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• Biggest Loser Cookbook

  Posted: March 31st, 2010, 9:31pm CDT

  Nutritionist shows us how 6 weeks to a healthier you.

• Boeing to take $150M charge in wake of new health care rules

  Posted: March 31st, 2010, 5:05pm CDT

  Puget Sound Business Journal Send this story to a friend Boeing Co. said it will take a charge of $150 million, which will reduce its first-quarter net earnings by 20 cents in the first quarter of 2010, citing the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Obama last week.

• Small bracelet, big trouble

  Posted: March 31st, 2010, 12:46pm CDT

  The bracelet only cost Frankie Rodriguez $4 and change, but at school, it cost him even more.

• Hot Off the Wire

  Posted: March 31st, 2010, 8:27am CDT

  The inventors of Post-it notes and the technologies that led to video games, modern scuba diving equipment and GPS technology are among the 16 new members of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

• Breast cancer screening vindicated

  Posted: March 31st, 2010, 3:59am CDT

  Breast cancer screening saves the lives of two women for every one who receives potentially unnecessary treatment, research suggests.

• Teacher who inspired 'Stand and Deliver' film dies

  Posted: March 30th, 2010, 11:37pm CDT

  Jaime Escalante, the math teacher who transformed a tough East Los Angeles high school and inspired the movie "Stand and Deliver," died Tuesday.

• STD gonorrhea risks becoming "superbug"

  Posted: March 30th, 2010, 7:24pm CDT

  The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea risks becoming a drug-resistant "superbug" if doctors do not devise new ways of treating it, a leading sexual health expert said.

• Obama signs law finalizing health care, loan redo

  Posted: March 30th, 2010, 3:07pm CDT

  Finalizing two major pieces of his agenda, President Barack Obama on Tuesday sealed his health care overhaul and made the government the primary lender to students by cutting banks out of the process.

• Vaccinating Men, Boys From HPV

  Posted: March 30th, 2010, 10:56am CDT

  By Celina Avila

• Judge: BRCA genes can't be patented

  Posted: March 30th, 2010, 6:44am CDT

  A federal judge on Monday struck down patents on two genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer.

• Obama administration wins industry support to fix kids coverage gap in new health care law

  Posted: March 30th, 2010, 2:15am CDT

  WASHINGTON - After battling President Barack Obama's health care overhaul the better part of a year, the insurance industry said Monday it won't try to block his efforts to fix a potentially embarrassing glitch in the new law.

• FDA panel to examine menthol cigarettes' impact

  Posted: March 29th, 2010, 10:04pm CDT

  Menthol-flavored cigarettes are going under the microscope new government panel, which will recommend how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should regulate them.

• CDC: Not too late to get swine flu vaccination

  Posted: March 29th, 2010, 5:38pm CDT

  A member of the public is given an innoculation against Swine flu at a medical centre set up in Cockermouth Methodist Church on November 25, 2009 in Cockermouth, England.

• British government seeks ban on 'legal high'...

  Posted: March 29th, 2010, 1:19pm CDT

  British authorities on Monday were considering banning mephedrone, a legal drug that has emerged from the shadows to the front pages after being linked to several deaths.

• World Health Day Spotlights Urban Well-Being

  Posted: March 29th, 2010, 9:08am CDT

  Next month, the World Health Organization's World Health Day will focus on urbanization and health.

• Outside experts to review WHO's swine flu response

  Posted: March 29th, 2010, 8:52am CDT

  A group of outside experts will scrutinize the World Health Organization's response to the swine flu outbreak and likely examine whether the term pandemic was appropriate for what has turned out to be a relatively mild disease, the World Health Organization said Monday.

• UNAIDS chief speaks out on HIV travel restrictions

  Posted: March 29th, 2010, 4:25am CDT

  UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe spoke out against travel restrictions for HIV-positive people, at an international conference of lawmakers in ...

• Kylie Minogue bares all for cancer campaign

  Posted: March 28th, 2010, 11:55pm CDT

  KYLIE Minogue strips off to launch a breast cancer charity campaign - four years after she beat the killer disease.

• Link between junkies, junk-food addicts

  Posted: March 28th, 2010, 7:32pm CDT

  The same molecular pathways that steer people into drug addiction also lie behind the craving to overeat, driving individuals into obesity, a study published on Sunday suggests.

• Elizabeth Taylor - Taylor Refuses Further Surgery

  Posted: March 28th, 2010, 3:14pm CDT

  DAME ELIZABETH TAYLOR is refusing to undergo vital surgery, despite enduring crippling neck pain - because she reportedly feels too weak to have any more operations.

• Md. House gives initial approval on health measure

  Posted: March 28th, 2010, 10:59am CDT

  The Maryland House of Delegates voted Saturday for a preliminary measure that would let Maryland participate in a temporary national pool to make health insurance available to the uninsured.

• Council nominee is lightning rod for autism dispute

  Posted: March 28th, 2010, 6:39am CDT

  When President Barack Obama nominated Ari Ne'eman to the National Council on Disability, many families touched by autism took it as a positive sign.

• Fight For Air Climb - Part 2

  Posted: March 28th, 2010, 2:11am CDT

  Dixie Waldrop and Darron Meares join Keisha and Kelly to talk about the Fight for Air Climb to raise awareness of Lung Cancer taking place April 10th, at Liberty Towers in Greenville.

• Garden For The Needy

  Posted: March 27th, 2010, 9:51pm CDT

  Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church is growing local produce for needy families and making a statement in the process.

• Source: Obama to name chief for Medicare, Medicaid

  Posted: March 27th, 2010, 5:29pm CDT

  An administration official says President Barack Obama will nominate healthcare scholar Donald Berwick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid, the nation's health insurance programs for the elderly and the poor.

• Obama's health insurance rule _ it was a GOP idea

  Posted: March 27th, 2010, 1:17pm CDT

  Republicans were for President Barack Obama's requirement that Americans get health insurance before they were against it.

