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Bush considers military role in flu fight
Oct 4 2005 10:03PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush, stirring debate on the worrisome possibility of a bird flu pandemic, suggested dispatching American troops to enforce quarantines in any areas with outbreaks of the killer virus.
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WHO: Chronic disease may kill 400M by 2015
Oct 4 2005 9:59PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - Heart disease, diabetes and other chronic ailments will kill nearly 400 million people over the next 10 years, but many of those deaths can be prevented by healthier lifestyles and inexpensive medication, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
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Doctors warn about toddlers' diets
Oct 4 2005 9:33PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - As toddlers begin eating "grown-up" food, they may also develop grown-up eating habits _ like too much junk food and too few vegetables, warn doctors who want parents to change their ways.
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Four more at Canadian nursing home die
Oct 4 2005 7:01PM (CT)
TORONTO (AP) - Four more residents of a nursing home for the elderly have died of an unknown respiratory illness, bringing the number fatally infected by the disease to 10, Toronto's chief medical officer said Tuesday.
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Kansas counties to test synthetic blood
Oct 4 2005 6:41PM (CT)
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - Four Kansas counties are part of a national study that will test a new synthetic blood on critically injured trauma victims.
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Liver cancer up, other kinds improving
Oct 4 2005 6:30PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Liver cancer seems to be on the rise, a blip of bad news in the nation's otherwise optimistic annual report on cancer that shows survival continuing to improve.
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Researchers praise kidney-swap program
Oct 4 2005 6:26PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Researchers are reporting a high success rate for a novel kidney-swap program that proponents say could someday ease the nation's shortage of transplant organs.
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Surgeon: Indian twins could be separated
Oct 4 2005 8:58AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - An American neurosurgeon said Tuesday he believes 10-year-old Indian twins joined at the skull could survive surgery to separate them, but that he will wait for more test results before deciding to perform the complex operation.
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