| (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.
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.
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.
(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.
SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) -- Lying in bed one night in 2007, Peter Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast.
ATLANTA (AP) - Sexually spread diseases continue to rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting yet another record in 2008, government health officials said Monday.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Lillian Landry always said she wasn't afraid to die. So when death came last week, the 99-year-old was lying peacefully in a hospice with no needles or tubes. Her final days saw her closest friend at her side and included occasional shots of her favorite whiskey, Canadian Mist.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Male factory workers in China who got very high doses of a chemical that's been widely used in hard plastic bottles had high rates of sexual problems, researchers reported Wednesday.
CHICAGO (AP) -- The American Medical Association on Tuesday voted to oppose the military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, and declared that gay marriage bans contribute to health disparities.
NEW YORK (AP) -- It seemed like a great idea -- doing bypass surgery while the heart is still beating, sparing patients the complications that can come from going on a heart-lung machine. Now the first big test of this method has produced a surprise: Bypass has fewer problems and is more successful done the old way.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Advice about soft drinks and health from one of the nation's largest doctors groups will soon be brought to you by Coke.
MILWAUKEE (Canadian Press) -- Men may protect more than their hearts if they keep cholesterol in line: Their chances of getting aggressive prostate cancer may be lower, new research suggests.
(USA TODAY) -- When they want to tone up, Marisa Tomei, Liv Tyler and Beyonce Knowles go for a spin.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The largest U.S. analysis of hospitalized adult swine flu patients has found almost half were healthy people who did not have asthma or any other chronic illnesses before they got sick.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A new study suggests less-invasive keyhole surgery for prostate cancer may mean a higher risk for lasting incontinence and impotence when compared with traditional surgery.
MONROE, Ohio (AP) -- A husband and wife are both undergoing treatment for breast cancer in a case that illustrates how the disease can strike both sexes. Mike and Barbara Welsh, of Monroe, in southwestern Ohio, each had surgery this year after separate discoveries that they had breast cancer.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A virus recently linked to prostate cancer is a new suspect in chronic fatigue syndrome. Scientists tested blood from 101 patients and found two-thirds carried it.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Ed Homan, an orthopedic surgeon in Tampa, often sees patients complaining of knee pain. Based on a $40 X-ray and his 40 years of experience, he can usually tell if it is only a sprain.
(The New York Times News Service) -- WASHINGTON -- The Senate Finance Committee may represent President Obama's last and best chance of enacting the historic remaking of the U.S. health care system, but senators on the panel found out Tuesday just how hard it will be to get legislation approved.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hate to get flu shots? A new comparison of flu vaccines gives adults a good reason to roll up their sleeves and get a jab in the arm instead of a squirt in the nose.
ATLANTA (AP) -- It's lurking in that awesome party just off the quad, hiding in the shot glasses passed from person to person and in the make-out sessions in the hallway.
LONDON (AP) -- A common treatment for prostate cancer may slightly increase patients' risk of heart problems, new research says.
LONDON (AP) -- People with a genetic susceptibility to colon cancer could cut their chances of developing the disease in half by taking a daily dose of aspirin, researchers said Monday.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Cell phones may be hazardous to your health.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Swine flu. Regular flu. Even before flu season kicks into high gear, it's hard to keep track of what's out there, and who needs which vaccines. We talked to experts about some common questions:
ATLANTA (AP) -- Federal health officials put out new guidelines Tuesday that say the flu medicines Tamiflu and Relenza should only be used to treat people who are sick with the flu and at high risk for complications.
ATLANTA (AP) -- One in 10 binge drinkers got behind the wheel the last time they drank heavily. And half of those drivers left from a bar, restaurant or nightclub after downing five or more drinks, a new study has found.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Doctors don't know yet if it will take one dose or two of vaccine to protect against the new swine flu. Add that to vaccine for the regular winter flu, and it could be a multishot season for a lot of people -- or a multisquirt season, for those who choose the FluMist nasal-spray version.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- As many as two-thirds of adults underwent a medical test in the last few years that exposed them to radiation and in some cases, a potentially higher risk of cancer, a study in five areas of the U.S. suggests.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A new study links hormone therapy for prostate cancer with a higher risk of death in older men who've had serious heart problems.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Circumcision, which has helped prevent AIDS among heterosexual men in Africa, doesn't help protect gay men from the virus, according to the largest U.S. study to look at the question.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is urging colleges to prepare for swine flu this fall and has issued new guidance for keeping students living in dorms from making each other sick.
LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization said Friday that Tamiflu should only be given to particularly vulnerable people - a warning to countries like Britain where the swine flu drug is being handed out freely.
WASHINGTON (The New York Times News Service) -- A collection of little-known insurance cooperatives around the country is winning attention as being key to a possible health reform compromise in Washington, but while some of their practices have cut costs and serve as models for change, big questions remain about their ability to transform American health care.
ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. life expectancy has risen to a new high, now standing at nearly 78 years, the government reported Wednesday.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- It appeared to be a clear-cut case of child abuse: An infant hospitalized with bleeding in his brain, his father behind bars suspected of shaking the baby.
WASHINGTON (The New York Times News Service) -- Obesity is the elephant in the room of health care reform, a public health catastrophe that kills well over 100,000 Americans a year.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists have discovered a gene that helps a mother and daughter stay alert on about six hours sleep a night, two hours less than the rest of their family needs.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Score another win for the humble aspirin. A study suggests colon cancer patients who took the dirt-cheap wonder drug reduced their risk of death from the disease by nearly 30 percent.
ATLANTA (AP) -- There aren't just fewer jobs in a recession. There are fewer babies, too. U.S. births fell in 2008, the first full year of the recession, marking the first annual decline in births since the start of the decade and ending an American baby boomlet.
WASHINGTON (The New York Times News Service) -- Got an itch to scratch? Scientists have pinpointed a key group of cells that sends itch-alerts to the brain. When researchers at Washington University in St. Louis knocked out those cells in mice, it alleviated their itchiness without affecting their ability to sense pain -- work that opens a possible new target for creating better itch relievers.
MINNEAPOLIS (The New York Times News Service) -- Ashley Bystrom was terrified of germs. Jared Kant worried his own thoughts could hurt other people.
ATLANTA (The New York Times News Service) -- Get ready to roll up your sleeve three times for flu shots this fall. That's right, three times. This year's flu season is shaping up to be a very different one. Most people will need one shot for the regular seasonal flu and probably two others to protect against the new swine flu.
LONDON (AP) -- Swiss drugmaker Novartis says it has begun injecting its swine flu vaccine into people for its first human tests.
WASHINGTON (AP)-- Thousands of families carry the gene that causes sickle cell disease and don't know it -- even though almost every newborn today is tested for what's called "sickle cell trait," and starting this summer more college athletes are getting tested, too.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The Veterans Administration's top expert on a prostate cancer treatment method told a congressional committee Wednesday that a program at the VA Medical Center in Philadelphia should have been stopped immediately when a computer malfunction occurred.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- From a Pennsylvania hospital bed, Jeff Kepner says he is looking forward to being able to feel his wife's and his daughter's hands when he holds them. The 57-year-old Augusta, Ga., man is the nation's first double hand transplant patient. He held hands with his wife Valarie on Thursday as he talked to news reporters about his recovery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he underwent the nine-hour surgery in early May.
LONDON (AP) -- For men with fertility problems, some doctors are prescribing a very conventional way to have a baby: more sex.
(NY Post) -- TV pitchman Billy Mays probably died of a heart attack and not from hitting his head during a rough airplane landing, a Florida medical examiner said yesterday.
(USA TODAY) -- Excessive newborn crying, also known as colic, can be one of the greatest tests of a parent's love -- and sanity.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The University of Pennsylvania radiation oncologist at the center of the controversy about the Philadelphia VA Medical Center's prostate cancer program has taken a leave from Penn's medical school.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) - A new study suggests children and adolescents who are physically abused have a greater chance of developing cancer later in life than those who are not abused.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Is the tobacco tin half full or half empty?
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- If caught in time, anal cancer isn't typically deadly and doesn't require surgery.
CHICAGO (AP) -- When it comes to health care spending, an ounce of prevention is seldom worth a pound of cure.
