Health News
Hearts may swoon when stocks do, study suggests
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AP - Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart attacks.
Many WTC responders show early signs of heart woes
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AP - Law enforcement officers who worked near ground zero after the World Trade Center attacks seem to show early signs of heart problems at a higher rate than would be expected for their age, a new study suggests.
Women on the pill may live longer, study says
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AP - Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says.
Court says thimerosal did not cause autism
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AP - The vaccine additive thimerosal is not to blame for autism, a special federal court ruled Friday in a long-running battle by parents convinced there is a connection.
Experts say even Obama getting too many med tests
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AP - Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggests that many Americans are being overtreated. Maybe even President Barack Obama, champion of an overhaul and cost-cutting of the health care system.
Teens who move a lot have twice suicide risk
Kids aged 11 to 17 were twice as likely to attempt suicide if their families moved three or more times compared to those who had never moved, a new study says.
Details, schmetails: Think big on health care
As the debate over health care reform heats up, critics say overhauling U.S. health care can’t work because reform is “all in the details.” But in this case, success is not in the details.
Jackson’s health woes took center stage
Plastic surgery, mysterious hospitalizations and reports of pill popping have long plagued the “King of Pop.”
Is a 'public plan' the fix for health insurance?
Two words — public plan — now dominate the debate over how to overhaul the nation’s health insurance system. Would you and your family be better off if there were such a government-sponsored rival to private insurers?
Alcohol blamed for half of ’90s Russian deaths
Drinking may have caused more than half of deaths among Russians aged 15 to 54 in the turbulent era following the Soviet collapse.