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Surprises about Planned Parenthood cancer testing

To many people, breast cancer screening means a mammogram. But for millions of poor, mostly young women who visit Planned Parenthood, it is usually just a physical exam by the only health … more

Marilynn Marchione
AP Chief Medical Writer | 2/6/12 | 185 views

Cars, kids, and secondhand smoke

CHICAGO (AP) - Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list. In the first … more

Lindsey Tanner
AP Medical Writer | 2/6/12 | 159 views

Maine girl bouncing back after 6-organ transplant

HOLLIS, Maine (AP) - A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes - and a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus … more

Clarke Canfield
Associated Press | 2/6/12 | 154 views

Rural clinics help provide health care in Alabama

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — Evelyn Ashton has been going to Phil Campbell Medical Clinic for 20 years. She's convinced if not for the down home personal care she receives at the clinic, she would … more

Hannah Mask and Tom Smith
TimesDaily | 1/30/12 | 440 views

Schools struggle to make healthy meals popular

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Students at Roosevelt High School have declared a food fight to win back peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Fed up with new, healthy cafeteria cuisine that features … more

Christina Hoag
Associated Press | 1/30/12 | 368 views

Training aims to help treat veterans' stress

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - For Jason Jones, returning from military service was like dropping into an alien world. The Indianapolis resident served a three-year stint with the U.S. Army in Germany. His … more

Ryan Trares
Daily Journal | 1/30/12 | 193 views

Amylin's long-delayed diabetes drug gets FDA nod

WASHINGTON (AP) - Amylin Pharmaceuticals won approval Friday for its long-delayed diabetes drug Bydureon, a next-generation treatment that requires fewer injections than the company's 7-year old … more

1/30/12 | 184 views

Meth use: A new burning problem

ST. LOUIS — A crude new method of making methamphetamine poses a risk even to Americans who never get anywhere near the drug: It is filling hospitals with thousands of uninsured burn patients … more

By Jim Salter
Associated Press | 1/24/12 | 352 views

Pot prescription options coming?

SAN FRANCISCO — A quarter-century after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drugs based on the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, additional medicines … more

By Lisa Leff
Associated Press | 1/23/12 | 351 views

Quarter of pregnant women checking thyroid, study finds

WASHINGTON (AP) — Check-ups during pregnancy tend to focus around the waist. But there's growing debate about which mothers-to-be should have a gland in their neck tested, too. Numerous studies … more

1/3/12 | 363 views