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Michelle Obama visits Va. school, tours garden
November 18, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- First Lady Michelle Obama received a few gardening tips from students Wednesday as she toured a Virginia elementary school's vegetable garden....  Read Story.
Study: CT scans rule out heart attacks faster
November 18, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A CT scan - a kind of super X-ray - provides a faster, cheaper way to diagnose a heart attack when someone goes to the emergency room with chest pains, a new study suggests..  Read Story.
HHS secretary says mammograms still vital
November 18, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says federal policy on who should get breast cancer screening has not changed....  Read Story.
Ex-Kiss drummer: Breast cancer not just for women
November 18, 2009
SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) -- Former Kiss drummer Peter Criss is speaking out about his recent bout with breast cancer....  Read Story.
Formerly conjoined twins in stable condition
November 18, 2009
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- An aid worker who helped bring formerly conjoined Bangladeshi twins to Australia where doctors managed to separate them spoke of her relief Wednesday over their succes  Read Story.
Don't blame fast food: Mummies had heart disease
November 17, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies....  Read Story.
Study: New device boosts heart failure survival
November 17, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- For the first time, a miniature heart pump shows the potential to become a widely used, permanent treatment for many older people with severe heart failure. But can we afford  Read Story.
FDA says heartburn drugs can interfere with Plavix
November 17, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health officials said Tuesday a popular variety of heartburn medications can interfere with the blood thinner Plavix, a drug taken by millions of Americans to reduce ris  Read Story.
FDA says Prilosec can block benefits of Plavix
November 17, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health officials say a popular heartburn medication can block the blood thinning effect of Plavix, which is taken by millions of Americans to reduce risks of heart attac  Read Story.
Study: New device improves heart failure survival
November 17, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Doctors say that a new type of heart pump greatly improves survival of people with severe heart failure. It could become the first one of these devices to be widely used as a  Read Story.
New mammogram advice raises questions, concerns
November 17, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) -- For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences....  Read Story.
Twins joined at head successfully separated
November 17, 2009
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Twin Bangladeshi girls who were joined at the top of their heads and shared blood vessels and brain tissue were successfully separated Tuesday after 25 hours of delica  Read Story.
New advice: Skip mammograms in 40s, start at 50
November 16, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) -- Most women don't need a mammogram in their 40s and should get one every two years starting at 50, a government task force said Monday. It's a major reversal that conflicts with th  Read Story.
Study: Injured uninsured more likely to die in ER
November 16, 2009
CHICAGO (AP) -- Uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in the hospital as similarly injured patients with hea  Read Story.
Going high-tech to track Alzheimer's patients
November 16, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tom Dougherty jokes that he takes "get-lost walks." To his wife, Cleo, it's a constant fear: When will his Alzheimer's get bad enough that she has to end his 4-mile daily stroll  Read Story.
FDA reviews update to Pfizer vaccine for kids
November 16, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health officials on Monday questioned whether to approve an updated version of Pfizer's best-selling anti-infection vaccine for children, despite company studies that fa  Read Story.
Australian doctors operate on conjoined twins
November 16, 2009
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- A team of Australian surgeons were working Monday on a delicate and complicated surgery to separate twin sisters who are joined at the top of the head....  Read Story.
Study raises new questions about Merck pill Zetia
November 15, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A new study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin - drugs that are still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol, despite questions raised las  Read Story.
China investigates 2 deaths after flu vaccinations
November 13, 2009
BEIJING (AP) -- Two people in China who received swine flu vaccinations died in the past week but at least one death appears unrelated to the vaccine and the other was being investigated....  Read Story.
China says 2 dead after getting swine flu vaccine
November 13, 2009
BEIJING (AP) -- China's health ministry says two people who received vaccinations for swine flu have died though at least one of the death appears to be unrelated....  Read Story.


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