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Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:24:53 GMT
Hot lines, online groups and organizations that charge fees on a sliding scale are options for finding help.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:22:19 GMT
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said flu activity was declining in all regions of the country.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:16:51 GMT
When an Atlanta hospital closed its dialysis unit, many illegal immigrants had to scramble to find treatment.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:06:03 GMT
The effort had been seen by opponents as a possible new front in the national debate over the matter.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:11:34 GMT
If it survives an appeal, the verdict late Thursday would be the nation’s largest award of damages to an individual suing a tobacco company.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:31:51 GMT
New guidelines for cervical cancer screening say women should delay their first Pap test until age 21, and go for screening less often than had been previously recommended.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:38:11 GMT
Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, one of three wavering Democrats, said Friday that he would vote to start debate on a giant health care bill.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:12:40 GMT
Senator Harry Reid scheduled the first crucial procedural vote on the major health care legislation for Saturday, after what is expected to be two marathon days of debate.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:46:35 GMT
The Senate majority leader’s deep personal involvement in assembling the overhaul of the health care system has led the measure to the brink of a historic Senate debate.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:35:25 GMT
The Preventive Services Task Force, which urged women to get less-frequent screening for breast cancer, was created to be apolitical.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:53:34 GMT
Backers of science-driven medicine cheered the new recommendations on cancer screening, while many patients still believe that more is always better.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:27:41 GMT
The clinician showed that three antibiotics could be safely combined to provide a cure, providing the template for later combination therapies for cancer and AIDS.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:30:20 GMT
The nation, where one out of eight babies are born prematurely each year, earned a D from the March of Dimes.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:38:16 GMT
The players union says that Dr. Ira Casson is too biased to be the co-chairman of the league’s committee on concussions.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:04:54 GMT
Increasing the levels of a message-carrying chemical in the brain may help prevent some of the memory deficits in Down syndrome.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:10:59 GMT
Students ejected from Minnesota home games for alcohol-related disturbances must meet with a counselor and submit to game-day breath analysis.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:07:51 GMT
Medicare and private health insurers said they were unlikely to change coverage of breast cancer screenings after new guidelines recommended that women wait longer to have mammograms and have fewer of them.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:52:21 GMT
Some 20.6 percent of Americans were current smokers in 2008, a drop from 20.9 percent in 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:58:10 GMT
A report found that universities often do not disclose faculty members’ conflicts of interest in government-financed studies.

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:49:52 GMT
A study found dirtier restrooms on ships with outbreaks of gastrointestinal sickness.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:51:30 GMT
The new recommendations, released Monday by an influential group, reverse longstanding guidelines.

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:35:56 GMT
The Food and Drug Administration said it would instead conduct a study of whether the oysters should be processed to kill deadly bacteria rather then be sold raw.

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:19:54 GMT
Those who exercise in all sorts of weather will attest that there is a certain thrill that can come from terrible conditions.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:49:59 GMT
Citing public concern about the safety of ground beef, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduced legislation that would require companies to test for a deadly E. coli strain.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:29:30 GMT
Responding to news reports of unusually high wholesale price increases in brand-name prescription drugs, four House leaders and one senator asked for government reviews of the pricing practices.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:08:23 GMT
Senator Harry Reid put forward his version of the health care overhaul, promising it would reduce the deficit while covering most of the uninsured.

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:04:15 GMT
Implants are the best solution to replace lost teeth in most cases, and they are more economical than bridges over time.

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:08:41 GMT
Can a person be sick with two colds at once?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:43:17 GMT
Trying unconventional remedies is a bold move, let alone trying to get an insurer to cover the expense and knowing what pills to buy.

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:04:09 GMT
As doctors bustle from one well-documented chart to the next, no one is counting whether they are still paying attention to people.

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:15:45 GMT
As few as 2 percent of medical students are pursuing general internal medicine, a trend that could doom efforts at universal health care.

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:04:43 GMT
A health care worker faced an immediate decision on her treatment after sustaining an injury while taking blood from a patient.

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:25:06 GMT
The stories in an Off Broadway play, “Let Me Down Easy,” include Lance Armstrong’s victory over testicular cancer and the tales of some who lost their battles.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:26:04 GMT
A man at a homeless shelter was described as filled with thought but empty of feeling.

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