AP - Appeals courts in New Jersey and Texas on Thursday scrapped verdicts against the drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. stemming from some of the earliest trials involving its once popular painkiller Vioxx.
AFP - US researchers hailed promising advances in cancer treatment but lamented the decreasing amount of federal money devoted to finding a cure, ahead of the world's largest cancer conference this week.
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, May 28 (HealthDay News) -- A gene that plays a role in
Alzheimer's disease in two large families in which many siblings suffer
from the neurodegenerative condition has been identified by U.S.
researchers. -- read full article
Thu, 29 May 2008 03:46:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Three months to a year before you conceive,
it's important to begin preparing your body for pregnancy. -- read full article
Thu, 29 May 2008 03:46:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
AP - The percentage of American children who are overweight or obese appears to have leveled off after a 25-year increase, according to new figures that offer a glimmer of hope in an otherwise dismal battle.
AP - Doctors may soon get a new way to tell which medications are safe for women to use during pregnancy and when they breastfeed. -- read full article
Wed, 28 May 2008 22:21:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
AP - The number of people hospitalized with a dangerous intestinal superbug has been growing by more than 10,000 cases a year, according to a new study. -- read full article
Wed, 28 May 2008 23:03:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
Reuters - A new imaging technique that relies on
naturally occurring baking soda in the body could help pinpoint
cancer earlier and quickly gauge if drugs to kill tumors are
working, British researchers said on Wednesday.
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, May 28 (HealthDay News) -- A gene that plays a role in
Alzheimer's disease in two large families in which many siblings suffer
from the neurodegenerative condition has been identified by U.S.
researchers. -- read full article
Wed, 28 May 2008 18:02:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Three months to a year before you conceive,
it's important to begin preparing your body for pregnancy. -- read full article
Wed, 28 May 2008 18:02:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
Reuters - Overweight people with type 2
diabetes can keep their weight and blood sugar under control
over the long term by following a low-carbohydrate diet,
Swedish researchers report. -- read full article
Wed, 28 May 2008 17:49:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
AP - The anguish of Hurricane Katrina should have ended for Gina Bouffanie and her daughter when they left their FEMA trailer. But with each hospital visit and each labored breath her child takes, the young mother fears it has just begun.
