| ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials are warning the public about fake e-mails inviting people to sign up for swine flu vaccine registrations.
MIAMI (AP) -- Lawmakers have wooed seniors skeptical of the health care overhaul by emphasizing the plan would close the "doughnut hole" -- a gap in Medicare drug coverage that can cost thousands of dollars a year.
(USA TODAY) -- A large new study is the latest to find no link between rising cellphone use and rates of brain cancer.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Canadian Press) -- Renowned for his fitness, David Beckham has revealed that has been troubled with asthma for several years.
(The New York Times News Service) -- The swine flu is receding in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationwide, and the worst of the pandemic may be over, but public health experts say it's too early for people to let their guard down.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hospitals are giving faster care to lots more heart attack patients, a speed-up sure to be saving lives.
ATLANTA (The New York Times News Service) -- So many messages have emerged about swine flu -- it's bad, it's not that bad, it's like the common flu, it's not like the common flu -- that many people are confused about when to seek care or head to an emergency room, doctors say.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Details of who H1N1 is sending to hospitals and who it is killing show how different this flu virus is from seasonal influenza, the head of the Public Health of Canada said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists can start using taxpayer dollars to do research with 13 batches of embryonic stem cells and the government says dozens more cell lines should be available soon, opening a new era for the potentially life-saving field.
(NewsRx.com) -- A study by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College London has found that depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking (see also King's College London).
ATLANTA (AP) -- The new U.S. surgeon general on Thursday called for stepped-up efforts to increase the number of minority physicians.
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- When pregnant Cambodian women suffer morning sickness, they often reach for an unlikely source of relief: a wad of chewing tobacco.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. health regulators have warned Tyson Foods about unsanitary conditions at a Texas plant that makes seafood soups.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Health officials are warning people of a scam involving e-mail requests for personal information as part of a bogus H1N1 flu vaccine registry.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Larry Pederson grew up in the small Canadian city of Medicine Hat and "really suffered" mood-wise in the winters. But things grew even worse when he moved 400 miles north to study pre-medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
ROME (AP) -- A group of European scientists say they have successfully connected a robotic hand to a man who had lost an arm, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial hand and control it with his thoughts.
MIDLAND, Texas (The New York Times News Service) -- After traveling from Midland to Washington over the weekend, Dr. Gao Yaojie will address the AIDS situation in China this week with top U.S. officials.
(The New York Times News Service) -- As the Senate plunged Monday into a colossal debate on health care reform, a key question is blaring louder than ever: Will the proposals do anything to control health care costs.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Consumers are increasingly turning to the Web to compare medical fees as the economy and less generous health benefits squeeze household budgets.
(Associated Press) -- South Africa will treat all HIV-positive babies and expand testing, the president announced Tuesday, a dramatic and eagerly awaited shift in a country that has more people living with HIV than any other.
(Associated Press) -- Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline says one of its swine flu vaccines has been certified by the World Health Organization, making it available for donors to buy for developing countries.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Color-coded denim cloths cover the row upon row of black body bags atop cold metal tables. Blue means a body that eventually will go into a common grave. Tan, the family wants those remains back for burial, eventually.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Using computer algorithms and infrared imaging, Houston researchers have created a test for sleep apnea that detects the common but potentially serious disorder without a tangle of sensors attached to the patient's body during sleep.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Concerned that American men may be embracing the same kind of misguided sex-hormone use that brought calamity to women, the government is funding a national study to see whether older men with low testosterone benefit from boosting it.
(USA TODAY) -- Rumors of a disease outbreak a century ago probably would have left people feeling frightened, wondering whether their town would be the next to be hit.
CHICAGO (AP) -- The first rigorous study of behavior treatment in autistic children as young as 18 months found two years of therapy can vastly improve symptoms, often resulting in a milder diagnosis.
(USA TODAY) -- Women across the USA have been shocked and angered by new advice to get fewer mammograms. Yet experts have been debating the risks of mammograms and other cancer screenings for more than a decade.
