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| Laser for varicose veins no better than surgery Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Laser therapy doesn't appear to outshine the standard surgery to treat severe varicose veins, new research suggests. In the largest study so far to compare the two procedures, doctors found no significant differences in the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Gilead: Second trial of 4-drug AIDS pill meets goal Reuters (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc's four-drug experimental HIV pill worked as well as a regimen containing protease inhibitor Reyataz in the second pivotal trial of the drug, the company said on Monday. Although the trial succeeded, it did not show the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Child abuse increased as economy crashed, study shows msnbc.com By Frederik Joelving As the US economy began to tank, the number of abused kids landing in the hospital with severe brain injuries spiked, a new study shows. How on earth did Willow the cat, who went missing five years ago, get from Colorado to New ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| FDA confirms Listeria outbreak is linked to cantaloupe grown at Colorado farm Washington Post Hyoung Chang/AP - Bill Sackett looks at cantaloupes that are not subject to the recent recall at his Rocky Ford, Colo., farm market. Jensen Farms in Holly, Colo., about a hundred miles from Rocky Ford, has issued a recall of cantaloupe following a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cancer Society report says NY weak against smoking Wall Street Journal AP ALBANY, NY — New York state collected $10 billion in tobacco taxes during the last six years but spent just 4 percent of it to stop smoking in what cancer-fighting groups called counterproductive budgeting and a broken promise. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Crane Falls on Louisiana Nursing Home Lobby Fox News | AP SHREVEPORT, La. – A construction crane toppled into the lobby of a Louisiana retirement home on Monday, but missed patients' rooms and no residents were injured, officials said. One employee was taken to the hospital to be checked for possible ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Qualitest recalls birth control pills: FDA Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Qualitest Pharmaceuticals is voluntarily recalling several lots of birth control pills because of a packaging error that could leave women at risk for unplanned pregnancy, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Efforts beginning now to prevent flu later Gainesville Sun Albert Howard, 80, gets a flu shot by Belinda Scott at the Alachua County Health Department in Gainesville, Fla., on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. By Jackie Alexander Although flu season is months away, doctors say it's time to get vaccinated. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Brain Activity Linked to Obesity OzarksFirst.com Brain scans indicate that when thin people are shown pictures of high calorie food, parts of the brain involved in impulse control light up, according to researchers at Yale and the University of Southern California. Overweight people showed less brain ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Five from Marblehead walk for Jimmy Fund Boston Globe The "Humor Us Healers" from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Dana-Farber clowns) near the finish line. On Sept. 18, five residents from Marblehead walked up to 26.2 miles along the historic route of the Boston Marathon in the 23rd annual Boston Marathon ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Another measles case confirmed in Wis. Chicago Tribune AP The Greendale Health Department confirms a new case of measles in an infant too young to be vaccinated against the highly contagious disease. The child has not been hospitalized. The baby is believed to have contracted measles from a Milwaukee child ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| More Transparency, Better Health Care Wall Street Journal Fantasy baseball managers have far more data to evaluate players for their teams than patients and referring doctors have in matters affecting life and death. By GEORGE SHULTZ, As the debate over how best to reform our wasteful health-care system ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| LA gives home test kits for chlamydia, gonorrhea Press-Enterprise By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER AP South Los Angeles girls and women looking for discreet sexually transmitted disease testing will be able to visit high-tech kiosks to get free home-testing kits as part of an innovative program that aims to cut costs. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Red Cross needs you! Volunteer orientation Wed, Sept 28 WGMD Radio The Red Cross needs your help – as a volunteer to help victims of fires, floods, hurricanes and other disasters. As Hurricane Irene bore down on Delmarva, many people evacuated their homes and stayed in one of the shelters. Those shelters were set up ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| New Data on Amgen's Prolia Zacks.com Amgen (AMGN - Analyst Report) recently presented new long-term data on Prolia (denosumab). Results from a phase II study extension showed that postmenopausal women with low bone mass or osteoporosis undergoing treatment with Prolia for up to eight ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mississippi Health Officials report nine New West Nile Virus cases WDAM-TV Today the Mississippi State Department of Health reports nine new human West Nile virus cases in Forrest, Hinds, Jasper, Jones, Lincoln, Madison (3), and Rankin counties, bringing the state's total to 33 for 2011. So far this year, cases have been ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Study looks at who remains uninsured in Mass. Boston Globe (blog) By Chelsea Conaboy, Globe Staff Much of the discussion around the 2006 Massachusetts health law has focused on how far the state has come in providing coverage for the uninsured. Dr. Rachel Nardin, a neurologist at Cambridge Health Alliance and chair ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Gene therapy shows promise in reducing HIV Reuters By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - An early stage trial of Sangamo BioSciences Inc's HIV treatment found that the gene therapy reduced levels of the virus and even eliminated it in one patient with a naturally occurring gene mutation. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Sperm bank says no to donors with red hair CBS News That's what world's largest sperm bank is telling potential donors who have red hair. The bank's director told the Danish newspaper Ekstrabladet that there simply wasn't much demand for sperm from red-headed men, the Telegraph reported. