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| Women's lung cancer rate falls Tampabay.com AP For the first time, women's death rates from lung cancer are dropping. The decline is small, just less than 1 percent a year. And lung cancer remains the nation's, and the world's, leading cancer killer. But the long-anticipated drop, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare Agrees to Cover Expensive Prostate Cancer Treatment KGO-AM Creatas Images/Thinkstock(BALTIMORE) -- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that Medicare will pay for Provenge, an immunotherapy for prostate cancer. In a proposed decision memo, the agency said, "The evidence is adequate to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Turkeys slaughtered after avian flu found at Missouri farm Kansas City Star SPRINGFIELD, Mo. | Thousands of young turkeys at a southwest Missouri poultry farm will be slaughtered to prevent the spread of avian flu. The farm in Polk County raises turkeys for Cargill, which says up to 15000 infected young birds would be killed ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Alabama: Lawsuit Blames Intravenous Nutrient for Death New York Times By AP An Alabama woman filed a lawsuit Thursday placing blame for the death of her mother on an outbreak that health officials say was linked to tainted intravenous feeding fluid that caused infections at six hospitals in 19 patients, 9 of whom died. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Water Walking Balls Called Deadly About.com: Health By Wendy Bumgardner, About.com Guide March 31, 2011 The US Consumer Products Safety Commission is sounding an alarm about water waking balls. These are large, clear airtight plastic balls. You enter them via a zipper, it gets zipped up and now you are ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Automatic faucets germier than the old-fashioned kind, study shows msnbc.com By Melissa Dahl Sorry, germaphobes: Those hands-free, automatic faucets that seem so clean and germ-free might actually be housing more bacteria than the old-fashioned, manual kind, according to a new Johns Hopkins University study. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Arizona gov. proposes restoring transplant funding San Jose Mercury News By PAUL DAVENPORT AP PHOENIX—Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has proposed that the state restore Medicaid coverage for transplant patients—which was reduced amid much controversy last fall. Brewer announced the change Thursday as part of a major revamp of the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Prostate screening doesn't save lives: study ABC Online By medical reporter Sophie Scott A large study has found that screening men for prostate cancer does not significantly reduce deaths and can lead to over-treatment. The findings of the 20-year study have been published in the British Medical Journal. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Health clinic investigating possible leak of porn actors' personal information Los Angeles Times Officials at a San Fernando Valley-based health clinic that caters to the porn industry say they are investigating allegations that patient information was leaked to a website. Pornwikileaks.com posted the names, birth dates and stage names of more ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| US Senate Plans April 5 Vote to Repeal Tax Compliance Rule Bloomberg By Steven Sloan and Richard Rubin - Fri Apr 01 02:06:05 GMT 2011 The US Senate plans an April 5 vote on repealing a tax-compliance requirement in last year's health-care overhaul and paying for the change by curbing subsidies for health insurance. ... See all stories on this topic » |
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