Health News

Report: US adult smoking rate dips to 18 percent

Monday, Jun 17, 9:45 pm
ATLANTA (AP) - Fewer U.S. adults are smoking, a new government report says. Last year, about 18 percent of adults participating in a national health survey described themselves as current... Read more...
Judge considers effect of fungus on Calif. inmates

Monday, Jun 17, 5:48 pm
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A lawyer representing inmates at two California state prisons told a federal judge Monday that an airborne fungus occurring in the San Joaquin Valley presents the deadly threat... Read more...
Komen breast cancer charity names new CEO

Monday, Jun 17, 3:19 pm
DALLAS (AP) - Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced Monday that a physician with a long career in health policy and research will become the breast cancer charity's new president and CEO. Judith... Read more...
Businessman tries his luck at building pot brand

Monday, Jun 17, 12:33 pm
SEATTLE (AP) - For the activists who led the effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Washington state last fall, Jamen Shively was one of their biggest fears: an aspiring pot profiteer whose... Read more...
To ease shortage of organs, grow them in a lab?

Monday, Jun 17, 12:01 am
NEW YORK (AP) - By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better shot at surgery. Her... Read more...
Boston hospital to offer hand transplants for kids

Sunday, Jun 16, 10:45 pm
(AP) - A Boston hospital is starting the world's first hand transplant program for children, and doctors say it won't be long until face transplants and other radical operations to improve appearance... Read more...
Arizona Gov. Brewer secures Medicaid expansion

Friday, Jun 14, 2:38 am
PHOENIX (AP) - Ending a six-month legislative session, Arizona lawmakers endorsed a key element of President Barack Obama's health care law in a huge political victory for Republican Gov. Jan Brewer,... Read more...
Lilly stops mid-stage Alzheimer's drug study

Thursday, Jun 13, 3:09 pm
NEW YORK (AP) - Eli Lilly and Co. said Thursday that it stopped a mid-stage clinical trial of an experimental Alzheimer's disease drug because of potential side effects on patients' livers. The... Read more...
New lungs buy time but don't cure cystic fibrosis

Thursday, Jun 13, 2:39 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) - The 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who fought for a lung transplant has a difficult journey ahead. The transplant isn't a cure for her cystic fibrosis, and new lungs don't tend... Read more...
Expert: Dying woman should have got Irish abortion

Thursday, Jun 13, 1:39 pm
DUBLIN (AP) - A miscarrying woman who died in an Irish hospital should have had her blood poisoning detected much sooner and been offered an abortion to improve her odds of survival, an experts'... Read more...
Girl who took on transplant rules gets new lungs

Thursday, Jun 13, 9:54 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A 10-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis was recovering from a transplant of adult lungs after a judge's ruling expanded her options for lifesaving surgery. Sarah Murnaghan... Read more...
NY judge: Fed plan for morning-after pill sales OK

Wednesday, Jun 12, 7:01 pm
NEW YORK (AP) - President Barack Obama's administration can go forward with its new plan to make the morning-after pill available to buyers of any age without prescriptions, but it needs to do... Read more...
Nevada ACLU backing suit against 'patient dumping'

Wednesday, Jun 12, 3:40 pm
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A psychiatric patient has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in Nevada accusing state officials of giving him a one-way bus ticket to Northern California, where he arrived, scared... Read more...
HIV drug can also protect injection drug users

Wednesday, Jun 12, 1:58 pm
ATLANTA (AP) - Doctors should consider giving a daily AIDS drug to another high risk group to help prevent infections _ people who shoot heroin, methamphetamines or other injection drugs, U.S.... Read more...
UK to start regulating e-cigarettes as medicines

Wednesday, Jun 12, 9:09 am
LONDON (AP) - Britain will start regulating electronic cigarettes and other products containing nicotine as medicines, according to the country's top regulator. E-cigarettes are battery-operated... Read more...