A Health Benefit of Roller Coasters and other top stories.

• A Health Benefit of Roller Coasters

  East Lansing, Michigan, becomes a ghost town during spring break. Families head south, often to the theme parks in Orlando. A week later, the Midwesterners return sunburned and bereft of disposable income, and, urological surgeon David Wartinger noticed, some also come home with fewer kidney stones.Wartinger is a professor emeritus at Michigan State, where he has dealt for decades with the scourge of kidney stones, which affect around one in 10 people at some point in life. Most are small, and ..

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• Happy people make their spouses healthier

  

  A new study from Michigan State University found that a cheerful spouse is good for your well-being. It also showed that a miserable partner one can make you sick. The six-year study, published online in the journal Health Psychology, followed nearly 2 ...

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• Sanofi gets $43 mln U.S. funding to spur Zika vaccine development

  

  Sept 26 (Reuters) - Sanofi SA said on Monday the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services approved $43.18 million in funding to accelerate the development of a Zika vaccine, as part of efforts to prevent the infection. The funding from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) will be used for mid-stage trials, expected to begin in the first half of 2018, and manufacturing, the French drugmaker said. Sanofi's vaccine unit, Sanofi Pasteur, said in February it intende..

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• Zika virus has many Americans rethinking fall travel to Florida

  

  Florida's tourism industry is likely to take a big hit this fall as millions of Americans say they won't be traveling to the Sunshine State amid concerns over the Zika virus. According to new analysis conducted by travel insurance provider Allianz Global Assistance, the number of people preparing to visit the state during the fall and winter seasons has dropped by almost 15 percent following highly publicized incidents of the mosquito-transmitted virus.  The drop comes after the Centers for Dis..

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• E. Coli Outbreak Prompts Recall Of Adams Farm Slaughterhouse Beef, Veal And Bison Products

  

  Adams Farm Slaughterhouse has issued a recall of some of its beef, veal and bison products over concerns that these might contain a strain of potentially deadly strain of E-coli bacteria. The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said that at least seven people in four U.S. states have already been identified to have been infected by the potentially lethal E. coli O157:H7 believed to be linked to Adams Farm Slaughterhouse. E. coli O157:H7 is know..

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• Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) Offers Additional Detail on Bristol-Myers Squibb Collaboration

  

  Get the Pulse of the Market with StreetInsider.com's Pulse Picks. Get your Free Trial here. Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq: NKTR) disclosed the following in a U.S. SEC filing on Tuesday: Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. On September ...

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• Let's Call Mental Health Stigma What It Really Is: Discrimination

  

  It’s no secret that there’s a veil of shame surrounding mental illness. Nearly one in five American adults will experience a mental health disorder in a given year. Yet only 25 percent of people with a psychological condition feel that others are understanding or compassionate about their illness, according to the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. Typically, we refer to this dissonance as stigma, but we have been wrong to do so. The negative stereotypes that shame those with mental..

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• Why morning sickness may be a good thing

  

  By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - For women with a history of miscarriage, experiencing nausea and vomiting during subsequent pregnancy attempts is linked to higher odds of success, a U.S. study suggests. “This study came from the long-standing idea that nausea and vomiting in pregnancy indicated that a woman was still pregnant,” said lead study author Stefanie Hinkle, a scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. As many as 80 percent of preg..

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