Associated Press: Health
- Hoped-for drop in childbirth deaths not happening
Tuesday - 03/09/2010 - 03:04 AMWASHINGTON (AP) -- Eleven days after her son Benjamin's birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just as her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do, she dropped dead from a blood clot....
More | Talk - Study suggests too many invasive heart tests given
Wednesday - 03/10/2010 - 07:04 PMNEW YORK (AP) -- A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests....
More | Talk - Experts say even Obama getting too many med tests
Friday - 03/12/2010 - 04:30 PMCHICAGO (AP) -- Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggests that many Americans are being overtreated. Maybe even President Barack Obama, champion of an overhaul and cost-cutting of the health care system....
More | Talk - Hoped-for drop in childbirth deaths not happening
Tuesday - 03/09/2010 - 03:04 AMWASHINGTON (AP) -- Eleven days after her son Benjamin's birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just as her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do, she dropped dead from a blood clot....
More | Talk - Study suggests too many invasive heart tests given
Wednesday - 03/10/2010 - 07:04 PMNEW YORK (AP) -- A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests....
More | Talk - Experts say even Obama getting too many med tests
Friday - 03/12/2010 - 04:30 PMCHICAGO (AP) -- Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggests that many Americans are being overtreated. Maybe even President Barack Obama, champion of an overhaul and cost-cutting of the health care system....
More | Talk - Hoped-for drop in childbirth deaths not happening
Tuesday - 03/09/2010 - 03:04 AMWASHINGTON (AP) -- Eleven days after her son Benjamin's birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just as her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do, she dropped dead from a blood clot....
More | Talk - Study suggests too many invasive heart tests given
Wednesday - 03/10/2010 - 07:04 PMNEW YORK (AP) -- A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests....
More | Talk - Experts say even Obama getting too many med tests
Friday - 03/12/2010 - 04:30 PMCHICAGO (AP) -- Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggests that many Americans are being overtreated. Maybe even President Barack Obama, champion of an overhaul and cost-cutting of the health care system....
More | Talk - CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella
Wednesday - 03/10/2010 - 10:03 PMCHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time - the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries....
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- Panel: Women need chance to avoid repeat C-section
Wednesday - 03/10/2010 - 05:14 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section."...
More | Talk - People with variable blood pressure at stroke risk
Friday - 03/12/2010 - 06:19 AMLONDON (AP) -- People with occasional spikes in their blood pressure could be at higher risk of having a stroke than those with regularly high blood pressure, new studies said Friday....
More | Talk - Women on the pill may live longer
Friday - 03/12/2010 - 01:06 PMLONDON (AP) -- Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says....
More | Talk - CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella
Wednesday - 03/10/2010 - 10:03 PMCHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time - the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries....
More | Talk - FDA warning: some patients cannot process Plavix
Friday - 03/12/2010 - 06:49 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is adding its strongest warning to the label for Plavix, cautioning that some patients do not respond to the blockbuster blood thinner....
More | Talk - Court says thimerosal did not cause autism
Friday - 03/12/2010 - 09:09 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- The vaccine additive thimerosal is not to blame for autism, a special federal court ruled Friday in a long-running battle by parents convinced there is a connection....
More | Talk - Panel: Women need chance to avoid repeat C-section
Wednesday - 03/10/2010 - 05:14 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section."...
More | Talk - People with variable blood pressure at stroke risk
Friday - 03/12/2010 - 06:19 AMLONDON (AP) -- People with occasional spikes in their blood pressure could be at higher risk of having a stroke than those with regularly high blood pressure, new studies said Friday....
More | Talk - Women on the pill may live longer
Friday - 03/12/2010 - 01:06 PMLONDON (AP) -- Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says....
More | Talk - Panel: Women need chance to avoid repeat C-section
Wednesday - 03/10/2010 - 05:14 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section."...
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- CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella
Wednesday - 03/10/2010 - 10:03 PMCHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time - the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries....
More | Talk - FDA warning: some patients cannot process Plavix
Friday - 03/12/2010 - 06:49 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is adding its strongest warning to the label for Plavix, cautioning that some patients do not respond to the blockbuster blood thinner....
More | Talk - Court says thimerosal did not cause autism
Friday - 03/12/2010 - 09:09 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- The vaccine additive thimerosal is not to blame for autism, a special federal court ruled Friday in a long-running battle by parents convinced there is a connection....
More | Talk - Panel: Women need chance to avoid repeat C-section
Wednesday - 03/10/2010 - 05:14 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section."...
More | Talk - People with variable blood pressure at stroke risk
Friday - 03/12/2010 - 06:19 AMLONDON (AP) -- People with occasional spikes in their blood pressure could be at higher risk of having a stroke than those with regularly high blood pressure, new studies said Friday....
More | Talk - Women on the pill may live longer
Friday - 03/12/2010 - 01:06 PMLONDON (AP) -- Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says....
More | Talk - CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella
Wednesday - 03/10/2010 - 10:03 PMCHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time - the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries....
More | Talk - FDA warning: some patients cannot process Plavix
Friday - 03/12/2010 - 06:49 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is adding its strongest warning to the label for Plavix, cautioning that some patients do not respond to the blockbuster blood thinner....
More | Talk - Court says thimerosal did not cause autism
Friday - 03/12/2010 - 09:09 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- The vaccine additive thimerosal is not to blame for autism, a special federal court ruled Friday in a long-running battle by parents convinced there is a connection....
More | Talk - Study suggests too many invasive heart tests given
Wednesday - 03/10/2010 - 07:04 PMNEW YORK (AP) -- A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests....
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