Guidelines for cancer screening differ by group
(AP)
AP - 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.
Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps
(AP)
AP - First mammograms. Now — in an apparent coincidence — Pap smears.
Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC
(AP)
 AP - Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up the biggest cluster seen so far in the U.S.
Pa. university students must pass fitness class
(AP)
AP - A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight students take a fitness course to graduate has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.
Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD
(AP)
 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.
AP IMPACT: Gripes about swine flu vaccine abound
(AP)
 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.
Obesity in adolescence may increase girls' MS risk
(Reuters)
Reuters - A woman's risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) during her lifetime is doubled if she was obese at age 18, new research shows.
Spray May Delay Ejaculation
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A spray touted as the first
potential treatment for premature ejaculation has proved effective in a
second study, according to the company that developed it.
Correction: Plavix story
(AP)
AP - 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.
Child abuse may shorten cell lifeline: study
(AFP)
 AFP - Beaten or sexually abused children are more likely to show accelerated ageing of cells later in life, a condition linked to higher rates of cancer and heart disease, according to a study released Friday.
Diet, Cognitive Ability May Play Role in Heart Disease
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Seniors who eat plenty of fruits
and vegetables and who have good cognitive function are much less likely
to die from heart disease than those who have poorer cognitive function
and eat fewer fruits and vegetables, a new study has found.
Heart disease a killer in psychotic individuals
(Reuters)
Reuters - People with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders are more likely to die of heart disease than mentally healthy individuals, a study in US veterans indicates.
New guidelines push back age for Pap smears
(Reuters)
Reuters - Women in the United States should start cervical cancer screening at age 21 and most do not need an annual Pap smear, according to new guidelines issued on Friday that aim to reduce the risk of unnecessary treatment.
Cost of child vaccines fall, more kids saved
(AP)
AP - 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.
AIDS patients to president: Send more money south
(AP)
AP - When Robin Webb lived in New York City, he was treated by HIV specialists and had access to counseling and nutritional programs. Now he lives in Mississippi, where few of those services exist.
US survey shows southern counties most obese
(AP)
 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.
Folic Acid Late in Pregnancy Tied to Asthma in Kids
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Children born to women who
take folic acid in late pregnancy are at increased risk for asthma,
Australian researchers say.
Appalachia, Southeast Hit Hardest by Obesity and Diabetes
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- While rates of obesity are
climbing across America, they are especially high in sections of
Appalachia and the Southeast, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention reports in its first county-by-county survey.
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