Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/751 health Health News en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:52:25 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/751 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_women_s_tests ap/20091121/us_health_care_women_s_tests AP business Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:52:25 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_women_s_tests"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.37f8201929454db5b50c33967b153e88.health_care_overhaul_dcmc109.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=X1Leqa4hbWdvZzsW.CBErA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, gestures during a health care reform news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. From left are, Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., McConnell, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)" border="0" /></a>AP - Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care &mdash; and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_women_s_tests"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.37f8201929454db5b50c33967b153e88.health_care_overhaul_dcmc109.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=X1Leqa4hbWdvZzsW.CBErA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, gestures during a health care reform news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. From left are, Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., McConnell, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/us_marines_mental_health ap/20091120/us_marines_mental_health AP us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:59:04 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/us_marines_mental_health"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.16ab189d86644d8f9ac7957e0a158af6.marines_mental_health_ncjb102.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=lTWo._deyGMNXX.qZo6SjA--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Dr. Kernan Manion poses for a photograph in his officer in Hampstead, N.C., Friday, Nov. 20, 2008. Dr. Manion a psychiatrist was fired after he complained about conditions for his patients at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., In e-mails shown to The Associated Press, Manion had questioned why the clinic, a series of bug-infested trailers with paper-thin walls, was located near a firing range on the 240-square-mile base. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)" border="0" /></a>AP - Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/us_marines_mental_health"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.16ab189d86644d8f9ac7957e0a158af6.marines_mental_health_ncjb102.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=lTWo._deyGMNXX.qZo6SjA--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Dr. Kernan Manion poses for a photograph in his officer in Hampstead, N.C., Friday, Nov. 20, 2008. Dr. Manion a psychiatrist was fired after he complained about conditions for his patients at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., In e-mails shown to The Associated Press, Manion had questioned why the clinic, a series of bug-infested trailers with paper-thin walls, was located near a firing range on the 240-square-mile base. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_re/us_rel_catholic_bishops ap/20091117/us_rel_catholic_bishops AP us Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:55:28 GMT AP - A preliminary report commissioned by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops on the roots of the clergy sex abuse scandal found no evidence that gay priests are more likely than heterosexual clergy to molest children, the lead authors of the study said Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu ap/20091120/us_med_swine_flu AP health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:18:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091121/capt.photo_1258801427265-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=ZROD7rRXnvIzNhYpzul4zg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="In this picture taken on November 10, an Afghan man (R) wearing a mask rides his bicycle in a street in Kabul. Afghan schools and most tertiary institutions will reopen on Sunday after being shut for three weeks following the country's first swine flu death, the education ministry said Saturday.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)" border="0" /></a>AP - Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091121/capt.photo_1258801427265-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=ZROD7rRXnvIzNhYpzul4zg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this picture taken on November 10, an Afghan man (R) wearing a mask rides his bicycle in a street in Kabul. Afghan schools and most tertiary institutions will reopen on Sunday after being shut for three weeks following the country's first swine flu death, the education ministry said Saturday.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_bi_ge/us_sec_lawsuit_mantria ap/20091117/us_sec_lawsuit_mantria AP business Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:16:00 GMT AP - Federal regulators have accused four people and two companies of fraud in an alleged $30 million Ponzi scheme that lured 300 investors nationwide in purported eco-friendly investments. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_vaccine_mess ap/20091120/us_med_swine_flu_vaccine_mess AP health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:51:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_vaccine_mess"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.d61e54580e1f4eb5887c84771377be15.swine_flu_vaccine_mess_ny121.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=cJDq_Dv8TaAPpI__k861Dw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="In this Oct. 8, 2009 file photo, frontline care providers like nurse Gail Symanik, left, is given the swine flu live virus vaccine nasal mist by nurse practitioner Judy Gallob at the Maricopa Medical Center, in Phoenix. When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be 'messy.' (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_vaccine_mess"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.d61e54580e1f4eb5887c84771377be15.swine_flu_vaccine_mess_ny121.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=cJDq_Dv8TaAPpI__k861Dw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Oct. 8, 2009 file photo, frontline care providers like nurse Gail Symanik, left, is given the swine flu live virus vaccine nasal mist by nurse practitioner Judy Gallob at the Maricopa Medical Center, in Phoenix. When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be 'messy.' (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/hl_nm/us_obesity_adolescence nm/20091120/us_obesity_adolescence Reuters health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:15:23 GMT Reuters - A woman's risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) during her lifetime is doubled if she was obese at age 18, new research shows. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091120/hl_hsn/spraymaydelayejaculation hsn/20091120/spraymaydelayejaculation HealthDay health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:25:42 GMT HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A spray touted as the first potential treatment for premature ejaculation has proved effective in a second study, according to the company that developed it. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091121/hl_nm/us_california_marijuana1 nm/20091121/us_california_marijuana1 Reuters health Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:29:36 GMT Reuters - Past the security man and his pit bull and through a haze of eye-watering smoke, two youths load up a pipe next to a row of shiny glass jars with two dozen varieties of marijuana bud displayed like candy. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/hl_afp/healthchildrendiseasetelomere afp/20091120/healthchildrendiseasetelomere AFP health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:31:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/hl_afp/healthchildrendiseasetelomere"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091120/capt.photo_1258745459849-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=554NAj84bSFQ8gObbO0dLw--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="This undated illustration shows the DNA double helix. Beaten or sexually abused children are more likely to show accelerated ageing of cells later in life, a condition linked to higher rates of cancer and heart disease, according to a study released Friday.