• New workout programs show that pools can attract exercisers of all ages (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Sean Stephens hasn't told his friends he does water aerobics. "I guess until now," the 36-year-old joked last week as we wiggled into the pool at LivingWell, the health club at the Washington Hilton.
  
  
  United States - Recreation - Camps - Day - Health
  
• Inspectors find unsanitary conditions at egg farms (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:49:01 EDT)
  Federal investigators found piles of manure up to eight feet tall, live mice, pigeons and other birds inside the hen houses at two egg farms suspected of causing a nationwide outbreak of salmonella illness, officials said Monday.
  
  
  Business - Poultry - Meat and Seafood - Food and Related Products - Associations
  
• Physicians use photos from patients' cellphones to deliver 'mobile health' (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  In May, an emergency physician at George Washington University Hospital began a six-month study examining how accurately emergency doctors and physician assistants could diagnose wounds from patient-generated cellphone images.
  
  
  Medicine - Health - Mobile - Facilities - Health Systems
  
• Be skeptical of health-care credit cards (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  These days, you may leave your dentist's office with more than a toothbrush and dental floss in your bag. Thousands of dentists are offering patients health-care credit cards to cover the work that needs to be done, with seemingly hard-to-resist repayment terms. If you need care and don't have in...
  
  
  
  Credit card - United States - Business - Credit - Financial services
  
• Even with malpractice insurance, doctors opt for expensive, defensive medicine (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Some months ago, the receptionist in my clinic handed me a registered letter. The name of the sender seemed familiar. "Dear Sir," the letter read. "Please be advised that this letter serves as official notice that I am considering a potential claim against you in a medical Malpractice claim in re...
  
  
  Insurance - Business - Financial Services - Agents and Marketers - United States
  
• First tests for stem cell therapy are near (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:14:00 EDT)
  Even as supporters of human embryonic stem cell research are reeling from last week's sudden cutoff of federal funding, another portentous landmark is quietly approaching: the world's first attempt to carefully test the cells in people.
  
  
  Stem cell - Biology - Biotechnology - Products and Services - Research Groups and Centers
  
• Egg farmer in current recall battled Maryland over facilities (Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:15:03 EDT)
  The Iowa egg farmer at the center of a nationwide outbreak of salmonella illness tangled in the past with the state of Maryland, where he once ran two massive facilities and was charged with violating a quarantine by selling contaminated eggs.
  
  
  United States - Maryland - Egg - Cooking - Home
  
• Study links poverty to depression among mothers (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:17:00 EDT)
  More than half of babies in poverty are being raised by mothers who show symptoms of mild to severe depression, potentially creating problems in parenting and in child development, according to a new study.
  
  
  
  Mental health - Depression - Health - Disorders - Mood
  
• Walter Reed patients, staff may have been exposed to radiation in May (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Two packages of radioactive material sat under a counter in the main lobby of Walter Reed Army Medical Center for 44 hours, possibly exposing patients and staff to elevated radiation, according to an investigation by federal regulators.
  
  
  Radiation - Environment - Environmental Health - Health Physics and Radiological Health - Radiation Measurement
  
• NIH cannot fund embryonic stem cell research, judge rules (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  A federal judge on Monday blocked the Obama administration from funding human embryonic stem cell research, ruling that the support violates a federal law barring the use of taxpayer money for experiments that destroy human embryos.
  
  
  Stem cell - Biotechnology - Embryonic stem cell - United States - Biology
  
• As egg producers consolidate, problems of just one company can be far-reaching (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  The largest egg recall in U.S. history comes at a point of great consolidation in the egg industry, when a shrinking number of companies produce most of the eggs found on grocery shelves and a defect in one operation can jeopardize a significant segment of the marketplace.
  
  
  Business - Food and Related Products - Poultry - Meat and Seafood - Associations
  
• 'Super bug' that's resistant to antibiotics threatens hospital patients (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  As intravenous antibiotics dripped into his arm, David Carmody seemed to be recovering nicely from a bad bladder infection. But then out of the blue things got worse as he lay in bed at a rehabilitation center: He felt weaker and began suffering uncontrollable diarrhea.
  
  
  
  Antibiotic - Health - Medicine - United States - Hospital
  
• Virginia can impose tougher abortion clinic oversight, AG Cuccinelli says (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  RICHMOND -- Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has concluded that the state can impose stricter oversight over clinics that perform abortions, a move immediately decried by abortion-rights organizations and others as an attempt to circumvent the General Assembly, which has repeatedly...
  
