White House at odds with bishops over abortion
Nov 20, 2009 01:29 PM PST, Associated Press
AP - The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
Guidelines for cancer screening differ by group
Nov 20, 2009 01:24 PM PST, Associated PressAP - Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer.
Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD
Nov 20, 2009 11:50 AM PST, Associated Press
AP - Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.
Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC
Nov 20, 2009 11:32 AM PST, Associated PressAP - Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that's resistant to the drug Tamiflu.
Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps
Nov 20, 2009 10:27 AM PST, Associated PressAP - First mammograms. Now — in an apparent coincidence — Pap smears.
Correction: Plavix story
Nov 20, 2009 07:32 AM PST, Associated PressAP - In a Nov. 17 story about drug interactions between heartburn medications and the blood thinner Plavix, The Associated Press misidentified Johnson & Johnson's Mylanta as part of the H-2 blocker drug family. Mylanta is an antacid.
Cost of child vaccines fall, more kids saved
Nov 20, 2009 07:23 AM PST, Associated PressAP - Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty.
AP IMPACT: Gripes about swine flu vaccine abound
Nov 20, 2009 06:51 AM PST, Associated Press
AP - When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right.
China to punish those concealing swine flu info
Nov 19, 2009 09:44 PM PST, Associated Press
AP - China's health ministry said it will punish officials who underreport cases of swine flu after a doctor famous for exposing the extent of the 2003 SARS epidemic said he believes the true number of swine flu deaths is being covered up.
US survey shows southern counties most obese
Nov 19, 2009 06:31 PM PST, Associated Press
AP - The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than 80 percent of counties in the Appalachian region that includes Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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