AP - In an ideal world, every heart attack would end like Willard "Ziggy"Hill's. Within 90 minutes of arriving at a small community hospital in North Carolina, he was having a blocked artery reopened at Duke University Medical Center 25 miles away.
AP - A new blood thinner proved better than Plavix, one of the world's top-selling drugs, at preventing heart problems after procedures to open clogged arteries, doctors reported Sunday. But the new drug also raised the risk of serious bleeding.
AP - A Democratic senator on Saturday accused President Bush of "hollow talk"in support of U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and said the Bush administration has not done nearly enough to provide veterans with the care they need.
AP - Six years after the Taliban's ouster, medical care in Afghanistan has improved such that nearly 90,000 children who would have died before age 5 in 2001 will survive this year, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday.
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Among prostate cancerpatients undergoing a high-tech form of radiation therapy, exposure to ahigher amount of radiation over a shorter time span poses no added riskfor impaired sexual function, new research reveals.
HealthDay - SUNDAY, Nov. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnant women who had aurinary tract infection (UTI) from one month before conception through thefirst trimester of pregnancy were 70 percent more likely than womenwithout UTI to have a baby with a defect called hypoplastic left heartsyndrome (underdeveloped left side of the heart), a U.S. study finds.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 1 (HealthDay News) -- In 2006, introduction of the U.S.Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit increased the number of seniors'prescriptions by 158 million, at a cost of $32 billion to Medicare, a newstudy concludes.
AFP - Scientists have mapped the genetic aberrations underlying lung cancer and discovered a gene that plays a critical role in spreading the deadly disease, according to a study published Sunday.