  
  Abortion - Health - United States - Reproductive Health - Clinics and Services
  
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• Researchers hope to quell a surge of Alzheimer's cases with new diagnostic tools (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  "We have a tsunami coming at us, and we're sitting in a rowboat," says neurologist Richard Mayeux of New York's Columbia University.
  
  
  Alzheimer - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Neurological Disorders - Research
  
• Mother labored to find reason for son's developmental delays (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Adults who encountered Adam Driscoll as a baby tended to be impressed by his quiet, easygoing nature. He seemed happy, cried little and, by the age of 6 weeks, even slept through the night. But his mother, Jen, though grateful for Adam's placidity -- a marked contrast to his rambunctious older br...
  
  
  Health - Child Health - Special Needs - Mother's Day - Mother
  
• Painkillers such as Percocet can push everyday people into risky addiction (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Prescription drug abuse is a staple of daily papers and gossip rags alike -- from high-profile celebrity overdoses and massive Oxycontin busts to teen "pharm parties" -- but I never really gave the issue much thought. That is, until my doctor gave me a script for Percocet after my C-section surge...
  
  
  
  Health - addiction - Games - Sexuality - Substance abuse
  
• Health-care law guarantees insurance coverage for patients in clinical trials (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  When Richard Crusoe was diagnosed with a rare form of soft tissue cancer called liposarcoma, the retired firefighter and his family pinned their hopes of slowing the cancer's advance on a drug that was being tested in a clinical trial.
  
  
  Health care - Clinical trial - Business - Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals - Pharmaceuticals
  
• Federal regulators' knowledge of egg producer in salmonella outbreak is probed (Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  A key member of Congress plans to send a letter to federal regulators Monday seeking a detailed explanation of what they knew about the activities of an Iowa egg producer at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive egg recall.
  
  
  Business - Poultry - Food and Related Products - Meat and Seafood - Health
  
• For the homeless, federal changes promise better access to health care (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  BALTIMORE -- Homeless and unemployed, Tianne Hill said she dreads getting mail at the city shelter on Guilford Avenue where she lives because it often includes medical bills she can't pay.
  
  
  Health care - United States - Health - Homelessness - Politics
  
• 'Yoga wars' spoil spirit of ancient practice, Indian agency says (Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  NEW DELHI -- Heard of Naked Yoga? Kosher Yoga? Yoga for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
  
  
  
  Yoga - Religion and Spirituality - Teachers and Centers - United States - Canada
  
• Salmonella-tainted eggs from big producer in Iowa have sickened at least 1,200 (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Salmonella-infected eggs traceable to a large egg producer in Iowa may have caused as many as 1,200 cases of intestinal illness in at least 10 states in recent weeks, according to an investigation by state and federal epidemiologists.
  
  
  Salmonella - United States - Iowa - Business - Food and Related Products
  
• Egg recall spreads to second Iowa producer (Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  The investigation of an outbreak of intestinal illnesses in 10 states pointed Friday to a second major Iowa egg producer as the possible source of contaminated food that has led to the near-tripling in salmonella cases in the past three months.
  
  
  Iowa - Business - Egg - Poultry - Meat and Seafood
  
• Universities turn to Wii Fit as way of examining concussions (Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Across the spectrum of athletics from youth soccer to the National Football League , concussions are one of the most worrisome of injuries: hard to diagnose and even harder to know when an athlete has recovered. Now, in an unusual combination of real sports and their digital imitators, a handful of...
  
  
  Video game - Games - History - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Lou Gehrig
  
• Unallayed by tests, fishermen greet start of gulf shrimp harvest with suspicion (Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  On Monday, Louisiana's shrimpers could shrimp again. On the first day of the state's fall season, boats began unloading their catch at bayou-side docks, and processors began peeling, freezing and packaging the shellfish for the long trip to America's dinner plates.
  
  
  
  Shrimp - Fish and Seafood - Shellfish - Home - Cooking
  
• FDA considers revoking approval of Avastin for advanced breast cancer (Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Federal regulators are considering taking the highly unusual step of rescinding approval of a drug that patients with advanced breast cancer turn to as a last-ditch hope.
  
  
  Breast cancer - Cancer - Health - Breast - Conditions and Diseases
  
• FDA approves ella as 5-day-after emergency contraceptive (Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  The Food and Drug Administration approved a controversial new form of emergency contraception Friday that can prevent a pregnancy as many as five days after sex.
  
  
  Emergency contraception - Birth control - United States - Food and Drug Administration - Health
  
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• Are bigger health-care networks better or just creating a monopoly? (Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  ROANOKE -- Railroads put this city on the map, but the king of the domain is now health care -- or rather, the Carilion Clinic.
  