• AT&T will take $1B non-cash charge for health care

  Posted: March 27th, 2010, 8:54am CDT

  AT&T Inc. will take a $1 billion non-cash accounting charge in the first quarter because of the health care overhaul and may cut benefits it offers to current and retired workers.

• Minn. boy who fled state to avoid chemo turns 14

  Posted: March 27th, 2010, 4:37am CDT

  A Minnesota boy who once fled the state with his mother to avoid chemotherapy for cancer has reason to celebrate.

• Local school district works to offer healthier lunches

  Posted: March 27th, 2010, 12:07am CDT

  The Riverside Local School District goes all out to provide healthy lunches to students.

• FDA warns against drinking raw milk

  Posted: March 26th, 2010, 7:36pm CDT

  The Food and Drug Administration has said it more than once, and they'll say it again: Don't drink raw milk.

• Experts debate merits of breast cancer screening

  Posted: March 26th, 2010, 3:14pm CDT

  Are doctors over-treating breast cancer? At a breast cancer conference Friday in Barcelona, experts discussed how to implement mammogram screening programs across Europe, balancing fighting cancer with the goal of targeting only those women who need to be screened.

• Pregnancy Safe For Breast Cancer Survivors

  Posted: March 26th, 2010, 10:53am CDT

  Women who survive breast cancer and have children afterwards don't appear to be at any higher risk of dying from cancer, a new study says.

• 3/25/2010 - Study: Pregnancy safe for breast cancer survivors

  Posted: March 26th, 2010, 6:30am CDT

  New research suggests they don't appear to be at any higher risk of dying from cancer.

• Tanning bed ban for teens under 18?

  Posted: March 26th, 2010, 2:02am CDT

  A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended Thursday that the agency put tighter controls on artificial tanning, ranging from requiring parental consent forms to banning the practice in younger teens.

• Dr. Oz: Parasite Problems

  Posted: March 25th, 2010, 9:44pm CDT

  Does your child have a scratchy bottom? Especially at night? They could have pin worms.

• Senate OKs health care fix-it bill; House is next

  Posted: March 25th, 2010, 5:18pm CDT

  Democrats eager to get the contentious issue behind them had hoped that the Senate's 56-43 vote Thursday would finish lawmakers' work on the measure.

• Retired couples may need $250k for health care

  Posted: March 25th, 2010, 12:55pm CDT

  Relief to seniors facing high prescription drug costs is one of the first changes to come under the new health care overhaul.

• Experts: One-third of breast cancer is avoidable

  Posted: March 25th, 2010, 8:26am CDT

  Up to a third of breast cancer cases in Western countries could be avoided if women ate less and exercised more, researchers at a breast cancer conference said Thursday - comments that could ignite heated discussions among victims and advocates.

• Study affirms safety of drugs to aid bones

  Posted: March 25th, 2010, 4:05am CDT

  A new study gives reassuring news about the safety of Fosamax and Reclast, bone-building drugs taken by millions of American women.

• Divorce Attorney Says Dennis Hopper is Dying

  Posted: March 24th, 2010, 11:50pm CDT

  Dennis Hopper is terminally ill and unable to undergo chemotherapy as he battles prostate cancer, his attorney wrote in a court filing.

• OKC Family Excited About New Law

  Posted: March 24th, 2010, 7:29pm CDT

  Eyewitness News 5 talks with an Oklahoma City family affected by the new health care law.

• Flaw Emerges in New Health Care Law Regarding Protection for Children

  Posted: March 24th, 2010, 3:12pm CDT

  Hours after President Barack Obama signed historic health care legislation, a potential problem emerged.

• Global Fund seeks cash to fight AIDS, TB, malaria

  Posted: March 24th, 2010, 10:51am CDT

  A global group funding the battle against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in impoverished nations worldwide is urging donors to keep paying for the fight even as the economic crisis forces budget cuts.

• Breast screening results questioned

  Posted: March 24th, 2010, 6:21am CDT

  Breast cancer screening programmes may have no effect on death rates, researchers said.

• Links

  Posted: March 24th, 2010, 1:57am CDT

  Landmark health legislation won't be enough to reduce racial gaps in unemployment and health care, the National Urban League says in urging President Barack Obama to promote a "jobs surge" that targets hard-hit communities.

• `Patty Duke Show' cast reunites for ad

  Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 9:31pm CDT

  The cast of TV's 1960s comedy "The Patty Duke Show" has reunited to promote the Social Security Administration's new service allowing baby boomers to apply online for retirement or Medicare benefits.

• Getting your bike ready for spring

  Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 5:07pm CDT

  Getting your bike ready for spring

• President Obama signs health-care changes

  Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:40pm CDT

  A broadly smiling President Obama today signed a historic $938 billion health care overhaul that guarantees coverage for 32 million uninsured Americans and will touch nearly every citizen's life, presiding over the biggest shift in U.S. domestic policy since the 1960s and capping a divisive, yearlong debate that could define the November elections.

• Reform law will mean plenty to some, not so much to others

  Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 8:13am CDT

  As skeptical Americans delve into the health care blueprint approved by Congress yesterday, they will confront a bargain not unlike those faced by earlier generations of Americans--with Social Security and Medicare.

• CA Moves to Ban Smoking at State Parks

  Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 3:43am CDT

  California lawmakers on Monday moved a step closer to banning smoking at state beaches and parks, following the lead of hundreds of communities nationwide.

• Testing new MS theory as patients demand care now

  Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 11:32pm CDT

  Under intense pressure from patients, some U.S. doctors are cautiously testing a provocative theory that abnormal blood drainage from the brain may play a role in multiple sclerosis - and that a surgical vein fix might help.

• Opponents take last stand against health care bill

  Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 7:05pm CDT

  In a defiant last stand against a newly passed health care overhaul, opponents are trying everything they can to stop it from becoming the law of the land.

• Rep. Van Hollen on Health Care Bill

  Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 2:37pm CDT

  Maryland Congressman And Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chris Van Hollen joins us to talk about going forward with the Health Care legislation.

