Posted 3:30 PM 6/17/2013 by Tony Spehar
NEW YORK (AP) - By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better shot at surgery.Her cystic fibrosis was threatening her life, and her case spurred a debate on how to allocate (More)
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Posted 3:00 PM 6/17/2013 by Robert Preidt
MONDAY, June 17 (HealthDay News) -- Even after they leave the fields at the end of hot day, farmworkers still have to cope with high levels of heat and humidity in their living quarters, a new study shows.
"We found that a majority of the workers are not getting (More)
Posted 3:00 PM 6/17/2013 by By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, June 17 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors should avoid ordering certain antibiotics for older patients who take cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, such as Lipitor, Canadian researchers say.
Statins, which are taken by many millions of people, don't mix well with the antibiotics (More)
Posted 2:00 PM 6/17/2013 by Robert Preidt
MONDAY, June 17 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. Hispanic children have high rates of obesity, and a new study suggests exposure to junk food ads on television might be one reason why.
According to the study based on 2010 data, Hispanic children under the age of 18 viewed an average of 12 food and (More)
Posted 2:00 PM 6/17/2013 by By Amy Norton
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, June 17 (HealthDay News) -- A new brain-imaging study could help explain why children with autism have difficulty with verbal communication: They may not get much pleasure from the human voice.
Researchers found that those with the disorder showed weaker connections between the (More)
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