(AFP/HO/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Beaten or sexually abused children are more likely to show accelerated ageing of cells later in life, a condition linked to higher rates of cancer and heart disease, according to a study released Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/hl_afp/healthchildrendiseasetelomere"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091120/capt.photo_1258745459849-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=554NAj84bSFQ8gObbO0dLw--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="This undated illustration shows the DNA double helix. Beaten or sexually abused children are more likely to show accelerated ageing of cells later in life, a condition linked to higher rates of cancer and heart disease, according to a study released Friday.(AFP/HO/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091120/hl_hsn/dietcognitiveabilitymayplayroleinheartdisease hsn/20091120/dietcognitiveabilitymayplayroleinheartdisease HealthDay health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:25:45 GMT HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Seniors who eat plenty of fruits and vegetables and who have good cognitive function are much less likely to die from heart disease than those who have poorer cognitive function and eat fewer fruits and vegetables, a new study has found. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/hl_afp/healthwomenuscancercervical afp/20091120/healthwomenuscancercervical AFP health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:40:07 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/hl_afp/healthwomenuscancercervical"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091120/capt.photo_1258723640104-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=57yccaasOykemFWHi5T.Qw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="A nurse administering a vaccine. Women should not get their first cervical cancer screening before age 21, according to the leading US group of women's health care professionals who also recommended less frequent subsequent tests.(AFP/File/Thierry Zoccolan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Women should not get their first cervical cancer screening before age 21, the leading US group of women's health care professionals said Friday, also recommending less frequent subsequent tests.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/hl_afp/healthwomenuscancercervical"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091120/capt.photo_1258723640104-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=57yccaasOykemFWHi5T.Qw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="A nurse administering a vaccine. Women should not get their first cervical cancer screening before age 21, according to the leading US group of women's health care professionals who also recommended less frequent subsequent tests.(AFP/File/Thierry Zoccolan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/hl_afp/healthuscancercervical afp/20091120/healthuscancercervical AFP health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:28:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/hl_afp/healthuscancercervical"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091120/capt.photo_1258723640104-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=57yccaasOykemFWHi5T.Qw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="A nurse administering a vaccine. Women should not get their first cervical cancer screening before age 21, according to the leading US group of women's health care professionals who also recommended less frequent subsequent tests.(AFP/File/Thierry Zoccolan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Days after controversy erupted over new breast cancer screening guidelines, a US health group has said women should wait longer to get their first cervical cancer test.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/hl_afp/healthuscancercervical"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091120/capt.photo_1258723640104-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=57yccaasOykemFWHi5T.Qw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="A nurse administering a vaccine. Women should not get their first cervical cancer screening before age 21, according to the leading US group of women's health care professionals who also recommended less frequent subsequent tests.(AFP/File/Thierry Zoccolan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_he_me/as_med_vaccine_price_drop ap/20091120/as_med_vaccine_price_drop AP health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:23:27 GMT AP - 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. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091116/ap_on_re_us/us_aids_in_the_south ap/20091116/us_aids_in_the_south AP health Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:09:47 GMT AP - When Robin Webb lived in New York City, he was treated by HIV specialists and had access to counseling and nutritional programs. Now he lives in Mississippi, where few of those services exist. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_he_me/us_med_obesity_counties ap/20091120/us_med_obesity_counties AP health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:31:04 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_he_me/us_med_obesity_counties"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.225e82a7edd44121a49a1bfd5ccc8c69.obesity_counties_msrs103.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=xEegYgzNTK_VdSPojIN3kg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="A resident is photographed Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 walking around downtown Lexington, Miss., in Holmes County. The first national statistics that look at obesity on the county level show that Mississippi has three counties among the worst in the nation, Humphreys, Jefferson and Holmes. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than in about 75 percent of counties in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia and South Carolina. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)" border="0" /></a>AP - The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than 80 percent of counties in the Appalachian region that includes Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_he_me/us_med_obesity_counties"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.225e82a7edd44121a49a1bfd5ccc8c69.obesity_counties_msrs103.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=xEegYgzNTK_VdSPojIN3kg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="A resident is photographed Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 walking around downtown Lexington, Miss., in Holmes County. The first national statistics that look at obesity on the county level show that Mississippi has three counties among the worst in the nation, Humphreys, Jefferson and Holmes. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than in about 75 percent of counties in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia and South Carolina. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091114/hl_hsn/folicacidlateinpregnancytiedtoasthmainkids hsn/20091114/folicacidlateinpregnancytiedtoasthmainkids HealthDay health Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:48:56 GMT HealthDay - FRIDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Children born to women who take folic acid in late pregnancy are at increased risk for asthma, Australian researchers say. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091120/hl_hsn/appalachiasoutheasthithardestbyobesityanddiabetes hsn/20091120/appalachiasoutheasthithardestbyobesityanddiabetes HealthDay health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:25:34 GMT HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- While rates of obesity are climbing across America, they are especially high in sections of Appalachia and the Southeast, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports in its first county-by-county survey.