Posted in Health on Nov 14th, 2010
Working women are equal to men in a way they’ll wish they weren’t. Female workers with stressful jobs were more likely than women with less job strain to suffer a heart attack or a stroke or to have clogged arteries, a big federally funded study found.
Posted in Health on Oct 20th, 2010
Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, has claimed the 10th victim in California, in what health officials are calling the worst outbreak in 60 years.
Posted in Health on Oct 13th, 2010
Two US adult film companies have suspended production after an actor tested HIV positive, while doctors scramble to check if anyone else has been infected, they said Wednesday.
Posted in Health on Oct 9th, 2010
US pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories on Friday said it was pulling its obesity drug Meridia from the US market after European tests found the key ingredient increased the risk of serious heart problems.
Posted in Health on Sep 30th, 2010
A family in the United Kingdom received a shocking discovery this weekend when they sat down to make sandwiches for their kids.
Posted in Health on Sep 10th, 2010
How is Michael Douglas getting through the early stages of cancer treatment? By indulging in a guilty pleasure: watching lots and lots of sports.
Maryland health officials have ordered two doctors to stop performing abortions after a woman was critically injured during a procedure last month.
Posted in Health on Aug 31st, 2010
Women who have gene mutations that increase the risk of breast and
ovarian cancer can substantially reduce their chances of developing –
and dying from — those cancers if they have their breasts or ovaries
removed preemptively, according to a new study.
Posted in Celebrity Crime News, Health on Aug 16th, 2010
An HIV-positive German pop singer went on trial on Monday accused of failing to tell sexual partners about her condition, causing one of them to become infected.
Posted in Health on Jul 4th, 2010
Like fireworks, it has become an Independence Day weekend tradition unto itself: fireworks-related injury.
Posted in Health on Jun 28th, 2010
I’m not sure that this would help with family planning decisions [although] it’s a very interesting first, small, observational study,” says Dr. Steven Goldstein, M.D., president-elect of the North American Menopause Society.
Posted in Health on Jun 27th, 2010
Kellogg Co. is voluntarily recalling about 28 million boxes of Apple Jacks, Corn Pops, Froot Loops and Honey Smacks cereals.
Posted in Health on Jun 24th, 2010
People with diabetes who are hospitalized for sudden worsening of symptoms of the common lung disease known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have longer hospital stays and are more likely to die than COPD patients without diabetes, a new study has found.
Posted in Health on Jun 18th, 2010
Campbell Soup Co. is recalling 15 million pounds of SpaghettiOs with meatballs after a cooker malfunctioned at one of the company’s plants in Texas and left the meat undercooked.
Posted in Health on Jun 17th, 2010
A Food and Drug Administration review of data on the effectiveness of flibanserin — a pill anticipated to become the first “female Viagra” — resulted in questions about how well the drug will actually work in treating premenopausal women suffering from low sex drive.
