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Pelosi Says Congress Close To Health Deal

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday congressional Democrats were close to agreement on merging their healthcare bills but still faced challenges in blending the two approaches. For the second consecutive day, Pelosi and other House Democratic leaders met with President (more)

"club Drug" Ecstasy Risky For Healthy Youth

The so-called "club drug" ecstasy is more likely than other stimulants like speed or crystal meth to kill young, healthy people who are not known as regular drug users, British researchers said on Friday. A study of stimulant-deaths in Britain between 1997 and 2007 found that those who died after taking (more)

Radiation From Ct Scans May Raise Cancer Risks

Radiation from CT scans done in 2007 will cause 29,000 cancers and kill nearly 15,000 Americans, researchers said on Monday. The findings, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, add to mounting evidence that Americans are overexposed to radiation from diagnostic tests, especially from a specialized (more)

Swine Flu Still Down In U.s. But 198 Children Dead

Swine flu continues to wane across the United States, but it has killed more than 30 children since the last count, U.S. health officials said on Monday. The latest update on the H1N1 virus, posted at www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/, shows the infection is still at epidemic levels but below its October peak, (more)

Price Rises Are Key To Tackling Alcohol Abuse: Who

Binge drinking and other growing forms of harmful use of alcohol should be tackled through higher taxes on alcoholic drinks and tighter marketing regulations, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended. The U.N. agency unveiled its draft global strategy to curb risks linked to alcohol which (more)

Bipolar Diagnosis Jumps In Young Children: Study

The number of children aged 2 to 5 who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and prescribed powerful antipsychotic drugs has doubled over the past decade, according to research released on Friday. The research suggests that while it is still rare to prescribe powerful psychiatric drugs to 2-year-olds, (more)

Gaps In U.s. Kids

More US kids are fully immunized against common childhood illnesses, and disparities in vaccine coverage among socioeconomic groups are shrinking, a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. While the findings are "very good news," according to Dr. Elizabeth T. Luman, an epidemiologist (more)

Chemotherapy Boosts Breast Cancer Survival: Study

Chemotherapy helps improve breast cancer survival in post-menopausal women, adding to a long-standing debate about how best to treat these women, U.S. researchers said Thursday. A gene-based test called Oncotype DX made by Genomic Health Inc may help identify a small group of women who are not likely (more)

Study In Mice Shows Why Antidepressants Often Fail

Antidepressants fail to help about half of the people who take them, and a study in mice may help explain why. Most antidepressants -- including the commonly used Prozac and Zoloft -- work by increasing the amount of serotonin, a message-carrying brain chemical made deep in the middle of the brain by (more)

U.s. Judge Upholds Most Limits On Tobacco Marketing

A U.S. judge upheld much of a sweeping federal law limiting the marketing of cigarettes through sponsorships and on merchandise, in a ruling tobacco opponents claimed as a victory. The judge struck down some modest restrictions on color and graphics in tobacco and on labels that tobacco companies said (more)

Osteoporosis Meds May Cut Breast Cancer Risk: Study

Women who took a commonly used class of osteoporosis drugs called bisphosphonates had significantly fewer invasive breast cancers than women not using the bone-strengthening pills, according to a new analysis of data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). The analysis from a segment of the more than 150,000 generally healthy post-menopausal women in the WHI study found that those taking Merck & Co's Fosamax, or other bisphosphonates, had 32 percent fewer cases of invasive breast cancer than women who did not use the osteoporosis medicines, researchers found.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B942H20091210

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