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Senate Democrats at odds over health care bill

AP – 15 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Moderate Senate Democrats threatened Sunday to scuttle health-care legislation if their demands aren't met, while more liberal members warned their party leaders not to bend. Full Story »

  • Mammogram guidelines spark debate over health bill

    AP – 1 hr 48 mins ago  

    WASHINGTON - Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings. Full Story »

  • GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care

    AP – Sat Nov 21, 9:24 am ET  
    Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, shows... AP

    WASHINGTON - Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul. Full Story »

  • Canadian woman loses benefits over Facebook photo

    AP – Sun Nov 22, 1:20 pm ET  
    The logo of social networking website 'Facebook' is displayed... AFP/File

    BROMONT, Quebec - A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave for depression says she lost her benefits because her insurance agent found photos of her on Facebook in which she appeared to be having fun. Full Story »

  • Obesity in adolescence may increase girls' MS risk

    Reuters – Fri Nov 20, 11:15 am ET  

    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A woman's risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) during her lifetime is doubled if she was obese at age 18, new research shows. Full Story »

  • Spray May Delay Ejaculation

    HealthDay – Thu Nov 19, 7:25 pm ET  

    THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A spray touted as the first potential treatment for premature ejaculation has proved effective in a second study, according to the company that developed it. Full Story »

  • Los Angeles gets tough on medical marijuana shops

    Reuters – Fri Nov 20, 9:29 pm ET  

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Past the security man and his pit bull and through a haze of eye-watering smoke, two youths load up a pipe next to a row of shiny glass jars with two dozen varieties of marijuana bud displayed like candy. Full Story »

  • Child abuse may shorten cell lifeline: study

    AFP – Fri Nov 20, 2:31 pm ET  
    This undated illustration shows the DNA double helix. Beaten... AFP/HO/File

    PARIS (AFP) - Beaten or sexually abused children are more likely to show accelerated ageing of cells later in life, a condition linked to higher rates of cancer and heart disease, according to a study released Friday. Full Story »

  • Diet, Cognitive Ability May Play Role in Heart Disease

    HealthDay – Thu Nov 19, 7:25 pm ET  

    THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Seniors who eat plenty of fruits and vegetables and who have good cognitive function are much less likely to die from heart disease than those who have poorer cognitive function and eat fewer fruits and vegetables, a new study has found. Full Story »

  • Heart disease a killer in psychotic individuals

    Reuters – Tue Nov 17, 4:42 pm ET  

    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders are more likely to die of heart disease than mentally healthy individuals, a study in US veterans indicates. Full Story »

  • Guidelines for cancer screening differ by group

    AP – Fri Nov 20, 4:24 pm ET  

    Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer. Full Story »

  • Cost of child vaccines fall, more kids saved

    AP – Fri Nov 20, 10:23 am ET  

    HANOI, Vietnam - Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty. Full Story »

  • AIDS patients to president: Send more money south

    AP – Mon Nov 16, 7:09 am ET  

    JACKSON, Miss. - When Robin Webb lived in New York City, he was treated by HIV specialists and had access to counseling and nutritional programs. Now he lives in Mississippi, where few of those services exist. Full Story »

  • US survey shows southern counties most obese

    AP – Thu Nov 19, 9:31 pm ET  
    A resident is photographed Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 walking around... AP

    ATLANTA - The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than 80 percent of counties in the Appalachian region that includes Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Full Story »

  • Folic Acid Late in Pregnancy Tied to Asthma in Kids

    HealthDay – Fri Nov 13, 11:48 pm ET  

    FRIDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Children born to women who take folic acid in late pregnancy are at increased risk for asthma, Australian researchers say. Full Story »

  • Appalachia, Southeast Hit Hardest by Obesity and Diabetes

    HealthDay – Thu Nov 19, 7:25 pm ET  

    THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- While rates of obesity are climbing across America, they are especially high in sections of Appalachia and the Southeast, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports in its first county-by-county survey. Full Story »

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AP – Sun Nov 22, 8:00 am ET

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