| LONDON (AP) -- It seems the old cliche may be true. Men are more likely than women to be interested in sex, have sex and enjoy sex, according to new scientific research, which also found people who stay active and healthy enjoy longer sex lives.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section."
NEW YORK (AP) -- A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- A landmark study looking at how to limit the spread of influenza has shown what experts have long believed but hadn't until now proved: Giving flu shots to kids helps protect everyone in a community from the virus.
WASHINGTON (Canadian Press) -- Nicotine builds up gradually in smokers' brains rather than spiking after each puff, according to a study that might help point to new ways to help people quit smoking.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Food-borne illnesses sicken 76 million Americans every year and kill about 5,000, federal health records say. The financial costs are staggering, too: nationwide, $152 billion a year. Florida spends $1,984 per case, according to a new report from the Produce Safety Project, an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Puerto Rico's government sent inspectors across the island Thursday to stop stores from selling locally produced hand sanitizers tainted with a dangerous bacteria.
Diet not working? Blame your genes. That's the pitch behind a new test that claims to show whether people will do better on a low-fat or a low-carb weight loss plan.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Germs in the gut may help drive appetite, says new research into the link between obesity and bacteria.
WASHINGTON - What if you could be fat but avoid heart disease or diabetes? Scientists trying to break the fat-and-disease link increasingly say inflammation is the key.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The American Cancer Society is urging doctors to make clearer to men that the test used to screen for prostate cancer has limits and may lead to unnecessary treatments that do more harm than good.
WASHINGTON (Canadian Press) -- Poll results, congressional head counts and U.S. government deficits are not the only numbers President Barack Obama has to worry about. Now, he's trying to walk off a marginally high cholesterol count.
CHICAGO (AP) -- One in four U.S. parents believes some vaccines cause autism in healthy children, but even many of those worried about vaccine risks think their children should be vaccinated.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- What if you could be fat but avoid heart disease or diabetes? Scientists trying to break the fat-and-disease link increasingly say inflammation is the key.
CHICAGO (AP) -- The odds of obesity appear stacked against black and Hispanic children starting even before birth, provocative new research suggests.
WASHINGTON (The New York Times News Service) -- Three days after an extraordinary forum moderated by President Obama to bridge the gulf between Democrats and Republicans over a health care, leaders of both parties drew clearer lines in the sand on Sunday.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Virtually everyone has had their blood pressure measured with a pumped-up cuff encircling their upper arm. But it turns out that this commonplace medical device could one day have another critical use - reducing the amount of damage from a heart attack, researchers say.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Breast cancer patients are increasingly having preventive surgery to remove the unaffected breast, but a new study suggests it's not beneficial for the vast majority of women who undergo it.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A government panel is now recommending that virtually all Americans get a flu shot each year, starting this fall.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- A moment on the lips, forever on the hips? A bad figure is hardly the worst of it. Eating a lot of fat, especially the kind that's in cookies and pastries, can significantly raise the risk of stroke for women over 50, a large new study finds. We already know that diets rich in fat, particularly artery-clogging trans fat, are bad for the heart and the waistline.
WASHINGTON (The New York Times News Service) -- Democrats in Congress showed signs of enthusiasm for passing a health care bill yesterday after President Obama offered his own proposal Monday. But it remained far from clear whether they could muster enough votes to pass a bill, and the political focus remained on tomorrow's "summit" between Obama and congressional Republicans - which is threatening to become more of a showdown than a sober policy debate.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Surviving five heart attacks makes former Vice President Dick Cheney pretty unusual -- showing that he has good medical care as well as a particularly aggressive form of heart disease.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A critical new report declares high blood pressure in the U.S. to be a neglected disease -- a term that usually describes mysterious tropical illnesses, not a well-known plague of rich countries.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Senate report said Saturday that drug maker GlaxoSmithKline knew of possible heart attack risks tied to Avandia, its diabetes medication, years before such evidence became public.
CHICAGO (AP) -- When 4-year-old Eric Stavros Adler choked to death on a piece of hot dog, his anguished mother never dreamed that the popular kids' food could be so dangerous.
LONDON (AP) -- It was heralded as a medical miracle. After spending more than two decades in a vegetative state, Rom Houben, a Belgian man in his mid-40s, was suddenly able to communicate, news reports trumpeted last November.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is taking steps to curb use of some long-acting asthma drugs used by millions, issuing safety restrictions Thursday to lower a life-threatening risk that asthma could worsen suddenly.
LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization is recommending that swine flu be added to the regular flu vaccine next season.
(Daily Mail) -- Women with breast cancer who take aspirin at least twice a week can more than double their chance of surviving, researchers say.
LONDON (AP) -- You've heard it before: to avoid a heart attack don't smoke, eat right and exercise. But it also may help to be happy, a new study says.
(USA TODAY) -- King Tut died of malaria and family bone disease, not murder, suggests a comprehensive new genetic and medical study of royal mummies.
NEW YORK (Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)) -- Former US president Bill Clinton left hospital early Friday, a day after undergoing a heart procedure for a blocked artery.
(Associated Press) -- Bill Clinton has a new lease on life, but there's no cure for the heart disease that has twice forced the former president to get blocked arteries fixed.
NEW YORK (AP)-- Why people stutter has long been a medical mystery, with the condition blamed over the years on emotional problems, overbearing parents and browbeating teachers. Now, for the first time, scientists have found genes that could explain some cases of stuttering.
WASHINGTON (The New York Times News Service) -- Despite the blizzard gripping Washington, Democrats, Republicans and advocacy groups began intense maneuvering Tuesday in advance of the televised health care summit that President Obama has set for Feb. 25 in an attempt to bring new life to what had been his top domestic priority.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Don't say "mental retardation" -- the new term is "intellectual disability." No more diagnoses of Asperger's syndrome -- call it a mild version of autism instead. And while "behavioral addictions" will be new to doctors' dictionaries, "Internet addiction" didn't make the cut.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Gallbladder surgery is usually a very safe operation, but a powerful congressman's death is a reminder of the known risks.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Women prescribed tamoxifen to prevent a recurrence of breast cancer should avoid taking the antidepressant Paxil and its generic equivalents because of a potentially dangerous drug interaction, a study suggests.
WASHINGTON (USA TODAY) -- Her daughters were 6 and 9, and Michelle Obama was like any other working mom -- struggling to juggle office hours, school pick-ups and mealtimes. By the end of the day, she was often too tired to make dinner, so she did what was easy: She ordered takeout or went to the drive-through.
BEIJING (AP) -- China has found another 170 tons of tainted milk powder in an emergency crackdown that has made it increasingly clear many products discovered in the country's 2008 milk scandal were repackaged for sale instead of destroyed.
MONSEY, N.Y. (AP) -- More than 300 people have been diagnosed with the mumps in suburban New York as the nation's largest outbreak of the disease in years spreads.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Is the U.S. swine flu epidemic over? Federal health officials won't go so far as to say that, but on Friday they reported for the fourth week in a row that no states had widespread flu activity.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- A radioactive substance recently found in groundwater monitoring wells at a Vermont nuclear plant has turned up again at levels more than nine times those previously reported and more than 37 times higher than a federal safe drinking water limit, officials said Thursday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For all the hue and cry over a government takeover of health care, it's happening anyway.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists have detected glimmers of awareness in some vegetative brain-injury patients and have even communicated with one of them -- findings that push the boundaries of how to assess and care for such people.
CHICAGO (AP) -- An experimental abstinence-only program without a moralistic tone can delay teens from having sex, a provocative study found.
Serena Koenig, M.D., has been providing medical care to the people of Haiti since 2001. After 10 days there after the earthquake, Dr. Koenig says the country's future medical needs will be enormous.
(USA TODAY) -- A common complication during pregnancy may predispose children born prematurely to asthma, a large study reports today.
(Associated Press) -- Federal consumer safety regulators on Friday announced the recall of "The Princess and The Frog" pendants because of high levels of the toxic metal cadmium, an unprecedented action that reflects concerns of an emerging threat in children's products.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama framed her national campaign against childhood obesity in intensely personal terms Thursday, relating that her own daughters were starting to get off-track before the family's pediatrician gave her a wake-up call and warned her to watch it.
LONDON (AP) -- A new type of morning-after pill is more effective than the most widely used drug at preventing pregnancies in women who had unprotected sex and also works longer, for up to five days, a new study says.
