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46. Ireland cuts medicine deal to curb health overspend
    Monday, October 15, 2012
    DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's overspending health ministry has secured a deal with pharmaceutical companies to cut its medicine bill by over 100 million euros ($130 million) per year, to help the government meet its deficit target.
47. Hospital fights to save meningitis patients' lives
    Monday, October 15, 2012
    NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - At the epicenter of one of the worst U.S. health scares in recent history, staff at St. Thomas Hospital have battled around the clock for more than two weeks to the save the lives of patients stricken with meningitis.
48. Children with ADHD say stimulant drugs help them
    Monday, October 15, 2012
    LONDON (Reuters) - Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who take stimulants such as Ritalin tend to feel the drugs help them control their behavior and do not turn them into "robots" as many skeptics assume, researchers reported on Monday.
49. Peanut co. expands recall for salmonella outbreak
    Monday, October 15, 2012
    (Reuters) - The New Mexico food producer linked to salmonella-tainted peanut butter has expanded its recall to include raw and roasted peanuts, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.
50. Nestle to cut sugar and salt in breakfast cereals
    Monday, October 15, 2012
    ORBE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Nestle SA and General Mills Inc will cut sugar and salt in the children's breakfast cereals they jointly market outside North America, the latest attempt by major food companies to respond to health concerns.
51. Meningitis outbreak rises to 205 cases: CDC
    Monday, October 15, 2012
    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Seven more people have been diagnosed with fungal meningitis linked to possibly tainted vials of a steroid medication, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Sunday, bringing the total number of cases to 205 in 14 states.
52. Girls may not have riskier sex after HPV vaccination
    Monday, October 15, 2012
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Girls who had been vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) weren't more likely to get other sexually transmitted infections or to become pregnant, in a new study from Georgia.
53. VA cancer screening reminder falls short - study
    Friday, October 12, 2012
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An electronic reminder notifying doctors when patients need a colorectal cancer screening accomplished nothing to increase screening rates in a large new study.
54. Rape victims struggle to get legal abortions in Argentina
    Friday, October 12, 2012
    BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Rape victims have a right to abortion under Argentine law, but the nation's Supreme Court was forced to intervene this week to ensure that a woman who says she was kidnapped, forced into prostitution and raped could end her pregnancy.
55. Can a few cherries a day keep gout away?
    Friday, October 12, 2012
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cherries may no longer be for just topping off ice cream sundaes; in a new study of people with gout, eating the fruit was linked with a 35 percent to 75 percent lower risk of having an attack.
56. Folic acid doesn't cut risk of colon polyps
    Friday, October 12, 2012
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Taking extra folic acid and other B-vitamin supplements may not help protect against colon polyps, a new study has found.
57. Free birth control tied to drop in abortions
    Friday, October 12, 2012
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - During a four-year experiment that offered the women of St. Louis, Missouri, free contraceptives - including expensive long-term implants - rates of teen pregnancy and repeat abortions in the area dropped dramatically, according to a new study.
58. Cancer patients may misunderstand goal of chemo
    Friday, October 12, 2012
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When doctors recommend chemotherapy to people with incurable cancer, many of those patients may not understand that the treatment won't save their lives, a small study finds.
59. Indonesia acts to over-ride patents on HIV drugs
    Friday, October 12, 2012
    JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's government has taken steps to over-ride patents for HIV drugs, following the lead of other Asian states that have allowed the production of cheap generic drugs that cut into the sales of global pharmaceutical companies.
60. Legal recriminations begin over major U.S. meningitis outbreak
    Friday, October 12, 2012
    MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - One of the nearly 14,000 patients given potentially tainted injections of pain medicine has sued the maker of the treatment in what may be the first of a wave of lawsuits over a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak that shows no signs of abating.

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