| Study: 1 in 7 home kitchens would flunk inspection |
A new study suggests that at least one in seven home kitchens would flunk the kind of health inspection commonly administered to restaurants.
Updated: 01:06 PM
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| Workers bear larger share of health premium costs |
Researchers say workers are paying a larger portion of health insurance costs as businesses, trying to ride out the economic downturn, shift more of the burden to their employees.
Updated: 11:36 AM
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| Botox maker to pay $600M to resolve investigation |
Allergan Inc., the maker of wrinkle-smoothing Botox, has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a yearslong federal investigation into its marketing of the top-selling, botulin-based drug.
Updated: 10:06 AM
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| New test seen as big advance in diagnosing TB |
Scientists are reporting a major advance in diagnosing tuberculosis: A new test can reveal in less than two hours, with very high accuracy, whether someone has the disease and if it’s resistant to the main drug for treating it.
Updated: 01:05 AM
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| Journal editors question sale of diet pill Meridia |
Editors of a top medical journal call Meridia "another flawed diet pill" and question whether it should stay on the market as a study shows it raises the risk of heart attack and stroke in people with heart problems.
Updated: 05:36 PM
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| JAMA’s editor leaving, returning to Johns Hopkins |
One of the country’s leading medical journals is looking for a new editor.
Updated: 05:07 PM
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| Some donated malaria drugs being stolen in Africa |
Millions of free malaria drugs are sent to Africa every year by international donors. New research is now providing evidence for what health workers have long suspected: some of the donated medication is being stolen and resold on commercial markets.
Updated: 10:36 AM
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| Benefits seen for high-risk women in ovary removal |
Surgery to remove healthy ovaries gives a triple benefit to high-risk women: It lowers their threat of breast and ovarian cancer, and boosts their chances of living longer, new research suggests.
Updated: 07:05 AM
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| Chain-smoking Greeks face tough ban |
Greece is set to impose a tough smoking ban starting Wednesday that will outlaw lighting up in all public indoor areas and prohibit most tobacco advertising.
Updated: 03:07 PM
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| JK Rowling donates $15.4 million for MS center |
Author J.K. Rowling has given $15.4 million to set up a center to research multiple sclerosis, the disease that killed her mother.
Updated: 09:36 AM
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| Time to get your flu shot, but just one this year |
It’s flu-shot season already, and for the first time health authorities are urging nearly everyone to get vaccinated. There is even a new high-dose version for people 65 or older.
Updated: 05:35 AM
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| Scientists expect C-section rate to keep rising |
More women will be giving birth by C-section for the foreseeable future, government scientists said Monday, releasing a study into the causes of a trend that troubles maternal health experts.
Updated: 02:06 AM
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| Diabetes now tops Vietnam vets’ claims |
By his own reckoning, a Navy electrician spent just eight hours in Vietnam, during a layover on his flight back to the U.S. in 1966. He bought some cigarettes and snapped a few photos.
Updated: 04:36 PM
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| Italy health minister apologizes for botched birth |
Italy’s health minister traveled to Sicily on Monday to apologize to a woman whose delivery of a son was botched when her two doctors got into a fistfight in the operating room.
Updated: 12:36 PM
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| Questions loom over drug given to sleepless vets |
Andrew White returned from a nine-month tour in Iraq beset with signs of post-traumatic stress disorder: insomnia, nightmares, constant restlessness. Doctors tried to ease his symptoms using three psychiatric drugs, including a potent anti-psychotic called Seroquel.
Updated: 11:06 AM
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| ER visits for concussions soar among kid athletes |
Emergency room visits for school-age athletes with concussions has skyrocketed in recent years, suggesting the intensity of kids’ sports has increased along with awareness of head injuries.
Updated: 04:35 AM
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| Study: More omega-3 fats didn’t aid heart patients |
Eating more heart-healthy omega-3 fats provided no additional benefit in a study of heart attack survivors who were already getting good care, Dutch researchers report.
Updated: 12:05 AM
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| Medicare expands coverage to help smokers quit |
They’ve lived with the health warnings about smoking for much of their lives and doubtless seen the ill effects on friends, relatives and even themselves, yet about 4.5 million older people in the U.S. keep on lighting up. Medicare is finally catching up to most private insurers by providing counseling for anyone on the program who’s trying to kick the habit.
Updated: 01:05 AM
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| Recession may have pushed US birth rate to new low |
Forget the Dow and the GDP. Here’s the latest economic indicator: The U.S. birth rate has fallen to its lowest level in at least a century as many people apparently decided they couldn’t afford more mouths to feed.
Updated: 02:35 AM
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| Appeals court rejects autism vaccine link |
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a ruling that vaccines are not to blame for autism.
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