Screening Kids: Guidelines expected to be presented Sunday by members of National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute panel will call for screening more kids for high cholesterol, the Associated Press reports. Panel members wouldn’t reveal details of the new recommendations ahead of the presentation — which will be at a meeting of the American Heart Association — but said they would include “more aggressive recommendations for cholesterol screening and treatment in children,” the AP says.
Waiting for Monday: Will cases concerning the health-care overhaul law be reviewed by the Supreme Court soon? On Monday at 10 a.m. the court will issue its next round of orders on pending cases, the WSJ’s Law Blog reports, which means there could be some health-law news then. Kaiser Health News has a helpful scoreboard tracking challenges to the law.
Oops: Brain researchers say presidential candidate Rick Perry’s debate gaffe the other night — he couldn’t come up with the third federal agency he’d like to see axed — can be explained by several different possible mechanisms, the New York Times’ Well blog reports. Distraction, a racing mind, interference from past memories or stress all could have interfered with the candidate’s brain’s ability to retrieve the information he was searching for, the NYT says.
Controversial Notion: Results from a 26-patient study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggest alcoholics with very severe hepatitis needn’t wait until they have been sober for six months before they receive a life-saving liver transplant, the Associated Press reports. That idea is likely to be controversial since donor organs are already in short supply, with more than 1,400 Americans dying in 2010 before they could receive a liver transplant, the AP says.
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