Also: Patients are complaining about a rise in the cost of skin-care creams; the CDC says a drop in smoking among young people is slowing; and health officials recommend an HIV-prevention pill for at-risk heterosexuals.
Here's what's making health news this morning: Is Baby Too Small? Charts Make It Hard to Tell (WSJ): More babies are testing off the charts in weight and height, based on charts that reflect measurements of kids from the '60s, '70s and '80s. Closing In on a Cure for Vision Loss (WSJ...
Also: A study shows older pregnant women in the U.S. are more likely to drink; a pair of scientists propose an alternative to the body mass index; and Merck is in final testing of a new type of sleeping pill.
Here's what's making health news this morning: The New Science Behind America's Deadliest Diseases (WSJ): Scientists have linked conditions including heart disease, diabetes and cancer to chronic inflammation, and they are studying how high-fat foods and excess body weight may increase the...
Here's what's making health news this morning: For Alzheimer's, a Fork in the Road (WSJ): Drug makers including Eli Lilly, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson have spent hundreds of millions of dollars pursuing what could be the first treatments to address the underlying mechanism of Alzheimer's...
Also: Researchers suggest the earliest sign of Alzheimer's might appear 25 years before the expected onset of the disease; and Melinda Gates pledges $560 million for family planning.
Here's what's making health news today: Roche Boosts Investment in Alzheimer's Drugs (WSJ): The Swiss drug maker upped its investment in the Alzheimer's space, buying the rights from AC Immune to an experimental compound that targets a protein called tau, which is thought to be one factor...
Here's what's making health news this morning: New Bid to Prevent Alzheimer's Early (WSJ): An Alzheimer's drug to be tested mostly on an extended family predisposed to the disease will mark the first large-scale trial of an experimental treatment on people who don't yet show signs...
Also: FDA officials are concerned about an experimental Pfizer arthritis treatment, Cuba's recipe to fight AIDS included harsh tactics, and widespread antibiotics use in India is helping breed super bugs.
Also: A study suggests exercise helps ward of Alzheimer's, even in patients over 80 years old; U.S. officials seize contaminated ultrasound gel; and a combination of Hepatitis C drugs show promise.
Some experts caution that the devil is in the details -- and in how they are implemented.
Also: contraception-coverage controversy persists; calorie consumption and memory loss.
Also: how to deliver tiny babies; FDA lays out path for biosimilars; what happens when drivers are high on marijuana.
Also: investigating heart-disease risk in men; UnitedHealth plans to change reimbursement to doctors and hospitals; measles exposure at the Super Bowl Village?
Also: working on a doc fix (again), Merck trial of anti-clotting drug; Alzheimer's funding plans.