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• Food-label rules in effect today

  Posted: September 30th, 2008, 1:02am EDT

  Born in the USA? Made in Mexico? Picked in Peru? Cultivated in Canada? Supermarket shoppers, now you know. Starting today, new federal rules...

• Health clubs gear programs for those with ailments

  Posted: September 29th, 2008, 4:25am EDT

  When Patti Kiernan found out she had osteoporosis, she decided it was time to find a more focused workout.

• Heart patients should be screened for depression

  Posted: September 29th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Heart patients should be regularly screened for signs of depression, the American Heart Association recommended Monday.

• Heart patients should be screened for depression

  Posted: September 29th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Heart patients should be regularly screened for signs of depression, the American Heart Association recommended Monday.

• More foods getting labeled as US or foreign-grown

  Posted: September 29th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  No more wondering where your hamburger came from, or where your lettuce and tomatoes were grown: Starting this week, shoppers will see lots more foods labeled with the country of origin.

• Plenty of flu vaccine on hand this season

  Posted: September 29th, 2008, 2:12am EDT

  Americans ready to take up arms and noses against the bug that causes the seasonal flu have plenty of ammunition this year. The federal government expects...

• Mexico pushes national campaign to lose weight

  Posted: September 28th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Abraham Leon was getting a checkup when he found out he had high blood pressure and was at risk of developing diabetes.

• Health and senior calendar

  Posted: September 27th, 2008, 7:23pm EDT

  Sept. 29-Oct. 5 Health Survivors of prostate cancer ONGOING Study on cognition, mood and quality-of-life changes in men who are survivors...

• Hospital deaths of 40 newborns shocks Turkey

  Posted: September 27th, 2008, 4:25am EDT

  Outside the Zekai Tahir Burak maternity hospital stands a bronze statue of a mother nursing a baby with an inscription from the Prophet Mohammed: "Paradise lies at the feet of the mother."

• West Nile season appears to be mildest in 7 years

  Posted: September 26th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  The West Nile virus season is on track to be the mildest in seven years, with less than a third the number of serious cases as last year's total, U.S. health officials said.

• Government probes chelation-heart disease study

  Posted: September 26th, 2008, 2:25am EDT

  The largest alternative medicine study the government has ever launched has stopped enrolling people while officials investigate whether participants were fully informed of the risks and are being adequately protected, The Associated Press has learned.

• Anti-smoking drug tied to outbursts

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 3:32pm EDT

  Q: Last night, my boyfriend became so violent, I was afraid he was going to hit my 22-year-old daughter or me. He threatened to burn down...

• Study: Health premiums up 5%

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 2:24pm EDT

  Premiums for job-based health insurance are up 5 percent in 2008 and have more than doubled since 1999, a growth rate that far outpaces inflation and the increase in workers' wages in the same period, according to an annual survey of employers.

• Study: Seniors not quite embracing generic drugs

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 5:26am EDT

  Seniors who switch between low-cost generic drugs and the original products based on who's footing the bill are likely driving up the cost of the government's Medicare drug plan, according to a new study.

• Study: Extending time of stroke drug treatment OK

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Stroke sufferers can still benefit from clot-busting medicine even if they receive it an hour or so beyond the current three-hour window after symptoms start, an important new study suggests.

• Medicare officials advise seniors to shop around

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Federal health officials encouraged Medicare participants on Thursday to shop around for their prescription drug coverage next year because it could include significant price increases or changes regarding which drugs the plans will cover.

• CDC: Plenty of vaccine for flu

  Posted: September 25th, 2008, 1:54am EDT

  A record-setting amount of influenza vaccine is available this fall for a record-setting number of people being advised to get it.

• 2 die of Legionnaires' disease in NJ hospital

  Posted: September 24th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  New Jersey health officials say two men have died after contracting Legionnaires' disease in a hospital.

• Flu shot season begins with ample supply coming

  Posted: September 24th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Just about everybody needs a flu vaccine - unless you're an infant or a healthy adult hermit - but far too few of the Americans who need protection the most get it.

