FRIDAY, Oct. 30 — At least 114 U.S. children have now died from laboratory-confirmed H1N1 swine flu, including 19 during the past week — the largest one-week increase since the outbreak began in April, U.S. health officials said Friday.
But these…
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 — Dying hospital patients in the United States are nearly five times more likely to spend their last days in the intensive care unit than patients in England, finds a new study, and U.S. patients over age 85 are eight times more…
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 — Travel can jeopardize the health of people on dialysis, a U.K. study has found.
Researchers at the Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Institute in London analyzed health information on 69 dialysis patients who had traveled in…
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 — As you carve your Halloween jack-o-lantern, consider this new finding: That pumpkin holds potential as a treatment for yeast infections in adults and babies.
Korean researchers, reporting online recently in the Journal of…
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 — Asian women experience less labor pain than other women, say U.S. researchers.
“Labor progress and pain are influenced by many different factors but are difficult to study because conditions during labor are continually changing,”…
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 — Children born to mothers who ate plenty of vegetables during pregnancy are less likely to have type 1 diabetes, Swedish researchers say.
“This is the first study to show a link between vegetable intake during pregnancy and the…
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 — Financial and language issues pose serious barriers to quality health care for undocumented foreign-born Hispanics in the United States, say researchers who called for improved health systems for all immigrants.
The study authors…
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 — Exposure to whooping cough will provide immunity for an average of three decades, new research suggests.
Doctors had previously thought that immunity lasted for much less time. But the new study, by researchers based at the…
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 — The ball flies out of the pitcher’s hand. In less than a second, it curves and then drops, baffling the batter.
Or does it?
The curveball, when thrown correctly, is one of baseball’s most daunting pitches. For more than a century,…
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Benjamin Confirmed as U.S. Surgeon General
Alabama family physician Dr. Regina Benjamin was confirmed Thursday as the new U.S. surgeon general. The…