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Here is your daily news to keep you well-informed:
Flu season has its latest start in 24 years Influenza activity in the U.S. remained relatively low from October through January -- so low, in fact, that the current flu season is considered not to have officially begun until the first week of February, when hospitals reported a slight increase, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MSNBC
Supercomputer 'Watson' Tries Its Hand at Medicine IBM's supercomputer Watson -- the formidable Jeopardy! contestant who beat two humans by answering trivia questions at record speed -- may be able to apply the same technology in a clinical setting and arrive at a diagnosis faster than a doctor can. MedPage Today
Women Have Egg-Producing Stem Cells For 60 years, doctors have believed women were born with all the eggs they'll ever have. Now Harvard scientists are challenging that dogma, saying they've discovered the ovaries of young women harbor very rare stem cells capable of producing new eggs. Associated Press
Drugs, FDA and Pharma
Experimental Drug Shows Promise Against Type 2 Diabetes An experimental drug improves patients' blood sugar control without increasing the risk of low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to the results of a phase 2 clinical trial. HealthDay
Naltrexone May Lessen Chronic Pain Low doses of the opioid antagonist naltrexone (ReVia) may relieve pain associated with fibromyalgia compared with placebo by targeting the immune pathway of pain, researchers said. MedPage Today
Community Pharmacy
Durham Pharmacy, Others Losing Out Over Union Deal When Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and union leaders representing 45,000 state workers reached a deal last summer intended to balance the state's budget, the agreement had an unintended consequence. Durham Patch