• Study: Colon X-ray is effective

  Posted: September 18th, 2008, 2:14am EDT

  A long-awaited federal study of an X-ray alternative to the dreaded colonoscopy confirms its effectiveness at spotting most cancers, although it is far from perfect.

• Colon X-ray seen as effective at spotting cancer

  Posted: September 18th, 2008, 12:45am EDT

  A long-awaited federal study of an X-ray alternative to the dreaded colonoscopy confirms its effectiveness at spotting most cancers, although it was far from perfect.

• Bad vaccines risk encephalitis epidemic in India

  Posted: September 17th, 2008, 5:51am EDT

  India's government sent thousands of ineffective vaccines to a northern Indian state, halting a planned immunization drive against a deadly outbreak of Japanese encephalitis that has killed more than 200 children since June, officials said Wednesday.

• FDA defends plastic linked with health risks

  Posted: September 17th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  With scientists at odds about the risks of a chemical found in plastic baby bottles, metal cans and other food packaging, the government on Tuesday gave consumers some tips on how to reduce their exposure to BPA even as it said the substance is safe.

• Medical device ads criticized on Capitol Hill

  Posted: September 17th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Medical experts told lawmakers Wednesday that new television advertisements for medical devices pose even greater risks to patients than ads for drugs, which have been scrutinized for years.

• US researchers call off controversial autism study

  Posted: September 17th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  A government agency has dropped plans for a study of a controversial treatment for autism that critics had called an unethical experiment on children.

• Many products contain the chemical BPA

  Posted: September 16th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Bisphenol A, or BPA, a chemical used in consumer goods, was the subject of a federal safety hearing Tuesday where new preliminary research suggested it might be linked to a higher risk of heart disease and diabetes.

• New Merck osteoporosis drug boosts bone density

  Posted: September 16th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  A new type of osteoporosis drug being developed by Merck & Co. increased bone density over two years in postmenopausal women with mild osteoporosis, the company reported Tuesday.

• Anti-nausea patch OK'd for chemo patients

  Posted: September 16th, 2008, 2:04am EDT

  Cancer patients will soon be able to use a medication patch to ease the debilitating nausea that often accompanies chemotherapy.

• Doctors say leg pain can signal deadly blood clot

  Posted: September 15th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Far too many Americans are dying of dangerous blood clots that can masquerade as simple leg pain, says a major new government effort to get both patients and their doctors to recognize the emergency in time.

• Doctors say leg pain can signal deadly blood clot

  Posted: September 15th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Far too many Americans are dying of dangerous blood clots that can masquerade as simple leg pain, says a major new government effort to get both patients and their doctors to recognize the emergency in time.

• FDA approves anti-nausea patch for chemo patients

  Posted: September 15th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Cancer patients will soon be able to use a medication patch to ease the debilitating nausea that often accompanies chemotherapy.

• Hope, confusion in hunt for ovarian cancer tests

  Posted: September 15th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Does a test that promises to find ovarian cancer sooner really do so? Could other tests nearing the market prolong survival by getting patients the right care faster? A race is on for blood tests to better detect this intractable killer, but the Food and Drug Administration is probing whether to crack down on the first one to sell.

• Kid gyms send children out to play on treadmills

  Posted: September 15th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Like many parents, Diana Ennen had trouble getting her daughter Amber to exercise.

• Regence cutting use of Botox to treat patients' migraines

  Posted: September 15th, 2008, 1:06am EDT

  Regence BlueShield will discontinue coverage for Botox treatments for migraine attacks starting Oct. 1. The insurer says emerging scientific evidence shows that the wrinkle-relaxing toxins work not much better than placebo injections.

• More than 3,000 finish 3-day breast cancer walk

  Posted: September 15th, 2008, 12:17am EDT

  The annual Breast Cancer 3-Day walk ended in Seattle on Sunday afternoon with more than 3,200 participants.

• Controlled drugs dumped uncontrolled into water

  Posted: September 14th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  In a frustrating quirk in government policy, the most tightly controlled drugs - like painkilling narcotics prone to abuse - are the ones that most often elude environmental regulation when they become waste.

