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Friday, 26 May 2006 10:12 |
Yahoo! News: Health News
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Guidelines for cancer screening differ by group
(AP)
20 Nov 2009 at 4:24pm
AP - Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer.
Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps
(AP)
20 Nov 2009 at 1:27pm
AP - First mammograms. Now — in an apparent coincidence — Pap smears.
Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC
(AP)
20 Nov 2009 at 4:23pm
AP - Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up the biggest cluster seen so far in the U.S.
Pa. university students upset about fitness class
(AP)
20 Nov 2009 at 4:52pm
AP - A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.
Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD
(AP)
20 Nov 2009 at 2:50pm
AP - Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.
AP IMPACT: Gripes about swine flu vaccine abound
(AP)
20 Nov 2009 at 9:51am
AP - When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right.
Obesity in adolescence may increase girls' MS risk
(Reuters)
20 Nov 2009 at 11:15am
Reuters - A woman's risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) during her lifetime is doubled if she was obese at age 18, new research shows.
Spray May Delay Ejaculation
(HealthDay)
19 Nov 2009 at 7:25pm
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A spray touted as the first
potential treatment for premature ejaculation has proved effective in a
second study, according to the company that developed it.
Correction: Plavix story
(AP)
20 Nov 2009 at 10:32am
AP - In a Nov. 17 story about drug interactions between heartburn medications and the blood thinner Plavix, The Associated Press misidentified Johnson & Johnson's Mylanta as part of the H-2 blocker drug family. Mylanta is an antacid.
Child abuse may shorten cell lifeline: study
(AFP)
20 Nov 2009 at 2:31pm
AFP - Beaten or sexually abused children are more likely to show accelerated ageing of cells later in life, a condition linked to higher rates of cancer and heart disease, according to a study released Friday.
Diet, Cognitive Ability May Play Role in Heart Disease
(HealthDay)
19 Nov 2009 at 7:25pm
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Seniors who eat plenty of fruits
and vegetables and who have good cognitive function are much less likely
to die from heart disease than those who have poorer cognitive function
and eat fewer fruits and vegetables, a new study has found.
Heart disease a killer in psychotic individuals
(Reuters)
17 Nov 2009 at 4:42pm
Reuters - People with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders are more likely to die of heart disease than mentally healthy individuals, a study in US veterans indicates.
New guidelines push back age for Pap smears
(Reuters)
20 Nov 2009 at 8:46am
Reuters - Women in the United States should start cervical cancer screening at age 21 and most do not need an annual Pap smear, according to new guidelines issued on Friday that aim to reduce the risk of unnecessary treatment.
Cost of child vaccines fall, more kids saved
(AP)
20 Nov 2009 at 10:23am
AP - Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty.
AIDS patients to president: Send more money south
(AP)
16 Nov 2009 at 7:09am
AP - When Robin Webb lived in New York City, he was treated by HIV specialists and had access to counseling and nutritional programs. Now he lives in Mississippi, where few of those services exist.
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