| | Gates, Bloomberg pool riches to fight smoking
1:58PM CT
NEW YORK (AP) - Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking. | | |
Foreign-born TB cases need better control, US says
1:53AM CT
CHICAGO (AP) - Tuberculosis cases continue to fall in the United States, but some immigrants have disturbingly high rates of the disease, according to a study released Tuesday that called for more aggressive action. | | |
Women on antidepressants may benefit from Viagra
Jul 22 2008 6:38PM CT
CHICAGO (AP) - Viagra's effect in women has been disappointing, but a new small study finds those on antidepressants may benefit from taking the little blue pills. The research involving 98 premenopausal women found Viagra helped with orgasm. But the benefits did not extend to other aspects of sex such as desire, researchers report in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association. | | |
 FDA finds salmonella strain in jalapeno pepper
Jul 22 2008 3:28AM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Government inspectors finally have a big clue in the nationwide salmonella outbreak: They found the same bacteria strain on a single Mexican-grown jalapeno pepper handled in Texas — and issued a stronger warning for consumers to avoid fresh jalapenos. | | |
 Quest: Repairing more hearts with implanted pumps
Jul 21 2008 6:14PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - When it comes to hearts, Taneal Wilson won the lottery. A small pump implanted to keep the 31-year-old alive long enough for a heart transplant somehow helped Wilson's ravaged heart completely recover instead. | | |
Schering-Plough, Merck's Vytorin misses study goal
Jul 21 2008 4:34PM CT
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - In the latest disappointment for cholesterol pill Vytorin, a major European study in patients with heart valve disease found the drug didn't prevent worsening of the disease or lower the need for valve surgery, sending its makers' stock plunging. | | |
Health officials tout computer prescribing
Jul 21 2008 4:34PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Those hard-to-read scribbled prescriptions from doctors could soon become a rarity. Beginning Jan. 1, the federal government will boost Medicare's payments to doctors that send prescriptions electronically to a pharmacy rather than writing them out on paper and handing them to the patient. | | |
WHO says Asia should act against tuberculosis
Jul 21 2008 12:46AM CT
TOKYO (AP) - The World Health Organization urged Asian countries on Monday to take action against the growing threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis, warning that even more virulent forms of the disease could spread if they fail to do so. | | |
Singapore says will study kidney donor payments
Jul 21 2008 10:52AM CT
SINGAPORE (AP) - Singapore will study the possibility of paying some kidney donors to help meet demand for kidney transplants, the city-state's health minister said Monday. | | |
 Tomato scare ending; fears linger for many people
Jul 20 2008 3:34PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - The tomato scare may be over, but it has taken a toll — it's cost the industry an estimated $100 million and left millions of people with a new wariness about the safety of everyday foods. | | |
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