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Gene marker may show prostate cancer risk
May 7 2006 9:14PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Scientists have identified a common genetic marker that signals a 60 percent heightened risk of prostate cancer in men who carry it, and it may help explain why black men are unusually prone to the disease, a new study says.
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Paper: Nigerian panel finds against Pfizer
May 7 2006 5:42PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nigerian medical experts have concluded that Pfizer Inc. violated international law during a 1996 epidemic when the company tested an unapproved drug on children with brain infections, The Washington Post reported.
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Government makes final Medicare plan push
May 7 2006 5:29PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government has added 6,000 operators, quadrupled its computer capacity for enrollment and will assist with more than 1,000 events in the week ahead as part of a final push for signing people up for the Medicare drug benefit.
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Supermarkets urge families to dinner table
May 7 2006 4:12PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - For working parents and heavily scheduled school kids, family mealtime is as out of fashion as the scene in Norman Rockwell's iconic Thanksgiving supper painting. Supermarkets are trying to lure families back to the dinner table.
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Malaria experts meet in Zambia
May 7 2006 12:04PM (CT)
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) - Malaria experts from around the world gathered in the Zambian city of Livingstone on Sunday to review progress in preventing and treating the disease which kills more than one million people each year.
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Ga. lab studies accessibility for disabled
May 7 2006 11:24AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - It was created during the Cold War to conduct tests for the military, but now a Georgia Tech lab has a much more grounded mission: To find ways to make everyday items more accessible to disabled people.
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