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Now that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a dispute over the federal health care law, the justices are facing the strongest challenge to their ban on televised hearings. Members of Congress and news industry leaders have asked the court to allow the televising of oral arguments, to be held over 5 hours during two days in March. A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll found that 72% of the people surveyed think...
December 12, 2011
Dec. 13 - DECATUR - For most cyclists, spring and summer are the times to mount up and ride. For them, once the days get shorter, the winds get crisper and the sound of the tires traveling over streets and sidewalks starts to resound with the crunch of leaves, it's time to hang up the bike. But not for some. "For those who are going to be out on the road, it's base layers," said Scott Magruder, a manager...
December 12, 2011
Dec. 13 - It's getting chilly out there - which means potential damage for your hair. When the weather turns wintry, hair and scalp dryness and other issues can make the season less than merry. Sandi Clugston, stylist at Serenity: An Aveda Day Spa & Salon, 1211 S. Harvard Ave., offers some tips to keep hair shiny and strong this season: 1. Scalp matters. Getting dry scalp or dandruff is not a pleasant...
December 12, 2011
Dec. 13 - BANGKOK (THE NATION/ANN) - Temperatures have been dropping in many regions across Thailandy, with some northern areas already hit by a cold spell. Thai Meteorological Department on Monday urged people to take extra care of their health as weather conditions were changing. "It's just between 4 and 10 degrees Celsius on mountaintops," it said. According to the weather bureau, the mercury dropped...
December 12, 2011
Dec. 09 - Doctors at the state's Rawson-Neal Mental Hospital in Las Vegas aren't putting in their full eight hours of work each day, with some working as few as two hours a day, according to an executive audit. The audit estimated the state lost $1.7 million to the doctors' brief schedules. On Jan. 1, a private company will begin providing medical care to the hospital's patients, replacing most state...
December 12, 2011
Dec. 12 - Aided by a $9.6 million grant from a Minnesota foundation, Minneapolis' Abbott Northwestern Hospital will test a new approach to end-of-life care for hundreds of Twin Cities patients with Alzheimer's disease, heart failure and late-stage cancer. Four hundred to 500 patients age 65 and older will participate, the hospital announced this past weekend. The study will be funded by a $9.6 million...
December 12, 2011
Dec. 12 - Experts say it is too soon to tell just how a Carbondale hospital's impending closure will impact access to health care services throughout the Upvalley, though several are hopeful that new services will spring up to fill the void. Late last month, Maxis Health Systems officials announced that Marian Community Hospital would close by Feb. 28 after struggling with financial pressures and dwindling...
December 12, 2011
Dec. 12 - Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor makes no secret of her contempt for the federal health-care law that she, like many other of its opponents, derides as "Obamacare." Since taking office in January, the Republican has given about 20 speeches and written several opinion pieces blasting President Barack Obama's signature legislative achievement. "I will do everything I can to protect Ohio's citizens...
December 12, 2011
Time was when all kids wanted for Christmas was to sit on Santa's lap. Now, they may get a laptop. This year, a number of toymakers are hoping to stuff babies' stockings with kid-size computers, some targeting babies too young to talk - a trend that worries many parents and pediatricians. iPad-like options for kids include LeapFrog's $99 LeapPad Explorer Tablet, VTech's $80 InnoTab Learning App Tablet...
December 12, 2011
To a baby, blocks aren't just toys. They're appetizers. Eight-month-old Anna Swanwink doesn't just stack her soft cloth blocks. She chews them, inspects them, rolls them across the carpet. She shakes them, listening for the hidden rattle or jingle bell inside. Best of all, she coos with surprise and lifts both arms in the air, all smiles, when her mom uses a block to tickle her back. At the holidays,...
December 12, 2011
After Dwayne Duckenfield banged his right elbow working around the house on a recent Saturday, he grew worried when the swelling didn't go down and the pain worsened. Concerned he may have broken a bone, the project manager who lives in Washington, D.C., didn't go to the nearest emergency room or wait until Monday to call his physician for an appointment. Like an increasing number of Americans looking...
December 8, 2011
There are no drugs to cure That's why Winters is encouraged by results of two new studies, being presented today at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. She wasn't involved in either, but she knows how desperately women with advanced breast cancer need more options. Nearly 41,000 U.S. women die of the disease a year. Both drugs keep tumors in check months longer than standard therapies, the research...
