Associated Press: Health
- UN health agency: Hungarian scientist sickened by Ebola
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 09:54 AMLONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization says it has coordinated shipment of an experimental Ebola vaccine and drugs to treat a laboratory scientist in Hungary who caught the potentially deadly disease in an accident earlier this month....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Dance Moms' star Miller has cancer, underwent spine surgery
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 03:36 PMPITTSBURGH (AP) -- Former "Dance Moms" reality TV star Abby Lee Miller has been diagnosed with cancer....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New data: Americans filling far fewer opioid prescriptions
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 08:34 AMTRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- New data show that the number of prescriptions for opioid painkillers filled in the U.S. fell dramatically last year. They showed their biggest drop in 25 years....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ethicist foresees choosing your baby from dozens of embryos
Wednesday - 04/18/2018 - 01:11 AMNEW YORK (AP) -- So you want to have a baby....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US regulators float ideas for boosting medical device safety
Tuesday - 04/17/2018 - 01:49 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. health officials on Tuesday proposed steps to improve the government's system for overseeing medical devices, which has been criticized for years for failing to catch problems with risky implants and medical instruments....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Man with 3 faces: Frenchman gets 2nd face transplant
Tuesday - 04/17/2018 - 11:14 AMLONDON (AP) -- In a medical first, a French surgeon says he has performed a second face transplant on the same patient - who is now doing well and even spent a recent weekend in Brittany....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Counterfeit cosmetics seized in LA contained lead, feces
Monday - 04/16/2018 - 08:22 PMLOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles police say $700,000 worth of counterfeit cosmetics seized from vendors in downtown's fashion district have tested positive for bacteria, lead and traces of animal feces....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Organs from drug overdoses could help transplant shortage
Monday - 04/16/2018 - 05:58 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- Fatal drug overdoses are increasing organ donations, and researchers reported Monday that people who receive those transplants generally fare as well as patients given organs from more traditional donors....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hundreds of Romanian health workers protest wage cuts
Monday - 04/16/2018 - 06:22 AMBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Romanian health workers are protesting pay cuts following government promises to hike salaries in the health care sector amid a general tax and wage overhaul....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Vatican: Parents, hospital must talk in UK sick toddler case
Sunday - 04/15/2018 - 09:25 AMLONDON (AP) -- The head of the Vatican's bioethics think tank says he hopes a dialogue can be reopened in the case of Alfie Evans, a terminally ill British toddler whose parents are locked in a legal battle over his care....
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- Some GOP officials urge charges for women who get abortions
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 06:59 PMBOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Anti-abortion rhetoric is intensifying ahead of midterm elections as officials in Republican-dominant states push legislation that would punish both doctors and patients, even though such laws are likely unconstitutional....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Anti-abortion politicians push efforts to prosecute women
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 02:11 PMBOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Anti-abortion rhetoric is intensifying ahead of midterm elections as a rush of officials in Republican-dominant states push legislation that would punish both doctors and patients, even though such laws are likely unconstitutional....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Spouses can boost early detection for melanoma patients
Wednesday - 04/18/2018 - 11:44 AMCHICAGO (AP) -- There's an extra bonus to marriage for melanoma patients: They tend to be diagnosed in earlier more treatable stages than patients who are unmarried, widowed or divorced, a new study says....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Citing opioid crisis, feds seek rule change for drugmakers
Tuesday - 04/17/2018 - 05:19 PMCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Drugmakers would be required to identify a legitimate need for controlled substances to justify their production under a proposed rule change intended to rein in the diversion of drugs for illicit purposes, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced Tuesday....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Marijuana-based drug gets positive review from US agency
Tuesday - 04/17/2018 - 10:10 AMWASHINGTON (AP) -- A closely watched medicine made from the marijuana plant reduces seizures in children with severe forms of epilepsy and warrants approval in the United States, health officials said Tuesday....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US regulators float ideas for boosting medical device safety
Tuesday - 04/17/2018 - 10:57 AMWASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. health officials are considering new steps to improve the government's system for overseeing medical devices....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Counterfeit cosmetics seized in LA contained lead, feces
Monday - 04/16/2018 - 09:11 PM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Immune therapy scores big win against lung cancer in study
Monday - 04/16/2018 - 10:43 AMCHICAGO (AP) -- For the first time, a treatment that boosts the immune system greatly improved survival in people newly diagnosed with the most common form of lung cancer. It's the biggest win so far for immunotherapy, which has had much of its success until now in less common cancers....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Feds: Increase medication-based treatment for opioids
Monday - 04/16/2018 - 01:45 AMWASHINGTON (AP) -- Deep within President Donald Trump's plan to combat opioid abuse, overshadowed by his call for the death penalty for some drug traffickers, is a push to expand the use of medication to treat addiction....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - AP investigation: Doctors keep licenses despite sex abuse
Saturday - 04/14/2018 - 04:06 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- The first time that Dr. Anthony Bianchi came onto a patient, California's medical board alleged, the gynecologist placed a chair against the exam room door, put his fingers into the woman's vagina and exposed his erect penis....