• Health and Senior Calendar

  Posted: September 12th, 2008, 6:41pm EDT

  Sept. 15-21 Health Diabetes TUE Monthly support-group meeting with information and tips to live better with diabetes; preregistration required...

• FDA expands use of cervical cancer vaccine

  Posted: September 12th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  The cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil also works to prevent cancers of the vagina and vulva, federal health officials said Friday, as they approved expanding its use to protect against those diseases as well.

• FDA tells parents to avoid infant formula from China

  Posted: September 12th, 2008, 2:11am EDT

  Tainted infant formula from China may be on sale at ethnic groceries in this country, even though it is not approved for importation, federal...

• FDA: Infant formula from China tainted by chemical

  Posted: September 12th, 2008, 12:55am EDT

  Tainted infant formula from China may be on sale at ethnic groceries in this country, even though it is not approved for importation, federal officials warned on Thursday.

• Can Valtrex be used as a "day after" drug to prevent genital herpes?

  Posted: September 11th, 2008, 3:34pm EDT

  Q: I know Valtrex is prescribed to treat genital herpes. If someone is exposed to a partner with herpes, will taking Valtrex right away...

• Study: 70,000 may suffer post-9/11 stress disorder

  Posted: September 11th, 2008, 3:45am EDT

  New data from a public health registry that tracks the health effects of 9/11 suggest that as many as 70,000 people may have developed post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the terrorist attacks.

• Medical schools, journals fight industry influence

  Posted: September 11th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Just about every segment of the medical community is piling on the pharmaceutical industry these days, accusing drugmakers of deceiving the public, manipulating doctors and putting profits before patients.

• Scientists beaming after test of big atom smasher

  Posted: September 11th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  A small blip on a computer screen sent champagne corks popping among physicists in Switzerland. Near Chicago, researchers at a "pajama party" who watched via satellite let out an early morning cheer.

• Iraq: Death toll in cholera outbreak rises to 5

  Posted: September 11th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Cholera has killed five people in Baghdad and southern areas in an outbreak partly caused by the deterioration of water facilities during years of conflict, Iraq said Thursday.

• Largest particle collider conducts successful test

  Posted: September 10th, 2008, 5:00am EDT

  The world's largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons all the way around a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.

• Scientists start world's largest particle collider

  Posted: September 10th, 2008, 3:50am EDT

  Scientists fired the first beam of protons around a 17-mile tunnel on Wednesday in science's next great step to understand the makeup of the universe.

• Study sees longterm benefit of blood-sugar control

  Posted: September 10th, 2008, 3:10am EDT

  Diabetics who tightly control their blood sugar - even if only for the first decade after they are diagnosed - have lower risks of heart attack, death and other complications 10 or more years later, a large follow-up study has found.

• Report: Schools are offering fewer soft drinks

  Posted: September 10th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Sugary soft drinks accounted for less than a quarter of the beverages sold in schools last year, demonstrating that a voluntary transition toward healthier drinks is working, the beverage industry said Wednesday.

• Study says too many arthroscopic knee surgeries

  Posted: September 10th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Two studies call into question whether many people with arthritis are needlessly undergoing one of the most common operations in America: arthroscopic knee surgery.

• Tips for protecting your joints from arthritis

  Posted: September 10th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Here are ways to protect your joints from osteoarthritis or slow its progression:

• Fewer US med students choosing primary care

  Posted: September 10th, 2008, 12:45am EDT

  Only 2 percent of graduating medical students say they plan to work in primary care internal medicine, raising worries about a looming shortage of the first-stop doctors who used to be the backbone of the American medical system.

• UN report says amphetamine use on the rise

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 4:25am EDT

  Demand for amphetamines, Ecstasy and other synthetic drugs appears to have stabilized in the West, but the problem is worsening in developing countries and rapidly spreading to new markets in the Middle East, a U.N. report said Tuesday.

• 23andMe slashes price on personal genetics test

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  A Google-backed startup that analyzes customers' genetic makeup to predict health risks and provide ancestry information has slashed the price on its personal DNA test, the company announced Tuesday.

