AP - Health officials are trying to persuade doctors to offer HIV tests to nearly every patient in a New York City community hit harder than most by AIDS.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) -- Women with metastatic
breast cancer who developed an immune response to an investigational
vaccine lived twice as long as those who didn't have an immune response,
new research shows. -- read full article
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:02:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
Reuters - The number of emergency
department visits by elderly individuals is increasing and is
probably going to continue to increase as the population ages,
according to a report published in the latest issue of the
Annals of Emergency Medicine. -- read full article
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:21:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) -- A recent vaccine for
rotavirus -- a leading cause of vomiting and diarrhea in infants and
children -- may account for this year's less severe season, the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. -- read full article
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:02:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
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
