BBC NewsDiabetes drug 'trumps fat pill'BBC NewsA diabetes injection appears more effective at promoting weight loss than one of the leading obesity drugs, trials suggest. Patients receiving liraglutide, which contains a satiety hormone, were twice as likely to lose significant amounts of weight as ...Diabetes jab better than obesity drug at cutting weightTelegraph.co.ukInvestigational drug may promote weight lossLos Angeles TimesDiabetes drug also helps weight loss for obese: studyAFPTheHeart.Org -Nursing Times -A Sweet Life, the source for the healthy diabetic (blog)all 63 news articles »
BBC NewsDespite the demand for swine flu vaccine, many Santa Clara County...San Jose Mercury NewsOctober 22, 2009. A Kaiser Permanente employee receives the H1N1 vaccine from Leslie Yao, RN, at Kaiser Permanente in Santa Clara. (LiPo Ching/Mercury News) As a schoolteacher, Amy Yale is surrounded by the primary transmitters of ...H1N1 vaccine a tough sell to pregnant womenLos Angeles TimesNew York suspends mandatory flu shots for health workersCNNVaccine scares some parents more than virusDetroit Free PressWBUR -Royal Oak Daily Tribune -The Coloradoanall 5,120 news articles »
Best SyndicationIn Massachusetts, Obama won't promote state's planWashington PostPresident Obama will travel Friday to Massachusetts, one of only two states to implement a universal health-care program similar to his ambitions for the entire country. But he does not plan to use the trip to make his case for ...Health reform a "slow moving freight train"ReutersHow Health Reform Bills Would - And Wouldn't - Affect Illegal ImmigrantsKaiser Health NewsPanel addresses health-care reform concernsMacon TelegraphABC News -NACS Online -Dentistry IQall 187 news articles »
Niles Daily StarWhat to Do About 'Stage Zero' Breast Cancer?U.S. News &World ReportAbnormal cells proliferating in a breast duct means surgery (at least). Will it always be that way? By Katherine Hobson Imagine that you go in for a regular mammogram and are told, happily, that you do not have breast cancer. But, your doctor says, ...Local groups recognize Breast Cancer Awareness MonthBloomington PantagraphSeguin joins fight against breast cancerSeguin Gazette-EnterpriseVolleyball teams will Dig Pink at FPS city meetMirrorPittsburg Morning Sun -Middletown Journal -Arizona Republicall 532 news articles »
TopNews United StatesFDA chief backs food safety overhaulLos Angeles TimesBut Commissioner Margaret Hamburg tells the Senate that Congress must also fund the reforms, which are aimed at helping the agency prevent food-borne illness rather than just respond to it. By Andrew Zajac Reporting from Washington - Food and Drug ...FDA Chief Says Agency Needs More Funding to Implement Safety MeasuresWall Street JournalSenate food bill good 1st step, needs work: FDAReutersFDA Commissioner vehemently endorses FDA-overhaul legislationTopNews United StatesFood Safety News -Washington Post -New York Timesall 437 news articles »
Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles could act on medical pot in early NovemberLos Angeles TimesA proposal to ban all sales of medical marijuana in the city is unlikely to be taken up next week. Aides to Councilman Smith say he supports it and believes it would force most dispensaries to close. By John Hoeffel The Los Angeles City Council moved ...LA will consider pot ordinanceUnited Press InternationalJudge mulls longer medical marijuana banFresno BeeMedical marijuana ordinance fast-tracked by LA City Council89.3 KPCCCanon City Daily Record -KMJ Now -CNNall 579 news articles »
Times OnlineHIV vaccine trial's success more modest than thoughtWashington PostThe "modest" success of an HIV vaccine clinical trial in Thailand, trumpeted by researchers last month as a milestone in the AIDS pandemic, is turning out to be even more modest than originally advertised. Full details of the study, ...AIDS Vaccine Trial Shows Only Slight ProtectionNew York TimesFurther Study Undercuts HIV VaccineWall Street JournalExperts Study Thriving HIV "Controllers" in Vaccine SearchABC NewsLos Angeles Times -TIME -Reutersall 633 news articles »
Bay Area ReporterAfrica should protect children from AIDS-MachelReutersBy Peroshni Govender JOHANNESBURG, Oct 22 (Reuters) - African leaders should be more serious about protecting the continent's children from AIDS and it is time for them to change state spending priorities, Nelson Mandela's wife Graca Machel said on ...Pelosi's effort to protect AIDS funds failsSan Francisco ChronicleHouse Approves Bill Helping Low-Income HIV PatientsWall Street JournalCDC promotes HIV awarenessThe Rice ThresherAFP -New York Times -California Healthlineall 126 news articles »
1010 WinsMumps Outbreak In Brooklyn, At Least 57 CasesGothamistThe city's health department announced there is a mumps outbreak in Brooklyn, with at least 57 "confirmed or probable cases." How? Well, the Daily News reports, "The outbreak was traced to a child who went to Britain - where the illness is more common ...Mumps outbreak in Lakewood NJJackson NJ OnlineNew York Mumps Outbreak Strikes 57 People Between Ages Of 1 To 42AHN15 cases of mumps found in LakewoodAsbury Park PressPhiladelphia Inquirer -New York Daily News -NJ.comall 25 news articles »
Health JackalVaccine Against Virus in Girls May Be Given to BoysNew York TimesGardasil, the vaccine used to immunize girls and young women against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, may now be given to boys and young men to protect them from genital warts, a federal advisory group ...Federal panel does not recommend Gardasil in boys... now what?Baltimore SunU.S. advisers decline to push Gardasil vaccine for boysReutersCDC Panel Says No to Routine Use of Gardasil for BoysAtlanta Journal ConstitutionMedscape -San Francisco Chronicle -U.S. News &World Reportall 355 news articles »