(Associated Press) -- Learning anatomy with cadavers is a centuries-old rite of passage that once again is getting a face-lift as medical schools struggle to mix this core knowledge with an explosion of new information from the genetics revolution.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- With swine flu ebbing and immunizations still maddeningly hard to find, one might be tempted to ask: Why bother to even look for vaccine?
LONDON (AP) -- People infected with the virus that causes AIDS should start treatment earlier than currently recommended, the World Health Organization said Monday.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Big businesses are spending serious time and money trying to limit the swine flu pandemic's impact on operations, from bankrolling video on good hygiene to training employees to cover for co-workers with critical jobs.
(Associated Press) -- Some common strategies employers are using or planning to limit the spread of swine flu among their work force and keep operations going normally:
WASHINGTON (The New York Times News Service) -- As Congress struggles to reform U.S. health care, critics point to Canada and Britain as the poster children of what could happen here with a "government takeover" of health coverage.
BUENOS AIRES (EFE) -- Model Solange Magnano, a former Miss Argentina, died of a pulmonary embolism after undergoing cosmetic surgery in Buenos Aires, the local press reported Monday.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Luis Gutierrez is sounding like a human kazoo, demonstrating what he calls the "evilbuster breath." As the speaker's hands tent his nose and he exhales in a loud hum, few of the two dozen freshmen at Overfelt High in San Jose are smirking or rolling their eyes.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Swine flu infections seem to be dropping, but the number of children who died with the illness rose by about 30, according to a government report released Monday.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Faced with a continuing and unpredictable shortage of vaccine against the seasonal flu -- remember that? -- New Jersey yesterday suspended enforcement of its first-in-the-nation mandate that children be immunized before enrolling in a licensed preschool or child-care facility.
HOUSTON (The New York Times News Service) -- From his outsider's vantage point, computer scientist Stephen Wong sees a big problem with drug discovery. It's too costly and too slow.
SHANGHAI (AP) -- The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of progress in containing it, a United Nations report said.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The only concern Sheryl Granger had when traveling with her 6-year-old son this week was the airplane.
BEIJING (AP) -- China has detected eight cases of swine flu mutation, a health official said Wednesday, amid longstanding concerns among scientists that the virus could change into a more dangerous form.
BRUSSELS (AP) -- With a caretaker holding his hand, a Belgian man who was diagnosed as comatose for 23 years typed out a message Tuesday that he felt reborn after decades of loneliness and frustration.
LONDON (AP) -- Canadian doctors have been advised not to use a batch of 170,000 doses of swine flu vaccine while authorities investigate reports of allergic reactions among recipients, drug maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Tuesday.
GENEVA (AP) -- The number of people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS -- about 33 million -- has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years, United Nations experts said Tuesday.
ATLANTA (The New York Times News Service) -- Families and friends gathering this Thanksgiving will share lots of love, good food and maybe a little swine flu.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A technology originally developed for premature babies may be helping to save some of the sickest swine flu patients by rerouting their blood so their lungs can rest.
ALBANY, NY. (The New York Times News Service) -- Giving birth may be the mother of all workouts, and you can train for it, the same as you would a marathon or other extraordinary physical feat.
(Associated Press) -- Schoolteacher Kinzi Blair makes only $46,000 a year, but she has what many would consider a "Cadillac" health plan, now targeted for a big tax increase by health reformers.
DENVER (The New York Times News Service) -- More than one nervous medical student has entered Robin Mulroney's hospital gown from the bottom to listen to her lungs.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.
BRUSSELS (AP) -- A man who emerged from what doctors thought was a vegetative state says he was fully conscious for 23 years but could not respond because he was paralyzed, his mother said Monday.
STAMFORD, Conn. (The New York Times News Service) -- A disembodied voice may be talking to your doctor through his new stethoscope.
SEATTLE (AP) -- Parents who thought their preschoolers were spending time in home-based day cares, taking naps, eating healthy snacks and learning to play nicely with others may be surprised to discover they are sitting as many as two hours a day in front of a TV, according to a study published Monday.
(Associated Press) -- Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer.
WASHINGTON (AP) - With no margin for rebellion, Senate Democrats pushed toward a crucial weekend test vote on their sweeping health care bill Friday, and wavering moderates appeared to be falling in line on President Barack Obama's signature issue.
