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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1769 Most Recommended Health en-us Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:32:24 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_winfrey_show_ending ap/20091121/us_winfrey_show_ending AP health Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:04:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_winfrey_show_ending"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.baeb046ba2dc47af83022a5ab419320f.winfrey_show_ending_ny119.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=L0PVXH6kKdHVysiad5PGlA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="In this image taken from video Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 and provided by Harpo Productions Inc., talk-show host Oprah Winfrey announces during a live broadcast of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' in Chicago that her daytime television show, the foundation of a multibillion-dollar media empire, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air. (AP Photo/Harpo Productions, Inc.) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALES" border="0" /></a>AP - For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_winfrey_show_ending"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.baeb046ba2dc47af83022a5ab419320f.winfrey_show_ending_ny119.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=L0PVXH6kKdHVysiad5PGlA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this image taken from video Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 and provided by Harpo Productions Inc., talk-show host Oprah Winfrey announces during a live broadcast of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' in Chicago that her daytime television show, the foundation of a multibillion-dollar media empire, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air. (AP Photo/Harpo Productions, Inc.) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALES" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_california_marijuana nm/20091121/us_california_marijuana Reuters health Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:22:26 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/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/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/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/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/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/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/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_cancer_screening_list ap/20091120/us_med_cancer_screening_list AP health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:24:25 GMT AP - Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_predicting_ptsd ap/20091120/us_med_predicting_ptsd AP health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:50:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_predicting_ptsd"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.f244f3d713b249adb07d1a244c6819ab.predicting_ptsd_ny307.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=GCFvvbwqRYe1LYg0MFB9nA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="This Sept. 29, 2009 photo shows U.S. Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets, of Newark, Del., sitting in an eye blink study room with sensors attached to his face while taking psychological tests at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif. The U.S. government is testing hundreds of Marines and soldiers before they ship out, in search of clues that might help predict who is most susceptible to post-traumatic stress disorder. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)" border="0" /></a>AP - Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_predicting_ptsd"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.f244f3d713b249adb07d1a244c6819ab.predicting_ptsd_ny307.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=GCFvvbwqRYe1LYg0MFB9nA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="This Sept. 29, 2009 photo shows U.S. Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets, of Newark, Del., sitting in an eye blink study room with sensors attached to his face while taking psychological tests at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif. The U.S. government is testing hundreds of Marines and soldiers before they ship out, in search of clues that might help predict who is most susceptible to post-traumatic stress disorder. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_fewer_pap_smears ap/20091120/us_med_fewer_pap_smears AP business Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:27:26 GMT AP - First mammograms. Now &mdash; in an apparent coincidence &mdash; Pap smears. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_china_swine_flu ap/20091120/as_china_swine_flu AP health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:44:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_china_swine_flu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.ffcb4e56e42b4448873b714cd5ccf926.china_swine_flu_tough_measures_xhg109.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=uXHcLJcJTUSbIveclFByNg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A Chinese woman receives a free H1N1 vaccination at a clinic at a clinic in Beijing, China, Monday, Nov. 16, 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. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)" border="0" /></a>AP - China's health ministry said it will punish officials who underreport cases of swine flu after a doctor famous for exposing the extent of the 2003 SARS epidemic said he believes the true number of swine flu deaths is being covered up.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_china_swine_flu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.ffcb4e56e42b4448873b714cd5ccf926.china_swine_flu_tough_measures_xhg109.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=uXHcLJcJTUSbIveclFByNg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Chinese woman receives a free H1N1 vaccination at a clinic at a clinic in Beijing, China, Monday, Nov. 16, 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. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)" 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 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/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_swine_flu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091122/i/r2006647457.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=wVLIohYM19j6.bNNQ33fxA--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Allene Diaz (L), 11, and her mother, Christina, wait in line for the H1N1 vaccine in Haltom City, Texas October 30, 2009. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi" 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/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_swine_flu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091122/i/r2006647457.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=wVLIohYM19j6.bNNQ33fxA--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="Allene Diaz (L), 11, and her mother, Christina, wait in line for the H1N1 vaccine in Haltom City, Texas October 30, 2009. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/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/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/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/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/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/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/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. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_overhaul_abortion ap/20091120/us_health_overhaul_abortion AP health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:29:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_overhaul_abortion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091116/capt.73956497d6114c0db9e43485297197a3.catholic_bishops_mdrc103.jpg?x=130&y=74&q=85&sig=YA24kuznkzOTBpVoJiVd0A--" align="left" height="74" width="130" alt="Chicago Cardinal Francis George, left, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, left, and Monsignor David Malloy, general secretary, address members during the group's fall meeting Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, Baltimore. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)" border="0" /></a>AP - The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_overhaul_abortion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091116/capt.73956497d6114c0db9e43485297197a3.catholic_bishops_mdrc103.jpg?x=130&y=74&q=85&sig=YA24kuznkzOTBpVoJiVd0A--" align="left" height="74" width="130" alt="photo" title="Chicago Cardinal Francis George, left, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, left, and Monsignor David Malloy, general secretary, address members during the group's fall meeting Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, Baltimore. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/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/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_overhaul ap/20091122/us_health_care_overhaul AP business Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:40:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091122/capt.0ee32ef4a8cf4bcb8f06d27ce68236d9.health_care_overhaul_dcjl117.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=cuezX4.4CtGhDoXk_7t4Og--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nev., speaks after the U.S. Senate voted to begin debate on legislation for a broad healthcare overhaul at Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, as Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., right, and Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa looks on. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)" border="0" /></a>AP - Senate moderates on Sunday threatened to scuttle the health care bill if their demands weren't met, frustrating rank-and-file Democrats who say their colleagues' views were out of step with American voters.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091122/capt.0ee32ef4a8cf4bcb8f06d27ce68236d9.health_care_overhaul_dcjl117.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=cuezX4.4CtGhDoXk_7t4Og--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nev., speaks after the U.S. Senate voted to begin debate on legislation for a broad healthcare overhaul at Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, as Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., right, and Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa looks on. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/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/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/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/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/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/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/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/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/greatamericansmokeout09timetoquit hsn/20091120/greatamericansmokeout09timetoquit HealthDay health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:25:43 GMT HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- The less you smoke, the more birthdays you'll have, says the American Cancer Society as it encourages smokers to quit on Thursday, the day of the 34th Great American Smokeout. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/healthtiprecoveringfromcsection hsn/20091120/healthtiprecoveringfromcsection HealthDay health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:25:46 GMT HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Cesarean section is a surgical alternative to vaginal birth. After this surgery, the new mom needs time to recover. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedhl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599194014000 time/20091120/08599194014000 Time.com health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:05:00 GMT Time.com - Among the many reasons for the high preterm birth rate in the U.S.: lack of insurance, cigarette smoking and elective cesarean-section deliveries that are scheduled too early