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State moves against troubled LA hospital
Jun 21 2007 10:58PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - State health regulators said Thursday they were moving to revoke the license of a hospital where a patient recently died on the emergency room floor while waiting for treatment.
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Portugal adopts law allowing abortion
Jun 21 2007 10:49PM (CT)
LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Portugal introduced a new law Thursday that allows abortion up to the 10th week of pregnancy, but imposes a three-day reflection period for women seeking the procedure and grants doctors the right to opt out on moral grounds.
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NJ to weigh $450M for stem cell research
Jun 21 2007 10:34PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey voters will decide this November whether to approve borrowing $450 million to pay for 10 years of stem cell research under legislation approved Thursday by the Legislature.
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New treatment promising for Parkinson's
Jun 21 2007 10:00PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An experimental treatment for Parkinson's disease seemed to improve symptoms _ dramatically so, for one 59-year-old man _ without causing side effects in an early study of a dozen patients.
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House approves $50B to fight TB overseas
Jun 21 2007 6:02PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Overseas health workers treating patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis, the bug that set off a recent international health scare, would get a $50 million assist under a measure adopted Thursday by the House.
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WHO strategy to stop drug-resistant TB
Jun 21 2007 5:56PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - More than 130,000 lives could be saved if the world implements a two-year strategy to stop the growing problem of drug-resistant tuberculosis, the World Health Organization and partners said Thursday.
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WHO strategy to stop drug-resistant TB
Jun 21 2007 5:56PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - More than 130,000 lives could be saved if the world implements a two-year strategy to stop the growing problem of drug-resistant tuberculosis, the World Health Organization and partners said Thursday.
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Video game addiction: A new diagnosis?
Jun 21 2007 5:22PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The telltale signs are ominous: teens holing up in their rooms, ignoring friends, family, even food and a shower, while grades plummet and belligerence soars. The culprit isn't alcohol or drugs. It's video games, which for certain kids can be as powerfully addictive as heroin, some doctors contend.
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Estrogen may offer some heart benefits
Jun 21 2007 4:59PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Five years after a landmark study scared millions of women off hormones for menopause symptoms, new research suggests the pills may offer some heart benefits for certain younger women who start taking them in their 50s. Women who took estrogen suffered less hardening of the arteries than those who took dummy pills, researchers reported in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.
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15-year-old performs surgery in India
Jun 21 2007 4:59PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - The 15-year-old son of two doctors performed a filmed Caesarean section birth under his parents' watch in southern India in an apparent bid to gain a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest surgeon.
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15-year-old performs surgery in India
Jun 21 2007 4:59PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - The 15-year-old son of two doctors performed a filmed Caesarean section birth under his parents' watch in southern India in an apparent bid to gain a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest surgeon.
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15-year-old performs surgery in India
Jun 21 2007 4:59PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - The 15-year-old son of two doctors performed a filmed Caesarean section birth under his parents' watch in southern India in an apparent bid to gain a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest surgeon.
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FDA clears computerized pill box
Jun 21 2007 4:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A computerized pill box that patients can keep at home to dole out their drugs on schedule and in the correct doses received federal approval Thursday.
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AMA launches new journal on disasters
Jun 21 2007 4:00PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The American Medical Association on Thursday introduced a new medical journal billed as the first of its kind devoted to the science of disaster planning and response.
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FDA OKs first fibromyalgia treatment
Jun 21 2007 3:55PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Pfizer Inc. drug won expanded federal approval Thursday as the first treatment for fibromyalgia, a mysterious syndrome marked by muscle pain and fatigue.
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Shire may get FDA approval for ADHD drug
Jun 21 2007 5:48AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Pharmaceutical company Shire PLC said Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration indicated that it may approve the company's Intuniv treatment for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder for children.
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