Senate boosts preventive care for women

Cervarix Proves Effective Against HPV for Over 6 Years

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Cervarix protects women from infection for longer than six years, new research has found.

Health Tip: Managing Lupus Symptoms

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Lupus is an autoimmune disease that can cause symptoms including pain and stiffness in the joints, body aches, fever, a rash on the skin and impaired cognitive function.

Health Tip: Does Your Child Grind the Teeth?

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Bruxism is used to describe grinding the teeth or clenching the jaws, especially while asleep or under stress.

Lung Cancer's Racial Gap Narrowing

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Efforts to prevent teens from smoking have helped narrow the racial disparity in lung cancer incidence and death rates among adults in the United States, researchers say.

Teen Internet Addicts More Likely to Self-Harm: Study

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- A survey of Chinese adolescents found that teens who are addicted to the Internet are twice as likely to harm themselves as other teens.

Breast-Feeding Can Help Mom's Heart Decades Later

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-feeding, even for just a couple of months, can significantly lower a woman's risk of metabolic syndrome -- a dangerous cluster of heart disease risk factors -- years later, reports a new study appearing online Dec. 3 in the journal Diabetes.

Health Highlights: Dec. 3, 2009

HealthDay - Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:

Kalbitor Approved for Hereditary Angiodema

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Kalbitor (ecallantide) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat dangerous flares of sudden fluid buildup in people with hereditary angiodema (HAE), the agency said.