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Europe's free, state-run health care has drawbacks
LONDON (AP) -- As President Barack Obama pushes to overhaul the American health care system, the role of government is at the heart of the debate. In Europe, free, state-run health care is a given....
LONDON (AP) -- As President Barack Obama pushes to overhaul the American health care system, the role of government is at the heart of the debate. In Europe, free, state-run health care is a given....
Scrub tech may have exposed thousands to hepatitis
DENVER (AP) -- A former surgery technician may have exposed thousands of Colorado patients to hepatitis C when she swapped her own dirty syringes for ones filled with a powerful narcotic, federal authorities said Thursday....
DENVER (AP) -- A former surgery technician may have exposed thousands of Colorado patients to hepatitis C when she swapped her own dirty syringes for ones filled with a powerful narcotic, federal authorities said Thursday....
Federal probe finds problems with chelation study
A federal investigation has found that heart attack survivors enrolled in a study of a controversial alternative medicine treatment were not told enough about potential dangers from the drug being tested, including death....
A federal investigation has found that heart attack survivors enrolled in a study of a controversial alternative medicine treatment were not told enough about potential dangers from the drug being tested, including death....
Study: New flu inefficient in attacking people
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is - so far - more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is - so far - more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science....
CDC: US swine flu cases rise to nearly 34,000
ATLANTA (AP) -- The number of U.S. swine flu cases has reached nearly 34,000, and deaths have risen 34 percent in the past week to 170, federal health officials reported Thursday....
ATLANTA (AP) -- The number of U.S. swine flu cases has reached nearly 34,000, and deaths have risen 34 percent in the past week to 170, federal health officials reported Thursday....
Holder having surgery for cracked tooth
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder had emergency oral surgery Thursday to remove a cracked tooth....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder had emergency oral surgery Thursday to remove a cracked tooth....
Fawcett's death spotlights a rare cancer
ATLANTA (AP) -- In a perverse twist of medical fate, Farrah Fawcett has become the poster girl for anal cancer, a rare disease often linked to a sexually transmitted virus....
ATLANTA (AP) -- In a perverse twist of medical fate, Farrah Fawcett has become the poster girl for anal cancer, a rare disease often linked to a sexually transmitted virus....
Jackson's hospital is known for 'raising the dead'
When Michael Jackson went into cardiac arrest, rescuers took him to a place known for bringing the dead back to life. A world-renowned surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center has pioneered a way to revive people that most doctors would have long written off, including a woman whose heart had stopped for 2 1/2 hours....
When Michael Jackson went into cardiac arrest, rescuers took him to a place known for bringing the dead back to life. A world-renowned surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center has pioneered a way to revive people that most doctors would have long written off, including a woman whose heart had stopped for 2 1/2 hours....
Few survive cardiac arrest, even with hospital CPR
You don't have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a big Medicare study concludes....
You don't have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a big Medicare study concludes....
Gene variants linked to higher schizophrenia risk
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A handful of typos in a mysterious region of the human genetic code are connected to a slightly higher risk of schizophrenia, new studies show....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A handful of typos in a mysterious region of the human genetic code are connected to a slightly higher risk of schizophrenia, new studies show....
WHO paper: TB vaccine could kill babies with HIV
GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization says a study has shown that babies with HIV could die if given a standard tuberculosis vaccine....
GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization says a study has shown that babies with HIV could die if given a standard tuberculosis vaccine....
Bone agent linked to problems in neck surgeries
CHICAGO (AP) -- A bone growth agent used in thousands of spinal fusion surgeries for neck pain has been linked to complications and higher cost, according to the first nationwide study of the product. Safety questions arose last year about the protein product, BMP, when used in fusion surgeries in the neck region, a use not approved by federal regulators....
CHICAGO (AP) -- A bone growth agent used in thousands of spinal fusion surgeries for neck pain has been linked to complications and higher cost, according to the first nationwide study of the product. Safety questions arose last year about the protein product, BMP, when used in fusion surgeries in the neck region, a use not approved by federal regulators....
Experiment seeks to head off Type 1 diabetes
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The doctor had barely pulled away the needle when a blister appeared on Tracey Berg-Fulton's abdomen: An experimental shot was revving up the 24-year-old's immune system - part of a bold quest to create a vaccine-like therapy for diabetes....
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The doctor had barely pulled away the needle when a blister appeared on Tracey Berg-Fulton's abdomen: An experimental shot was revving up the 24-year-old's immune system - part of a bold quest to create a vaccine-like therapy for diabetes....
Drug-resistant swine flu seen in Danish patient
ATLANTA (AP) -- For the first time, a case of swine flu has proven resistant to Tamiflu - the leading pharmaceutical weapon against the new virus, international health officials said Monday....
ATLANTA (AP) -- For the first time, a case of swine flu has proven resistant to Tamiflu - the leading pharmaceutical weapon against the new virus, international health officials said Monday....
UK: 9-year-old girl with swine flu dies
LONDON (AP) -- A 9-year-old girl infected with swine flu has died in Britain, the third swine flu fatality in the U.K., a hospital reported Monday....
LONDON (AP) -- A 9-year-old girl infected with swine flu has died in Britain, the third swine flu fatality in the U.K., a hospital reported Monday....
Doctors say more ovary transplants possible
LONDON (AP) -- Two new techniques to preserve and transplant ovaries might give women a better chance to fight their biological clocks and have children when they are older, doctors announced Monday....
LONDON (AP) -- Two new techniques to preserve and transplant ovaries might give women a better chance to fight their biological clocks and have children when they are older, doctors announced Monday....
CDC: Shortage of childhood infection vaccine over
ATLANTA (AP) -- The government declared an end to a shortage of a childhood vaccine that protects against bacterial meningitis, pneumonia and other serious infections....
ATLANTA (AP) -- The government declared an end to a shortage of a childhood vaccine that protects against bacterial meningitis, pneumonia and other serious infections....
Poison control at risk in California, other states
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Each day, skeleton crews of doctors, nurses and pharmacists field almost 900 calls a day around California from people such as a mother whose child swallowed flea repellant and an elderly man who accidentally doubled up on his medication....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Each day, skeleton crews of doctors, nurses and pharmacists field almost 900 calls a day around California from people such as a mother whose child swallowed flea repellant and an elderly man who accidentally doubled up on his medication....
Federal advisory panel: Just 4 rabies shots needed
ATLANTA (AP) -- People exposed to rabies need only four vaccinations, not the five currently recommended, a vaccine advisory committee said Wednesday. In the past, rabies shots were dreaded almost as much as the disease itself. Until the 1970s, an encounter with a rabid animal led to at least 14 shots in the abdomen. But vaccines have improved, and five shots in the arm or thigh have been the U.S. standard for more than 20 years....
ATLANTA (AP) -- People exposed to rabies need only four vaccinations, not the five currently recommended, a vaccine advisory committee said Wednesday. In the past, rabies shots were dreaded almost as much as the disease itself. Until the 1970s, an encounter with a rabid animal led to at least 14 shots in the abdomen. But vaccines have improved, and five shots in the arm or thigh have been the U.S. standard for more than 20 years....
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