Health
1/19/2013
Roe v Wade: After 40 years, deep divide is legacy
Posted 10:43 AM 1/19/2013 by Matt Stafford
NEW YORK (AP) - By today's politically polarized standards, the Supreme Court's momentous Roe v. Wade ruling was a landslide. By a 7-2 vote on Jan. 22, 1973, the justices established a nationwide right to abortion. Forty years and roughly 55 million abortions later, however, the (More)
Conn. considers workers' comp for Sandy Hook first responders
1/16/2013
Cuba acknowledges 51 cholera cases
Posted 4:06 PM 1/16/2013 by Lauren Molenburg
HAVANA (AP) - Cuba is acknowledging 51 new cases of cholera in the capital, months after declaring the illness eradicated. It says nobody has died from cholera in Havana. But the family of at least one man has told The Associated Press he died of cholera earlier this month. The (More)
Flu disrupting Mass in New Hampshire
Correction on death of Dr. Metzler
1/14/2013
Ex-President George H.W. Bush leaves the hospital
Posted 5:21 PM 1/14/2013 by Matt Stafford
HOUSTON (AP) - Former President George H.W. Bush was released from a Houston hospital and went home Monday after spending nearly two months being treated for a bronchitis-related cough and other health issues, a family spokesman said. Bush, 88, the nation's oldest living former (More)
1/12/2013
Flu outbreak is "public health emergency"
Posted 3:02 PM 1/12/2013 by Monica Gouty
NEW YORK (AP) - New York's governor has declared a public health emergency for the state because of the severity of the flu season.Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo made the announcement Saturday. His executive order suspends for the next month the state law that limits the authority of (More)
1/10/2013
High Demand Leaves Short Supply of Flu Shots
Posted 7:18 PM 1/10/2013 by Maddie Garrett
The flu is making headlines in Southern Colorado again, but not for the number of cases this time, but because of the number of people trying to prevent it. The high demand for flu vaccines is leaving doctors' offices and clinics in short supply.
Just this week, Kaiser Permanente ran out (More)
Health officials: Flu widespread in Arizona now
Retooling Pap test to spot more kinds of cancer
1/9/2013
Concern over stock of flu medication
Posted 6:15 PM 1/9/2013 by Matt Stafford
With all of the flu cases popping up across the country, some people are worried about a rush on the popular treatment -- Tamiflu.
Doctors say any flu drug is most effective in the first 24 to 48 hours of symptoms coming on. They say if you don't take it by then, it won't do much. so, with (More)
Flu tents popping up outside of ERs
STATE: Flu hospitalizations climbing fast this season
Parkview to host flu shot clinic
1/8/2013
Overweight only gym fosters supportive atmosphere
Posted 1:15 PM 1/8/2013 by Alyse Rzemek
DALLAS (AP) - Downsize Fitness is an exclusive health club, evocative of the nation's trendiest gyms. But there's a strict requirement to join: You must be 50 pounds or more overweight.
The chain wants its members to feel comfortable while exercising, so there are no mirrors inside and the (More)
Mock Mars trek finds down-to-Earth sleep woes
1/7/2013
Overweight-only gym fosters supportive atmosphere
Posted 12:34 PM 1/7/2013 by Kirsten Bennett
DALLAS (AP) - Downsize Fitness is an exclusive health club, evocative of the nation's trendiest gyms. But there's a strict requirement to join: You must be 50 pounds or more overweight. The chain wants its members to feel comfortable while exercising, so there are no mirrors inside (More)
1/4/2013
FDA pushing for strict safety rules
Posted 9:55 AM 1/4/2013 by Joe Bevans
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing the most sweeping food safety rules in decades, requiring farmers and food companies to be more vigilant in the wake of deadly outbreaks in peanuts, cantaloupe and leafy greens. The long-overdue rules are aimed at reducing the (More)
1/3/2013
Doctors to merge tribal and modern medicine
Posted 10:38 AM 1/3/2013 by Joe Bevans
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - The nation's largest rural, nonprofit hospital system is hiring two traditional Native American healers to train medical staff in the Dakotas and Minnesota in an effort to better serve American Indian patients. Sanford Health is in the process of hiring a Lakota/Dakota (More)
1/2/2013
Medical helicopter crashes in Oklahoma
Posted 3:05 PM 1/2/2013 by Joe Bevans
SEMINOLE, Okla. (AP) - Four people were injured Wednesday when a Mediflight helicopter smacked the ground during an emergency landing in a field in Seminole. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. George Brown said the helicopter's pilot, a nurse and two medics were injured when it landed hard near (More)
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