With override unlikely, Democrats vow to repass the plan, forcing Republicans to again deny a popular priority.With his long-promised veto Wednesday of a bill to expand health insurance for children, President Bush has ignited an ideological battle that could well rage on into next year's presidential campaign.
A change may be brewing for U.S. drugstores: The government is mulling more "behind-the-counter" sales, to let patients buy certain medicines directly from pharmacists without a doctor's prescription.
Having an X-ray to look for signs of colon cancer may soon be an option for those who dread the traditional scope exam. Two of the largest studies yet of "virtual colonoscopy" show the experimental technique works just as well at spotting potentially cancerous growths as the more invasive method. It's also quicker and cheaper.
The analysis shows considerably lower hospitalization and death rates in those 65 and up. Other research had showed no clear benefit.In an analysis that rebuts the notion that flu shots are of no benefit to people 65 and older, scientists have found that the annual jab reduces the risk of hospitalization and death in the elderly.
Funding to prevent attacks like the 2001 anthrax crisis has given more people access to toxic substances -- and brought more accidents.The researcher at Texas A&M University had never been trained to handle Brucella , a bacterium included on the government's select list of potential bioweapon microbes.
A miner who guided scientists to a mine believed to have been the source of an Ebola-like outbreak has contracted the disease, health officials said Wednesday.
Prevention and early detection could drastically reduce the incidence of chronic disease, researchers say.The rapid rise in preventable chronic diseases -- such as obesity and heart disease -- over the last 20 years is hurting U.S. economic productivity, escalating treatment costs and causing unnecessary suffering, a new report says.
Veterans disability payments should be increased immediately by up to 25 percent as part of a sweeping overhaul designed to compensate for a wounded warrior's lost "quality of life," a special commission recommended Wednesday.
Male patients are two to three times more likely to receive implanted defibrillators than women, studies find.Elderly male heart patients are two to three times more likely than females to receive implanted devices that shock a malfunctioning heart back into normal rhythms, and white men are about a third more likely than black men to receive them, researchers reported today.
