AP - Fears of bird flu are slumping and so have sales of the anti-flu drug Tamiflu. Now its maker is offering a deal to U.S. employers: Pay an annual fee and reserve enough to protect every worker if a new super-flu strikes. -- read full article
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:10:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
AP - A federal advisory panel on Thursday endorsed two new combination vaccines designed to reduce the number of needle sticks that young children must endure to get the recommended immunizations. -- read full article
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:42:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they've
discovered a gene that may make it easier for people to develop
Alzheimer's disease, and it could become a target for drug treatments. -- read full article
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:46:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
AP - A federal advisory panel has endorsed a second vaccine to combat a common and potentially fatal virus that causes diarrhea and vomiting in children. -- read full article
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:10:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
AP - Scientists have identified a gene that may raise the risk of getting the most common kind of Alzheimer's disease by about 45 percent in people who inherit a certain form of it. -- read full article
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:08:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
AP - Many of the thousands of people who have gone to court claiming ground zero-related illnesses don't have serious health problems, lawyers for the city claim in court papers.
AP - Senate negotiators said Wednesday they had reached a tentative agreement on a key obstacle to one of the most ambitious federal health initiatives ever, a $50 billion act to combat AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in Africa and other countries hard-hit by those diseases.
Reuters - Female colon cancer patients
who are 50 or younger have much better odds of surviving the
disease than their male peers, but the opposite is true of
older women with the disease, Australian researchers report. -- read full article
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:28:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they've
discovered a gene that may make it easier for people to develop
Alzheimer's disease, and it could become a target for drug treatments. -- read full article
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:02:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
Reuters - Merck and Co's new rotavirus vaccine
may have affected the 2007-2008 stomach bug season among young
children in the United States, the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. -- read full article
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:16:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
Reuters - Advice and medications
delivered via the internet, along with home blood pressure (BP)
monitoring, lets people with high blood pressure get their
condition under control, researchers have report in this week's
Journal of the American Medical Association. -- read full article
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
Reuters - Too many people may consider
themselves at low risk of sexually transmitted diseases simply
because they trust their partner, a new study suggests. -- read full article
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:35:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