• Sociological Issues Relating to Mold: The Mold Wars

  Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 10:22am CDT

  "This is a position paper intended to make a plausible argument on behalf of mold victims. Demonstrating precisely how particular legal rules may be impeding even handed justice in mold cases is a job for the legal community. Hopefully someone will accept the challenge."

  Ronald G Corwin, Professor Emeritus Department of Sociology, Ohio State University

  Maybe it is because so many lawyers and scientists make money working for defendants in toxic mold cases. Maybe it is because otherwise unbiased studies of mold's effects on human health have been flawed. Or, maybe it is because science is simply incapable of answering the tough questions being put before it. For whatever reason, scientific credibility, and with it justice, have become casualties of the mold wars. Though not always deliberate, the ultimate victims are plaintiffs who have been harmed by mold. Influential skeptics are orchestrating attacks on credible evidence that clearly shows black mold is harmful. Courts are using fanciful visions of science to erect unattainable standards of proof. Science is being misused, misconstrued, or simply misunderstood, and the realities involved in applying it to mold cases are being blithely ignored. As a result, some mold victims are being denied evenhanded justice.

• Vets' lodges want exemption from Mich. smoking ban

  Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 7:41am CDT

  Veterans clubs across Michigan are signing petitions that seek to exempt the lodges from the pending statewide smoking ban.

• House approves sweeping healthcare overhaul

  Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 3:30am CDT

  The House of Representatives gave final approval to a sweeping healthcare overhaul on Sunday, expanding insurance coverage to nearly all Americans and handing President Barack Obama a landmark victory.

• Gene find links non-smokers, lung cancer

  Posted: March 21st, 2010, 11:11pm CDT

  A TRAWL through the DNA codes of hundreds of individuals may help explain why some people who never smoke may be unusually at risk from lung cancer, doctors said.

• Officials say Wis. may not be done with swine flu

  Posted: March 21st, 2010, 6:48pm CDT

  The state Department of Health Services confirmed more than 2,600 cases in November and December, but the outbreak has faded since, with only 112 cases confirmed between January and mid-March. Still, pandemics historically come in three waves, experts say, and a third has yet to strike.

• Mass. No. 1 In US In Flu Vaccinations

  Posted: March 21st, 2010, 2:27pm CDT

  A report says Massachusetts vaccinated more residents against the swine flu and seasonal flu in the fall and winter than any other state.

• Wabash Valley reacts to Ellsworth decision

  Posted: March 21st, 2010, 10:04am CDT

  Wabash Valley reacts to Ellsworth decision

• Jim Matheson to oppose health care reform bill

  Posted: March 21st, 2010, 5:49am CDT

  After high pressure from all sides for weeks, Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, finally said Saturday that he will vote against his party's health care reform bill.

• House Set to Vote on Health Care Sunday

  Posted: March 21st, 2010, 1:37am CDT

  Health care legislation finally comes to an up or down vote in the House on Sunday, and Democratic leaders have been making a final bid to unite party members behind it.

• Jade cancer 'diagnosed too late'

  Posted: March 20th, 2010, 9:22pm CDT

  Jade Goody would still be alive if NHS medics had spotted her "quite typical" symptoms of cervical cancer, a private doctor has claimed.

• A historical look at health care legislation

  Posted: March 20th, 2010, 4:50pm CDT

  Pivotal moments in American health care history: --1798: The Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen in 1798 marks the beginning of federal involvement in health care.

• Lesser-Known Bug Bigger Hospital Threat

  Posted: March 20th, 2010, 12:26pm CDT

  A dangerous, drug-resistant staph infection called MRSA is often seen as the biggest germ threat to patients in hospitals and other health care facilities.

• Murphy & Tonko on Healthcare

  Posted: March 20th, 2010, 8:03am CDT

  Murphy & Tonko on Healthcare

• Bill Breakdown

  Posted: March 20th, 2010, 3:52am CDT

  Congressional Democrats have released a final version of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill in advance of a House vote planned for Sunday.

• Report: Nurse assistants rehired after misconduct

  Posted: March 19th, 2010, 11:40pm CDT

  A state Senate report released Friday said nurse assistants who lost their certification over abuse, negligence or theft in nursing homes were able to go to work as caregivers in assisted living facilities because of a computer tracking loophole.

• SC attorney general set to sue on health care deal

  Posted: March 19th, 2010, 7:09pm CDT

  South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster says he and Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum are ready to file a federal lawsuit if health care reform legislation passes.

• FDA Warns Of Greater Muscle Risk From Zocor

  Posted: March 19th, 2010, 2:43pm CDT

  The Food and Drug Administration said Friday the highest available dose of Zocor, a component in cholesterol drugs, can cause muscle damage as well as severe and potentially lethal kidney damage.

• Health care bill would increase wage taxes, add new levy on investments for high earners

  Posted: March 19th, 2010, 10:20am CDT

  High-income families would be hit with a tax increase on wages and a new levy on investments under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill.

• Dirty Dining Bungalow

  Posted: March 19th, 2010, 5:56am CDT

  a mouse problem at this restaurant on Milwaukee's northwest side

• New FDA Rules Restrict Cigarette Sales To Minors

  Posted: March 19th, 2010, 1:30am CDT

  Taking aim at the tobacco industry's youth marketing machinery, the Food and Drug Administration Thursday outlawed free samples of cigarettes and banned the use of tobacco brand names on promotional gear and in the sponsorship of concerts and sporting events.

• ToxLaw.com post - Toxicology of mycotoxins

  Posted: March 18th, 2010, 9:02pm CDT

  Robert R. M. Paterson and Nelson Lima IBB-Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

  Edited by A. Luch © 2010 Birkhäuser Verlag/Switzerland

  Humans are exposed to mycotoxins via ingestion, contact and inhalation.

  The effects of mycotoxins are acute or chronic in nature. Mycotoxins are well known in the scientific community, although they have a low profile in the general population.