  
  United States - Politics - Health care reform - Health - Health Policy
  
• As people in distress turn to Twitter, the Red Cross seeks the most efficient ways to respond (Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  After the earthquake in Haiti, the American Red Cross began receiving tweets from people trapped under collapsed buildings. With much of the country lacking cellphone service, people sought help however they could.
  
  
  
  Red Cross - American Red Cross - Twitter - Philanthropy - Organizations
  
• Amputee veterans stand up to Mount Kilimanjaro and achieve peak condition (Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  When U.S. Army Sgt. Neil Duncan got taken apart in the highlands of Afghanistan in 2005 -- his vehicle ran over a buried explosive and it "blew up right under me" -- he really wasn't picturing life without his legs.
  
  
  Mount Kilimanjaro - Africa - Tanzania - United States - Health
  
• Scrutiny of older drivers may cut deaths but loss of independence can be painful (Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  My father was furious. Then 83, he lived independently in a retirement community and prided himself on being an excellent driver who, early in his career as a scientist, had been involved in pioneering auto safety research. He had always loved the freedom of driving and could claim a nearly spotless...
  
  
  Device driver - Drivers - Companies - Microsoft Windows - United States
  
• Guinness Records' oldest living man still enjoys good health after 113 years (Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Guinness World Records calls Walter Breuning the world's oldest living man.
  
  
  Oldest people - Japan - Guinness World Records - World record - Health
  
• As older people grow in numbers, experts seek ways to handle the coming boom (Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  The tsunami looms: By 2050, nearly 90 million Americans will have passed age 65, and every corner of society will feel the impact. With our inadequate health-care workforce, outmoded retirement ideas and rigid housing policies, how can our country prepare? Beyond rethinking ways to ensure retirement...
  
  
  
  Seniors - Organisations - People - Generations and Age Groups - United States
  
• Independent administrator to oversee D.C. compliance in disability lawsuit (Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  In a long-sought concession, the District has agreed to the appointment of an independent administrator to bring the city into compliance with court orders in a decades-old class-action lawsuit over the care of hundreds of people with developmental disabilities.
  
  
  United States - Disability - Disabled - Business - Employment
  
• Shaping Up PE: The rise in childhood obesity prompts a gym class makeover (Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  D.C. and other schools are changing physical education programs to combat the rise of childhood obesity -- putting the emphasis on individual fitness, personal growth and development.
  
  
  Obesity - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Nutrition and Metabolism Disorders - United States
  
• Georgetown U. Hospital closes lab after problems with breast cancer tests (Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Georgetown University Hospital has shut down a lab that performs genetic analysis for breast cancer patients and has had 249 women's tissue samples independently retested while federal health officials investigate procedures at the lab.
  
  
  Breast cancer - Cancer - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Breast
  
• Renewed effort to lure doctors to rural areas faces obstacles (Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  ESMONT, VA. -- Sarah Carricaburu slipped her sleek new iPhone into her purse for the day. With no signal here deep in the woods, it's useless. She swiveled away from her desktop computer, which can't access the Internet, and glanced at the manila folders of patient records neatly stacked on a she...
  
  
  
  United States - Health - Organizations - Education - Rural Health
  
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• Researchers find that wisdom and happiness increase as people grow older (Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  With 14 siblings screaming at one another, mediator Carolyn Miller Parr threatened to summon a security guard at D.C. Superior Court. That lowered the temperature in the room.
  
  
  Wisdom - Seniors - People - Quotations - Generations and Age Groups
  
• Most senior citizens learn to adapt to the loss of a partner (Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  For months after her husband of 52 years died last spring, Laurel Frisch struggled to read a book. She couldn't make decisions; she only occasionally left her Rockville home. In those rare moments when she could summon the energy, she wandered aimlessly through stores.
  
  
  Health - Senior Health - Well-Being and Safety - Seniors - People
  
• New health-care law provides free preventive care for many seniors (Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Preventive health care is important at any age, but never more so than as we get older. Many of the major cancers that can be screened for -- such as breast and colorectal cancer -- are typically diagnosed at about age 70. After age 55, people have a 90 percent chance of developing high blood pre...
  
  
  Health care - United States - Health - Medicare - Politics
  
• Obama administration awards $159.1 million for training geriatric-care workers (Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:13:00 EDT)
  The Obama administration awarded $159.1 million in grants Thursday to educational programs that train nurses and geriatric specialists as well as those that recruit and support students from minority groups that are underrepresented in those fields.
  
