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Baby with heart outside body has surgery
Nov 22 2006 11:08PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Using a piece of Gore-Tex fabric to make their repairs, doctors performed corrective surgery on a baby born with his heart outside his chest, and said Wednesday that the youngster should be able to lead a close-to-normal life.
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Democrats look to trim Medicare costs
Nov 22 2006 9:13PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Soon to be in charge of Congress, Democrats are looking to chip away at billions of dollars in payments to the health insurance companies that run Medicare's managed care programs.
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Studies: Surgery no better for sciatica
Nov 22 2006 7:04PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Two big government-funded studies on back surgery for painful herniated disks show no clear-cut reason to choose an operation over other treatment. The pain and physical function of the patients, who were suffering from a condition called sciatica, improved significantly after two years whether or not they had surgery. However, neither strategy offered complete relief.
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Official investigates cruise ship death
Nov 22 2006 6:15PM (CT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A medical examiner was investigating Wednesday the death of 76-year-old man during a virus outbreak that sickened 679 people on a trans-Atlantic cruise.
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Robots aid stroke victims, autistic kids
Nov 22 2006 5:19PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - After more than 2 1/2 years of physical therapy and electronic stimulation, stroke victim Mike Marin still couldn't open a door with his left hand. Now, thanks to a robot, Marin can open a door and his atrophied left arm isn't completely useless anymore.
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Judge: No class-action suit over Vioxx
Nov 22 2006 2:00PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Thousands of federal lawsuits claiming the drug Vioxx caused heart attacks and other conditions that killed or injured people cannot be pooled into one national class action, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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Holiday gobbling weighs down students
Nov 22 2006 1:59PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - If there are college kids at your Thanksgiving table, don't encourage them to gobble so much. New research suggests that the typical student leaves the holiday weekend as stuffed as the turkey, gaining more than a pound during the short break.
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Doctors are reportedly fleeing Iraq
Nov 22 2006 12:27PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Iraq's top doctors are under threat and are fleeing the country, leaving hospitals in the hands of medical students or junior physicians, an Iraqi lawmaker said Wednesday.
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Chinese HIV cases jump nearly 30 percent
Nov 22 2006 6:25AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Two months before the end of 2006, China's reported number of HIV/AIDS cases already is nearly 30 percent higher than for all of last year, with intravenous drug use as the biggest source of infection, the Health Ministry said Wednesday.
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