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Federal School Lunch Proposal Has Colorado Politicians Playing Hot Potato Huffington Post A federal proposal to alter the makeup of school lunches has a few of Colorado's political representatives playing hot potato. Senator Mark Udall fears the proposal, which aims to reduce starchy vegetable servings to one cup weekly, will unfairly ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Surgeons light up cancer cells in attempt to cut relapses The Guardian A group of women with ovarian tumours have become the first in the world to have surgery using a procedure that makes cancer light up in the body. Operations were performed on 10 women as part of the first phase of a clinical trial to evaluate the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Movember expected to get a boost with Layton legacy Ottawa Citizen By Matthew Pearson, The Ottawa Citizen September 19, 2011 6:57 PM Organizers of Movember expect the death of NDP leader Jack Layton will inspire more men than ever to join the popular moustache-growing movement. Organizers of Movember expect the death ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Drug deaths outnumber traffic fatalities in US: LA Times 동아일보 Drug-related deaths outnumber traffic fatalities in the US, the Los Angeles Times said Sunday. According to research by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug consumption killed 37485 people in the US in 2009, more than the 36284 who ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Trinity withdraws support from Komen Race for the Cure LubbockOnline.com Trinity Christian School will no longer support the Lubbock Area Susan G. Komen for the Cure's Race for the Cure because of some Komen affiliates' association with Planned Parenthood. National and local Komen officials emphasize that no funds raised ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cigarette Prices Should Rise 75%, Japan's Health Minister Says Bloomberg By Kanoko Matsuyama and Shunichi Ozasa - Mon Sep 19 16:01:00 GMT 2011 Tobacco taxes in Japan should be raised until the average price for a pack of cigarettes is about 700 yen, or 75 percent more than the present level, to cut medical costs, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Apples, pears may reduce stroke risk UPI.com WAGENINGEN, Netherlands, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Nutritionists advise eating fruit with bright colors but Dutch researchers say fruit and vegetables with white flesh may do more to reduce stroke risk. Lead author Linda M. Oude Griep, a postdoctoral fellow in ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Health Problems Reportedly Emerge Near Gas Fields, Science Lags ... By The Huffington Post News Team by Abrahm Lustgarten and Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublicaOn a summer evening in June 2005, Susan Wallace-Babb went out into a neighbor's field near her ranch in Western Colorado to close an irrigation ditch. She parked down the rutted ... Energy on Huffington Post | ||
| On the Radar: U.N. health meeting; Davis hearing; home-invasion ... By lendonsan Three things you need to know today. U.N. health meeting: For only the second time in the history of the United Nations, the General Assembly will hold a meeting on a health issue. The body convenes in New York on Monday to discuss ... This Just In | ||
| Individuals paying for health insurance in New Mexico gear up for ... By Mikhail Zinshteyn Self-employed New Mexicans relying on Blue Cross Blue Shield health care services are due to incur a ten percent increase on premiums paid less than a year. New Mexico Independent | ||
| NCSU News :: NC State News and Information » Health-Based ... By Matt Shipman Researchers from North Carolina State University are proposing a health-based approach to identifying groups at high risk of genocide, in a first-of-its-kind attempt to target international efforts to stop these mass killings before they start. ... NCSU News :: NC State News and... | ||
| Obama Debt Plan Would Fix $14 Billion Health Care Law Glitch By The Huffington Post News Team WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's new deficit plan would fix a $14 billion glitch in his health care law. Unless the problem gets fixed, a million or more middle-class early retirees could get nearly free Medicaid coverage meant for the ... Barack Obama on Huffington Post | ||
| Tufts Health Plan 10K for Women « CBS Boston By mcrawford42 Join more than 7500 runners and walkers at the 35th Annual Tufts Health Plan 10K for Women! Enter below for your chance to win a Prize Pack inlcuding pair of New Balance sneakers and Race Registration! The 35th [...] News, Sports ... CBS Boston | ||
| Capitol Confidential » DC 37 pushes OTB health bill By Rick Karlin, Capitol bureau NYC OTB retirees lost health coverage as an unintended consequence of the corporation's closure, in which more than 1000 active workers also lost their jobs. Health insurance for approximately 900 NYC OTB retirees would be covered by ... Capitol Confidential | ||
| Recession Tied to Rise in Child Abuse Injuries - Health News ... By nalonsospc By Denise MannHealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Sept. 19 (HealthDay News) — The stress of unemployment, foreclosures and putting food on the table may have helped drive a spike up in shaken baby syndrome and other types of abusive ... Health News | ||
| Vt. governor picks panel for single-payer health plan By Healthcare-NOW! From Boston.com - MONTPELIER - A health care policy specialist will lead Vermont's Green Mountain Care board, the panel that will be responsible for. Healthcare-NOW! | ||
| Sharon D'Agostino: Celebrating Partnerships That Improve Health ... By Sharon D’Agostino At the end of this month, the seven billionth person will be born--that's a lot of mothers and children. To expand awareness of maternal and infant needs, Johnson & Johnson and the AOL/Huffington Post Media Group will collaborate and ... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com | ||
| Health officials: West Nile virus still likely, so take precautions By tmartinez With school back in session and fall just around the corner, the thought of mosquito bites might not be on many people's minds. But health officials w... Latest Headlines | ||
| Euro RSCG Introduces Health Buzz Group - PRNewser By Tonya Garcia Euro RSCG Worldwide PR has launched the Health Buzz Group, which aims to make the most of small-budget campaigns for companies in the pharmaceutical, OTC, wellness, and other healthcare areas. Work will focus on events, media ... PRNewser | ||
| US Department of Health official explains 'health literacy' to Missouri ... By Mike Lear The Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has spoken to a Missouri audience about the importance of health literacy, or the concept of understanding one's medical condition and related issues ... Missourinet | ||
| The Whole9 Health Equation | Whole9 | Let us change your life. By Melissa @ Whole9 We're calling this graphical representation of an individual's overall health "The Whole9 Health Equation" (at least until we have a stroke of genius and come up with something clever-er). Yes, it is simplified – Dallas doesn't like complex math ... Whole9 | Let us change your life. | ||
| Hospital ER Visits Up Since Mass Health Reform Enacted | John ... By John Goodman To determine whether any changes in ED utilization in Massachusetts reflected the effect of Massachusetts' reform or were merely representative of broader. John Goodman's Health Policy Blog |
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