  
  
  United States - President - Barack Obama - History - Government
  
• Medicare funds to last 12 years longer than earlier forecast, report says (Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Medicare's finances have been strengthened by the new law setting in motion broad changes to the nation's health-care system, according to a government forecast issued Thursday, which says the fund that pays for older Americans' hospital care will last a dozen years longer than expected.
  
  
  Health care - Social Security - Medicare - United States - Politics
  
• 2,000 attend free health clinic at D.C. convention center (Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Back from the wilds of Virginia, where he hunts black bears with a bow and arrow and squirrels with a shotgun, John Hawkins was sitting in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, shaking in his work boots.
  
  
  Health - Services - Private Healthcare - Clinic - Conventions
  
• Guidelines suggest ways to minimize the risk of high-altitude sickness (Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  While planning my dream vacation -- a seven-day, 60-mile round-trip hike to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro -- I couldn't help but wonder how my body would hold up under African skies. It wasn't the warnings about contaminated water or disease-carrying mosquitoes in Tanzania that concerned me most. ...
  
  
  altitudesickness - Health - Wounds and Injuries - Conditions and Diseases - Business
  
• Obsessive-compulsives follow psychologist on trek to confront their fears (Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Eleven-year-old Christian Low was first in line for the bathroom exercise.
  
  
  
  Star Trek - Games - Video Games - Star Trek Games - Space Combat
  
• Insurers and ratings groups post information to help patients choose doctors (Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  For most people, picking a doctor is hardly a scientific process. They ask friends or family members to pass along names of doctors they like and trust, or rely on another doctor's referral.
  
  
  United States - Organizations - Health insurance - Health care - Insurance
  
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• Free dental care draws thousands to outdoor clinic in rural Virginia (Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  On a weekend in late July, at the free annual open-air health clinic held here in this Appalachian community, a total of 2,643 teeth were extracted. Each one bore mute and personal testimony to the isolation of this rural place, and the defeats and losses of its people.
  
  
  Virginia - Health - United States - Ken Cuccinelli - Barack Obama
  
• Why physicians hate to admit their errors, even to themselves (Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Precisely two weeks after completing my medical internship, I proceeded to nearly kill a patient. July marked the start of my second year of residency at New York City's Bellevue Hospital, and it was my first time being fully in charge of a patient. He arrived in fully developed diabetic...
  
  
  Medicine - Hate - Race-Ethnic-Religious Relations - Hate Crimes - Health
  
• Health-care law to save Medicare $8 billion through next year, report predicts (Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  The new health overhaul law will start producing savings for Medicare right away and, over time, will add 12 years of solvency to the program's giant trust fund for inpatient care, the Obama administration says in a report to be released Monday.
  
  
  
  Health care - Medicare - Health - United States - Politics
  
• Fructose helps pancreatic cancer cells to multiply, UCLA study finds (Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  WASHINGTON -- Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same.
  
  
  Cancer - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Gastrointestinal - Pancreatic
  
• Give your brain a hand (Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  AARP magazine and AARP Bulletin, July/August issues
  
  
  Health - Conditions and Diseases - Trauma and Injuries - Neurological Disorders - Brain Injury
  
• Injection to prevent deafness is worth the risk of pain (Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  My wife read "The tenor with a bad ear" [July 27] concerning ear-injection treatments for sudden-onset hearing loss, and fortunately she did not share it with me. After all, like most people, I have an aversion to needles and pain.
  
  
  Health - Pain management - Medicine - Medical Specialties - Clinics and Practices
  
• Study: Working mothers not necessarily harmful to child development (Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  A new study finds that babies raised by working mothers don't necessarily suffer cognitive setbacks, an encouraging finding that follows a raft of previous reports suggesting that women with infants were wiser to stay home.
  
  
  
  Family - Mother - Parents - Home - Psychology
  
• U.S. regulators lack data on health risks of most chemicals (Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  This summer, when Kellogg recalled 28 million boxes of Froot Loops, Apple Jacks, Corn Pops and Honey Smacks, the company blamed elevated levels of a chemical in the packaging.
  
  
  Chemicals - Business - United States Environmental Protection Agency - United States - Wholesale and Distribution
  
• First large-scale free clinic in D.C. to be held Aug. 4 (Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  In the run-up to this week's giant free clinic in the District, Nicole Lamoureux, the lead organizer, could tell that hearts were racing, blood pressure was increasing and tension was rising. Calls from patients scheduling appointments were starting to pour into her office, but there weren't enough...
  
