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Medicare Advantage Enrollment Deadline Looms
This Nov. 5, 2013 file photo shows Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) TOM MURPHY, AP Business Writer Millions of Medicare...
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Pregnant Women to Get Better Info on Drug Risks
This is a screen shot of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) webpage. Pregnant and worried about your medication? The FDA is revamping confusing labels on prescription drugs to make it easier to...
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How Ebola Broke Sierra Leone’s Heart
In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, a health worker examines patients for Ebola inside a screening tent, at the Kenema Government Hospital situated in the Eastern Province around 300 km, (186...
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Congress Doesn’t Want Medicare to Pay for Your Erectile Dysfunction
This July 16, 2014, file photo shows the U.S. Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington. ( J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo) (ABC News) – When the House voted to approve the Achieving a Better Life Experience...
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Smoking May Cause Loss of Y Chromosome
(Business Standard) – Smoking can cause loss of the Y chromosome in blood cells, which may put male smokers at a greater risk of cancer, a new study has found. Researchers at Uppsala University in...
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Health Law Impacts Primary Care Doc Shortage
Kelli Kennedy, ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI (AP) — When Olivia Papa signed up for a new health plan last year, her insurance company assigned her to a primary care doctor. The relatively healthy...
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Congress Relaxes Whole Grain Standards for Schools
In this Oct. 14, 2014 file photo, first lady Michelle Obama and a student look over their plates as they eat lunch in the East Room of the White House in Washington following the annual fall harvest of...
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Ebola Fighters Named Time Person of the Year
This image provided by Time Magazine, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014, announces the Ebola fighters as its Person of The Year for 2014. (AP Photo/Time Magazine) KILEY ARMSTRONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP)...
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New HPV Vaccine Strengthens Cancer Protection
Dr. Donald Brown holds the human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil in his hand at his Chicago office Monday, Aug. 28, 2006 .(AP/Charles Rex Arbogast) WASHINGTON (AP) — The drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc....
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In Newtown, Mental Health Problems Still Emerging
In this Sept. 23, 2014 photo provided by the Resiliency Center of Newtown, a chalk board painted column is displayed at the center in Newtown, Conn. Founded after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary...
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Teen Girl Still Hooked to Machines 1 Year Later
This undated file photo provided by the McMath family and Omari Sealey shows Jahi McMath, the 13-year-old girl who was declared brain dead Dec. 12, 2013 after suffering complications from sleep apnea...
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California Battles Whooping Cough Epidemic
Julietta Losoyo, right, a Registered Nurse at the San Diego Public Health Center gives Derek Lucero a whooping cough injection while in his fathers Leonel’s arms as his brother Iker, 2, looks on,...
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U.S. Health Care Lags Worldwide for Those Over 65
(New York Times) – The Commonwealth Fund has been publishing surveys comparing health care in industrialized countries since 1998, a continuing report card in which the United States has usually...
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Crunch Time Again for Health Insurance Sign-Ups
This March 1, 2014 file photo shows part of the website for HealthCare.gov, photographed in Washington. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File) RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) —...
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Senate Approves Obama Pick for Surgeon General
In this Feb. 4, 2014, photo, Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy, President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the next U.S. Surgeon General, listens on Capitol Hill in Washington. The U.S. Senate on Monday, Dec. 15,...
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Infusionarium Aims to Take Trauma Out of Chemotherapy for Young
Chemotherapy (Gerry Broome/AP) Orange, Calif. (New York Times) — Nick Meza, 18, recently had another five-day round of chemotherapy at the outpatient clinic here at Children’s Hospital of Orange...
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Survey: E-Cigs Surpass Regular Cigs in Teen Use
This June 12, 2013, file photo shows a person posing with an electronic cigarette, or e-cigarette. (AP Photo / Tim Ireland, PA) LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Electronic...
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Insurers Ease ‘Obamacare’ Deadline
This Nov. 29, 2013, file photo shows a part of the HealthCare.gov website, photographed in Washington. The administration is warning hundreds of thousands of consumers they risk losing...
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F.D.A. Approves System That May Make Blood Transfusions Safer
(New York Times) – The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first system that could be used by blood banks to destroy viruses and bacteria in donated blood plasma, potentially making...
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Alcohol Calorie Counts to be on Menus by Next Year
In this June 6, 2008 file photo, a row of freshly poured draft beers are seen in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File) MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Don’t want to be...
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