AP - Laid off from her job in Massachusetts, Danielle Marks thought immediately about losing her health insurance. How could she afford the medication and physical therapy she needed to heal after shoulder surgery? -- read full article
Fri, 29 May 2009 04:01:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
HealthDay - THURSDAY, May 28 (HealthDay News) -- Obese moms-to-be should
limit their weight gain during pregnancy to between 11 and 20 pounds to
safeguard their health and that of their baby, according to newly updated
expert guidelines. -- read full article
Fri, 29 May 2009 03:48:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
AP - Laid off from her job in Massachusetts, Danielle Marks thought immediately about losing her health insurance. How could she afford the medication and physical therapy she needed to heal after shoulder surgery?
AP - A change to stroke treatment guidelines is expanding the time that some patients can get clot-busting drugs. Current recommendations limit the use of the medicine to within three hours after the start of stroke symptoms. That treatment window is now being lengthened to 4 1/2 hours for some patients. -- read full article
Thu, 28 May 2009 21:25:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
AP - Eeeww. There's a zoo full of critters living on your skin — a bacterial zoo, that is. Consider your underarm a rain forest. Healthy skin is home to a much wider variety of bacteria than scientists ever knew, says the first big census of our co-inhabitants. And that's not a bad thing, said genetics specialist Julia Segre of the National Institutes of Health, who led the research. -- read full article
Thu, 28 May 2009 20:25:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
AP - Eating for two? New guidelines are setting how much weight women should gain during pregnancy — surprisingly little if they're already overweight.
AP - Scientists have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola virus. The so-called "Lujo" virus infected five people in Zambia and South Africa last fall. Four of them died, but a fifth survived, perhaps helped by a medicine recommended by the scientists. -- read full article
Fri, 29 May 2009 01:15:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
Time.com - In many countries, pregnant women still battle inadequate care and malnutrition. Not so in the U.S., where physicians' greater concern is obese and overweight moms-to-be -- read full article
Thu, 28 May 2009 17:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
AFP - Incidence of Type 1 diabetes in children aged under five in Europe is set to double by 2020 over 2005 levels while cases among the under-15s will rise by 70 percent, according to a study.
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- A farm can be a great place for children to
live and learn. But the farm has its own safety hazards that parents must
help children avoid. -- read full article
Thu, 28 May 2009 18:04:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- A genetic marker for
aggressive endometrial cancer has been identified by U.S. researchers, who
said their finding could lead to more targeted and risk-appropriate
treatments. -- read full article
Thu, 28 May 2009 03:49:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
Reuters - A new drug from Roche Holding AG helped shrink the tumors of 25 percent of women with HER2-positive breast cancer, according to data from a mid-stage clinical trial, the Swiss company said on Thursday. -- read full article
Thu, 28 May 2009 05:19:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
Time.com - The link seems obvious, but a new study is the first to suggest that inner-ear imbalances, which are common among older adults, may be causing many preventable falls -- read full article
Thu, 28 May 2009 14:25:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Health News
AFP - The process of circumcising nearly half a million males in Botswana by 2012 will prevent almost 70,000 new HIV infections by 2025, a report published on Thursday said.