  
  United States - Health - Medicine - Health care - Cancer
  
• Baby is breast-fed by wrong woman at Virginia Hospital Center (Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  The day after her first child was born in January at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County, Suzanne Libby discovered that he was missing from the hospital nursery. Searching frantically, she found Spencer in his hospital bassinet -- in another woman's room. Standing next to him was a hospi...
  
  
  Breastfeeding - Health - Medicine - United States - Breast
  
• Lack of funding threatens the future of HIV drug therapy in the developing world (Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Ten years ago, many experts thought you couldn't bring antiretroviral therapy to people with AIDS in poor countries. The drugs cost too much, there weren't enough doctors, the patients wouldn't take the medicines correctly, and the risk of creating a resistant virus was too high.
  
  
  
  HIV - AIDS - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Immune Disorders
  
• CPR studies find no benefit to mouth-to-mouth over chest compressions alone (Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  For anyone trying to save a victim of cardiac arrest, the questions used to be: How many breaths do I give? How many chest compressions? And do I really want to do this in the first place?
  
  
  Health - Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Public Health and Safety - First Aid - American Heart Association
  
• Disputed chemical bisphenol-A found in paper receipts (Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  As lawmakers and health experts wrestle over whether a controversial chemical, bisphenol-A, should be banned from food and beverage containers, a new analysis by an environmental group suggests Americans are being exposed to BPA through another, surprising route: paper receipts.
  
  
  Business - Pulp and Paper - Materials - Bisphenol A - Paper
  
• Medical examiners use differing criteria to tally heat-related deaths (Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  It's nature's stealth killer. It's not always the medical examiner's prime suspect. And the deadly toll it exacts often becomes clear only well after it has left the scene.
  
  
  Coroner - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Wounds and Injuries - Heat Related
  
• D.C. developer David von Storch is pumped to take fitness centers to a new level (Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Navy suits and crisp oxfords occupy every seat except his. With the jacket fringed in fur, the red high-top Nikes with electric blue laces, the polo shirt whose slim-fit sleeves permit the right amount of biceps bulge, David von Storch is a very Logan Circle presence in this very Georgetown meeti...
  
  
  
  Fitness - Health - United States - Gym - Services
  
• Health-care overhaul: Long-term-care benefits are a long way off (Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Among the most important questions involving the health-care overhaul are how seniors will be affected. Here are two of the biggest pocketbook issues.
  
  
  Health care - Insurance - Health - Business - Financial Services
  
• Medical Mysteries: Sudden hearing loss in one ear was no minor irritant (Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  As he picked up the phone to make the call, Wayne Curtis worried that his doctor might think he was a hypochondriac.
  
  
  Hearing impairment - Hearing - Health - Disability - Business
  
• State facilities for the disabled called antiquated, but some rely on them (Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  CHESAPEAKE, VA. -- On a barren tract that backs up to Interstate 64, past a street sign that says "Dead End," sits the entrance to a home that no parent would eagerly choose for a son or daughter.
  
  
  Disability - Recreation - Sports - United States - Education
  
• Delay of food safety bill stirs tensions between House and Senate Democrats (Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:37:00 EDT)
  Frustration over a food safety bill that is stalled in the Senate has prompted infighting among some prominent Democrats.
  
  
  
  United States Senate - United States - Senate - Government - Food safety
  
• Insurers tout disease management programs, but critics are wary (Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Venante Kotey is a stay-at-home mother in Dumfries. Bridget Hamilton-Roberts is a nurse more than 500 miles away in Atlanta. They've never met. But over the past year and a half, Hamilton-Roberts has become critical to Kotey's health -- all through conversations over the telephone.
  
  
  disease management - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Business - Healthcare
  
• Childhood cancer scare affects man's reaction to lymphoma symptoms as an adult (Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  When I was around 10 years old, I found some strange lumps in a place where no one wants to find strange lumps. They turned out to be little nodes that are actually supposed to be there. They're like sidekicks for your testicles or something and, well, I really don't know what they are. I just kn...
  
  
  Cancer - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Lymphoma - Hematologic
  
• Hospital experts debate wisdom of using stun guns to control violent patients (Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Police officers in many jurisdictions use stun guns to incapacitate suspects, but the weapons have started to show up in hospital settings as well, a migration that has raised some concerns.
  
  
  Hospital - Health - Medicine - Facilities - United States
  
• Out-of-network emergency care (Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  In the middle of a medical emergency, you don't have time to wonder whether the doctor who is reading your X-rays is in your insurance network. Starting this fall, changes under the health-care overhaul will take some of the worry out of emergency room visits. But the new provisions don't cover a...
  
