| TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Women prescribed tamoxifen to prevent a recurrence of breast cancer should avoid taking the antidepressant Paxil and its generic equivalents because of a potentially dangerous drug interaction, a study suggests.
WASHINGTON (USA TODAY) -- Her daughters were 6 and 9, and Michelle Obama was like any other working mom -- struggling to juggle office hours, school pick-ups and mealtimes. By the end of the day, she was often too tired to make dinner, so she did what was easy: She ordered takeout or went to the drive-through.
BEIJING (AP) -- China has found another 170 tons of tainted milk powder in an emergency crackdown that has made it increasingly clear many products discovered in the country's 2008 milk scandal were repackaged for sale instead of destroyed.
MONSEY, N.Y. (AP) -- More than 300 people have been diagnosed with the mumps in suburban New York as the nation's largest outbreak of the disease in years spreads.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- A radioactive substance recently found in groundwater monitoring wells at a Vermont nuclear plant has turned up again at levels more than nine times those previously reported and more than 37 times higher than a federal safe drinking water limit, officials said Thursday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Is the U.S. swine flu epidemic over? Federal health officials won't go so far as to say that, but on Friday they reported for the fourth week in a row that no states had widespread flu activity.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For all the hue and cry over a government takeover of health care, it's happening anyway.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists have detected glimmers of awareness in some vegetative brain-injury patients and have even communicated with one of them -- findings that push the boundaries of how to assess and care for such people.
(USA TODAY) -- A common complication during pregnancy may predispose children born prematurely to asthma, a large study reports today.
Serena Koenig, M.D., has been providing medical care to the people of Haiti since 2001. After 10 days there after the earthquake, Dr. Koenig says the country's future medical needs will be enormous.
CHICAGO (AP) -- An experimental abstinence-only program without a moralistic tone can delay teens from having sex, a provocative study found.
LONDON (AP) -- A new type of morning-after pill is more effective than the most widely used drug at preventing pregnancies in women who had unprotected sex and also works longer, for up to five days, a new study says.
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world's poorest countries, the Microsoft co-founder and his wife said Friday.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama framed her national campaign against childhood obesity in intensely personal terms Thursday, relating that her own daughters were starting to get off-track before the family's pediatrician gave her a wake-up call and warned her to watch it.
(Associated Press) -- Federal consumer safety regulators on Friday announced the recall of "The Princess and The Frog" pendants because of high levels of the toxic metal cadmium, an unprecedented action that reflects concerns of an emerging threat in children's products.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Higher Medicare copays, sometimes just a few dollars more, led to fewer doctors visits and to more and longer hospital stays, a large new study reveals.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- For decades, the enduring image of the Canadian Cancer Society has been the gently nodding spring flower, the daffodil. And while that bright yellow symbol of hope and renewal isn't being abandoned, the venerable charity is now taking a much bolder approach.
(USA TODAY) -- Two leading medical centers on Monday launched the largest effort to date to find all of the genetic mutations that cause childhood cancer.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Canada faces a "perfect storm" of heart disease, with younger adults at increased risk of earlier onset of heart disease and the huge baby boom generation approaching their senior years, the Heart and Stroke Foundation warned Monday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If the cardiologist's warnings don't scare you, consider this: Controlling blood pressure just might be the best protection yet known against dementia.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sweet news for baby boomers: Despite all those warnings that loud rock music would damage their ears, their generation appears to have better hearing than their parents did.
BEIJING (AP) -- Melamine-tainted dairy products were pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children had been sickened in a massive milk safety scandal, a government spokeswoman said Monday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. newborns are arriving a little smaller, says puzzling new Harvard research that can't explain why.
LONDON (AP) -- People with early lung cancer who quit smoking could double their chances of surviving, a new study says.
LONDON (AP) -- American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan were more likely to be medically evacuated for health problems such as a bad back than for combat injuries, a new study says.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new kind of genetic sleuthing suggests hospital outbreaks of drug-resistant staph bacteria don't always spread from one patient to another, but that numerous people - patients, visitors or staff - bring in the deadly germ.
WASHINGTON (USA TODAY) -- Calling obesity an epidemic and one of the greatest threats to America's health and economy, first lady Michelle Obama said Wednesday that she would launch a major initiative next month to combat the problem in childhood.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Tests of the first two oral drugs developed for treating multiple sclerosis show that both cut the frequency of relapses and may slow progression of the disease, but with side effects that could pose a tough decision for patients.
(USA TODAY) -- Pancreatic cancer, which claimed the life of actor Patrick Swayze last year, is one of the most aggressive of all tumors, killing all but about 5% of patients. By the time the disease is found, it usually has spread around the body and left many patients with only a few months to live.
LONDON (AP) -- Here's a new warning from health experts: Sitting is deadly.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (The New York Times News Service) -- The wide ramp sloping down from the third floor at the Sacred Heart (Sacre Couer) Hospital echoes the brisk swish of Dr. Alberto Sosa's surgical scrubs as he again races to the emergency room.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Just as millions head to tanning beds to prepare for spring break, the Food and Drug Administration will be debating how to toughen warnings that those sunlamps pose a cancer risk.
CHICAGO (AP) -- An influential advisory panel says school-aged youngsters and teens should be screened for obesity and sent to intensive behavior treatment if they need to lose weight - a move that could transform how doctors deal with overweight children.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- When she started treatment for cancer, Lauren Donnelly went from being an active teen taking part in soccer and dance to completely bedridden.
BEIJING (Canadian Press) -- China is tightening smoking regulations to ban lighting up in any indoor public spaces in seven provincial capitals, the latest sign of rising health awareness in the world's largest tobacco-consuming nation.
CHICAGO (AP) -– New research casts doubt on increasingly popular blood-based injections reportedly used by Tiger Woods and other athletes to speed recovery after orthopedic surgery.
(Associated Press) -- Quickly giving morphine to wounded troops cuts in half the chance they will develop post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a provocative study that suggests a new strategy for preventing the psychological fallout of war.
PROVIDENCE (The Providence Journal) -- The public-health challenges facing Haiti in the wake of this week's devastating earthquake are monumental and will persist for a very long time, said an infectious disease specialist with the Warren Alpert School of Medicine and Brown University who has twice worked on the island.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The warnings from the nation's chief product safety officer were unprecedented: Don't give your child any of that cheap metal jewelry you've been hearing about. And don't let your young ones play with it either -- those shiny $3.99 bracelets and charms could contain toxic cadmium or lead, almost definitely imported from China.
LONDON (AP) -- For more than a quarter of a century, Linda De Croock lived with constant pain from a car accident that smashed her windpipe.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attention is shifting to the world's five leading flu vaccine makers: How fast are they really producing swine flu vaccine, and just how do they plan to test that it works?
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