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Guidelines for cancer screening differ by group
3:24PM CT
(AP) - Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer.
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Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC
3:23PM CT
ATLANTA (AP) - Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up the biggest cluster seen so far in the U.S.
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Pa. university students must pass fitness class
2:52PM CT
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight students take a fitness course to graduate has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.
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Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD
1:50PM CT
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (AP) - Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.
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US survey shows southern counties most obese
Nov 19 2009 8:31PM CT
ATLANTA (AP) - The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than 80 percent of counties in the Appalachian region that includes Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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China to punish those concealing swine flu info
Nov 19 2009 11:44PM CT
BEIJING (AP) - China's health ministry said it will punish officials who underreport cases of swine flu after a doctor famous for exposing the extent of the 2003 SARS epidemic said he believes the true number of swine flu deaths is being covered up.
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Cost of child vaccines fall, more kids saved
9:23AM CT
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty.
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Experts say radical measures won't stop swine flu
Nov 19 2009 10:25AM CT
LONDON (AP) - Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu — most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms — have failed to contain the disease.
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