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A public health official on Monday said that almost 200 people who recently ate at a catered party at a downtown Seattle office building have been reported to be infected with norovirus.

Dr. Meagan Kay, a medical epidemiologist for the public health department, said in a statement that public health officials closed all the food-service locations inside the Russell Investments Center in downtown Seattle. A Starbucks location was also order to be closed.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), norovirus can spread by an infected person, contaminated food, water or infected surface.

Kay said in a statement that of 600 people who attended the party catered by California-based Bon Appetit Management Co on Tuesday, 200 reported that they were sick.

In a meta-analysis designed to compare the efficacy and safety of once-weekly glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) for treating type 2 diabetes, no clear winner emerged.

According to a team of British researchers, Exenatide (Bydureon) and dulaglutide (Trulicity) performed better as compared to others in controlling glucose and reducing body weight.

The only difference between the two drugs was very small and in many cases the difference was legible, said researchers.

Lead investigator Francesco Zaccardi, MD, of the University of Leicester and colleagues said in a joint statement that several studies conducted in past have compared once-weekly and daily GLP-1RAz, but so far they have found no direct comparisons between once-weekly GLP-1RAs.

The first penis transplant is all set to take place in the United States. The surgeons from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine said the first recipient of the penis transplant will be a young soldier.

Dr. Damon Cooney, assistant professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery and co-clinical director of the penile transplant program at Johns Hopkins, said they want to expand the field into areas that are not easy to reconstruct using conventional methods.

“The more and more interactions we've had with the military, the more we came to find out that although people aren't talking about it much, genital injuries are a much bigger problem for a lot of people”, said Dr Cooney.

A team of researchers recently found that active text messaging can create strange waveforms. This abnormality was found by EEG technicians at two academic medical centers.

Researchers made the find after they replayed a video. William Tatum, DO, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., said, “We think active text messaging actually creates an electrophysiologic potential that's unique to some type of personal electronic device”.

The findings of the study were reported during a press briefing at the American Epilepsy Society meeting. Some of the cases were discussed by Tatum last year at a neurophysiology meeting, where Michael Stein, MD, of Rush University also presented similar findings.

A board of scientists has been disputing a report published by World Health Organization previously this year. The report has concluded that the most widely used weed killer in the world and main ingredient in Monsanto Co's Roundup herbicide, glyphosate was probably carcinogenic to human beings.

The 16-member panel gathered by Intertek Scientific & Regulatory Consultancyhas presented its findings on Monday in front of the annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, with an aim to publish the research at a later date following peer review. For the panel’s work, Monsanto has paid Intertek.

On Monday, researchers reported that a common prostate cancer treatment may double the risk of Alzheimer's disease. The treatment named androgen deprivation therapy aims at lowering levels of testosterone, the ‘male’ hormone that stimulates some kinds of prostate cancer.

The study used medical records of men, and failed to prove that the treatment resulted into Alzheimer's disease among the men. However, the study findings have enough to prompt oncologists to take a deeper look.

The American Cancer Society's Dr. Otis Brawley said that the study hasn’t certainly told them that these drugs cause Alzheimer's disease but mentioned that the study has justified a better study.