AP - Former President Clinton is honoring 43 schools for their anti-obesity efforts, including one that banished candy from its building and another that offers a student fitness club. -- read full article
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:17:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
AP - A suspected cholera outbreak in a remote southern Philippine township has killed 21 people and sickened at least 50 others, the mayor and the Red Cross said Wednesday.
AP - The average time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost an hour over the past decade, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday. -- read full article
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:49:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Aug. 5 (HealthDay News) -- New research with mice
suggests that intravenous doses of vitamin C could one day reduce the size
of cancerous tumors in people. -- read full article
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:47:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Aug. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Light to moderate exercise --
just walking a few blocks or even dancing -- can help prevent the abnormal
heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation in those most vulnerable to it --
older people, a new study finds. -- read full article
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:47:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
AFP - A court in Kyrgyzstan has jailed nine doctors for infecting children with HIV in several hospitals across the south of the country, a judicial source said, cited by the Aki news agency.
Reuters - Britain has given the green light for an
oral antibiotic to be sold without prescription for the first
time, in a move that pushes back the barriers to
self-medication. -- read full article
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:12:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
AP - New advice that men over 75 should not be screened for prostate cancer won't quell the long-standing controversy over the usefulness of the blood test for the disease, cancer experts said Tuesday. -- read full article
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:11:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
AP - A suspected cholera outbreak in a remote southern Philippine township has killed 21 people and sickened at least 50 others, the mayor and the Red Cross said Wednesday.
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Aug. 5 (HealthDay News) -- New research with mice
suggests that intravenous doses of vitamin C could one day reduce the size
of cancerous tumors in people. -- read full article
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:01:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Aug. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Positive parenting can help ease
aggression in adolescent girls who go through puberty early, says a study
by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. -- read full article
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:01:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Drug reactions and interactions between
different medications are common, so it's important to speak with your
doctor before you take any medication, especially one you're never taken
before. -- read full article
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:01:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
Reuters - New research indicates that
problems associated with being overweight occur at a much
younger age than previously thought. -- read full article
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:43:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
AP - Doctors should stop routine prostate cancer screening of men over age 75 because there is more evidence of harm than benefit, a federal task force advised on a hotly debated topic. -- read full article
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:55:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
HealthDay - MONDAY, Aug. 4 (HealthDay News) -- As many as 61 percent of
cancer patients use complementary therapies such as prayer, relaxation,
meditation and massage, researchers from the American Cancer Society
report. -- read full article
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:46:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
