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• The Bay Citizen: I.R.S. Looks at Finances of Bay Area Clinic

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:18pm CDT by By KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI

  The criminal division of the Internal Revenue Service is looking into the finances of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate in Oakland, CA, which has also begun its own investigation.
  
  

• Vegetarian Recipes for Barbecue Season

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:14pm CDT by By TARA PARKER-POPE

  If your Labor Day plans include a picnic or barbecue, be sure to check out Martha Rose Shulman's latest installment of Recipes for Health, which offers flavorful options for vegetarian eaters.
  
  

• Sunday Shopping Takes Toll on Happiness

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:49am CDT by By TARA PARKER-POPE

  If the traditional day of rest and worship has become your day to shop, it may be taking a toll on your happiness.
  
  

• Patient Money: In the Age of Recalls, Tips for a Pathogen-Free Kitchen

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:40am CDT by By WALECIA KONRAD

  Safety experts have advice on ways to germ-proof your food, and still save money.
  
  

• A Child Psychiatrist Responds ...

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:37am CDT by By KATE PHILLIPS

  Dr. Mary Margaret Gleason answers some readers' questions.
  
  

• Creating a Safer Kitchen

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:28am CDT by By TARA PARKER-POPE

  Food scares, such as the latest contaminated egg problem, often trigger a rethinking in cooking and shopping habits. In today's Patient Money column, Walecia Konrad explores the costs and options consumers face on their quest for germ-free kitchens.
  
  

• Coordinating Help for a Neighbor in Need

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:27am CDT by By PAULA SPAN

  New Web sites aim to connect those in need with friends and acquaintances willing to provide rides and meals, do chores or pay visits.
  
  

• The Bay Citizen: I.R.S. Looks at Finances of Planned Parenthood

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 11:21pm CDT by By KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI

  The criminal division of the Internal Revenue Service is looking into the finances of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate in Oakland, CA, which has also begun its own investigation.
  
  

• Employers Push Costs for Health on Workers

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 11:20pm CDT by By REED ABELSON

  Employers passed all of the increases in insurance premiums this year to their employees, a survey found.
  
  

• Srinagar Journal: A Kashmir Hospital Is Witness to Conflict

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 11:01pm CDT by By NIDA NAJAR

  Just getting to work is an ordeal for staff members, who have also had to face chanting protesters in their emergency room.
  
  

• Public Hospitals Look to Overhaul Affiliations With Medical Schools

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 10:20pm CDT by By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS

  New York City’s hospital system wants to renegotiate longstanding contracts that allow medical schools to manage physicians.
  
  

• Doctor and Patient: Tending to Patients During a Hurricane

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 4:23pm CDT by By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D.

  Dr. Ruth Berggren was among a team of nurses and doctors that stayed with patients during Hurricane Katrina.
  
  

• Testing the Bonds of Doctor and Patient

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 2:27pm CDT by By TARA PARKER-POPE

  For Dr. Ruth Bergren and her colleagues taking care of HIV patients in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina presented the ultimate test of the doctor-patient relationship.
  
  

• Q. & A. With a Child Psychiatrist

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 12:53pm CDT by By DUFF WILSON

  Are drugs appropriate for toddlers to take when they exhibit troubled behavior?
  
  

• Child’s Ordeal Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 12:40pm CDT by By DUFF WILSON

  Powerful drugs are given to young children despite a lack of study on how they affect development.
  
  

• Health Costs Passed On to Workers

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 10:50am CDT by By REED ABELSON

  The annual Kaiser survey of employer health benefits shows employers managed to keep costs down, but employees' premiums went up.
  
  

• Do Fluorescent Lights Trigger Migraines?

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 10:47am CDT by By TARA PARKER-POPE

  Many people who suffer from migraines believe fluorescent lights are the culprit.
  
  

• Will Aging Chimps Get to Retire, or Face Medical Research?

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 3:30am CDT by By DAN FROSCH

  A move of some of 186 chimpanzees to a research center in Texas has spurred outrage among animal rights advocates, primate experts and politicians.
  
  

• Study Sees Heart Risk in Meridia Diet Pill

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 2:50am CDT by By GARDINER HARRIS

  A clinical trial found that the controversial drug increased the risks of heart attacks and strokes while doing little to slim their waists.
  
  

• Finding Suggests New Aim for Alzheimer’s Drugs

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 2:00am CDT by By GINA KOLATA

  A discovery by Paul Greengard, an 84-year-old scientist and Nobel winner, has illuminated a new direction.
  
  

• Maker of Botox Settles Inquiry

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 1:00am CDT by By NATASHA SINGER

  Allergan agreed to pay $600 million to settle charges that it illegally promoted and sold Botox for unapproved uses.
  
  

• Maker of Botox Settles Case for $600 Million

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 3:30pm CDT by By NATASHA SINGER

  Allergan agreed to settle criminal and civil allegations that it had marketed Botox for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
  
  

• Finding Suggests New Target for Alzheimer’s Drugs

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 1:27pm CDT by By GINA KOLATA

  A discovery by Paul Greengard, an 84-year-old scientist and Nobel winner, has illuminated a new direction.
  
  

• At Flea Market, Fear of a Different Insect

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 12:37pm CDT by By JAMES BARRON

  Buyers in secondhand stores are concerned about bedbugs coming along with the clothing or furniture.
  
  

• Does Stretching Prevent Running Injuries?

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 11:41am CDT by By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

  That question, which has prompted countless debates, is now at the heart of a notable new study.
  
  

• Botox Maker Settles Case

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 11:28am CDT by By NATASHA SINGER

  Allergan agreed to pay $600 million to settle criminal and civil allegations that it had marketed Botox for medical uses, like pain and headache, not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
  
  

• Fear of Falling

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 9:29am CDT by By PAULA SPAN

  Can exaggerated anxiety about falling -- even if tests show your risk to be low -- increase the probability that you'll actually fall?
  
  

• Deal Would Provide Dialysis to Illegal Immigrants in Atlanta

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 11:18pm CDT by By KEVIN SACK and CATRIN EINHORN

  The deal, if completed, would end a yearlong impasse that has come to symbolize the health care plight of the country’s uninsured immigrants and the hospitals that end up caring for them.
  
  

• Phys Ed: Does Stretching Before Running Prevent Injuries?

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 11:01pm CDT by By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

  That question, which has prompted countless academic studies, debates and inter-running-partner squabbles, is now at the heart of a notable new study.
  
  

• New Rivals to Warfarin as Blood Clot Preventer

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 10:00pm CDT by By NATASHA SINGER

  A Bristol-Myers drug shows promise in treating a heart rhythm disorder, and others combat postsurgical clotting and deep vein thrombosis.