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Report: Kids overlooked in flu pandemic
Oct 17 2007 8:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Children would likely be both prime spreaders and targets of a flu pandemic, but they're being overlooked in the nation's preparations for the next super-flu, pediatricians and public health advocates reported Wednesday.
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Gates Foundation looks to fight malaria
Oct 17 2007 8:51PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Bill and Melinda Gates appealed to more than 300 malaria scientists and policy makers at a forum Wednesday to take the risky step of seeking to eradicate the disease worldwide instead of just keeping it under control.
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Gates Foundation looks to fight malaria
Oct 17 2007 8:51PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Bill and Melinda Gates appealed to more than 300 malaria scientists and policy makers at a forum Wednesday to take the risky step of seeking to eradicate the disease worldwide instead of just keeping it under control.
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Gates Foundation looks to fight malaria
Oct 17 2007 8:51PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Bill and Melinda Gates appealed to more than 300 malaria scientists and policy makers at a forum Wednesday to take the risky step of seeking to eradicate the disease worldwide instead of just keeping it under control.
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Gates Foundation looks to fight malaria
Oct 17 2007 8:51PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Bill and Melinda Gates appealed to more than 300 malaria scientists and policy makers at a forum Wednesday to take the risky step of seeking to eradicate the disease worldwide instead of just keeping it under control.
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New cervical cancer test more accurate
Oct 17 2007 8:51PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A relatively new screening test was about twice as accurate as the traditional Pap smear at spotting cervical cancer, according to the first rigorous study of the test in North America. The new test could replace the 50-year-old Pap in a matter of years, experts say. And there's a bonus for women: They won't need a screening test as often.
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Report warns Britain of rising obesity
Oct 17 2007 8:50PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Most British citizens could be obese by 2050, a new government report warns, and the nation's health secretary called Wednesday for a fundamental shift in the way the nation tackles obesity.
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Report warns Britain of rising obesity
Oct 17 2007 8:50PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Most British citizens could be obese by 2050, a new government report warns, and the nation's health secretary called Wednesday for a fundamental shift in the way the nation tackles obesity.
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Minn. psychiatrist to resign from panel
Oct 17 2007 4:22PM (CT)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A Minnesota psychiatrist who received more than $350,000 in speaking and consulting fees from pharmaceutical companies will quit a panel that advises the state on drugs for low-income Medicaid patients.
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Staph fatalities may exceed AIDS deaths
Oct 17 2007 1:05PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph "superbug," the government reported in its first overall estimate of invasive disease caused by the germ.
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