AP - More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph "superbug,"the government reported in its first overall estimate of invasive disease caused by the germ.
AP - A shortage of National Health Service dentists in England has led some people to pull out their own teeth —or use super glue to stick crowns back on, a study says.
AP - Nearly two-thirds of academic leaders surveyed at U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals have financial ties to industry, illustrating how pervasive these relationships have become, researchers say.
AP - Hundreds of injuries linked to a brand of heart defibrillator wires were reported to the government by last winter, a consumer advocate said Tuesday in asking why the wires weren't recalled until this week.
AP - A man who claims he received 47 unneeded jolts from his implanted defibrillator is suing Medtronic over the broken wires the company is recalling.
Reuters - Patients who undergo weight-loss stomach surgery have a higher death rate than is true for the general population, including more suicides, perhaps linked to depression, researchers said on Monday.
AP - The Vatican said Saturday it has suspended a monsignor from a senior post at the Holy See after an Italian TV program using a hidden camera recorded him making advances to a young man and asserting that gay sex was not sinful.
Reuters - Dawn has not yet broken but already more than 1,000 sick children queue outside a hospital in Phnom Penh in a desperate wait to get treatment for dengue, a mosquito-borne disease taking a heavy toll on Cambodia's young.
Reuters - U.S. lawmakers criticized Medicare on Tuesday for failing to properly audit the privately run health plans that provide coverage for about 7 million senior and disabled people in the government program.
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Oct. 16 (HealthDay News) -- A new gene associated with humanlung cancer has been identified. The finding about the Dmp1 genemay help improve understanding of what goes wrong at the cellular level tocause lung cancer.
