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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/3264 health Health - Time.com en-us Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:35:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/3264 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091106/hl_time/08599193595900 time/20091106/08599193595900 Time.com health Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:35:00 GMT Time.com - The controversy over a video recently produced by the autism advocacy group Autism Speaks highlights the ongoing dissent that characterizes the autism community http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091106/hl_time/08599193482600 time/20091106/08599193482600 Time.com health Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:50:00 GMT Time.com - Iowa public health officials reported on Wednesday the first confirmed case of H1N1 flu in a house pet: a cat http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091105/hl_time/08599193433000 time/20091105/08599193433000 Time.com health Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:00:00 GMT Time.com - A new study of more than 1,000 cases of hospitalization due to H1N1, or swine flu, in California gives a clearer picture of who is apt to develop severe cases of the disease http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091104/hl_time/08599193419700 time/20091104/08599193419700 Time.com health Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Time.com - Without general anesthesia, modern surgery and medical intervention would be crippled. But what do doctors really know about the long-term effects of these mysterious drugs? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091102/hl_time/08599193345300 time/20091102/08599193345300 Time.com health Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:30:00 GMT Time.com - A debate is heating up in the European Union over fatty acids. Should foodcompanies be required to differentiate on labels between omega-3s that comefrom fish and the slightly less-beneficial kind that come from plants? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091030/hl_time/08599193282600 time/20091030/08599193282600 Time.com health Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:40:00 GMT Time.com - Many consumers are feeling deceived now that SIGG has been outed for failing to tell the public that its bottles were not BPA-free, at least not the ones that were manufactured before August 2008 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091027/hl_time/08599193240100 time/20091027/08599193240100 Time.com health Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:20:00 GMT Time.com - As Hong Kong and other port cities try to reduce dangerous ship emissions, more and more solar-powered ferries and container ships are getting ready to hit the high seas http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091027/hl_time/08599193236600 time/20091027/08599193236600 Time.com health Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:20:00 GMT Time.com - The German government has ordered two different batches of swine flu vaccine -- one with fewer side effects for government officials and soldiers, another for everyone else. Not only are Germans irate, but they're also avoiding getting the jab http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091026/hl_time/08599193175700 time/20091026/08599193175700 Time.com health Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:50:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091026/hl_time/08599193175700"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091019/capt.photo_1255923451032-1-0.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=4WXVsGnN.7rrjB4MlHPAFQ--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="English naturalist Charles Darwin ( 1809-1882), father of the theory of evolution meaning that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. A new field of medical research is looking at the emergence of modern epidemics like asthma and obesity through the prism of Darwin's 150-year-old theory of evolution.(AFP/File/null)" border="0" /></a>Time.com - Despite our stable agrarian society and medical advances that help us live into old age, the effects of natural selection are still at work on the modern human species, researchers say</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091026/hl_time/08599193175700"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091019/capt.photo_1255923451032-1-0.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=4WXVsGnN.7rrjB4MlHPAFQ--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="photo" title="English naturalist Charles Darwin ( 1809-1882), father of the theory of evolution meaning that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. A new field of medical research is looking at the emergence of modern epidemics like asthma and obesity through the prism of Darwin's 150-year-old theory of evolution.(AFP/File/null)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Time.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091026/hl_time/08599193148100 time/20091026/08599193148100 Time.com health Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:50:00 GMT Time.com - Have you seen your assistant surgeon? In too many cases these days, the second surgeon in the operating room is missing, due to lack of payment http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091020/hl_time/08599193111600 time/20091020/08599193111600 Time.com health Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:20:00 GMT Time.com - Forty years after the FDA banned cyclamate, the first artificial sweetener, there's still no consensus about how these additives affect the human body http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091020/hl_time/08599193087700 time/20091020/08599193087700 Time.com health Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:15:00 GMT Time.com - As H1N1 season gets going, parents need to make sure their local day-care center is not a breeding ground for the virus. Day-care center owners, for their part, need to protect their business http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091019/hl_time/08599193077200 time/20091019/08599193077200 Time.com health Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:20:00 GMT Time.com - Several cases in recent years -- in California, New Mexico, Texas and New York, as well as Canada -- have garnered attention because a child's obesity resulted in loss of custody http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091013/hl_time/08599192992100 time/20091013/08599192992100 Time.com health Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT Time.com - According to sources with a firsthand look at the data, results of the first successful AIDS vaccine trial may have been a fluke http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091013/hl_time/08599192986900 time/20091013/08599192986900 Time.com health Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:15:00 GMT Time.com - Studies find that the confounding beneficial effect of placebos has an equally mysterious flip side: the nocebo effect http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091012/hl_time/08599192981400 time/20091012/08599192981400 Time.com health Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:30:00 GMT Time.com - Studies suggest that babies who are born during flu pandemics -- such as the current H1N1 pandemic -- have certain health effects later in life. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091012/hl_time/08599192914700 time/20091012/08599192914700 Time.com health Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:05:00 GMT Time.com - With fake drugs now accounting for about half of all medicines purchasedonline, health experts are calling on governments need to step up efforts tocombat the illicit industry http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timehealth/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091009/hl_time/08599192899000 time/20091009/08599192899000 Time.com health Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:10:00 GMT Time.com - An early trial suggests that addiction vaccines could theoretically work, but researchers have doubts that they will ever get to market