National News Desk

News in category: Major Medical

Posted by Chrissie Cole
November 26, 2009 12:29 AM

Homeowners must sign up by Dec. 2 to participate in a class-action lawsuit against Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin, a manufacturer believed to be a source of defective Chinese drywall.

Posted by Jane Akre
November 23, 2009 10:45 AM

Senators barely squeaked by a vote to begin debate on its version of health care reform, but the public option remains a huge sticking point. The debate should begin after the Thanksgiving holiday.

Posted by Jane Akre
November 20, 2009 10:19 PM

Will 60 Senators agree to vote together in a rare Saturday session that sets the stage for the Senate health care reform debate? The vote is set for 8 p.m. Saturday and will determine whether health care reform advances or stalls.

Posted by Jane Akre
November 20, 2009 12:47 AM

Dr. Susan Lark, who reports online on women's health issues, is encouraging women to seek out thermography to measure the heat generated by breast cancers, as a more accurate tool than traditional mammography.

Posted by Jane Akre
November 18, 2009 11:02 AM

Medtronic has received a warning letter from the FDA about problems at its Mounds View, Minnesota facility where heart implants are made. This is the latest in a long line of problems found with the company's medical devices.

Posted by Jane Akre
November 17, 2009 12:22 PM

There are 19 million newly diagnosed cases of sexually transmitted diseases(STD)a year, almost half among 15 to 24 year old females, finds this federal report from the CDC. African-American females have 20 times the gonorrhea rates than Caucasians showing the prevention message is not being heard.

Posted by Jane Akre
November 17, 2009 10:46 AM

In a sudden turnabout, a major policy setting organization is discouraing regular mammograms for women in their 40s, saying the anxiety from false positives and surgical procedures outweighs the benefits.

Posted by Chrissie Cole
November 17, 2009 12:05 AM

Food-borne infections can have long-lasting health effects that can be as serious as kidney failure, paralysis, hearing or visual impairments, according to a recent study by the Center for Food-borne Illness Research and Prevention.

Posted by Jane Akre
November 16, 2009 11:20 AM

Zetia did not do as well in reducing plaque in the artery wall of the neck as the simple B vitamin, niacin, in this published study, which was curtailed early because of the results.

Posted by Jane Akre
November 13, 2009 1:53 PM

Baby Boomers are fast becoming the elders of our time, but the rates of disability among people in their 60s exceeded those in their 70s and 80s, a disturbing trend that is blamed, in part, on obesity.

Posted by Jane Akre
November 13, 2009 10:51 AM

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a common brain change seen in about one in five veterans returning from Iraq and Afganistan. Now researchers are scanning the brain and are able to see subtle traumatic brain injuries - the first step to effective treatment for all kinds of neurological disorders that come from trauma.

Posted by Jane Akre
November 12, 2009 2:00 PM

The state of Connecticut may be facing a $150 million lawsuit by the family of Charla Nash as it did not enforce the law against owning primates over 50 pounds. Meanwhile Nash revealed what's left of her face on Oprah Wednesday. She doesn't remember the attack by Travis the 200-pound chimp last February.

Posted by Jane Akre
November 12, 2009 11:41 AM

The CDC now has revised upwards its estimate of the number of people who've died from swine flu to 4,000 when it tallies in those with bacterial infections and pneumonia. Meanwhile a Virginia teen has suffered a serious reaction and critics say we need to tighten up adverse event reporting to get a better handle on the big picture.

Posted by Jane Akre
November 11, 2009 8:31 PM

BPA exposed factory workers in China experienced a nearly four-fold increased risk of reduced sexual desire, a greater than four-fold increased risk of erection difficulty, and more than seven-fold increased risk of ejaculation difficulty, in this first look at how the plasticizer may be impacting human health.

Posted by Jane Akre
November 11, 2009 2:08 PM

The vast majority of the $4.5 billion advertising budget for Big Pharma is spent on TV and magazine ads. The drug industry wants to move into the Internet and will seek guidelines and push its case when it meets with the FDA this week.

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