  
  
  Health - Medicine - Medical Specialties - Emergency Medicine - Emergency department
  
• Gel found to reduce AIDS risk in women (Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  A woman's risk of infection with the AIDS virus can be significantly cut by the use of a vaginal gel, a study has found. The research marks the first success in a 15-year search for a way women can independently protect themselves from contracting HIV infection through sex.
  
  
  HIV - AIDS - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Immune Disorders
  
• D.C.'s Providence Hospital kicks off weight-loss challenge (Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  A wiry man, clad in a top hat and coat, approached a table of volunteers at Providence Hospital in Northeast Washington on Saturday, signing on to one of the largest community weight-loss initiatives in the District's history.
  
  
  Weight loss - Health - Shopping - Supplements - Support Groups
  
• Hodgkin's lymphoma: Prognosis and treatment (Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Hodgkin's lymphoma is a cancer of the immune system. About 8,000 cases a year are diagnosed in the United States, and about 1,300 deaths a year are attributed to the disease.
  
  
  Cancer - Lymphoma - Conditions and Diseases - Health - Hematologic
  
• Meat may be less of a climate-change burden than some experts have claimed (Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  This week the Lantern is taking a break from answering your green lifestyle questions to report on three studies that raise brand-new environmental dilemmas.
  
  
  
  Climate change - Environment - Activism - Organizations - Impacts and Indicators
  
• Which ice creams are favored by Americans? (Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  There's nothing better than indulging in a bowl of ice cream on a hot summer day.
  
  
  Ice cream - Food - Business - Frozen - Ronald Reagan
  
• Pumps like Cheney's can extend lives of patients with congestive heart failure (Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  If former vice president Richard B. Cheney's experience is similar to that of other patients who have heart pumps implanted, he has a better than 50-50 chance of surviving two years.
  
  
  Dick Cheney - Heart disease - Heart failure - Health - Conditions and Diseases
  
• Vaginal gel cuts HIV infections as much as 54 percent, trial shows (Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:12:00 EDT)
  July 19 (Bloomberg) -- A vaginal gel containing Gilead Sciences Inc.'s AIDS drug Viread cut HIV infections by as much as 54 percent in a trial in South Africa, the first time such a product has protected users after six previous gels failed.
  
  
  HIV - Health - Conditions and Diseases - AIDS - Immune Disorders
  
• FDA panel's vote on Avandia reveals mixed opinions on diabetes drug's safety (Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Federal advisers delivered a mixed verdict Wednesday on the diabetes drug Avandia, with a significant number of experts voting to recommend that it be pulled from the market because of safety concerns but a majority urging to keep it available, perhaps with tough new restrictions and new warnings.
  
  
  
  Diabetes mellitus - Health - Diabetes - Conditions and Diseases - Endocrine Disorders
  
• Vacation town Gulf Shores glimpses break from spill routine as BP well cap holds (Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  GULF SHORES, ALA. -- When Friday dawned, it was still Groundhog Day in Alabama.
  
  
  Gulf Shores Alabama - Alabama - United States - Metro Areas and Regions - Mobile Metro
  
• Deciding which painkiller is right for you (Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  You've got a headache. What do you do? Among your choices are Tylenol, Advil, Aleve and Bayer. Plus the generic acetaminophen, ibuprofen, naproxen and aspirin. Which one should you take? It's enough to make that minor pain in the neck a full-blown migraine.
  
  
  Sport - Shopping - Fernando Torres - Paraguay - Pain
  
• White House unveils national HIV/AIDS strategy (Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  The White House on Tuesday unveiled the first formal national HIV/AIDS strategy, a plan that aims to reduce the number of new cases by 25 percent in the next five years, officials said.
  
  
  AIDS - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Immune Disorders - United States
  
• Health-care overhaul includes pilot program of house calls for elderly patients (Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  From the back window of his rowhouse, Karl Schwengel can see the Capitol. But the 11 blocks might as well be so many miles, because he can barely walk across his bedroom, let alone go for a stroll.
  
  
  
  Health care - United States - Health - Politics - Medicine
  
• BP oil spill creates low-stress jobs, but some fishermen face emotional crisis (Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  ON BAYOU DUFRENE, LA. -- Aaron Cortez's job is as small as the gulf oil spill is huge: His crew is supposed to track down pieces of oil-absorbing boom that have drifted away, and pull them back into position with metal hooks.
  
  
  BP - Oil spill - Environment - Energy - Petroleum in the Environment
  
• Safety of diabetes drug Avandia debated by federal scientists (Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:03:01 EDT)
  Federal scientists disagreed sharply Tuesday about whether the diabetes drug Avandia is unsafe and should be removed from the market.
  
