AP - A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.
Panel: Women need chance to avoid repeat C-section (AP)
AP - Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section."
AP - As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries.
AP - Eleven days after her son Benjamin's birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just as her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do, she dropped dead from a blood clot.
Researchers: AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow (AP)
AP - The virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease.
AP - Brazil's president said Tuesday that he kicked the smoking habit he had for 50 years after a recent health scare sent his blood pressure soaring.
Health Tip: What's Behind Childhood Obesity (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Obesity is a major problem in the UnitedStates, and children are no exception. Today's kids are spending morehours watching TV, sitting at the computer or playing video games, andless time being active.
As You Age, Better Health Means Better Sex (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) -- Better health translates intobetter sex lives, with healthy people more likely to engage in sex (andgood sex at that) and to express an interest in sex, new researchfinds.
Longtime Smokers May Find Protection From Parkinson's (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 10 (HealthDay News) -- In an effort tounderstand the relationship between tobacco smoke and Parkinson's disease,researchers have found that smoking for many years may reduce risk for thedisease but smoking a large number of cigarettes a day does not seem toreduce risk.
Obese Colon Cancer Survivors Face Poorer Prognosis (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) -- Colon cancer survivors whoare moderately or severely obese face tougher survival odds followingtreatment compared with their normal-weight peers, a new studyreveals.
Genetic Variant Raises Lung Cancer Risk (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) -- People with a particulargenetic trait are at much higher risk of developing lung cancer fromexposure to secondhand smoke than others, even if they rarely come intocontact with it, a new study finds.
Youth Baseball Injuries Becoming More Common (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 10 (HealthDay News) -- In the coming weeks,millions of American children will dust off their bats and gloves and headout to the baseball field.
AFP - AIDS 2010, the 18th International AIDS Conference being held in Vienna later this year, will focus on marginalised groups living with the disease, such as injecting drug users in Eastern Europe, organisers said Wednesday.
HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) --Increasing consumption of sugarysoft drinks contributed to 130,000 new cases of diabetes, 14,000 new casesof heart disease and 50,000 more life-years burdened with heart disease inthe last decade, a new U.S. study finds.
Asthma Rates Rising Across the U.S. (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- Asthma rates are increasingacross the United States, a new government study shows, but certain stateshave significantly lower rates of the respiratory disease.
AFP - New York leaders are pressing for a so-called fat tax on the soft drinks industry, saying that sweet beverages are responsible for an upsurge of obesity across the United States.
