Todays Health News
| Study: Colonoscopy cuts colon cancer death risk - AP - msnbc.com |
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Millions of people have endured a colonoscopy, believing the dreaded exam may help keep them from dying of colon cancer. For the first time, a major study offers clear evidence that it does. Removing precancerous growths spotted during the test can cut the risk of dying from colon cancer in half ...
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| Is going gluten-free always necessary? - Boston Herald |
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LOS ANGELES — Given the growing amount of gluten-free foods available at the grocery store, it seems a number of people have trouble digesting that kind of food. But are they truly gluten-intolerant, and is there a clear diagnosis for that? Gluten sensitivity is the topic of a paper published ...
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| Vivus Weight-Loss Pill Qnexa Wins Backing of FDA Panel - Businessweek |
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Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Vivus Inc.’s weight-loss pill Qnexa won the backing of a U.S. advisory panel as the company seeks to gain approval for the first new obesity drug in 13 years. The shares doubled in late trading. Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted 20-2 today that Qnexa’s ...
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| Sex-changing treatment for kids: It's on the rise - msnbc.com |
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By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) - A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics ...
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| Hepatitis C deaths up, baby boomers most at risk - msnbc.com |
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Federal health officials are considering whether anyone born between 1945 and 1965 should get a one-time blood test to check if their livers harbor the ticking time bomb of hepatitis C. Deaths from hepatitis C are on the rise, and new data shows baby boomers are most at risk. Two-thirds of people ...
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| ANIMAL MUTILATION BY ANOTHER NAME: 'BREED STANDARDS' - American Reporter |
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BLOOMSBURG, Pa. -- Legislatures in Pennsylvania and Illinois are considering bills that would reduce or eliminate what animal welfare advocates call mutilations, and what breeders and American Kennel Club (AKC) call "breed standards." Because dogs are considered by state laws to be property ...
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| Judge strikes down law mandating sale of contraceptives - Orlando Sentinel |
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TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - A federal judge declared on Wednesday that a Washington state rule requiring pharmacists to dispense emergency contraceptives against their religious beliefs is unconstitutional. In a decision with national implications for the role of personal morality in the ...
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| Kansas attracts 5 bidders for 3 Medicaid contracts - AP - msnbc.com |
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Kansas officials announced Wednesday that five companies have submitted bids for three contracts to manage Medicaid, but skeptics of Gov. Sam Brownback's plan to overhaul the state's $2.9 billion-a-year program saw it as another sign of potential problems ...
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| Starved Wis. girl's statements detail her life - Philadelphia Daily News |
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MILWAUKEE - When the malnourished 15-year-old awoke each morning, she could hear her family eating and getting ready for the day. If she felt especially brave or desperate she would call to her stepmother and beg for food, but usually she just went back to bed and hoped her hunger pangs went away ...
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| Whooping cough shots for all - Minneapolis Star Tribune |
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A federal advisory panel wants all U.S. adults to get vaccinated against whooping cough. The panel voted Wednesday to expand its recommendation to include all those 65 and older who haven't gotten a whooping cough shot as an adult. Children have been vaccinated against whooping cough since the 1940s ...
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