| (Associated Press) -- Blood clots like the one that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is being treated for following her recent concussion can occur for a host of reasons.
ALBANY (The New York Times News Service) -- Buried deep in the state Department of Health website lives a document that lists the number of open-heart surgeries each New York cardiac surgeon performs, and how many patients die. The report also discloses the doctors' names. Most patients have never heard of the annual study, but going under the knife in New York is safer because of it.
(Associated Press) -- Blood clots like the one that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is being treated for following her recent concussion can occur for a host of reasons. How serious a clot is depends on where it is and why it formed. A Clinton aide would not say where hers is located.
(Associated Press) -- Young cancer patients who couldn't get a key medicine because of a national drug shortage were more likely to suffer a relapse than others who were able to get the preferred treatment, doctors report. It's the first evidence that a long-standing drug-supply problem probably has affected cancer treatment results in specific patients.
(USA TODAY) -- The nation's most elite fighting forces -- celebrated this year in film and best-selling books -- are under more emotional strain after a decade of war than commanders realized, according to the senior non-commissioned officer for special operations.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A 3 billion dollar cancer-fighting effort that's already under criminal investigation received yet more humiliation Wednesday when Texas Gov. Rick Perry called for a moratorium on new grants until confidence is restored in a once-celebrated agency that has plunged into turmoil in just three years.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- They might not want to talk about the gunshots or the screams. But their toys might start getting into imaginary shootouts.
ALAMO, Texas (AP) -- For years, Sonia Limas would drag her daughters to the emergency room whenever they fell sick. As an illegal immigrant, she had no health insurance, and the only place she knew to seek treatment was the hospital -- the most expensive setting for those covering the cost.
LONDON (AP) -- Nearly everywhere around the world, people are living longer and fewer children are dying. But increasingly, people are grappling with the diseases and disabilities of modern life, according to the most expansive global look so far at life expectancy and the biggest health threats.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California Gov. Jerry Brown is being treated for early stage prostate cancer, but the 74-year-old chief executive plans to maintain his regular schedule as he undergoes radiation therapy over the next month, said his office, which released a statement from Brown's oncologist calling his prognosis "excellent."
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Accusing the NFL players' union of "trying to back out" of an August 2011 agreement to start checking for human growth hormone, a congressman worried aloud Wednesday that the league will head into next season without a test for the banned drug.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's about to get faster and easier to diagnose food poisoning. But there's a downside: It could make it harder to spot and solve dangerous outbreaks.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration on Monday expanded approval of Johnson & Johnson's prostate cancer pill Zytiga for men with an earlier stage of the disease.
SYDNEY (Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)) -- The onset of diabetes more than doubles a patient's risk of suffering depression or other mood disorders.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Native American military veterans will be able to access health care closer to home thanks to an agreement between the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs and the Indian Health Service.
(Associated Press) -- A new study sets the stage for wider use of gene testing in early pregnancy. Scanning the genes of a fetus reveals far more about potential health risks than current prenatal testing does, say researchers who compared both methods in thousands of pregnancies nationwide.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Kinky sex has been admitted to Harvard.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new study says basic prescription drug coverage could vary dramatically from state to state under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- For Alzheimer's patients and their families, desperate for an effective treatment for the epidemic disease, there's hope from new studies starting up and insights from recent ones that didn't quite pan out.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Flu season in the U.S. is off to its earliest start in nearly a decade -- and it could be a bad one.
(USA TODAY) -- This year's flu season is starting earlier and hitting harder than it has in almost a decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
WASHINGTON (Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)) -- A new study suggests that mild but repeated brain injuries often sustained by athletes can lead to degenerative brain disease in the long run.
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