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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1769 Most Recommended Health en-us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:03:31 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1769 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_obesity_rankings ap/20090702/us_med_obesity_rankings AP health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:44:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_obesity_rankings"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090623/capt.photo_1245787955960-1-0.jpg?x=78&y=130&q=85&sig=IWbOVh.qr0tQS9BvGzKEVQ--" align="left" height="130" width="78" alt="Obesity during early adulthood raises the chances that a person will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, according to a study released Tuesday.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_obesity_rankings"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090623/capt.photo_1245787955960-1-0.jpg?x=78&y=130&q=85&sig=IWbOVh.qr0tQS9BvGzKEVQ--" align="left" height="130" width="78" alt="photo" title="Obesity during early adulthood raises the chances that a person will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, according to a study released Tuesday.(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_michael_jackson_raising_the_dead ap/20090701/us_med_michael_jackson_raising_the_dead AP health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:23:09 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_michael_jackson_raising_the_dead"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.0bc33b261b4b4bb08a01ffdf132bc9bd.michael_jackson_raising_the_dead_cars603.jpg?x=130&y=100&q=85&sig=TF_bu_6fW5bpyuu3Xn3soA--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="Dr. Gerald Buckberg, a cardiac surgeon at UCLA, poses next to a computer display in his office at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles Tuesday, June 30, 2009. The screen shows an illustration of how a heart-lung machine is used in an emergency room setting to keep blood and oxygen moving through the body. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)" border="0" /></a>AP - When Michael Jackson went into cardiac arrest, rescuers took him to a place known for bringing the dead back to life. A world-renowned surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center has pioneered a way to revive people that most doctors would have long written off, including a woman whose heart had stopped for 2 1/2 hours.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_michael_jackson_raising_the_dead"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.0bc33b261b4b4bb08a01ffdf132bc9bd.michael_jackson_raising_the_dead_cars603.jpg?x=130&y=100&q=85&sig=TF_bu_6fW5bpyuu3Xn3soA--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="photo" title="Dr. Gerald Buckberg, a cardiac surgeon at UCLA, poses next to a computer display in his office at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles Tuesday, June 30, 2009. The screen shows an illustration of how a heart-lung machine is used in an emergency room setting to keep blood and oxygen moving through the body. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/healthfooddietaustraliavietnam afp/20090702/healthfooddietaustraliavietnam AFP health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:31:55 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/healthfooddietaustraliavietnam"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246530698434-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=URsI3y6pVobkjZizuzo70w--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A vegetarian salad. Australian researchers have said that people who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)" border="0" /></a>AFP - People who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, Australian researchers said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/healthfooddietaustraliavietnam"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246530698434-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=URsI3y6pVobkjZizuzo70w--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="A vegetarian salad. Australian researchers have said that people who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/med_swine_flu_resistance ap/20090629/med_swine_flu_resistance AP health Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:05:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/med_swine_flu_resistance"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246664572650-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=103&q=85&sig=vGWB0s08WiAVqePpD78rbQ--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="World Health Organization assistant director general Keiji Fukuda attends a plenary session of the WHO Summit "Influenza Lessons Learned and Preparedness", in Cancun, Mexico. Universal access to a swine flu vaccine remains a "critical question," the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.(AFP/Luis Acosta)" border="0" /></a>AP - For the first time, a case of swine flu has proven resistant to Tamiflu — the leading pharmaceutical weapon against the new virus, international health officials said Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/med_swine_flu_resistance"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246664572650-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=103&q=85&sig=vGWB0s08WiAVqePpD78rbQ--" align="left" height="103" width="130" alt="photo" title="World Health Organization assistant director general Keiji Fukuda attends a plenary session of the WHO Summit "Influenza Lessons Learned and Preparedness", in Cancun, Mexico. Universal access to a swine flu vaccine remains a "critical question," the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.(AFP/Luis Acosta)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_fawcett_anal_cancer ap/20090702/us_med_fawcett_anal_cancer AP health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:07:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_fawcett_anal_cancer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246416281036-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=hdmaHugqb7xzFaEHdIoL2Q--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Hundreds of mourners paid tribute to Farrah Fawcett as the "Charlie's Angels" star was laid to rest in a private ceremony in Los Angeles. The 62-year-old actress and pin-up girl died last Thursday after a three-year battle with anal cancer, news that was quickly overshadowed by the death of King of Pop Michael Jackson later that day.