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- Woman's win of nursing home money a rarity in aging Japan
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 09:59 PMTOKYO (AP) -- When her stay at the glamorous Grancreer residence turned into a nightmare of disrupted sleep and difficulties with the staff, retired harpist Yumi Makino opted out, and after a two-year legal battle got her deposit money back in a rare victory over a big real estate company....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New data: Americans filling far fewer opioid prescriptions
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 10:53 AMTRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- The number of prescriptions for opioid painkillers filled in the U.S. fell dramatically last year, showing their biggest drop in 25 years and continuing a decline amid increasing legal restrictions and public awareness of the dangers of addiction, new data show....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Warming, not cooling, donated livers may improve transplants
Wednesday - 04/18/2018 - 02:17 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- Surgeons pack donated organs on ice while racing them to transplant patients but it may be time for a warmer approach. British researchers said Wednesday that keeping at least some livers at body temperature instead may work better....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Dem senator: Trump VA pick vows not to privatize vets care
Tuesday - 04/17/2018 - 01:03 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's pick to be Veterans Affairs secretary is promising not to privatize the agency, a key Democratic senator said Tuesday, taking a stance on a politically charged issue that his predecessor says led to his firing....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US regulators float ideas for boosting medical device safety
Tuesday - 04/17/2018 - 12:43 PM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Marijuana-based drug gets positive review from US agency
Tuesday - 04/17/2018 - 08:55 AMWASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. health officials say a closely watched medicine made from the marijuana plant significantly reduces seizures in children with severe forms of epilepsy and warrants approval in the country....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Medical marijuana push spreads to Utah, Oklahoma
Tuesday - 04/17/2018 - 02:27 AMSALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The push for legalized marijuana has moved into Utah and Oklahoma, two of the most conservative states in the country, further underscoring how quickly feelings about marijuana are changing in the United States....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Immune therapy scores big win against lung cancer in study
Monday - 04/16/2018 - 10:23 AMCHICAGO (AP) -- For the first time, a treatment that boosts the immune system greatly improved survival in people newly diagnosed with the most common form of lung cancer. It's the biggest win so far for immunotherapy, which has had much of its success until now in less common cancers....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nigeria's Boko Haram extremists hamper polio eradication
Monday - 04/16/2018 - 05:12 AMMAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- Islamic extremists made Imana Alhaji Gana's village in northeastern Nigeria too dangerous for health workers to vaccinate against polio. Now that she and her family have fled to a displacement camp, those workers want to catch her children in time....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Russians protest garbage dumps blighting Moscow region
Saturday - 04/14/2018 - 01:24 PMMOSCOW (AP) -- Large protests have taken place in nine cities and towns in the Moscow region over pollution from landfills and against government plans to build a garbage incinerator....
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