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Evangelicals venture into AIDS activism
Nov 30 2005 10:55PM (CT)
LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) - After years of ministering to AIDS patients overseas, evangelical Christians are turning attention to the disease in their own back yard _ and one of the nation's largest and best-known megachurches is leading the way.
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Partial face transplant done in France
Nov 30 2005 10:25PM (CT)
LYON, France (AP) - Doctors in France said they had performed the world's first partial face transplant, forging into a risky medical frontier with their operation on a woman disfigured by a dog bite.
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Study: AIDS drugs also help Haitians
Nov 30 2005 10:14PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A study of AIDS patients in Haiti who were sick, poor and hungry found that they did just as well as Americans do when given standard AIDS drugs.
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Study: States misdirecting tobacco money
Nov 30 2005 10:00PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Just a fraction of the money that states received from tobacco settlements and taxes is being used to prevent smoking, advocacy groups reported in a study Wednesday.
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Older anti-psychotics riskier for elderly
Nov 30 2005 8:02PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Older anti-psychotic drugs are no safer and might even be worse for the elderly than newer ones that the government warned about earlier this year _ both raise the risk of death, a study suggests.
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State officials talk flu preparedness
Nov 30 2005 8:00PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is taking its concerns about a potential flu pandemic on the road over the next few months to try to motivate cities and towns to start planning.
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Study finds states pay more for Rx drugs
Nov 30 2005 8:00PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - State Medicaid programs routinely pay much more for prescription drugs than do many businesses, hospitals and the Veterans Affairs Department, federal investigators said Wednesday.
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Face transplant doc also a politician
Nov 30 2005 7:58PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - Doctor and professor to some, politician to others, Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard, who has just helped perform the world's first partial face transplant, is Max to friends _ nicknamed for always going to the maximum.
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Female athletes focus just on weight loss
Nov 30 2005 9:40AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - After collapsing at the end of two marathons and struggling to swim just a single length of the pool, Olympic hopeful Jacqueline Mariash knew she needed some help. She got it from an unexpected source: a registered dietitian.
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Novartis issues breast cancer drug warning
Nov 30 2005 9:39AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The manufacturer of a breast cancer drug, letrozole, is warning fertility doctors that it has been associated with birth defects, a caution prompted by reports that the drug was being used to help a woman become pregnant.
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China vows to keep HIV cases under 1.5M
Nov 30 2005 7:06AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China must keep its number of HIV-infected people under 1.5 million in the next five years or risk social instability and a possible economic downturn, the country's top health official said Wednesday.
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Lunch box maker strikes deal with N.Y.
Nov 30 2005 1:11AM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Families that bought tens of thousands of super hero lunch boxes that government tests have shown include traces of lead can get their money back under an agreement between the distributor and the state attorney general in New York.
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