  An incongruous situation occurs in United States where mycotoxins from "moldy homes" are considered to be a significant problem, although there is a general debate about seriousness. This contrasts with the thousands of deaths from mycotoxins that occur, even now, in the technologically less developed countries (e.g., Indonesia, China, and Africa).

  Mycotoxins are more toxic than pesticides.

  It is anticipated that more fungal metabolites will be recognized as dangerous toxins and permitted statutory levels will decrease in the future.

• Attempt to ban smoking in California state parks stalls

  Posted: March 18th, 2010, 7:02pm CDT

  An attempt to impose what is believed to be the nation's most far-reaching smoking ban in state parks has stalled in the California Legislature.

• House Dems on track for vote on $940B health bill

  Posted: March 18th, 2010, 2:53pm CDT

  House Democrats are pushing to the brink of passage a landmark, $940 billion health care overhaul bill that would simultaneously deliver on President Barack Obama's promise to expand coverage while slashing the deficit, a strategy aimed at attracting support from the party's fiscal conservatives.

• Fungi Can Change Quickly, Pass Along Infectious Ability

  Posted: March 18th, 2010, 10:36am CDT

  This discovery, to be published March 18 in the journal Nature, suggests that fungi have the capacity to rapidly change the make-up of their genomes and become infectious to plants and possibly animals, including humans.

  They are not nearly as confined to the more gradual processes of conventional evolution as had been believed, scientists say. And this raises issues not only for crop agriculture but also human health, because fungi are much closer on the "evolutionary tree" to humans than bacteria, and consequently fungal diseases are much more difficult to treat.

• Economy Means More Multigenerational Homes

  Posted: March 18th, 2010, 8:40am CDT

  Goodnight, John-Boy: Driven partly by job losses, more multigenerational families are choosing to live together as "boomerang kids" flock home and people help care for grandchildren or aging parents.

• Businessman proposes VA hospital for San Juan Co.

  Posted: March 18th, 2010, 4:11am CDT

  Local businessman Bobby Willis came up with a proposal to build a VA medical center in Kirtland, just west of Farmington.

• Report questions excluding gays fr ...

  Posted: March 17th, 2010, 11:55pm CDT

  A small but significant portion of medical studies exclude gays from participating, sometimes without an apparent scientific reason, several cancer researchers say.

• VA fined $227K for flawed cancer t ...

  Posted: March 17th, 2010, 7:22pm CDT

  The Department of Veterans Affairs was fined $227,500 after incorrect radiation doses were given to 97 veterans with prostate cancer at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, a federal agency announced Wednesday.

• WA Secretary of State Sam Reed has kidney cancer

  Posted: March 17th, 2010, 2:58pm CDT

  Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed has kidney cancer and will undergo surgery next week.

• US Clinic Offers Chance For Free Human Eggs

  Posted: March 17th, 2010, 10:38am CDT

  An American infertility clinic is offering free human eggs to one British participant for attending an informational seminar Wednesday in London.

• Fact Check: Premiums would rise under Obama plan

  Posted: March 17th, 2010, 6:26am CDT

  Buyers, beware: President Barack Obama says his health care overhaul will lower premiums by double digits, but check the fine print.

• Cancer to become nation's number one killer

  Posted: March 17th, 2010, 2:11am CDT

  Cancer is expected to overtake heart disease this year as the number one reason people die in this country.

• Missouri House seeks to block federal health insurance mandates

  Posted: March 16th, 2010, 9:56pm CDT

  Missouri House members have approved a state constitutional amendment that seeks to block a government mandate to buy health insurance.

• Follow Michele's weight loss journey

  Posted: March 16th, 2010, 5:43pm CDT

  Michele Merriman hopes to continue losing weight and today she's having bariatric surgery at St.

• Twins fighting potentially deadly virus - doctors say due to exposure to MOLD in rental home

  Posted: March 16th, 2010, 1:17pm CDT

  Respiratory syncytial virus, which causes infection of the lungs and breathing passages, is a major cause of respiratory illness in young children. In adults, it may only produce symptoms of a common cold, such as a stuffy or runny nose, sore throat, mild headache, cough, fever and a general feeling of being ill. But in premature babies and children with diseases that affect the lungs, heart, or immune system, RSV infections can lead to more serious illnesses. Respiratory illness caused by RSV -- such as bronchiolitis or pneumonia -- usually lasts about a week, but some cases it may last several weeks. Neidigh said the twins were so infected "that the doctor thought they have been in the house seven years."

• Smoking bill gets snuffed after tie vote

  Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:33pm CDT

  A tie-vote Monday night came after the council heard impassioned arguments for and against the smoking ban proposal.

• UN warns of rise in HIV infections

  Posted: March 16th, 2010, 8:10am CDT

  A United Nations report has warned that new HIV infections are increasing among homosexuals, drug users and prostitutes.

• Study: Teen Girls Loved This Cigarette Ad

  Posted: March 16th, 2010, 3:53am CDT

  The ads for Camel No. 9 cigarettes -- which ran in magazines like Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Glamour -- were a hit with girls ages 12 to 16.

• 3/12/2010 - US House of Reps Committee on Homeland Security - Sale of FEMA Trailers Must Stop

  Posted: March 15th, 2010, 11:37pm CDT

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, March 12, 2010

  March 12, 2010 (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement in response to the news that FEMA is continuing to sell and auction off formaldehyde tainted trailers:

  "The role of the government is to protect its people. This decision to sell these hazardous trailers is in clear violation of this fundamental principle. This Committee has examined and questioned the safety of these units for years through our oversight. While we understand the need for the government to recoup its costs, it should not be at the expense of the health and safety of the American people."

• Arteries Improve After Smokers Quit, Study Finds

  Posted: March 15th, 2010, 10:52pm CDT

  Jupiter Images Quitting smoking can turn back time. A year after kicking the habit, smokers' arteries showed signs of reversing a problem that can set the stage for heart disease, according to the first big study to test this.

