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Spoiled airline food blamed for illnesses
May 19 2005 10:59PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Contaminated carrots served on several flights out of Honolulu likely caused 45 people to suffer food poisoning across 22 states, Japan, Australia and American Samoa, a state epidemiologist said Thursday.
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Scientists speed creation of stem cells
May 19 2005 10:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - South Korean scientists have dramatically sped up the creation of human embryonic stem cells, growing 11 new batches that for the first time were a genetic match for injured or sick patients.
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Broker of surrogate births faces lawsuit
May 19 2005 8:58PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An Indiana attorney who has brokered nearly 300 surrogate births is being sued by an Ohio couple after a surrogate mother in Pennsylvania refused to give up her triplets.
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Allegations of negligence follow doctor
May 19 2005 8:55PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - After Des Bramich's sternum was crushed when a camper he was working under fell on him, his family thought the worst was over when he recovered enough to make jokes after being rushed to a hospital emergency room.
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Hispanics face breast cancer barriers
May 19 2005 8:07PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - In Hispanic culture, cancer is something people don't talk about, and that makes a diagnosis of breast cancer even tougher, says the head of a support network for Hispanic women with the cancer.
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Gym ditches high-tech for basic workouts
May 19 2005 8:05PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - At this gym, there are no Cybex, Universal or Nautilus machines. The hundreds of weight plates piled around the place look like 1950s castoffs from the Soviet Bloc. There's no carpeting, just a concrete floor and a few rubber mats. This is fitness without frills.
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Group urges more to check vascular health
May 19 2005 8:00PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A doctor's group is hoping to persuade more Americans to check on the health of their arteries and veins. While most know heart disease is the leading cause of death among Americans, and many Americans regularly check their blood pressure, less attention is paid to vascular disease.
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Colon cancer test misses growths in women
May 19 2005 8:00PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A widely used screening tool for colon cancer, sigmoidoscopy, misses precancerous growths in almost two-thirds of women _ a disturbing failure rate twice as high as the one seen in men, a government-backed study found.
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Type 2 diabetics battle blood sugar woes
May 19 2005 8:00PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A dismal two-thirds of the nation's 18 million Type 2 diabetics don't have their blood sugar under control, putting them at high risk of the disease's nastiest complications, even death. Yet most are unaware they're doing so poorly, frustrated diabetes specialists said Wednesday.
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Mass. lawmakers reject stem cell ban
May 19 2005 6:15PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Lawmakers Thursday rejected Gov. Mitt Romney's amendments to a stem cell research bill _ including a proposed ban on using cloned embryos for the purpose of obtaining stem cells to use in treating disease.
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Young Indonesian quake victim gets surgery
May 19 2005 1:32PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - An 8-year-old girl whose home was damaged by an Indonesian earthquake has successfully undergone surgery on a birth defect to remove an unsightly bulge between her eyes that seemed to swallow up her nose, a surgeon said Thursday.
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Fla. hospital gets medical simulator baby
May 19 2005 10:23AM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - As Dr. Craig Kizewic worked on the infant, the heart rate began to drop and oxygen levels were declining, but quick work saved the baby. The baby was a new interactive medical simulator known as BabySIM.
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WHO worries about bird flu transmission
May 19 2005 9:35AM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - Bird flu may be capable of human-to-human transmission, raising fears of a global pandemic, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
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Use of foster kids in experiments varies
May 19 2005 6:27AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Current regulations are adequate to ensure that foster children enlisted in federal medical experiments are protected, a Bush administration official said Wednesday.
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