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FILE - This Oct. 24, 2008 photo shows nurse Donna Audia performing Reiki on a AP

Experts: Placebo power behind many natural cures

AP – Tue Nov 10, 3:16 pm ET

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these mostly unproven treatments are now mainstream and used by more than a third of all Americans. This is one in an occasional Associated Press series on their use and potential risks. Full Story »

  • Women More Loyal When Cancer Strikes

    LiveScience.com – Tue Nov 10, 1:08 pm ET  

    A cancer diagnosis can strain any relationship. But when a woman gets news of a life-threatening illness, her husband is six times more likely to leave her than if the tables were turned and the man got the bad news, according to new research. Full Story »

  • Polio vaccination for 2.6 million children in DR Congo

    AFP – Tue Nov 10, 12:47 pm ET  
    A medical worker vaccinates a child against polio. Health authorities... AFP/File

    KINSHASA (AFP) - Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have begun vaccinating 2.6 million children under five against polio and measles in three provinces, the health minister said Tuesday. Full Story »

  • Shrinking AIDS funding threatens gains: aid group

    AFP – Thu Nov 5, 3:26 pm ET  
    Picture taken in August 2009, a medical laboratory technician... AFP/File

    JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Waning international donor support for the fight against AIDS is a threat to a decade of progress in HIV treatment, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned on Thursday. Full Story »

  • FDA Issues Warning for Diabetes Drug

    HealthDay – Tue Nov 3, 11:49 pm ET  

    TUESDAY, Nov. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Reports about possible kidney problems, including renal failure, in people taking the diabetes drug exenatide (Byetta) have prompted changes to the drug's prescribing information, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Monday. Full Story »

  • Health Tip: What's Behind My Asthma and Allergy Symptoms?

    HealthDay – Wed Oct 28, 11:49 pm ET  

    (HealthDay News) -- While allergies and asthma usually are chronic, symptoms can flare from exposure to certain triggers. Full Story »

  • Lack of exercise may not explain teen obesity

    Reuters – Tue Nov 10, 3:56 pm ET  

    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most U.S. teenagers are not as active as they should be, but a lack of exercise does not seem to account for rising rates of teen obesity, a new study finds. Full Story »

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Sports News

NBA great Abdul-Jabbar has rare form of leukemia

AP – Tue Nov 10, 3:27 pm ET

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is being treated for a rare form of leukemia, and the basketball great said his prognosis is encouraging. The NBA's all-time leading scorer was diagnosed last December with chronic myeloid leukemia, he told The Associated Press on Monday. Full Story »

Travel News

Ski Utah predicts 3 percent growth in skier visits

AP – Tue Nov 10, 5:21 pm ET

The number of skier visits in the state will increase by an estimated 3 percent in the 2009-10 season to about 4.1 million, the president of industry group Ski Utah said Tuesday. Full Story »

Entertainment News

Michael Jackson's father does not stand to inherit any of his son's assets and cannot challenge the appointment of the executors chosen by the singer to handle his will, a judge said Tuesday. Full Story »