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world's poorest countries, the Microsoft co-founder and his wife said Friday.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Higher Medicare copays, sometimes just a few dollars more, led to fewer doctors visits and to more and longer hospital stays, a large new study reveals.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- For decades, the enduring image of the Canadian Cancer Society has been the gently nodding spring flower, the daffodil. And while that bright yellow symbol of hope and renewal isn't being abandoned, the venerable charity is now taking a much bolder approach.
(USA TODAY) -- Two leading medical centers on Monday launched the largest effort to date to find all of the genetic mutations that cause childhood cancer.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Canada faces a "perfect storm" of heart disease, with younger adults at increased risk of earlier onset of heart disease and the huge baby boom generation approaching their senior years, the Heart and Stroke Foundation warned Monday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If the cardiologist's warnings don't scare you, consider this: Controlling blood pressure just might be the best protection yet known against dementia.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sweet news for baby boomers: Despite all those warnings that loud rock music would damage their ears, their generation appears to have better hearing than their parents did.
BEIJING (AP) -- Melamine-tainted dairy products were pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children had been sickened in a massive milk safety scandal, a government spokeswoman said Monday.
LONDON (AP) -- People with early lung cancer who quit smoking could double their chances of surviving, a new study says.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. newborns are arriving a little smaller, says puzzling new Harvard research that can't explain why.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new kind of genetic sleuthing suggests hospital outbreaks of drug-resistant staph bacteria don't always spread from one patient to another, but that numerous people - patients, visitors or staff - bring in the deadly germ.
LONDON (AP) -- American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan were more likely to be medically evacuated for health problems such as a bad back than for combat injuries, a new study says.
WASHINGTON (USA TODAY) -- Calling obesity an epidemic and one of the greatest threats to America's health and economy, first lady Michelle Obama said Wednesday that she would launch a major initiative next month to combat the problem in childhood.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Tests of the first two oral drugs developed for treating multiple sclerosis show that both cut the frequency of relapses and may slow progression of the disease, but with side effects that could pose a tough decision for patients.
(USA TODAY) -- Pancreatic cancer, which claimed the life of actor Patrick Swayze last year, is one of the most aggressive of all tumors, killing all but about 5% of patients. By the time the disease is found, it usually has spread around the body and left many patients with only a few months to live.
LONDON (AP) -- Here's a new warning from health experts: Sitting is deadly.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (The New York Times News Service) -- The wide ramp sloping down from the third floor at the Sacred Heart (Sacre Couer) Hospital echoes the brisk swish of Dr. Alberto Sosa's surgical scrubs as he again races to the emergency room.
BEIJING (Canadian Press) -- China is tightening smoking regulations to ban lighting up in any indoor public spaces in seven provincial capitals, the latest sign of rising health awareness in the world's largest tobacco-consuming nation.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Just as millions head to tanning beds to prepare for spring break, the Food and Drug Administration will be debating how to toughen warnings that those sunlamps pose a cancer risk.
CHICAGO (AP) -- An influential advisory panel says school-aged youngsters and teens should be screened for obesity and sent to intensive behavior treatment if they need to lose weight - a move that could transform how doctors deal with overweight children.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- When she started treatment for cancer, Lauren Donnelly went from being an active teen taking part in soccer and dance to completely bedridden.
CHICAGO (AP) -– New research casts doubt on increasingly popular blood-based injections reportedly used by Tiger Woods and other athletes to speed recovery after orthopedic surgery.
LONDON (AP) -- For more than a quarter of a century, Linda De Croock lived with constant pain from a car accident that smashed her windpipe.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The warnings from the nation's chief product safety officer were unprecedented: Don't give your child any of that cheap metal jewelry you've been hearing about. And don't let your young ones play with it either -- those shiny $3.99 bracelets and charms could contain toxic cadmium or lead, almost definitely imported from China.
PROVIDENCE (The Providence Journal) -- The public-health challenges facing Haiti in the wake of this week's devastating earthquake are monumental and will persist for a very long time, said an infectious disease specialist with the Warren Alpert School of Medicine and Brown University who has twice worked on the island.
(Associated Press) -- Quickly giving morphine to wounded troops cuts in half the chance they will develop post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a provocative study that suggests a new strategy for preventing the psychological fallout of war.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attention is shifting to the world's five leading flu vaccine makers: How fast are they really producing swine flu vaccine, and just how do they plan to test that it works?
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