michael c hall

2010-03-16T18:16:54Z

Michael C. Hall arrives at a West Hollywood restaurant to meet a friend for lunch. The Dexter star, who has has been battling Hodgkin's Lymphoma, will finish his long and grueling cancer treatment with a chemotherapy session this week. Los Angeles, California - 15.03.10

Clinic: Woman championed by Obama eligible for aid

2010-03-16T19:15:44Z

<div id="subtitle">Hospital: Ohioan who championed by Obama doesn't have to choose between her home, her health</div><div><p>A woman championed as the Obama administration's emblem for health care reform does not have to choose between her home and her health, according to officials at the Ohio hospital where she is being treated.</p><p>With a self-reported annual i...

victoria beckham lax

2010-03-16T17:20:56Z

Victoria Beckham arrives at LAX airport to catch a flight to see her husband David, who had underwent surgery to repair his torn left Achilles tendon Los Angeles, California - 15.03.10

Report: Equipment at PR veterans clinics not clean

2010-03-16T17:17:47Z

<div id="subtitle">US gov't finds medical equipment not properly cleaned at some Puerto Rico veterans clinics</div><div><p>Federal inspectors found medical equipment not properly cleaned or inspected at some of the clinics for veterans in Puerto Rico, a U.S. government report said Tuesday.</p><p>Senior staff knew about the problem but did nothing to assess the risk to patients, added the report by the inspe...

Antidepressants can help people with physical ills

2010-03-16T17:17:43Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Antidepressants such as Eli Lilly's Prozac or GlaxoSmithKline's Paxil can help depressed patients with physical illness, and doctors should consider them more often,...

Triplet births rising and death rates high: study

2010-03-16T17:17:40Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Triplet births are on the increase, even when IVF pregnancies are discounted, and the death rate for triplets is 10 times higher than for single births, Norwegian scientists said on Wednesday.</p><p>The researchers, who said their findings were likely to be similar in other parts of Europe, said the increase in triplet pregnancies was pr...

Autopsy reports released in AZ sweat lodge deaths

2010-03-16T16:45:11Z

<div id="subtitle">Autopsy reports point to heat stroke, organ failure in Arizona sweat lodge deaths</div><div><p>Autopsy reports released Tuesday point to heat stroke as the cause of death for two people following an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony last year, and to multi-system organ failure for a third person.</p><p>A Yavapai county judge ordered the first and last pages of the reports released following a hearing ...

Sebelius confident health care bill will pass

2010-03-16T16:33:44Z

<div><p>U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs) says she's confident the House will have the votes to pass President Barack Obama's health care legislation — possibly by Friday.</p><p>Sebelius spoke Tuesday in Chicago at a conference on aging.</p><p>Her remarks come as the

Myriad breast cancer patent very broad, study finds

2010-03-16T16:00:42Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Myriad Genetics' disputed patent on the BRCA1 breast cancer gene is "surprisingly broad" and could interfere with future research, three experts said on Tuesday.</p><p>Their ongoing research indicates some other gene patents are similarly extensive, covering stretches of DNA that have nothing to do with th...

Age likely a factor in colon cancer chemotherapy

2010-03-16T16:00:19Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Older patients with colon cancer are less likely to receive chemotherapy after surgery than younger people but have fewer serious side-effects when they do get the treatment, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.</p><p>When older patients do receive the treatment, it tends to be at a less toxic dose and over a shorter period than younger patients receive, according to a study in t...

Clinic: Ohioan championed by Obama will keep home

2010-03-16T15:17:34Z

<div id="subtitle">Hospital: Ohioan who has become Obama's calling card on health care won't lose her home</div><div><p>A cancer patient who has emerged as the emblem of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was stunned last month when she unsealed a handwritten letter from none other than the president himself.</p><p>Natoma Canfield, 50, had written to Obama before the holidays to request that he...

Post-heart attack fatalities higher in women than men: study

2010-03-16T15:17:10Z

<div><p>Women who suffer a heart attack are twice as likely as men to die within the following month because they receive different medical treatment than men, researchers said Tuesday.</p><p>The study examined 3,000 women and men hospitalized in the French region of Franche-Comte after a cardiac event between 2006 and 2007, and examined the treatment they received.</p><p>It found women were less likely...

Science wins key battles but could cancer win the war?

2010-03-16T15:17:09Z

<div><p>Despite huge advances in prevention and treatment, cancer is poised to become the leading cause of death worldwide as people refuse to ditch bad habits and the population ages, experts said Tuesday.</p><p>In the United States, medical advances and education campaigns have helped slash the death rate from cancer by nearly 16 percent in 20 years, GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators are taking a closer look at how well devices used by diabetics to monitor their blood sugars work, seeking possible changes for device makers to help make them more reliable.</p><p>At a two-day meeting to review blood glucose meters,

First Lady to food makers: Hurry up on healthy food

2010-03-16T14:32:53Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Food manufacturers need to work faster to re-formulate and re-package food so that it is healthier for kids, U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama said on Tuesday.</p><p>Obama, who is spearheading an administration initiative on child obesity, praised members of the Reuters) - Genetic tests designed to predict how well lung cancer patients will fare after treatment do very little to guide doctors, government researchers said on Tuesday.</p><p>Their review of studies aiming to show a gene signature for lung tumors found serious problems in the design and analysis of the studies.</p><p>Researchers need some clear guidelines to follow in wh...

GOP says Dems' plan on health bill abuses rules

2010-03-16T14:16:41Z

<div id="subtitle">GOP challenges legitimacy of health overhaul, saying Dems abuse rules, ignore public</div><div><p>It is a brazen abuse of Congress' rules. Or a legitimate tactic used many times by both parties.</p><p>Republicans and Democrats have sharply divergent views about the method being contemplated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a final vote on Reuters Health) - Black women who tend to eat foods more likely to lead to higher blood sugar may have slightly greater risk for uterine fibroids, suggest study findings.</p><p>Uterine fibroids - noncancerous growths that often cause heavy menstrual bleeding and cramping during childbearing years - are 2 to 3 times more likely in black women than in other American women.</p><p>...

Colo. medical marijuana growers report invasion

2010-03-16T13:45:30Z

<div id="subtitle">Colorado medical marijuana growers say men broke into home, tied them up, stole pot and guns</div><div><p>Deputies are investigating a report that armed men broke into a northern Colorado home where medical marijuana was being grown, tied up two people, ransacked the residence and stole marijuana and guns.</p><p>Larimer County sheriff'...

Nutrition Articles : Fruit Facts and Nutritional Values of the Best Fruits to Enjoy Great Health

2010-03-16T18:41:02Z

Fruits are considered to have highly dietetic value and they hold a fantastic source of essential minerals, enzymes, antioxidants, vitamins and phyto nutrients. Normally, if you want to find out all the benefits of these natural medicines, you would need to go through several nutrition articles. I can?t list all the resources I have gone through to find out which fruits are the best for you and are the most nutritionally crammed, (There?s a lot) but I will do my best to lay out the a few frui...

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