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Bird-flu vaccine may be ready by next year
Jul 26 2006 5:58PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A British company reported Wednesday it had achieved the best results ever seen on an experimental human vaccine for bird flu and said mass production might be possible by 2007.
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Physicians complain about anatomy course
Jul 26 2006 5:58PM (CT)
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) - Complaints by a physicians' group that an anatomy course for some of Virginia's top high school students could lead to "moral indifference" has prompted the program to take down a Web site featuring students posing with pig intestines and fetuses.
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Feds OK Mass. universal health insurance
Jul 26 2006 5:58PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The federal government has given its approval to a first-in-the-nation program in Massachusetts that will require everyone to carry health insurance, officials announced Wednesday.
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Survey: golfers' health lands in the bunker
Jul 26 2006 5:57PM (CT)
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) - No one would mistake David Voekel's body for that of Tiger Woods. When Voekel, 71, teed off recently at the Grapevine Golf Course in suburban Dallas-Fort Worth, the retired insurance agent wasn't trying to build a body like the pros. His goal was strengthening relationships with a group of old friends who share a love of the game.
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India may scrap gay sex law over HIV fears
Jul 26 2006 5:57PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Health authorities are calling for a repeal of a 145-year-old law that makes gay sex a crime, fearing it is causing HIV and AIDS to spread quickly in India's homosexual community, officials said Wednesday.
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Unions seek 'popcorn lung' safeguards
Jul 26 2006 5:56PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Workers in food factories nationwide need immediate government protection from a flavoring chemical blamed for a debilitating lung disease and used in products from microwave popcorn to dog food, labor unions and physicians said Wednesday.
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Hispanic teens abusing prescription drugs
Jul 26 2006 5:54PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Hispanic teenagers are using prescription medicine to get high more than other teens in the country, federal drug prevention officials said Wednesday as they announced a national campaign aimed at curbing the problem.
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No shortage of patients at Wyoming rodeo
Jul 26 2006 1:29PM (CT)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Corey Terry had a broken molar, blood behind his eardrum and a very sore neck, but it was his cheek that revealed his scrape _ literally _ with very serious injury.
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AIDS expert to head Duke health institute
Jul 26 2006 11:45AM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - One of the country's top AIDS researchers and an expert in international health will lead Duke University's new Global Health Institute, one of several recent moves that puts the school at the forefront of HIV research.
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