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty.
BEIJING (AP) -- China's health ministry said it will punish officials who underreport cases of swine flu after a doctor famous for exposing the extent of the 2003 SARS epidemic said he believes the true number of swine flu deaths is being covered up.
ATLANTA (AP) -- When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health experts on Thursday brushed off lingering safety questions about a popular inhaler drug and suggested it carry bolder benefit claims.
HOUSTON (The New York Times News Service) -- Each time Houston writer Pablo Chapoy packed for a trip to Mexico, he carefully counted out his daily doses of his HIV medication, mixing them in with his vitamins and supplements in clear, plastic baggies.
ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that's resistant to the drug Tamiflu.
WASHINGTON (AP)-- First mammograms. Now -- in an apparent coincidence -- Pap smears.
ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials say swine flu cases appear to be declining throughout most of the U.S., but the specter of Thanksgiving gatherings makes it hard to predict what will happen next.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
(The New York Times News Service) -- ATLANTA -- Esther Notrica dreads this time of year when she must review dozens of Medicare prescription drug plans to figure out which one works best for her.
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (AP) -- Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- Federal health experts say an updated version of Pfizer's best-selling anti-infection vaccine is safe and effective for infants and toddlers, despite company studies that failed to meet certain goals.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Colorado has revoked waivers from as many as 72 public drinking-water systems and is now requiring chlorine treatment of most public supplies as part of the response to a salmonella-poisoning epidemic that ravaged Alamosa last year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- A Bangladeshi toddler separated this week from her conjoined twin sister was talking and behaving normally after being woken Thursday from a medically induced coma, the head of the surgery team said.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Whether you are making Thanksgiving dinner for the first time or the 40th, it's easy to be overwhelmed by all the shopping, chopping and roasting.
HAVANA (AP) -- China's health minister said Wednesday his country is vaccinating 1.5 million people a day against swine flu, part of a mammoth effort to reach nearly 7 percent of inhabitants of the world's most populous country by year's end.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia.
ATLANTA (The New York Times News Service) -- Esther Notrica dreads this time of year when she must review dozens of Medicare prescription drug plans to figure out which one works best for her.
LONDON (AP) -- Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu -- most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms -- have failed to contain the disease.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A member of the panel whose new mammogram recommendations have led to confusion is defending the task force's report.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The latest target in the search for a vaccine against Lyme disease? Tick spit.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) --- You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies.
SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) -- Lying in bed one night in 2007, Peter Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal policy on who should get breast cancer screening has not changed, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A CT scan -- a kind of super X-ray -- provides a faster, cheaper way to diagnose a heart attack when someone goes to the emergency room with chest pains, a new study suggests.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- First Lady Michelle Obama received a few gardening tips from students Wednesday as she toured a Virginia elementary school's vegetable garden.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health officials said Tuesday a popular variety of heartburn medications can interfere with the blood thinner Plavix, a drug taken by millions of Americans to reduce risks of heart attack and stroke.
NEW YORK (AP) -- For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Doctors say that a new type of heart pump greatly improves survival of people with severe heart failure. It could become the first one of these devices to be widely used as a permanent treatment.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tom Dougherty jokes that he takes "get-lost walks." To his wife, Cleo, it's a constant fear: When will his Alzheimer's get bad enough that she has to end his 4-mile daily strolls?
NEW YORK (AP) -- Most women don't need a mammogram in their 40s and should get one every two years starting at 50, a government task force said Monday. It's a major reversal that conflicts with the American Cancer Society's long-standing position.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in the hospital as similarly injured patients with health insurance, according to a troubling new study.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health officials on Monday questioned whether to approve an updated version of Pfizer's best-selling anti-infection vaccine for children, despite company studies that failed to meet certain goals.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Thanksgiving is a challenge for anyone trying to help a family stay healthy. Shelly Wilfong of Dallas is particularly aware of that this year. "My father is recuperating from his second bypass surgery," says Wilfong, 37, a wife and mother of two.
ORLANDO (USA TODAY) -- It isn't often that a study involving a couple of hundred people shakes up medical science.
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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