AP - Wisconsin could become the first state requiring private insurance companies to cover cochlear implants for children with severe hearing problems.
AP - Health officials are investigating a never-before-seen form of the flu that combines pig, bird and human viruses and which has infected seven people in California and Texas. All the victims recovered, but the cases are a growing medical mystery because it's unclear how they caught the virus. -- read full article
AP - Scientists have grown blood vessels for kidney patients from their own cells, making it easier and safer for them to use dialysis machines, a new study says.
AP - A novel immune cell may offer an important new clue to why malaria kills some people and not others. Australian researchers discovered a specialized cell crowding the bloodstream of severe malaria sufferers but not the less sick — a cell that seems to switch off a different immune-system attack. -- read full article
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 22 (HealthDay News) -- Older women using hormone
replacement therapy appear to have a 28 percent reduction in their risk of
developing colorectal cancer, a new study found. -- read full article
HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 21 (HealthDay News) -- A close look at a tumor's or
patient's genetics can provide important, potentially lifesaving clues to
preventing and treating cancer. -- read full article
AP - Women's groups cheered the government's decision to allow 17-year-olds to buy the "morning-after" emergency contraceptive without a doctor's prescription, but conservatives denounced it as a blow to parental supervision of teens.
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 22 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies find that
the class of osteoporosis drugs known as bisphosphonates may not, in fact,
raise the risk of esophageal cancer. -- read full article
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 22 (HealthDay News) -- Acupuncture reduces
severe dry mouth (xerostomia) among patients receiving radiation for head
and neck cancer, a small pilot study suggests. -- read full article
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 22 (HealthDay News) -- Research has suggested
that older people who want to avoid Alzheimer's disease might want to take
daily doses of painkillers such as ibuprofen and naproxen, but a new study
suggests that might not be the best idea. -- read full article
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 22 (HealthDay News) -- Genetics may influence
the risk of physical and mental problems in babies born to women who drink
alcohol during pregnancy, say U.S. researchers. -- read full article
