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  • Study: Colonoscopy cuts colon cancer dea...

    By The Associated Press

    February 22nd, 2012

    Graphic shows death rates for colon cancer by decade since Graphic shows death rates for colon cancer by decade since Buy AP Photo Reprints LOS ANGELES (AP) — Millions of people have endured a colonoscopy,…

  • US drafts plan to fight feared Alzheimer...

    By The Associated Press

    February 22nd, 2012

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration declared Alzheimer’s “one of the most-feared health conditions” on Wednesday as it issued a draft of the nation’s first strategy to fight the ominous rise in the mind-destroying disease. More than 5…

  • Common prenatal tests become campaign is...

    By The Associated Press

    February 22nd, 2012

    Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks at the Maricopa County Lincoln Day Luncheon, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania…

  • Panel: All adults should get whooping co...

    By The Associated Press

    February 22nd, 2012

    ATLANTA (AP) — A federal advisory panel wants all U.S. adults to get vaccinated against whooping cough. The panel voted Wednesday to expand its recommendation to include all those 65 and older who haven’t gotten a whooping cough shot as an…

  • Doctors: Myanmar desperate for HIV and T...

    By The Associated Press

    February 22nd, 2012

    BANGKOK (AP) — Some 85,000 HIV-infected people in Myanmar are not getting treatment due to a lack of funding, despite renewed international engagement with the government amid a wave of political reform, a medical aid group said…

  • Johnson & Johnson CEO to step down i...

    By The Associated Press

    February 21st, 2012

    FILE – In this Thursday Nov. 15, 2007 file photo, health care products maker Johnson & Johnson’s CEO William Weldon poses for photos at the company’s world headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J. The company on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 said…

  • Johnson & Johnson CEO Bill Weldon re...

    By The Associated Press

    February 21st, 2012

    TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) — Johnson & Johnson’s longtime CEO, Bill Weldon, is retiring this April, following an embarrassing string of product recalls over more than 2 years that has cost the health care giant hundreds of millions of…

  • Radiation detected 400 miles off Japanes...

    By The Associated Press

    February 21st, 2012

    Members of the media wearing protective suits and masks report, escorted by an official of Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, second left, at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima…

  • Radiation detected 400 miles off Japanes...

    By The Associated Press

    February 21st, 2012

    Members of the media wearing protective suits and masks report, escorted by an official of Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, second left, at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima…

  • FDA: New suppliers to ease 2 cancer drug...

    By The Associated Press

    February 21st, 2012

    TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Federal regulators said Tuesday that they’ve approved new suppliers for two crucial cancer drugs, easing critical shortages — at least for the time being — that have patients worried about missing life-saving…

  • Big outbreak of child virus in Vietnam m...

    By The Associated Press

    February 21st, 2012

    HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam says a large ongoing outbreak of a common childhood virus could worsen this year. The hand, foot and mouth virus has sickened more than 6,000 and killed nine children since January. They died from the strain…

  • Big outbreak of child virus in Vietnam m...

    By The Associated Press

    February 21st, 2012

    HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam says a large ongoing outbreak of a common childhood virus could worsen this year. The hand, foot and mouth virus has sickened more than 6,000 and killed nine children since January. They died from the strain…

  • British minister heckled over health ref...

    By The Associated Press

    February 20th, 2012

    Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron sits next to Health Secretary Andrew Lansley (2nd left) during a round table discussion on the future of the NHS (National Health Service) at Downing Street in London Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. Britain’s…

  • Sex-changing treatment for kids: It̵...

    By The Associated Press

    February 20th, 2012

    In this Dec. 2, 2011 photo, Dr. Norman Spack poses in his office at Children’s Hospital Boston. Spack is author of one of the reports in the journal Pediatrics about teens and children who insist they were born the wrong sex and are requesting…

  • Sex-changing treatment for kids: It̵...

    By The Associated Press

    February 20th, 2012

    In this Dec. 2, 2011 photo, Dr. Norman Spack poses in his office at Children’s Hospital Boston. Spack is author of one of the reports in the journal Pediatrics about teens and children who insist they were born the wrong sex and are requesting…

  • US couple get 8 years each in son’...

    By The Associated Press

    February 20th, 2012

    Monica Hussing, center is handcuffed after being sentenced to eight years in prison on involuntary manslaughter charges in Cleveland Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Their son, Willie Robinson, died from Hodgkin lymphoma in 2008. Prosecutors say he…

  • APNewsBreak: FDA to review inhalable caf...

    By The Associated Press

    February 19th, 2012

    FILE – In this Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 still file photo taken from video, students try free samples of AeroShot, an inhalable caffeine packed in a lipstick-sized canister, on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston. The Food and Drug…

  • Bird flu still a menace in Asia and beyo...

    By The Associated Press

    February 17th, 2012

    In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, a health worker wearing protective gear sprays disinfectant at a suspected outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus among ducks in Nhat Tan commune, Kim Bang district, Ha Nam province, Vietnam. Recent…

  • System to catch fake drugs has idled for...

    By The Associated Press

    February 16th, 2012

    FILE – This undated file photo provided by Genetech shows a counterfeit vial of the cancer drug Avastin. A long delayed effort to create an electronic system to weed out counterfeit drugs is likely to get a renewed push after this week’s…

  • Remote-controlled chip implant delivers ...

    By The Associated Press

    February 16th, 2012

    This undated handout photo provided by MicroCHIPS, Inc., Massachusetts, show the drug delivery device, right, next to an everyday computer memory stick. Medication via remote-control instead of a shot? Scientists implanted a microchip in seven…

  • Panel favors some World Trade Center can...

    By The Associated Press

    February 16th, 2012

    NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. government panel favors expanding an aid program for people sickened by World Trade Center dust to include people who have at least some types of cancer. Congress has set aside billions of dollars to compensate and…




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