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Double dipping? 'Seinfeld' was right
Feb 1 2008 10:30PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Keep an eye on the salsa this Super Bowl Sunday: A researcher inspired by a famous "Seinfeld" episode has concluded that double dipping is just plain gross.
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CDC: Drug sickens dialysis patients
Feb 1 2008 9:30PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - More than 50 dialysis patients in 12 states have come down with allergic reactions that are being blamed on recalled batches of a blood thinner, federal health officials said Friday.
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CDC: Flu outbreaks reported in 11 states
Feb 1 2008 8:29PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Flu season is in full swing, with wide outbreaks in 11 states _ and a new strain is starting to emerge that this year's vaccine doesn't specifically target, the government's public health chief said Friday.
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CDC pins name on slaughterhouse illness
Feb 1 2008 8:12PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Investigators are preparing to test pig brains as they struggle to tell what is causing a mysterious nerve illness affecting pork plant workers in Minnesota and Indiana, but so far have found no signs of wider infection, federal health officials said Friday.
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HPV causing more oral cancer in men
Feb 1 2008 7:02PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer in women is poised to become one of the leading causes of oral cancer in men, according to a new study.
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Puerto Rico home of deadly syndrome
Feb 1 2008 7:02PM (CT)
AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico (AP) - Mayra Nieves is used to being ostracized and called names as an albino in this Caribbean community. What she fears is not being able to breathe. Nieves is among hundreds of Puerto Ricans who have a rare type of albinism that leads to a deadly lung disease.
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Puerto Rico home of deadly syndrome
Feb 1 2008 7:02PM (CT)
AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico (AP) - Mayra Nieves is used to being ostracized and called names as an albino in this Caribbean community. What she fears is not being able to breathe. Nieves is among hundreds of Puerto Ricans who have a rare type of albinism that leads to a deadly lung disease.
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Puerto Rico home of deadly syndrome
Feb 1 2008 7:02PM (CT)
AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico (AP) - Mayra Nieves is used to being ostracized and called names as an albino in this Caribbean community. What she fears is not being able to breathe. Nieves is among hundreds of Puerto Ricans who have a rare type of albinism that leads to a deadly lung disease.
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Puerto Rico home of deadly syndrome
Feb 1 2008 7:02PM (CT)
AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico (AP) - Mayra Nieves is used to being ostracized and called names as an albino in this Caribbean community. What she fears is not being able to breathe. Nieves is among hundreds of Puerto Ricans who have a rare type of albinism that leads to a deadly lung disease.
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Puerto Rico home of deadly syndrome
Feb 1 2008 7:02PM (CT)
AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico (AP) - Mayra Nieves is used to being ostracized and called names as an albino in this Caribbean community. What she fears is not being able to breathe. Nieves is among hundreds of Puerto Ricans who have a rare type of albinism that leads to a deadly lung disease.
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Compound cuts cerebral palsy in preemies
Feb 1 2008 7:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Doctors can cut the risk of cerebral palsy in half for very premature babies by giving their mothers magnesium sulfate just before they give birth, new research shows.
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USDA bird flu plan needs test
Feb 1 2008 7:00PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Agriculture Department cannot ensure its response plan for a bird flu outbreak will work, largely because many aspects of the plan have not been tested, an inspector general's report said Friday.
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Scientists study how HIV hides in body
Feb 1 2008 6:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The AIDS virus has hideouts deep in the immune system that today's drugs can't reach. Now scientists finally have discovered how HIV builds one of those fortresses _ and they're exploring whether a drug already used to fight a parasite in developing countries just might hold a key to break in.
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FDA: Chantix may pose psychiatric risks
Feb 1 2008 6:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Government regulators said Friday the connection between Pfizer's anti-smoking drug Chantix and serious psychiatric problems is "increasingly likely."
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FDA warns of risks from epilepsy drugs
Feb 1 2008 12:10PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Epilepsy drugs used by millions of people may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior, the Food and Drug Administration warned Thursday in an alert to doctors.
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