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The head of British drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) said in a British newspaper Saturday he would cut prices for medication in developing countries and share knowledge of patented treatments.

Andrew Witty told the Guardian he believed pharmaceuticals companies had an obligation to help the poor receive treatment and he challenged his rivals to follow GSK’s example.

He said: “We work like crazy to come up with the next great medicine, knowing that it’s likely to get used an awful lot in developed countries, but we could do something for developing countries.

“Are we working as hard on that? I want to be able to say yes we are, and that’s what this is all about — trying to make sure we are even-handed in terms of our efforts to find solutions not just for developed but for developing countries.”

Witty said GSK, the world’s second largest pharmaceutical company, would cut its prices in the 50 least developed countries to no more than 25 percent of the levels in Britain and the United States.

He also said any chemicals and processes owned by GSK under patent would be shared with other researchers and 20 percent of the company’s profits in the developing world would be re-invested in hospitals and clinics.

Charities such as Oxfam have highlighted the fact that drug patents prevent the poor from obtaining cheaper, generic versions of the same medicine.

GSK said this month it would cut jobs, without saying how many, under plans to slash annual costs by 1.7 billion pounds (1.9 billion euros, 2.4 billion dollars) by 2011.

Nadya Suleman, the US woman who gave birth to eight children Jan 26, has unveiled a new plan to care for her brood of 14 amid growing concern that taxpayers could foot the bill for her medically enhanced reproduction.

The Los Angeles single mother unveiled a website Wednesday with photos of the tiny babies and an appeal for donations.

The website at thenadyasulemanfamily.com was put together by Suleman’s recently hired public relations firm and includes links for paypal donations and an address where people can send cheques.

The lime green website has a baby theme with rainbows, hearts and spelling blocks scattered among the photos of the babies. There’s also one shot of of Suleman (from her NBC appearance) with the caption: “Proud mother of 14?.

The online appeal came amid growing doubts about the unemployed Suleman’s ability to support her children, as it emerged that she reportedly received food stamps for her six older children and government payments for three children with disabilities.

Suleman told NBC that she had no income besides student loans and that she paid more than $100,000 of her own money to get the fertility treatment that led to the octuplets. The reports said that the bill for delivery and post-natal treatment of the still-hospitalised octuplets - estimated at $1.5 million to $3 million - would be paid by the state medical care programme for low-income patients.

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Severe mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression does not make a person more violent than anyone else but adding substance abuse does, researchers said on Monday.

Experts long have sought to understand the link between mental illness and violence.

Eric Elbogen of the University of North Carolina and colleagues tracked 34,653 people who gave detailed information from 2001 and 2003 in a U.S. government health survey about their mental health, history of violence and other issues.

These people were then questioned three years later about whether during that period they had engaged in violence such as sexual assault, attacking someone with a knife or gun, injuring someone in a physical fight or arson.

Those with severe mental illness but no substance abuse were no more likely than the average survey participant to admit to violence during the three years, the researchers wrote in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

But those who reported drug or alcohol abuse and also had severe mental illness were three times as likely as those with mental illness alone to have been violent, they added.

“The reality is that you still have people with mental illness who do commit violent acts. But what this shows is that there are non-mentally ill people who commit violent acts, too,” Elbogen said in a telephone interview.

Having severe mental illness and substance abuse combined ranked only ninth on the study’s list of the top 10 predictors of future violence, behind factors such as youth, history of juvenile detention, violence and physical abuse, parental criminal history and unemployment.

“These findings challenge the perception some people have, and which you often see reflected in media coverage, that mental illness alone makes someone more dangerous. Our study shows that this perception is just not correct,” the University of North Carolina’s Dr. Sally Johnson added in a statement.

People with three factors combined — a prior history of violence, substance abuse and severe mental illness — were nearly 10 times as violent as those with mental illness only.

Three conditions often linked to obesity have also been tied independently to sleep apnea, new studies show.

Insulin resistance, the progression of liver disease, and living a less-than-active life were all found to be associated with the common breathing disorder, regardless of people’s weight, according to reports published in the February issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

A John Hopkins University study found a strong tie between insulin resistance — the body’s inability to metabolize glucose — and sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), pauses or other abnormalities in breathing while sleeping.