(USA TODAY) -- The government's latest snapshot of air pollution across the nation shows residents of New York, Oregon and California faced the highest risk of developing cancer from breathing toxic chemicals.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Marijuana smoke has joined tobacco smoke and hundreds of other chemicals on a list of substances California regulators say cause cancer.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Four years ago, after talking to doctors at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, the Rev. Ricardo Flippin opted for a radiation therapy that would precisely target his prostate cancer and leave nearby organs unharmed.
CHICAGO (AP) - No news isn't necessarily good news for patients waiting for the results of medical tests. The first study of its kind finds doctors failed to inform patients of abnormal cancer screenings and other test results 1 out of 14 times.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Ninety-two veterans were given incorrect radiation doses in a common surgical procedure to treat prostate cancer during a six-year period at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia, according to newspaper reports Sunday.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- There is a school of thought that says having an entire condo tower floor or apartment building to one's self might be fun.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Ronald W. Lewis dreams of a day when couples would be treated for sexual dysfunction together and therapists would be able to offer more to women with sexual problems.
WASHINGTON (Content Works) -- President Barack Obama signed a memorandum yesterday opening up benefits to same-sex couples and forbidding discrimination in the federal workplace.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Free Tamiflu will soon be available to some uninsured Utahns, in an effort to stop the spread of H1N1 swine flu.
(Australian Associated Press) -- Australian smokers burn a collective $7.4 billion hole in their pockets every year to sustain their habit.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- As the hottest months of summer approach, dermatologists say people need to take extra precautions when working and having fun in the sun.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Consumers should stop using Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel and related products because they can permanently damage the sense of smell, federal health regulators said Tuesday.
NEW YORK (Canadian Press) -- Leslie Fuller tried to stick to her shopping list on a recent grocery run. Instead, she found herself venturing down the candy aisle, throwing bags of Hershey's Miniatures and M&M's into her cart.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It isn't just the thunder thighs that shrink after obesity surgery. Melting fat somehow thins bones, too.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is lauding the passage of historic anti-smoking legislation that gives the government sweeping authority to regulate tobacco products, pledging to quickly sign the measure into law.
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- Ten years ago the government set out to test herbal and other alternative health remedies to find the ones that work. After spending $2.5 billion, the disappointing answer seems to be that almost none of them do.
(The New York Times News Service) -- During an operation, Peter Asnis says, 'You are looking at the tissue, you are not looking at the patient or the name.'
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Eric Wolbert has been a nonsmoker for 30 days.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Doctors are testing a new kind of obesity surgery without any cuts through the abdomen, snaking a tube as thick as a garden hose down the throat to snap staples into the stomach. The experimental, scar-free procedure creates a narrow passage that slows the food as it moves from the upper stomach into the lower stomach, helping patients feel full more quickly and eat less.
(USA TODAY) -- Children of parents with anxiety disorders are up to seven times more likely than others to develop anxiety problems themselves, research shows, and children of depressed parents also are at high risk for becoming depressed.
(The New York Times News Service) -- You know the drill. You schlep to the doctor's office and wait for what seems like hours -- despite having an appointment. As the time ticks away, your frustration level rises, along with the number of other commitments you are missing.
GENEVA (AP) -- Cigarette packages should include images of sickness and suffering caused by tobacco, along with written warnings, the World Health Organization said Friday.
(USA TODAY) -- Half of the men arrested in 10 U.S. cities test positive for some type of illegal drug, a federal study found.
LONDON (AP) -- Special stockings commonly given to stroke patients to prevent blood clots don't work, a new study reported Wednesday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The U.S. cancer death rate fell again in 2006, a new analysis shows, continuing a slow downward trend that experts attribute to declines in smoking, earlier detection and better treatment.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Supersized pro football players are prone to high blood pressure but fare better on some other health measures than more average-sized men, new NFL-sponsored research shows. The mixed results suggest that intense physical conditioning can help reduce but not wipe out ill effects excess weight has on heart disease-related risks.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Fake erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs have become increasingly widespread as traders are tapping high demand from Thai consumers via the internet, say international drugmakers.
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