Health News
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Princeton starts mass meningitis B vaccinations
Monday, Dec 9, 11:07 am
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) - Princeton University has started its mass vaccination of students to try to stop an outbreak of type B meningitis. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... Read more...
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Trial over New Mexico 'right-to-die' law to begin
Monday, Dec 9, 7:37 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A legal challenge to a decades-old New Mexico law that prohibits physicians from helping terminally ill patients die is set to go to trial. The trial is scheduled to... Read more...
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Gene therapy scores big wins against blood cancers
Saturday, Dec 7, 6:10 pm
(AP) - In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success by using gene therapy to transform patients' blood cells... Read more...
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Obama taps former top aide to work on health law
Saturday, Dec 7, 11:05 am
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is bringing a former top aide with deep ties to Congress back to the White House to help get his health care overhaul back on track after a bungled rollout. Officials... Read more...
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APNewsBreak: Feds balk at paper health application
Saturday, Dec 7, 9:59 am
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Federal health officials, after encouraging alternate sign-up methods amid the fumbled rollout of their online insurance website, began quietly urging counselors around... Read more...
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Hong Kong reports 2nd H7N9 bird flu case
Friday, Dec 6, 7:24 pm
HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong reported its second human case of H7N9 bird flu just days after the first, raising fears that the virus is spreading beyond mainland China. The Health Department said... Read more...
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FDA approves first drug for rare erection disorder
Friday, Dec 6, 12:33 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first drug to treat an unusual condition that causes painful, curved erections in men. The agency said it approved the... Read more...
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23andMe to halt health-related genetic reports
Friday, Dec 6, 11:12 am
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - Genetic testing company 23andMe Inc. will comply with a Food and Drug Administration directive to stop providing access to health-related reports from its tests during... Read more...
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Going beyond Balto, film shows life-saving dog run
Friday, Dec 6, 1:45 am
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A deadly epidemic had gripped a gold rush town in the impenetrable U.S. territory of Alaska nearly 90 years ago, transfixing the nation. A cure existed, but there... Read more...
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More signs that US births may have stopped falling
Thursday, Dec 5, 10:19 pm
ATLANTA (AP) - There's more evidence that U.S. births may be leveling off after years of decline. The number of babies born last year only slipped a little, and preliminary government figures... Read more...
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FDA: Idaho noted yeast in yogurt before recall
Thursday, Dec 5, 5:33 pm
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration report says the Idaho State Department of Agriculture detected abnormalities in yogurt at a Chobani facility two months before the company... Read more...
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Feds' site gives states incomplete Medicaid data
Thursday, Dec 5, 4:36 pm
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - People shopping for insurance on the federal marketplace may be informed they're eligible for Medicaid and that their information is being sent to state officials to sign... Read more...
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Court: forced C-section was medically justified
Thursday, Dec 5, 6:50 am
LONDON (AP) - A newly released court judgment says that doctors were medically justified in forcing a woman to have a cesarean section last year because it was in her best interests. At... Read more...
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Fertility drugs lead to more big multiple births
Wednesday, Dec 4, 3:17 pm
(AP) - Triplets-and-more increasingly are the result of drugs given to women to make them produce eggs _ not from using multiple embryos from IVF, or lab-dish fertilization, new research shows. More... Read more...
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Face transplants thriving 2 years after operations
Wednesday, Dec 4, 1:19 pm
CHICAGO (AP) - The nation's first full face transplant patients are growing into their new appearances _ literally. Medical imaging shows new blood vessel networks have formed, connecting... Read more...