  
  Food and Drug Administration - GlaxoSmithKline - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Endocrine Disorders
  
• Getting to the bottom of toenail fungus (Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Rarely does the lowly toenail generate much interest. But quite the opposite is true in the drug marketing field.
  
  
  Health - Conditions and Diseases - Musculoskeletal Disorders - Feet - Ingrown Toenails
  
• Hospital infection deaths caused by ignorance and neglect, survey finds (Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Deadly yet easily preventable bloodstream infections continue to plague American hospitals because facility administrators fail to commit resources and attention to the problem, according to a survey of medical professionals released Monday.
  
  
  
  Hospital - Health - Medicine - Facilities - United States
  
• Kentucky town of Manchester illustrates national obesity crisis (Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  MANCHESTER, KY. -- The beautiful thing about this little town, the locals will tell you, is that everyone seems to know everyone. Where the children go to school, where the parents work. Who's engaged to be married, who's joining the military.
  
  
  Manchester - England - United States - Obesity - Health
  
• Diabetes drug Avandia has FDA split over new concerns about its safety (Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  New federal analyses released Friday raised additional questions about the safety of the controversial diabetes drug Avandia.
  
  
  Food and Drug Administration - GlaxoSmithKline - United States - Avandia - Health
  
• For kids with special needs, camp comes with valuable therapy, higher price tag (Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Matthew Hoffman will spend much of his summer doing handwriting exercises set to music, practicing conversation techniques with other kids on the soccer field and improving his motor planning by learning to ride a bike.
  
  
  Special needs - Education - Disabled - Family Resources - Special education
  
• Quick Study: Testosterone supplement may have cardiovascular risks for older men (Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  THE QUESTION Testosterone supplementation has been shown to build muscle and strength in older men, who often experience a drop in this male hormone. But does it do the same if the men are not fully healthy?
  
  
  
  Testosterone - Medicine - Health - Men - People
  
• HEALTH SCAN (Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  "Hypochondriac's Handbook: Syndromes, Diseases and Ailments That Probably Should Have Killed You by Now" (Skyhorse Publishing, $12.95)
  
  
  Health - Medicine - United States - Facilities - Health Systems
  
• Featured Advertiser (Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  
  
• The Checkup (Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Although toning sandals have been around for a few years, I focused on them recently when a Fitflops poster caught my eye in a Metro station. "Get a workout while you walk," it promised.
  
  
  Health - Home - Tom Brady - Quezon City - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  
• Whiskey barrels were once used to collect oil gushing from wells (Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT)
  Many countries have a modern way of measuring crude oil -- by weight. They use the metric ton, which remains unchanged when the liquid expands and contracts as it is pumped through pipelines or shipped in supertankers at varying temperatures.
  
  
  Oil - Business - Food and Related Products - Beverages - Whisky
  

• GeneSightRx, CYP450, and Antidepressants (Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:10:13 GMT)
  

  Can a genetic test help patients get on the right antidepressant?

  
  

  
  
  
• Should You Space Out Your Child's Vaccines? (Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:22:42 GMT)
  Research By Ian Yarett

  
  

  
  
  
• The Science of Healthy Living (Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:20:39 GMT)
  

  In the era of Google, medical advice is more confusing than ever. Here's a guide to what you really need to know, and when.

  
  

  
  
  
• This Is Your Brain. Aging. (Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:17:57 GMT)
  

  Science is reshaping what we know about getting older. (The news is better than you think.)

  
  

  
  
  
• The Surprising Toll of Sleep Deprivation (Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:08:50 GMT)
  

  How skimping on rest affects your brain, your hormones, and your heart.

  
  

  
  
  
• Secrets to Healthy Living From Harvard Doctors (Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:06:07 GMT)
  

  And other secrets to healthy living from doctors at Harvard Medical School.

  
  

  
  
  
• How to Survive When You Become a Caregiver (Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:01:26 GMT)
  

  The most devoted family caretakers are at risk of dying first themselves. Survival strategies from the author of 'Passages.'

  
  

  
  
  
• If You Could Live Forever, Would You Want To? (Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:58:03 GMT)
  

  If we could live forever, would we really want to?

  
  

  
  
  
• Study: Americans Want to Know Their Genetic Codes (Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:27:53 GMT)
  

  New research has found that a majority of Americans want to know the details of their genetic codes.

  
  

  
  
  
• Language a Barrier to Health Care (Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:59:41 GMT)
  

  When the fine print is unintelligible even for native English speakers, what hope is there for Latino immigrants?