December 8, 2011
The treatment may be worse than the disease itself in a growing percentage of men diagnosed with prostate cancer, so there is an "urgent need" for more research into the role of delaying treatment or avoiding it altogether, a panel of experts convened by the National Institutes of Health concluded Wednesday. Next to skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in U.S. men. This year, more...
December 8, 2011
In a surprise move, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overruled her own drug regulators Wednesday and said young teenagers cannot buy the Plan B morning-after pill without a prescription. Her decision means the Plan B One-Step emergency contraceptive will remain behind pharmacy counters, as it is sold today - available without a prescription only to those 17 and older who can prove...
December 8, 2011
Is it too soon to imagine an end to AIDS? Maybe not. Three decades into the AIDS pandemic, health officials say they have the medicines and other tools to stop the spread of HIV, the AIDS virus. But one of the biggest barriers is complacency. "We are no longer in crisis mode after 30 years of HIV," says Kevin Fenton, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention,...
December 7, 2011
Is it too soon to imagine an end to AIDS? Maybe not. Three decades into the AIDS pandemic, health officials say they have the medicines and other tools to stop the spread of HIV, the AIDS virus. But one of the biggest barriers is complacency. "We are no longer in crisis mode after 30 years of HIV," says Kevin Fenton, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention,...
December 7, 2011
A new gene test may spare thousands of women with a common type of breast tumor from unnecessary radiation, according to a study released Tuesday at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. The test analyzes 12 genes from a woman's tumor; it helps predict which cases are likely to be aggressive, requiring both surgery and radiation, and which are likely to be slow-growing, needing surgery alone, says...
December 7, 2011
A desensitization program is allowing a seventh-grader to live without fear of a potentially fatal reaction from peanuts, and doctors hope other families across the USA eventually will benefit. The program introduces microscopic doses of the allergy-causing food to a patient. The body slowly builds tolerance. For patients with peanut allergies, the first doses are peanut flour mixed into Kool-Aid....
December 5, 2011
The Gatorade cooler and the coffee pot in the locker room have competition. From youth playing fields to major league clubhouses, caffeinated energy drinks such as Red Bull and its scores of cousins have become a familiar presence in sports. "The bottom line is, it's a long season. You're going to do what you have to do, whether you feel like you have to jump into a cryogenic freezing tank or a hyperbaric...
December 2, 2011
Air Canada and Virgin America offer the healthiest in-flight food, a new nutritional survey shows. The survey of 10 North American airlines' menus reveals an overall small increase in healthy and low-calorie food choices since last year, says Charles Stuart Platkin, an assistant professor at CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College in New York who has assessed airline food's nutritional value...
December 1, 2011
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Children without regular pediatric care have less access to needed services, U.S. researchers found. The study, scheduled to be published in Pediatrics, found children lacking a usual source of care were more likely to have unmet medical needs including delayed urgent care and problems obtaining dental care or specialty care. "In the current policy debates...
December 1, 2011
The decision that Medicare will pay for screening and counseling services to help obese patients lose weight has opened an old debate about who can best help people slim down. Top national weight-loss experts salute the ruling as good news, but they are concerned that many doctors and their staffs are ill prepared and haven't the time to help obese patients. "This is an incredibly positive move by...
December 1, 2011
Is it too soon to imagine an end to AIDS? Maybe not. Three decades into the AIDS pandemic, health officials say they have the medicines and other tools to stop the spread of HIV, the AIDS virus. But one of the biggest barriers is complacency. "We are no longer in crisis mode after 30 years of HIV," says Kevin Fenton, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention,...
December 1, 2011
Sept. 15 - Jon Hisaw's doctor called him, in so many words, "a walking dead man." "He said if I don't do something about my weight, don't bother to come back," Hisaw said. But what haunted him more than the doctor's comments, was that the doctor was right. He recalls the visit, "I saw it, 406 pounds. I wondered, 'When did that happen?' "To this day, I thank him for what he said. It's what I needed;...
November 30, 2011
In 2003, Morgan Pressel, then 15, learned too soon what radiology, mastectomy and chemotherapy meant as she watched her mother, Kathryn Krickstein, die of breast cancer at age 43. A year earlier, Cristie Kerr's mother, Linda, was diagnosed with breast cancer but continues to win that persistent battle. Today, Pressel and Kerr, good friends off the golf course and rivals between the gallery ropes on...
November 29, 2011
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