AP - More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year —the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday.
AP - The euphoria of a soldier's homecoming from Iraq often gives way to depression, stress and trouble dealing with family members during the first months home, a new Pentagon study finds.
AP - A federal patient privacy rule has had a chilling effect on medical research, making it tougher to recruit patients and use their health records, the first national survey on the topic suggests.
AP - An organ donor infected four transplant patients with the AIDS virus in what a donor group says is the first such transmission in the U.S. in at least 13 years.
AP - Health officials in Haiti are rolling out the largest mass vaccination campaign in the impoverished country's history, aimed to inoculate every child against rubella, polio and other diseases, a U.N. doctor said Tuesday.
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- In mice, a low-carbohydrate dietslowed prostate tumor growth, possibly because fewer carbohydrates leadsto a drop in insulin production, U.S. researchers say.
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- The number of Americansnewly infected with a sexually transmitted disease (STD) continues torise, federal health officials say, with one infection in particular -- chlamydia - hitting an record million-plus new cases annually.
AFP - Measles could kill up to 6,000 children a year in the Philippines unless the country steps up its immunisation programme, the World Health Organisation warned Tuesday.
HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Correcting nursing home residents'poor vision not only boosts quality of life, it may lower risks fordepression, U.S. researchers report.
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- A new study is questioningthe conventional wisdom of checking on the health of 12 lymph nodes aftercolon cancer surgery.