  
  

  
  
  
• Should Beauty Bias Be Illegal? (Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:22:01 GMT)
  

  But should it also be illegal?

  
  

  
  
  
• A Doctor on Why She Left Pediatrics (Tue, 25 May 2010 21:59:53 GMT)
  

  My job became more about managing care than helping kids.

  
  

  
  
  
• Can a Pill Help Women Reach Orgasm? (Sun, 23 May 2010 21:23:13 GMT)
  

  A provocative new documentary targets Big Pharma's quest for a female Viagra

  
  

  
  
  
• 5 Implications of Venter's Synthetic Life Form (Fri, 21 May 2010 21:52:09 GMT)
  

  Five possible implications of Craig Venter's creation of synthetic organisms.

  
  

  
  
  
• Why Birth Moms Deserve Respect (Thu, 20 May 2010 19:29:30 GMT)
  

  Why all the conversations about adoption leave out a key player.

  
  

  
  
  
• Should Sex Offenders Be Jailed Indefinitely? (Wed, 19 May 2010 17:25:12 GMT)
  

  Is a lifetime in jail the best way to deal with sex offenders?

  
  

  
  
  
• Why DNA Doesn't Always Predict Disease (Tue, 18 May 2010 17:31:42 GMT)
  

  When it comes to predicting risk of disease, Alzheimer's genes—and others—strike out.

  
  

  
  
  
• Clean Up the Gulf: Can You Do It Better? (Mon, 17 May 2010 15:49:03 GMT)
  

  What would you do as the head of an energy company responsible for oil-spill clean-up?

  
  

  
  
  
• What Lawrence Taylor Reveals About Our Culture (Mon, 17 May 2010 14:58:52 GMT)
  

  What Lawrence Taylor's behavior reveals about how our culture treats women.

  
  

  
  
  
• Why Don't More Medical Discoveries Become Cures? (Sat, 15 May 2010 01:20:06 GMT)
  

  How the road from promising scientific breakthrough to real-world remedy has become all but a dead end.

  
  

  
  
  

• Drug costs would push millions more into poverty: study (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:13:08 -0400)
  LONDON (Reuters) - Tens of millions of people in low and middle income countries would be pushed below the poverty line by buying common but vital medicines which are already unaffordable to hundreds of millions more, a study has found.
  
  
  
• Diabetes drug may keep lung cancer at bay (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:01:44 -0400)
  CHICAGO (Reuters) - The common diabetes drug metformin may hold promise as a way to keep smokers from developing lung cancer, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
  
  
  
• New test can diagnose tuberculosis in under 2 hours (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:02:54 -0400)
  LONDON (Reuters) - A new molecular test for tuberculosis made by Cepheid can diagnose TB and detect a drug-resistant form of it far more easily and rapidly than other tests currently available, scientists said on Wednesday.
  
  
  
• Mental 'exercise' linked to faster dementia progression (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:22:58 -0400)
  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While staying mentally active in old age has been linked to a delayed onset of dementia, seniors who engage in such brain "exercise" may actually have a faster rate of decline once Alzheimer's is diagnosed, researchers reported Wednesday.
  
  
  
• Abbott's diet drug study renews calls for U.S. ban (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:38:49 -0400)
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A study funded by Abbott Laboratories offered more detailed evidence that its weight-loss drug Meridia increases heart risks, prompting renewed calls by consumer advocates and others to pull the drug from the market.
  
  
  
• Tight blood pressure curbs little help for kidneys (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:02:06 -0400)
  BOSTON (Reuters) - Aggressively lowering blood pressure did little to prevent kidney damage in blacks, unless protein in their urine showed evidence of damage in the first place, researchers reported on Wednesday.
  
  
  
• Surgery prevents breast cancers in high-risk women (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:06:42 -0400)
  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Women with mutations in the well-known BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes who have their breasts and ovaries removed are much more likely to survive than women who do not get preventive surgery, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
  
  
  
• Is lower thyroid activity linked to longevity? (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:29:16 -0400)
  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A less active thyroid may mean more years added to your life, hints a new Dutch study.
  
  
  
• Stem cell firms defend record after criticism (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:42:36 -0400)
  LONDON (Reuters) - Cell therapy companies in China and Germany who were criticized by British experts warning of the dangers of "stem cell tourism" defended themselves on Wednesday, saying their safety records were good.
  
  
  
• Cancer drug points way to new Alzheimer's approach (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:39:34 -0400)
  CHICAGO (Reuters) - An altered version of the cancer drug Gleevec could form the basis of a new class of drugs that block the development of brain-damaging plaques in Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
  
  
  

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