• Amylin shares up on FDA response for diabetes drug

  Posted: March 15th, 2010, 6:23pm CDT

  Shares of Amylin Pharmaceuticals jumped 13 percent Monday as the Food and Drug Administration asked for more information on its potential diabetes treatment.

• Study links pregnancy weight & diabetes

  Posted: March 15th, 2010, 2:05pm CDT

  A new study says women who gain too much weight during pregnancy run the risk of developing gestational diabetes.

• Obama heads to Ohio looking for health care votes

  Posted: March 15th, 2010, 9:48am CDT

  Increasingly eager to finish work on his top domestic priority, Obama was set to head to northeast Ohio on Monday with a final sales pitch for health care legislation that the top Democratic vote-counter in the House said lacked support to pass.

• Eleanor Mondale's brain tumor spreads

  Posted: March 15th, 2010, 5:26am CDT

  WCCO Radio host Eleanor Mondale is embarking on a new round of chemotherapy after an MRI scan showed her brain cancer has grown.

• Israel launches radical way to boost organ supply

  Posted: March 15th, 2010, 12:55am CDT

  A A 'Determined' young amputee to run for troops Nine-year-old Lidya Cross, who lost her legs to meningitis, will join Royal Marine amputee Ben McBean on a charity run to support injured British troops.

• UPDATE 1-Novartis drugs fail to help high-risk patients

  Posted: March 14th, 2010, 8:38pm CDT

  The Novartis diabetes drug Starlix failed to reduce progression to the disease or cut down on serious heart problems in patients at high risk for both diabetes and heart disease, according to a large study released on Sunday.

• Studies: Intense treatment doesn't ...

  Posted: March 14th, 2010, 4:25pm CDT

  Key results from a landmark federal study are in, and the results are disappointing for diabetics: Adding drugs to drive blood pressure and blood-fats lower than current targets did not prevent heart problems, and in some cases caused harmful side effects.

• Toxicologists from around the world meet in Salt Lake City

  Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:03pm CDT

  Toxicologists from around the world meet in Salt Lake City

• Mo. college to ban smoking on campus

  Posted: March 14th, 2010, 7:36am CDT

  A central Missouri private college plans to ban smoking from its campus, and voters in the surrounding city will decide whether to bar smoking indoors.

• Doubts grows over prostrate cancer test

  Posted: March 14th, 2010, 3:21am CDT

  Washington - The most commonly used prostate cancer screening procedure, PSA, is at the center of a growing debate after its discoverer said it had become a "hugely expensive public health disaster." In a commentary in The New York Times, Richard Ablin of the University of Arizona said the screening tool he discovered four decades ago now costs too ...

• Toxic Trailers - FEMA trailers still high in formaldehyde

  Posted: March 13th, 2010, 10:09pm CST

  With thousands of FEMA trailers now being dumped on the market, this e-mail is of interest because the person writing it has tested his FEMA trailers recently and found them still high in formaldehyde:

  "I own several park models that were originally manufactured for FEMA. I have done extensive research into mitigating the formaldehyde contamination in the units. I have also tested numerous units on the FEMA lots for formaldehyde contamination-all have exceeded the FEMA standards for acceptable contamination by substantial levels."

  James

  FEMA Using US Chamber Fraud in Katrina Trailer Litigation; EPA, GAO & Both Isle$ of Congre$$ Turn Blind Eye$

• Pastor Taking AIDS Test During Church

  Posted: March 13th, 2010, 8:22pm CST

  The senior pastor of historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta plans to take an HIV/AIDS test as part of the worship service at 11 a.m. Sunday.

• Mold in Stonybrook Apartments - MORE "painted over mold" - blood tests show 4 molds in 1 year old

  Posted: March 13th, 2010, 4:19pm CST

  RIVIERA BEACH, FL-- Complaints are growing louder at one of Palm Beach County's most well known subsidized housing districts.

  "As of today, my daughter has chronic asthma and she has been hospitalized with meningitis. She's had several viral and respiratory infections and the list goes on," said Katisha Wall, a resident at the apartment complex.

  "The doctor told us specifically that the mold is the reason why she's continued to get sick," Wall said while holding up a doctor's note she suggested is proof. "They also said that if she is not removed from this environment it's going to get worse."

  All of the children have been prescribed breathing treatments. In a letter from their pediatrician the doctor wrote; these kids "have a lot of respiratory illnesses" and have developed "reactive airway disease or "asthma."

  Laquanna Smith, the children's' mother, presented medical records for News Channel 5 to review. They were blood tests that showed her youngest son, 1-year-old Marion, had been exposed to four different types of mold.

• Court rejects links to autism

  Posted: March 13th, 2010, 4:10pm CST

  The federal "vaccines court" ruled Friday in three separate cases that the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal does not cause autism, a finding that supports the broad scientific consensus on the matter but that greatly disappointed parents who are convinced that their child's illness was caused by vaccines.

• Obama Delays Asia Trip to Push Health Care Through Congress Next Week

  Posted: March 13th, 2010, 11:57am CST

  President Barack Obama, claiming that momentum is building for a historic overhaul of the nation's health insurance system, on Friday postponed a trip to Asia so he can stay in the capital next week to twist arms in Congress.

• Mayor: D-District not a health threat

  Posted: March 13th, 2010, 7:32am CST

  The test results are in and while City Hall says the D-District station did not pose a serious health threat, officers are setting up shop elsewhere for now.

• Lawyers urge WTC workers to take $657M settlement

  Posted: March 13th, 2010, 3:14am CST

  Lawyers and city officials expressed confidence Friday that they can get ground zero responders to sign on to a settlement that would pay up to $657 million to workers who developed health problems after toiling in the ruins of the World Trade Center.

• Court: thimerosal did not cause autism

  Posted: March 12th, 2010, 11:01pm CST

  A federal court has ruled that the vaccine additive thimerosal does not cause autism.

• FDA warning: some patients cannot process Plavix

  Posted: March 12th, 2010, 6:40pm CST

  The Food and Drug Administration is adding its strongest warning to the label for Plavix, cautioning that some patients do not respond to the blockbuster blood thinner.