• Amphetamine use on the rise in Asia, Mideast

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Demand for amphetamines, Ecstasy and other synthetic drugs appears to have stabilized in the West, but the problem is worsening in Asia and spreading to new markets in the Middle East, a U.N. report said Tuesday.

• Few hospitals meet colon cancer care standard

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Nearly two-thirds of hospitals fail to check colon cancer patients well enough for signs that their tumor is spreading, says a study that advises patients to ask about this mark of quality care before surgery.

• Study finds errors in Pa. VA hospital treatments

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Some 55 prostate cancer patients were given too-low doses of radiation treatment at the local Veterans Affairs hospital in the past 6 1/2 years, and federal investigators want to know why.

• Study finds juices can cut absorption of some medicines

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 1:23am EDT

  The medical world was stunned, and initially quite skeptical, when a Canadian pharmacologist in the early 1990s announced the discovery of the so-called grapefruit-juice effect.

• Got a fat gene? Get active for 3-4 hours a day

  Posted: September 9th, 2008, 12:50am EDT

  CHICAGO (AP - Maybe you CAN blame being fat on your genes. But there's a way to overcome that family history - just get three to four hours of moderate activity a day. Sound pretty daunting? Not for the Amish of Lancaster County, Pa., who were the focus of a new study on a common genetic variation that makes people more likely to gain weight. It turns out the variant's effects can be blocked with physical activity - lots of it.

• AP IMPACT: Liver disease plagues obese adolescents

  Posted: September 8th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  In a new and disturbing twist on the obesity epidemic, some overweight teenagers have severe liver damage caused by too much body fat, and a handful have needed liver transplants.

• 59-year-old in France gives birth to triplets

  Posted: September 8th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Hospital officials in France say a 59-year-old woman has given birth to triplets after going abroad to get donated eggs.

• Iraq confirms cholera outbreak south of Baghdad

  Posted: September 8th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Cholera has broken out in a province south of Baghdad and at least 20 cases of the waterborne disease have been confirmed there, a Health Ministry official said Monday.

• More flu vaccine aimed at key flu spreaders: Kids

  Posted: September 8th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Lots of youngsters on your street? Watch out: Flu may strike your community sooner and harder than it hits the hip singles neighborhood down the road. Flu-shot season begins this month, and for the first time vaccination is being pushed for virtually all children - not just those under 5.

• Who needs flu vaccine

  Posted: September 8th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  The nation is set to receive between 143 million and 146 million doses of flu vaccine this fall, a record amount that comes as the government is urging more children than ever to be inoculated.

• Colon cancer patients not getting follow-up care

  Posted: September 8th, 2008, 1:40am EDT

  Many colon cancer patients aren't getting the screenings recommended after surgery to make sure the disease hasn't returned, new research shows.

• Health and Senior Calendar

  Posted: September 7th, 2008, 9:54pm EDT

  Sept. 8-14 Health Dementia support group TODAY Care partners, family members and friends of individuals with dementia are welcome at this...

• New report puts Washington near bottom nationwide for vaccination rates

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 2:48am EDT

  Many parents in Washington and Idaho fail to have their children vaccinated against deadly diseases, according to a report issued this week.

• Edmonds pharmacy recalls prescriptions from last 90 days

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 1:52am EDT

  TOP Food & Drug pharmacy in Edmonds is recalling prescriptions filled in the last 90 days because they may contain expired drugs. A former pharmacist there is also being investigated for possible misuse of credit-card numbers.

• FDA to begin posting list of drugs under investigation

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 1:14am EDT

  The Food and Drug Administration will begin posting every three months a list of drugs whose safety is under investigation because of complaints...

• Sunscreens without BP-3

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 2:19pm EDT

  Q: I was alarmed to read in your article on sunscreens that benzophenone-3 (BP-3) could be a hormone disruptor. What sunscreen does not...

• FDA posts list of potential problem drugs

  Posted: September 5th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  The government on Friday began posting a list of prescription drugs under investigation for potential safety problems in an effort to better inform doctors and patients.

