Tag: health & medicine
Battle to stem childhood obesity expected to be a focus of 2012
New research shows that kids who eat school lunches are more likely to be obese than kids who bring lunch from home. The battle to cut back childhood obesity is expected to be of increasing importance in the next few years....
Alzheimer's research funding difficult to come by
Despite its position as a leading cause of death and debilitating disease afflicting many Americans, funding for research on Alzheimer's is sparse. Critics say that's hurting efforts to find a cure....
VIDEO: Rare cancer linked to breast implant in thousands of women
The French company PIP is accused of using industrial grade silicone, rather than medical grade material, in its breast implants, and now the implants have been linked to a rare form of cancer....
Government urges caution as scientists release study on gene mutations in bird flu virus
Scientists in Wisconsin and the Netherlands have successfully mutated the bird flu virus so that it can more easily spread among humans. The idea isn't bioterror, but rather to give us more information to use in the event of a natural or inflicted pandemic flu....
VIDEO: Canadian scientists get go-ahead for HIV vaccine testing
Canadian scientists are beaming as the country's first attempt at an HIV vaccine moves out of the lab and into early clinical trials. But it will be years before they know if the vaccine will be effective....
American soldiers have left Iraq, but Iraq hasn't left America's soldiers
Over the weekend, the last U.S. troops left Iraq. They rode in a convoy to Kuwait. But for most of the soldier who went before them, Iraq will be a part of their lives forever — some moreso than others, like Colby Buzzell, who's battling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder....
Remembering an American contrarian: Christopher Hitchens dead of cancer
Christopher Hitchens, a man who wasn't afraid to take on anyone, died on Thursday of esophageal cancer. He was famous for his biting criticism of, well, everyone, from Henry Kissinger, "a war criminal," to Mother Theresa, "a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud,"...
Government report urges changes to U.S. policies on human subject research
Commission finds that while improvements are needed, there's every reason to believe that experiments that were conducted in Guatemala in the 1940s can never happen again....
Mysterious kidney disease killing thousands of laborers in Central America
In Central America's sugarcane field, more and more workers are coming down with a disease that shuts down their kidneys. Researchers are struggling for a cause. Chemicals on the fields? Heat? Overwork? No one knows, but it's a leading cause of death for men in El Salvador and Nicaragua....
FDA, at the behest of HHS, denies permission to sell Plan B in front of the counter
The FDA had been making plans to allow TEVA Pharmaceuticals to sell its Plan B contraceptive in front of the pharmacy counter to women of any age. But Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius intervened at the last minute to prevent it....
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