• $5 million lawsuit - negligent maintenance - Mold in HarborView penthouse threatens health & safety

  Posted: March 12th, 2010, 2:20pm CST

  James W. Ancel, a general contractor whose eponymous Towson company has built schools and other public facilities in the region, contends the slow response to water leaks has resulted in airborne mold floating into his 27th-floor abode and that lax security at the building is an ongoing risk. Ancel has an asthmatic child, according to the suit filed Wednesday in Baltimore City Circuit Court.

  Ancel, 48, bought the property through a limited liability corporation, Penthouse 4C LLC, in April 2007. In June 2008, a maintenance report suggested replacement of ductwork insulation, checking on roof leaks and inspection of the rooftop HVAC systems, among other issues. To date, according to the suit, many of the issues "remain unaddressed."

• Science journo quits writing to fight chiropractic libel suit

  Posted: March 12th, 2010, 12:24pm CST

  The UK's libel laws, which place the burden of proof onto those who have published inflammatory statements, have had a chilling effect on journalism in that nation, and have led to a closet industry in "libel tourism." As such, there have been repeated efforts to reform the laws, often led by professional organizations of writers and journalists. Utah Chiropractor

• Experts say US doctors overtesting, overtreating

  Posted: March 12th, 2010, 9:48am CST

  Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans - maybe even President Barack Obama - are being overtreated.

• Communicating through signs

  Posted: March 12th, 2010, 5:33am CST

  Communicating with a baby can be tough, especially when the child isn't feeling well.In Sylvania educators at Rising Stars Dance Academy are teaching babies sign language as a way to communicate before the child learns verbal skills.Nikki Kuong teaches a class that will take some of the stress out of parenthood.

• Pfizer says Sutent fails in breast cancer studies

  Posted: March 12th, 2010, 1:05am CST

  Pfizer Inc. said Thursday the cancer drug Sutent did not meet key goals in two late-stage studies focusing on advanced breast cancer.

• Student dies of meningitis

  Posted: March 11th, 2010, 8:40pm CST

  The superintendent of the Oologah-Talala School District says an elementary school student has died of bacterial meningitis.

• Vatican criticizes condom machines in Rome school

  Posted: March 11th, 2010, 4:13pm CST

  The decision by a Rome high school to install condom vending machines has set off a storm in Italy, with the Catholic Church charging the move will encourage young people to have sex and Rome's mayor saying it sends the wrong message.

• President Obama discusses health care, gets a peek at HBO series

  Posted: March 11th, 2010, 11:50am CST

  President Barack Obama speaks at a banking conference Thursday, holds more meetings on health care and gets a look at a new TV series about World War II.

• George Will: Obama's hubris of reason

  Posted: March 11th, 2010, 7:27am CST

  Like Woodrow Wilson, Obama seems gripped by the 'hubris of reason. There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its health care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing up.

• Corey Haim & Corey Feldman on GDLA

  Posted: March 11th, 2010, 3:08am CST

  Interview with Corey Feldman and Corey Haim on Good Day LA.

• Obama pushing on health care end game

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 10:49pm CST

  President Barack Obama is pushing a new anti-fraud plan and his top health official is challenging the nation's insurers as the administration cranks up the pressure for a sweeping overhaul of the nation's medical system.

• Va. lawmakers first to ban mandated health coverage

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 6:28pm CST

  Virginia's General Assembly is the first in the nation to approve legislation that bucks federal health care reforms by banning mandatory health insurance coverage.

• FDA: Medtronic brain stimulator missed study goal

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 2:11pm CST

  The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday a nerve stimulating implant from Medtronic failed to significantly reduce seizures in epilepsy patients.

• Ask Dr. Gott: Plavix, Prilosec like oil and water

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 9:53am CST

  Dear Dr. Gott: I have a heart condition and take both Plavix to prevent blood clots and Prilosec for stomach acid.

• Researchers back cancer-fighting properties of papaya

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:34am CST

  A street vendor prepares papaya for her daily customers in Yangon. Researchers say that papaya leaf extract and its tea have dramatic cancer-fighting properties against a broad range of tumours, backing a belief held in a number of folk traditions.

• Clay Pottery May Contain Lead Content

  Posted: March 10th, 2010, 1:14am CST

  The Houston Department of Health and Human Services is asking people to avoid buying or using a brand of clay tableware imported from Mexico that was sold in Fiesta Mart stores because it may contain lead.

• Abbott Labs to pay $450 million for Facet Biotech, expand access to biotechnology drugs

  Posted: March 9th, 2010, 8:56pm CST

  Drug and medical products company Abbott Laboratories said Tuesday it will buy Facet Biotech Corp.

• Fact Check: Lawmaker quits amid changing stories

  Posted: March 9th, 2010, 4:25pm CST

  New York congressman Eric Massa resigned his House seat this week under a sexual harassment cloud, claiming fellow Democrats forced his ouster to keep him from voting against their health care bill.

• Chemist refuses to dispense contraceptive pill because it's against her religion

  Posted: March 9th, 2010, 12:14pm CST

  By Jeni Harvey AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after a pharmacist refused to give the contraceptive pill to a South Yorkshire woman, saying it was "against her religion." Janine Deeley was turned away by the female chemist at Lloyds pharmacy in Duke Street, Sheffield, when she went to pick up her prescription.

• Senate To Take Up Unemployment Insurance Extension

  Posted: March 9th, 2010, 7:45am CST

  Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year.

• Nicotine Rises Gradually In Smokers' Brains

  Posted: March 9th, 2010, 2:42am CST

  Nicotine builds up gradually in smokers' brains rather than spiking after each puff, according to a study that might help point to new ways to help people quit smoking.

• Frozen foods may have more fat than expected

  Posted: March 8th, 2010, 10:20pm CST

  There's one thing you can be absolutely sure of when it comes to frozen dinners: They don't look like the picture.And that convenience you crave may be costing your health."When something is processed, they're going to be adding the sodium.