(AFP/Getty Images/Jason Merritt)" border="0" /></a>AP - In a perverse twist of medical fate, Farrah Fawcett has become the poster girl for anal cancer, a rare disease often linked to a sexually transmitted virus.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_fawcett_anal_cancer"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246416281036-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=hdmaHugqb7xzFaEHdIoL2Q--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="photo" title="Hundreds of mourners paid tribute to Farrah Fawcett as the "Charlie's Angels" star was laid to rest in a private ceremony in Los Angeles. The 62-year-old actress and pin-up girl died last Thursday after a three-year battle with anal cancer, news that was quickly overshadowed by the death of King of Pop Michael Jackson later that day.(AFP/Getty Images/Jason Merritt)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_swine_flu_research ap/20090702/us_med_swine_flu_research AP health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:03:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_swine_flu_research"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.911dc8a160b04620868479cfeba3d71e.argentina_swine_flu_bai108.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=_LBWDcYtKsk_iK_7cbH2gw--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="A physician holds samples of patients suspected of being infected with swine flu at a hospital in Buenos Aires, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Health authorities have warned that while the swine flu peak has passed in Mexico, the Southern Hemisphere is at risk as it heads deeper into its winter flu season as the nation's swine flu death toll surged to 35. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Pontoriero)" border="0" /></a>AP - With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is — so far — more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_swine_flu_research"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.911dc8a160b04620868479cfeba3d71e.argentina_swine_flu_bai108.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=_LBWDcYtKsk_iK_7cbH2gw--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="photo" title="A physician holds samples of patients suspected of being infected with swine flu at a hospital in Buenos Aires, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Health authorities have warned that while the swine flu peak has passed in Mexico, the Southern Hemisphere is at risk as it heads deeper into its winter flu season as the nation's swine flu death toll surged to 35. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Pontoriero)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/fdaadvisersurgesmallerdosesofacetaminophen hsn/20090630/fdaadvisersurgesmallerdosesofacetaminophen HealthDay health Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:03:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/fdaadvisersurgesmallerdosesofacetaminophen"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.6c8e90d86a3f4a7099bfe224157b67cb.correction_tylenol_safety_fda_caps101.jpg?x=130&y=108&q=85&sig=OvvAZA4ecz_So8WbOBOblA--" align="left" height="108" width="130" alt="Tylenol Extra Strenth is shown in a medicine cabinet at a home in Palo Alto, Calif., Tuesday, June 30, 2009. In a series of votes Tuesday, a Food and Drug Administration panel endorsed lowering the maximum dose of over-the-counter acetaminophen — the key ingredient in Tylenol, Excedrin and other medications. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>HealthDay - TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health advisers recommended Tuesday to lower the maximum dose of over-the-counter acetaminophen -- the key ingredient in Tylenol, Excedrin and many other pain-killing medications.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/fdaadvisersurgesmallerdosesofacetaminophen"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.6c8e90d86a3f4a7099bfe224157b67cb.correction_tylenol_safety_fda_caps101.jpg?x=130&y=108&q=85&sig=OvvAZA4ecz_So8WbOBOblA--" align="left" height="108" width="130" alt="photo" title="Tylenol Extra Strenth is shown in a medicine cabinet at a home in Palo Alto, Calif., Tuesday, June 30, 2009. In a series of votes Tuesday, a Food and Drug Administration panel endorsed lowering the maximum dose of over-the-counter acetaminophen — the key ingredient in Tylenol, Excedrin and other medications. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (HealthDay) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_sex_fertility nm/20090630/us_sex_fertility Reuters health Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:11:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_sex_fertility"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090630/i/r132422140.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=bXOACtacMjOKAKZ_Ane5jw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="A doctor at the Alma Res fertility clinic in Rome prepares eggs and sperm for an attempt at artificial insemination, June 7. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Having sex every day improves the quality of men's sperm and is recommended for couples trying to conceive, according to new research.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_sex_fertility"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090630/i/r132422140.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=bXOACtacMjOKAKZ_Ane5jw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="A doctor at the Alma Res fertility clinic in Rome prepares eggs and sperm for an attempt at artificial insemination, June 7. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_obesity_rankings_states ap/20090701/us_med_obesity_rankings_states AP health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:38:30 GMT AP - State-by-state list of obesity rates, rankings