Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

Bacteria Prompts Vicks Nasal Spray Recall – 1250th Edition

Friday, November 20th, 2009

The Procter & Gamble Co. has recalled some 120,000 bottles of Vicks Sinex nasal spray after the company found bacteria in samples during routine testing.
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The Botax? Nip/Tuck Levy To Help Health Plan – 1251th Edition

Friday, November 20th, 2009

The White House and Senate Democrats have turned to a proposal to tax breast implants, tummy tucks, wrinkle-smoothing injections and other procedures as they search for ways to pay for costly health care overhaul plans.
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Cost Of Child Vaccines Fall, More Kids Saved – 1245th Edition

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty.
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Experts Say Radical Measures Won’t Stop H1N1 – 1244th Edition

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu — most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms — have failed to contain the disease.
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Kiss Drummer Talks About His Breast Cancer – 1236th Edition

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Former Kiss drummer Peter Criss speaks about his recent bout with breast cancer.
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Study: CT Scans Rule Out Heart Attacks Faster – 1237th Edition

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

A CT scan — a kind of super X-ray — provides a faster, cheaper way to diagnose a heart attack when someone goes to the emergency room with chest pains, a new study suggests.
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1.5M Per Day Getting Swine Flu Vaccine In China – 1238th Edition

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

China’s health minister said Wednesday his country is vaccinating 1.5 million people a day against swine flu, part of a mammoth effort to reach nearly 7 percent of inhabitants of the world’s most populous country by year’s end.
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AP Poll: Support For Curbs On Malpractice Lawsuits – 1239th Edition

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

It’s an issue that Democrats would rather not deal with as they shape a health care overhaul. Yet a new Associated Press poll says most Americans support curbs on medical malpractice lawsuits.
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1 Conjoined Twin Talking After Surgery – 1240th Edition

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

A Bangladeshi toddler separated this week from her conjoined twin sister was talking and behaving normally Thursday after waking from a medically induced coma, the head of the surgery team said.
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Health Bill Nears Debate After Positive CBO Review – 1241th Edition

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Congressional budget crunchers said Thurday the Democrats’ latest health care plan would hold down federal red ink for at least 20 years, an assessment that gave supporters hope as the Senate moved gingerly toward a historic debate.
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