, because it became widespread long before there was ...

Lawmakers slam FDA over outbreak
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/lawmakers-blast-fda-on-necc-90162.html
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans blasted Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg on Tuesday for failing to crack down on the compounding pharmacy responsible for a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak last fall ...

Farmers ask FDA about aspects of food-safety rules - Ag Alert
http://agalert.com/story/?id=5432
To provide farmers and manufacturers an opportunity to talk with officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about rules to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act, the California Department of Food and Agriculture held listening sessions in ...