| WASHINGTON (AP) -- A critical safety net for babies -- that heelprick of blood taken from every newborn in the U.S. -- is facing an ethics attack.
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- Controversy in the death of a 25-year-old man has pitted a family active in the metro Atlanta church community against a major medical facility over a procedure generally regarded to pose little threat.
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.
(Associated Press) -- High rates of the most effective type of malaria-fighting drugs sold in three African countries are poor quality -- including nearly half the pills sampled in Senegal -- raising fears of increased drug resistance that could wipe out the last weapon left to battle a disease that kills 1 million people each year, according to a U.S. report released Monday.
(Associated Press) -- A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found.
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- Emory University graduate student Meredith Philyaw plans to put up a clothesline in the middle of campus.
LONDON (AP) -- You know an election is coming when British politicians suddenly promise sweeping improvements to the National Health Service, a simultaneous source of national pride and worry.
GENEVA (Canadian Press) -- Aid groups say they are launching an emergency vaccination campaign for 140,000 people in Haiti to protect them against measles and other diseases.
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.
(USA TODAY) -- At the height of fears over H1N1 flu this fall, some vaccination foes claimed it was safer to get swine flu than to be inoculated against it. But data from California show that getting the flu was drastically far more dangerous.
(USA TODAY) -- About one in five people can train all they want but, because of their genetic makeup, are not likely to see much improvement in their endurance levels, an international team of researchers reported Thursday.
ATHENS (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- More than six months after Greece introduced a ban on smoking in public places, officials were conceding that the third attempt to stamp out the habit is failing, it was reported Friday.
CALGARY (Canadian Press) -- Just over one-third of Canadians live too far away from a specialized hospital to get the best available treatment for a heart attack, suggests a new study.
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.
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.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The teen fashion chain Aeropostale (air-uh-post-AL) and outlet stores of the upscale Saks Fifth Avenue are pulling from shelves necklaces that tests showed have high levels of the toxic metal cadmium.
OTTAWA (Canadian Press) -- More than 30 organizations from across Canada are forming partnerships in a $15.5-million series of initiatives designed to prevent chronic disease.
BANGKOK (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Eighty-three students at a Bangkok secondary school had to be hospitalized after overdosing on cough suppressant pills that they believed would make them smarter, immune to pain and would whiten skin, media reports said Thursday.
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.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Expectant mothers are getting a new tool to help keep themselves and their babies healthy: pregnancy tips sent directly to their cell phones.
LONDON (AP) -- About 40 percent of cancers could be prevented if people stopped smoking and overeating, limited their alcohol, exercised regularly and got vaccines targeting cancer-causing infections, experts say.
THE ACREAGE, Fla. (The New York Times News Service) -- Stinging from news that a cluster of childhood brain cancer cases exists in their community, Acreage residents reacted with a range of emotions -- some determined to flee their homes, others saying they aren't worried about staying in an area where they have lived for years.
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) -- Fish oil pills may be able to save some young people with signs of mental illness from descending into schizophrenia, according to a preliminary but first-of-its-kind study.
CHICAGO (AP) -- An experimental abstinence-only program without a moralistic tone can delay teens from having sex, a provocative study found.
(USA TODAY) -- A common complication during pregnancy may predispose children born prematurely to asthma, a large study reports today.
LONDON (AP) -- A major British medical journal on Tuesday retracted a flawed study linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel disease.
(Associated Press) -- A dizzying array of choices awaits those searching for a Medicare Advantage plan.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Paris Woods is hardly a poster child for the obesity epidemic. Lining up dripping wet with kids on her swim team, she's a blend of girlish chunkiness and womanly curves.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Every year, about 250,000 people in the United States undergo surgery to lose weight, paying or having their insurance companies pay tens of thousands of dollars for procedures that essentially restrict how much food they can take in.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A pill to ease a type of mental retardation? An experiment is under way to develop one, aimed at a genetic disorder that might unravel some of the mysteries of autism along the way.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(Associated Press) -- At least a half-dozen states are considering measures that would toughen restrictions on young athletes returning to play after head injuries, inspired by individual cases and the attention the issue has received in the NFL.
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.
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.
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.
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 (The New York Times News Service) -- U.S. Representative Barney Frank declared the health care bill dead after Massachusetts voters on Tuesday deprived Democrats of the 60th Senate vote they needed to pass it. Later, he issued a statement saying he might have overreacted.
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.
GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization has rejected as "irresponsible" allegations that swine flu is a fake pandemic.
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 (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.
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.
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.
ALBANY, N.Y. (The New York Times News Service) -- People join online communities to help support them through all kinds of life changes, from getting married to moving, from having children to changing jobs. Why wouldn't they join an online support group to help them meet their weight-loss goals?
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.
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- Talk about spicing things up! Move over, trans fats; salt is under fire as the next nutrition no-no on its way out from restaurant menus and processed foods.
DALLAS (AP) -- Here are the seven secrets to a long life: Stay away from cigarettes. Keep a slender physique. Get some exercise. Eat a healthy diet and keep your cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar in check.
LONDON (AP) -- Here's a new warning from health experts: Sitting is deadly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A new government estimate says swine flu has sickened about 55 million Americans and killed about 11,160.
ATLANTA (AP) -- About 1 in 5 Americans have been vaccinated against swine flu, according to the government's first detailed estimates of vaccination rates against the new pandemic.
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.
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.
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) -- The British government apologized Thursday to people who were harmed in the womb when their mothers took the anti-nausea drug Thalidomide.
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.
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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