“What our research tells us is that SDB is characterized by multiple physiological deficits that increase the predisposition for type 2 diabetes mellitus,” study leader Dr. Naresh Punjabi, an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said in an American Thoracic Society news release.

Another Hopkins study found that obese people with chronic intermittent hypoxia, the lack of oxygen that occurs during obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), showed liver issues in proportion to the severity of the sleep disorder.

“We hypothesize that severe obesity, per se, acts as a first hit in the progression of liver disease, inducing hepatic steatosis, whereas the presence of the chronic intermittent hypoxemia that often characterizes OSA acts as a second hit,” lead researcher Dr. Vsevolod Y. Polotsky, of the Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, said in the same news release. “The hypoxic stress of OSA may induce oxidative stress in the livers of patients with severe obesity, leading to further inflammation.”

Enzyme levels and other findings, though, suggest that obesity and sleep apnea are not completely tied to each other, he said, meaning that each condition must be dealt with separately to also address the complications of both.

“Our data suggest that patients with OSA and severe nocturnal hypoxemia should be screened for liver disease, and, conversely, patients with liver disease should be screened for OSA,” Polotsky said.

The third study found that excessive sitting or standing during the day causes a fluid shift in the legs during sleep that may have a role in the development of sleep apnea.

When people lie down to sleep, fluid that has been retained in the legs during the day gets redistributed to the upper body, Dr. T. Douglas Bradley, professor of medicine and director of the Centre for Sleep Medicine and Circadian Biology at the University of Toronto, explained in the news release. “It is, therefore, plausible that some of the displaced fluid might reach the neck and predispose one to upper airway constriction,” he said.

The researchers found these changes in people who were sedentary but not obese and who they suspected had obstructive sleep apnea — a discovery that might help explain why 40 percent of people with the breathing disorder are not obese and why exercise without weight loss appears to reduce sleep apnea issues in some people.

“An important implication of our observations is that sedentary living may predispose to OSA, not only by promoting obesity but also by causing dependent fluid accumulation in the legs, which can shift rostrally to the neck overnight,” Bradley said.

The Senate on Thursday voted to expand a popular children’s health program and raise tobacco taxes to pay for it in what could be a big step toward fulfilling President Barack Obama’s promise of making affordable health insurance available for all Americans.

The Senate voted 66-32 for the $32.8 billion plan to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program to insure as many as 11 million children. The program currently covers about 7.4 million children.

The House of Representatives has approved similar legislation and the two bodies have to work out their differences before sending the bill to Obama for his signature. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said she expected the House to approve a final version of the bill next week.

Former President George W. Bush twice vetoed similar legislation even though it enjoyed broad bipartisan support.

“It is a new era,” said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat who helped write the legislation. “We have a new opportunity, and I think most senators are proud of the efforts we are undertaking to help more kids get better health insurance.”

Baucus has called the bill a start toward the national health care reform promised by Obama during his presidential election campaign.

REPUBLICAN CONCERNS

Senate Republicans balked at the latest version of the bill because it omitted provisions in earlier versions aimed at preventing states from offering the program to higher-income families. They also voiced concern about families and employers dropping private insurance in favor of the government program.

“It doesn’t do us any good to add somebody to the government-run program if the only effect of that has caused them to lose their insurance policy from their family’s employer,” said Sen. Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican.

The Republicans complained that the bill would allow New York to enroll children from families earning as much as $88,000, and New Jersey to enroll families earning as much as $77,000.

Republicans also criticized a provision backed by Democrats that would drop a ban on legal immigrants enrolling in the program until they have lived in the United States at least five years. The Senate rejected Republican efforts to impose stricter income levels and maintain the waiting period for legal immigrants.

The program aims to help working families who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid health care coverage for the poor, but who cannot afford private health insurance.

The bill passed by the Senate, like the House legislation, includes a 61 cent per pack increase in cigarette taxes, bringing the total federal tax to $1 a pack. The tax on cigars and other tobacco products would also rise.