• FDA orders stronger warnings for 4 arthritis drugs

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  The Food and Drug Administration ordered stronger warnings Thursday on four medications widely used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses, saying they can raise the risk of possibly fatal fungal infections.

• Gene domino effect behind brain, pancreatic tumors

  Posted: September 4th, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Scientists have mapped the cascade of genetic changes that turn normal cells in the brain and pancreas into two of the most lethal cancers. The result points to a new approach for fighting tumors and maybe even catching them sooner. Genes blamed for one person's brain tumor were different from the culprits for the next patient, making the puzzle of cancer genetics even more complicated.

• Study: New way to spot breast cancer shows promise

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 11:55pm EDT

  A radioactive tracer that "lights up" cancer hiding inside dense breasts showed promise in its first big test against mammograms, revealing more tumors and giving fewer false alarms, doctors reported Wednesday.

• Heart defibrillator shock can signal more trouble

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  A lifesaving shock from an implanted heart defibrillator provides relief that a crisis was avoided, but new research suggests it can also be a sign that more trouble is ahead.

• Study: No link between measles vaccine and autism

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  New research further debunks any link between measles vaccine and autism, work that comes as the nation is experiencing a surge in measles cases fueled by children left unvaccinated.

• Smoking riskier to women's hearts than men's

  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 1:00am EDT

  Women typically get heart disease much later than men, but not if they smoke, researchers said Tuesday.

• Doctors say Vytorin-cancer link can't be ruled out

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Results so far from three studies of the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin are not enough to prove or rule out a possible link to a higher risk of cancer, so the drug should be used with caution until more is known, editors of a leading medical journal urged Tuesday.

• E. coli outbreak in Oklahoma kills 1, sickens 200

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  An E. coli outbreak linked to a restaurant in northeastern Oklahoma has sickened more than 200 people and killed at least one person, state health officials said Tuesday.

• Modest brain test benefit seen with brisk walking

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Brisk walking led to slight improvements on mental tests for older people with memory problems in what is billed as the first rigorous test of exercise on the aging brain. The results from the small Australian study were only modest. But they back up observational studies showing potential mental benefits from physical activity.

• Pfizer resuming ads for Lipitor after controversy

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Television ads for the world's top-selling drug, cholesterol fighter Lipitor, are back, six months after Pfizer Inc. pulled them amid charges its use of a celebrity doctor endorser who's never practiced medicine misled the public.

• Teen suicides dip, experts worry rate remains high

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  The number of teen suicides has fallen slightly but the rate remains disturbingly high, researchers said, possibly fueled by drug warnings that have scared many from using antidepressants.

• Study: Abuse linked to rise in childhood asthma

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 1:16am EDT

  As an epidemic of asthma left more and more children wheezing during the past two decades, scientists blamed everything from obesity to...

• Bipolar-disorder study cites older fathers' role

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 1:15am EDT

  Children born to older fathers face a greater chance of developing bipolar disorder, according to one of the largest studies linking mental...

• Will smoking kill you? Depends

  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 12:54am EDT

  A 55-year-old man who smokes is as likely to die in the next 10 years as a 65-year-old who has never smoked. Fewer than 1 woman in 1,000...

• Study links bipolar disorder with older fathers

  Posted: September 1st, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Children born to older fathers face a greater chance of developing bipolar disorder, according to one of the largest studies linking mental illness with advanced paternal age.

• Study: Bypass better than stents in long term

  Posted: September 1st, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  For heart patients with clogged arteries, the choice between bypass surgery or an angioplasty may come down to one question: How many procedures would you like to have?

• Study: Bypass better than stents in long term

  Posted: September 1st, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  For heart patients with clogged arteries, the choice between bypass surgery or an angioplasty may come down to one question: How many procedures would you like to have?

• Tips to avoid drug errors due to confusing names

  Posted: September 1st, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Tips to avoid medication errors, including mix-ups of drugs whose names look or sound alike:

• Watch out for drug names that look, sound alike

  Posted: September 1st, 2008, 3:00am EDT

  Take the generic drug clonidine for high blood pressure? Double-check that you didn't leave the drugstore with Klonopin for seizures, or the gout medicine colchicine.