• President Obama attacks insurance companies in bid for public support on health overhaul

  Posted: March 8th, 2010, 5:23pm CST

  President Barack Obama accused insurance companies of placing profits over people as he sought to build public support Monday for swift passage of health care legislation stalled in Congress.

• Astra's colon cancer drug fails test

  Posted: March 8th, 2010, 11:44am CST

  AstraZeneca PLC said Monday that its cancer drug Recentin failed in a head to head late stage trial with Roche AG's Avastin in tests for use as an initial treatment against colon cancer.

• 3/8/2010 - UN says mother-child HIV can be eliminated by 2015

  Posted: March 8th, 2010, 6:22am CST

  Michel Sidibe, the head of UNAIDS, appealed to government and private donors to keep investing in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

• D.C. to fight AIDS with female condoms

  Posted: March 8th, 2010, 1:03am CST

  WASHINGTON a ' The District of Columbia will become the first city in the United States to distribute female condoms free, part of a project that will make 500,000 of them available in beauty salons, convenience stores and high schools in parts of the city with high HIV rates.

• Seton's Ignite Women's health program

  Posted: March 7th, 2010, 7:28pm CST

  A.J. Wagner with Seton explains the program.www.GoodHealth.com/ignite

• EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson speaks to Change.Org on March 5, 2010

  Posted: March 7th, 2010, 2:52pm CST

  Why doesn't she mention indoor air quality? Please contact EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and ask her to include "Improving Indoor Air Quality" on her list of priorities.

  We must all work together to protect our children's health and the health of our nation.

  Tuth About Mold - EPA

• New Committee to Promote the Truth about the Health Effects of Indoor Contaminants

  Posted: March 7th, 2010, 11:33am CST

  On February 16, ACHEMMIC sent a letter to numerous elected officials and government agencies. The letter includes 20 action items requesting specific actions be addressed by these government agencies. The letter also provides quotes from several reports and key statistics regarding this important public health crisis.

  The following statements are from the 2009 report by the World Health Organization titled ""Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality-Dampness and Mould."

  "Indoor air pollution such as from dampness and mould, chemicals and other biological agents is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. About 1.5 million deaths each year are associated with the indoor combustion of solid fuels, the majority of which occur among women and children in low-income countries."

  "The prevalence of indoor dampness varies widely within and among countries, continents and climate zones. It is estimated to affect 10 to 50% of indoor environments in Europe, North America, Australia, India and Japan. In certain settings, such as river valleys and coastal areas, the conditions of dampness are substantially more severe than the national averages for such conditions."

• Sick without leave: Small firms feel the squeeze

  Posted: March 7th, 2010, 8:37am CST

  Jeremy Lesniak owns a small Web design firm in Randolph, Vt. He has 10 employees and hundreds of clients.

• Lily Allen - Ill Allen Smokes on Stage

  Posted: March 7th, 2010, 3:00am CST

  LILY ALLEN flouted the U.K. smoking ban once again during a gig on Friday - despite suffering from a chest infection.

• Bode Miller tries to help Lake Tahoe woman

  Posted: March 6th, 2010, 9:45pm CST

  SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - A helmet worn by U.S. skier Bode Miller in the Vancouver Games is being auctioned off to help raise money for a woman who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

• GOP: Dems Health Care Bill 'must Be Stopped'

  Posted: March 6th, 2010, 4:18pm CST

  Congressman Parker Griffith, who switched from the Democrats to the Republican party, says the current health care bill is too costly and needs to be scrapped and re-written.

• 44: Obama calls again for "up-or-down vote" on health care

  Posted: March 6th, 2010, 11:20am CST

  By Michael A. Fletcher President Obama on Saturday repeated his call for Congress to give an "up-or-down vote" on his plan to revamp the nation's health-care system, saying that doing so would yield immediate benefits for the uninsured and small businesses, while prohibiting the most unpopular actions of health insurance companies.

• Outbreaks of infection, diarrhea a worry in Chile

  Posted: March 6th, 2010, 5:41am CST

  A boy grimaces as he is vaccinated Friday in Constitucion, Chile. An 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck central Chile on Feb.

• Call for 5% rise in tobacco tax

  Posted: March 6th, 2010, 12:12am CST

  An anti-smoking charity has called for a 5% increase on tobacco tax, saying it would lead to a drop in thousands of smokers and save millions in health costs.

• Michael J. Fox named honorary doctor in Sweden

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 6:44pm CST

  Sweden's Karolinska institute says it will give an honorary degree of medicine to Canadian-American actor Michael J. Fox for his work to raise funds and awareness for Parkinson's disease.

• Video - Apartment Mold Cover-up? - Doctor asks apartment manager to step in and get rid of mold

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 1:24pm CST

  A mold cover-up? A baby is fighting breathing problems and a doctor asked an apartment manager to step in and get rid of the mold. Now, the manager is accused of covering up the mold instead of fixing the problem

  .

  The apartment management tried to clean up and paint over several times. But Joseph Gorski says just hasn't worked. "You can actually see the mold coming back, on the casing through here." Gorski described.

• Video - Apartment Mold Cover-up? - Doctor asks apartment manager to step in and get rid of mold

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 1:23pm CST

  A mold cover-up? A baby is fighting breathing problems and a doctor asked an apartment manager to step in and get rid of the mold. Now, the manager is accused of covering up the mold instead of fixing the problem

  .

  The apartment management tried to clean up and paint over several times. But Joseph Gorski says just hasn't worked. "You can actually see the mold coming back, on the casing through here." Gorski described.

• Athlete Not Discouraged By Disorder

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 12:01pm CST

  Brianna French, a basketball player at Vacaville High School, has overcome a lot of obstacles in her academic and athletic career.

• Brazil Quarantines Cruise Ship Over Food Poisoning

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 7:07am CST

  Hundreds of passengers aboard an international cruise ship were stricken with vomiting and diarrhea, prompting a temporary quarantine of the vessel in southeastern Brazil, health authorities said Thursday.

