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American Ebola Doc Urges Help Fighting Outbreak
Ebola victim Dr. Kent Brantly, right, hugs a member of the medical staff that treated him, after being released from Emory University Hospital Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014, in Atlanta. Another American aid...
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Democrats Reframe Debate on Health Care
In this file photo taken June 14, 2014, Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, left, campaigns for re-election with his father, former U.S. Sen. David Pryor, D-Ark., center, in Warren, Ark. Mark Pryor is...
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How Endurance Running Can Damage Your Health
Boston Marathon (AP Photo/Stew Milne) (Fox News) – In our culture, marathon runners and triathletes are often seen as the picture of perfect health and physical stamina. But before you add a marathon...
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What’s The Best Health Plan for You? HMO, PPO, EPO or POS?
Medicare Advantage HMO enrollees did get more bypass grafts. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) (The Washington Post) – What’s in a name? When it comes to health plans sold on the individual market these...
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UN Health Agency Urges Crackdown on e-Cigarettes
Daryl Cura demonstrates an e-cigarette at Vape store in Chicago, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. The federal government wants to ban sales of electronic cigarettes to minors and require approval for new...
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‘Performance-Enhancing Drug’ Could Reduce Preterm Birth Brain Abnormality
(Medical News Today) – The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that an estimated 15 million babies are born preterm (before 37 weeks of gestation). Around 1 million children die each year as a...
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Lifestyle Counseling on Diet, Exercise Recommended for Overweight Americans
(Wall Street OTC) – Remaining in a good shape and losing extra flab can do wonders in keeping you healthy. Health experts and doctors also ask patients, especially those having weight problem, to...
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3 Ways Insurers Can Discourage Sick from Enrolling
In this Sept. 5, 2013 file photo, an infusion drug to treat cancer is administered to a patient via intravenous drip at a cancer center hospital in Durham, N.C. Insurers can no longer reject customers...
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Tomatoes ‘Cut Risk of Prostate Cancer by 20%’
Tomato for the Taste cover about 57 different things you can do with your homegrown tomatoes. Taken in the pd studio on August 10, 2011 (Allison Carey/The Plain Dealer) (Daily Mail) - And men who...
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Walking African Fish Reveals How Our Ancestors Evolved
Polypterus senegalus. (Photo: Morin, Standen, Larsson) Cape Town (News24.com) – Scientific experiments on an African fish have shown what might have happened when the first fish ‘walked’ out of water,...
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Shades of Pigpen: We Travel with Our Own Germs
In this undated photo provided by the Gilbert family shows Dylan Gilbert, 7, of Naperville, Ill., demonstrating how he helped collect samples of bacteria from his foot during a 2012 study. Dylans...
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Study: Action-Packed TV Might Make You Snack More
Scarlett Johannson and Ewan McGregor in “The Island” LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Could action-packed TV fare make you fat? That’s the implication of a new study that found people...
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Obesity Is A Big Contributor To Diabetes Boom
More than 20 million Americans have Type 2 diabetes; most are overweight or obese. (Photo courtesy of Atlanta Black Star) (TIME) – Diabetes is one of the most common diseases in the U.S., and there’s a...
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US Eating Habits Improve a Bit, Except Among Poor
In this April 24, 2014 file photo, a variety of healthy fruits and vegetables are displayed for sale at a market in Washington. A 12-year study released Monday, Sept. 1, 2014, shows a steady...
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CVS Changes Name, Stops Tobacco Sales Early
An inflatable cigarette is displayed to announce the drug store CVS’ decision to stop selling cigarettes at its stores on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014, in New York. CVS announced Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014...
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Plunge in Kindergartners’ Vaccination Rate Worries Health Officials
(Los Angeles Times) – California parents are deciding against vaccinating their kindergarten-age children at twice the rate they did seven years ago, a fact public health experts said is contributing...
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What Happens When Health Plans Compete
(New York Times) – As a candidate in 2008, President Obama promised that health reform would reduce family premiums by up to $2,500, equivalent today to about a 15 percent reduction from the 2013...
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Could the Blood of Ebola Survivors Help Patients?
This handout file photo taken Sept. 2, 2014, provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows A 39-year-old woman, the first participant enrolled in VRC 207, receiving a...
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Medicaid Expansion Is a Windfall for Hospitals
(Business Week) – Hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid have more paying customers, bolstering the bottom lines of for-profit hospital chains, a new analysis published on Wednesday shows....
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Lumpectomy Is Better Than Double Mastectomy, Says Study
Toborcia Bedgood performs a mammogram to screen for breast cancer at the Elizabeth Center for Cancer Detection in Los Angeles in 2010. (Damian Dovarganes/AP) (Upstart Magazine) – According to the new...
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