OTHER HEALTH CARE SPENDING

With Obama making health care a high priority, the additions to the children’s health program will come on top of more than $140 billion in health care spending in the nearly $900 billion economic stimulus package the Senate plans to take up next. The House this week passed an $819 billion version of the package.

The stimulus package includes $87 billion to help cash-strapped states pay for Medicaid and $25 billion to help the unemployed pay for their health insurance. The House package includes about $39 billion in health insurance aid for the unemployed.

About $20 billion is available in the stimulus to help hospitals and doctors upgrade technology to help coordinate care and lawmakers proposed spending more than $1 billion to study the effectiveness of various medical treatments.

Americans may reduce the amount they spend on food in response to a sour economy but some experts fear they may pick up weight in the process.

The specter of “recession pounds” is a concern weighing on health professionals, who point to numerous studies linking obesity and unhealthy eating habits to low incomes.

They fear that as people cut food spending they will cut back on healthy but relatively expensive items such as fresh fish, fruit, vegetables and whole grains, in favor of cheaper options high in sugar and saturated fats.

“People … are going to economize and as they save money on food they will be eating more empty calories or foods high in sugar, saturated fats and refined grains, which are cheaper,” said Adam Drewnowski, the director of the Nutrition Sciences Program at the University of Washington in Seattle.

“Things are going to get worse,” he told Reuters in a telephone interview. “Obesity is a toxic result of a failing economic environment.”

Drewnowski’s own research has highlighted the link between income and obesity.

“In Seattle we have found that there are fivefold differences in obesity rates depending on the zip code — the low-income zip codes have a much higher proportion of obese people,” he said.

He added that studies in California suggested that a 10 percent rise in poverty translates into about a 6 percent increase in obesity among adults.

The rate of new cases of diabetes soared by about 90 percent in the United States in the past decade, fueled by growing obesity and sedentary lifestyles, U.S. health officials said in October.

Nine of the 10 states with the highest rates of new cases of diabetes were in the South, a region with huge pockets of poverty and glaring income disparities.

America already tops the global obesity scales. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over one third of U.S. adults — more than 72 million people — and 16 percent of U.S. children are obese.

The unfolding recession could inflate U.S. waistlines further as more and more people fall onto hard times and seek cheaper food.

“The reality is that when you are income constrained the first area you try to address is having enough calories in your diet. And cheap sources of calories tend to be high in total fats and sugars,” said Eileen Kennedy, the dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University outside Boston.

RECESSION-PROOF BIG MACS

There is anecdotal evidence to support such concerns including the success of U.S. fast-food giant McDonald’s, which has a low-priced menu that is high in fat and calories.

Chief Executive Jim Skinner said in October that the world’s largest hamburger chain “continues to be recession resistant” after it posted a better-than-expected third-quarter profit, helped by a 7 percent jump in global sales.

It has successfully used its Dollar Menu to maintain its hold on cash-strapped customers.

One such customer is Dianthe Clements, 36, a mother of two in Washington, D.C., who struggles to make ends meet stocking shelves in a shop where she makes $11.27 an hour.

“Some nights we go to McDonald’s, they have those value meals. Sometimes we will have just cereal,” she told Reuters.

By contrast, other chains associated with healthier eating such as Austin-based grocery retailer Whole Foods has seen its fortunes sag with the economy.

Whole Foods, which thrived prior to the economic crisis by selling organic, natural and gourmet food at premium prices, has been hit as cost-conscious consumers trade down to lower-priced stores.

In November it said that sales at established stores were up 0.4 percent in the September quarter, compared with an 8.2 percent rise in the year-earlier period.

“We associate poverty with obesity because energy dense foods are less expensive. More poverty does not have to translate into more obesity but it certainly could,” said Dr. Robert Eckel, the former president of the Dallas-based American Heart Association.

Drewnowski said it was possible to eat in an affordable and healthy way, partly by relying on the basic foods which saw America through the Depression of the 1930s.

“The answer lies in affordable but nutrient-rich foods such as ground beef, beans, milk, nuts, cheese, carrots, potatoes, canned tomatoes, soups, and rice,” he said, calling it “a diet for a new Depression.”