Reuters Health News Summary
Public Group active 3 years, 1 month agoFollowing is a summary of current health news briefs. Americans want required food labels even if they don’t read them A majority of Americans want the U.S.
government to require nutrition labels on food packaging, including people who do not read them, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released as the Trump administration delays tougher new requirements. The government has delayed the introduction of mandatory labeling of sugars added to packaged food and use of genetically-engineered ingredients, marking a change from the Obama administration and a victory for food companies which lobbied against them as too costly and confusing for consumers. How we tick: U.S.
‘body clock’ scientists win Nobel medicine prize U.S. scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young won the 2017 Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for unraveling molecular mechanisms that control our internal body clocks. These help explain how people experience jet lag when their internal circadian rhythms get out of sync, while also having wider implications for disorders ranging from insomnia to depression to heart disease. Belgian biotech Ablynx scores big hit with blood disease drug Belgian biotech company Ablynx reported resoundingly positive data for an experimental drug against a rare blood disorder on Monday, sending its market value above $1.1 billion. Ablynx said its caplacizumab medicine met the primary and secondary goals in a late-stage trial testing the treatment in patients with acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (aTTP). Health experts zero in on camels to fight deadly MERS virus The fight against the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), https://www.cruisewhat.com/what-does-the-cross-mean-in-nutrition-labels-and-what-is-it-going-to-take-to-make-it-meaningful/ which has killed at least 722 people over the past five years, is honing in on its target: camels.
MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV), a member of a virus family ranging from the common cold to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, appears to have emerged in humans in Saudi Arabia in 2012, but has now been traced back in camels to at least 1983.
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