|
|
|
|
|
|
|
NYC mulls ban on trans fats in eateries
Sep 26 2006 10:29PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Three years after the city banned smoking in restaurants, health officials are talking about prohibiting something they say is almost as bad: artificial trans fatty acids.
|
|
|
Many women unaware they're pre-diabetic
Sep 26 2006 7:39PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Getting fatter around the middle? Have a family history of heart disease or diabetes? You could be headed for the same trouble, especially if you're over 40 and female.
|
|
|
Investigators zero in on tainted spinach
Sep 26 2006 7:30PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Test results linking two bags of Dole brand baby spinach to a deadly E. coli strain have helped health officials hone in on a specific batch from a San Juan Bautista processing plant that may be the source of a nationwide outbreak.
|
|
|
Formerly conjoined twin boys doing well
Sep 26 2006 7:29PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - When Angie Benzschawel held one of her twin boys alone for the first time after they were separated, it took some getting used to.
|
|
|
Many women unaware they're pre-diabetic
Sep 26 2006 12:45PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Getting fatter around the middle? Have a family history of heart disease or diabetes? You could be headed for the same trouble, especially if you're over 40 and female.
|
|
|
Many patients quit medicine too early
Sep 26 2006 12:11PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Many patients stop taking their medicine far sooner than they should, researchers say, and that decision can be deadly when the drugs treat heart disease or diabetes.
|
|
|
Experts: Price may hurt shingles vaccine
Sep 26 2006 11:51AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Cornelia Jefferson vividly recalls the excruciating pain that shingles caused her mother and brother. So when her doctor got a supply of the new shingles vaccine, the retiree jumped at the chance _ without knowing if her insurance would pay or she would be stuck with a bill for more than $150.
|
|
|
|
|
|