Health News
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- CDC to baby boomers: Get tested for hepatitis C
ATLANTA (AP) -- For the first time, the government is proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C....
- Fate of 'uninsurables' hinges on Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cancer patient Kathy Watson voted Republican in 2008 and believes the government has no right telling Americans to get health insurance. Nonetheless, she says she'd be dead if it weren't for President Barack Obama's health care law....
- Panel debates bioterrorism protection for children
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is asking a presidential commission to help decide an ethical quandary: Should the anthrax vaccine and other treatments being stockpiled in case of a bioterror attack be tested in children?...
- French autistic kids mostly get psychotherapy
LONDON (AP) -- In most developed countries, children with autism are usually sent to school where they get special education classes. But in France, they are more often sent to a psychiatrist where they get talk therapy meant for people with psychological or emotional problems....
- Coffee buzz: Study finds java drinkers live longer
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf doesn't matter....
- Antibiotic linked with rare but deadly heart risk
CHICAGO (AP) -- An antibiotic widely used for bronchitis and other common infections seems to increase chances for sudden deadly heart problems, a rare but surprising risk found in a 14-year study....
- Healthy eating can cost less, study finds
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Is it really more expensive to eat healthy?...
- More doctors are ditching the old prescription pad
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dropping a paper prescription at the drugstore is becoming old-school: More than a third of the nation's prescriptions now are electronic, according to the latest count....
- Study links vets to brain disease seen in athletes
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A small study raises more concern about the long-term consequences of brain injuries suffered by thousands of soldiers - suggesting they may be at risk of developing the same degenerative brain disease as some retired football players....
- TB patient charged in Calif for not taking meds
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Armando Rodriguez was warned several times to continue taking his tuberculosis medicine....