• Buy plane ticket, help save the world! Here's how

  Posted: March 5th, 2010, 1:42am CST

  Airline ticket buyers can now donate $2 or more to fight AIDS in developing countries through an effort launched Thursday former President Bill Clinton and the UN .

• Senators: Lift ban on gays donating blood

  Posted: March 4th, 2010, 8:40pm CST

  The time has come to change a policy that imposes a lifetime ban on donating blood for any man who has had gay sex since 1977, 18 U.S. senators said Thursday.

• Video - Mushrooms sprouting inside mold infested Las Vegas apt - Lake Mead Estates - Pinnacle Realty

  Posted: March 4th, 2010, 3:59pm CST

  According to Ruz, her apartment complexes' maintenance man plucked out the mushrooms and painted over the remnants. She says she was revolted when she saw the mushrooms were coming back through.

  "They're gross. They're disgusting. I'm horrified," said Barbara Ruz. "I almost feel scared to be at home. From school, I brought home masks to cover our faces because I was so freaked out."

  "We take the comfort and safety of our residents and their concerns very seriously. When there are mold or mildew problems, we have specific steps we take to protect the residents and solve the problem."

  "What I'm seeing a lot of them doing, they're just covering it all up, cutting it all off or just throwing bleach on it. It's still growing behind the walls. They're not fixing the problem. They're not fixing the water source," said Whitaker.

• Sebelius, Insurers Debate Rate Increases

  Posted: March 4th, 2010, 2:28pm CST

  Keeping up the pressure for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius chastised top insurance executives Thursday over proposed double-digit rate hikes she said top the list of reasons that Congress must quickly pass his plan.

• Students Get Fit At School

  Posted: March 4th, 2010, 9:36am CST

  Students Get Fit At School

• Sanofi drug shows promise against prostate cancer

  Posted: March 4th, 2010, 3:47am CST

  The benefit was modest a ' an extra 10 weeks a ' but cancer specialists were excited because no chemotherapy until now has been shown to boost survival in such men.

• Hoyer: Retiring Dem faces misconduct allegation

  Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 10:36pm CST

  A freshman congressman from New York who cited health reasons in announcing his retirement Wednesday is facing allegations of misconduct, a top House Democrat confirmed.

• Cancer society stops urging docs to offer PSA test

  Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 5:36pm CST

  The cancer society has not recommended routine screening for most men since the mid-1990s, and that is not changing.

• Alzheimer's Drug Dimebon Fails in Latest Study

  Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 1:03pm CST

  Pfizer Inc. said Wednesday that its Alzheimer's drug candidate Dimebon did not meet its goal in a late stage clinical study, as the drug was no better than a placebo at treating the disease.

• Can Hoarding Be Cured?

  Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 8:43am CST

  Can Hoarding Be Cured?

• Australia's PM pledges increased hospital funding

  Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 4:28am CST

  Australia's prime minister proposed a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system Wednesday that would bring hospitals and primary care under government control and increase annual federal funding by 11 billion Australian dollars .

• Study: Food-borne illnesses cost US $152 billion

  Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 12:13am CST

  Food-borne illnesses, such as E. coli and salmonella, cost the United States $152 billion annually in health care and other losses, according to a report released Wednesday by a food safety group.

• Sen. Frank Lautenberg back at work in DC after being diagnosed with lymphoma

  Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 7:55pm CST

  TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg has returned to work on Capitol Hill after being diagnosed with lymphoma and receiving his first chemotherapy treatment last week.

• Legal action launched over mistaken mastectomy

  Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 3:36pm CST

  A Leamington, Ont., woman, who had her healthy breast wrongfully removed by a Windsor, Ont., doctor, has launched legal action.

• Shanghai scrambles to implement ban on smoking in indoor public places ahead of World Expo

  Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 11:23am CST

  Restaurants and office buildings in China's commercial capital Shanghai are scrambling to set up nonsmoking areas as the city bans lighting up in indoor public spaces ahead of the World Expo.

• Consumer group sues insurer over policy changes

  Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 6:56am CST

  Mary Feller's family of three spends nearly $25,000 a year on health insurance premiums, which is more than they pay on their home's mortgage in California's Marin County.

• Can drinking holy cow urine cure ailments?

  Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 2:24am CST

  It may smell bad and taste even worse... but some researchers in India swear by the healing qualities of cow urine and dung.

• 2,000 transportation workers idled over impasse

  Posted: March 1st, 2010, 10:10pm CST

  Jobless benefits suddenly ended for some laid-off workers, Medicare payments to doctors were delayed and 2,000 federal transportation workers were sent home Monday in a spending dispute tinged with election-year politics.

• Senate gridlock produces 21% cut in Medicare fees to doctors

  Posted: March 1st, 2010, 5:58pm CST

  Political gridlock in the Senate triggered a 21 percent cut in Medicare fees to doctors Monday, as the American Medical Association warned of a "meltdown" for seniors and the Obama administration scrambled to contain the damage.

• Your Purse Might be Hazardous to Your Health

  Posted: March 1st, 2010, 1:44pm CST

  Fox 8 Reporter Suzanne Stratford explores the health hazards that might be lurking in your purse...

• Warren Buffett says current US health care system is an 'economic tape worm' hindering US

  Posted: March 1st, 2010, 9:24am CST

  Billionaire Warren Buffett says health care costs are a major drain on U.S. businesses and act like an "economic tape worm." The head of the holding company Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

• Some counselors say requiring master's degrees for Oklahoma certification could hurt state

  Posted: March 1st, 2010, 4:51am CST

  Oklahoma substance-abuse counselors face proposed new regulations that some say could limit their services and reduce substance abusers' access to counseling.

• Chynna Phillips checks out of rehab

  Posted: March 1st, 2010, 12:21am CST

  Chynna Phillips left rehab in time to celebrate her daughter's 10th birthday. Chynna Phillips has checked out of the rehab facility where she was being treated for anxiety, People.com reports.

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