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  1. 2008.01.09 -- Health Highlights: Jan. 9, 2008
    Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: 3 People Dead After Drinking Listeria-Laden Milk From Mass. "We just need to find out how the bacteria is getting into the milk."
  2. 2008.01.08 -- New Meningitis Vaccine Works in Infants
    "For example, for children receiving the vaccine at 2, 3, 4 and 12 months of age, protective antibody levels were seen in 94 percent or above for all the meningococcus types." SOURCES: Matthew Snape, F.R.A.C.P., pediatrician, University of Oxford, and Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant Pediatrician, Oxford Vaccine Group, Churchill Hospital, United Kingdom; Lee H. Harrison, M.D., professor, medicine and epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh; Jan. 9, 2008, Journal of the ...
  3. 2008.01.06 -- Health Highlights: Jan. 6, 2008
    Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Placebo Scores Better Than Anti-Psychotic Drugs in Aggressive Outburst Study The wagons were sold at Tractor Supply Co. stores across the United States from September 2002 through November 2007 for about $30.
  4. 2008.01.01 -- Health Highlights: Jan. 1, 2008
    A spokesman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the woman "was at the extreme end of the severity of the disease." The current program covers about 6 million children, but Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday said her party won't stop "until 10 million children receive the health-care coverage they deserve." According to the FDA, the infected oysters were distributed by Bon Secour Fisheries in Alabama to the restaurant in Chattanooga, and the shellfish ...
  5. 2007.12.31 -- Health Highlights: Dec. 31, 2007
    A spokesman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the woman "was at the extreme end of the severity of the disease." The current program covers about 6 million children, but Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday said her party won't stop "until 10 million children receive the health-care coverage they deserve." According to the FDA, the infected oysters were distributed by Bon Secour Fisheries in Alabama to the restaurant in Chattanooga, and the shellfish ...
  6. 2007.12.30 -- Health Highlights: Dec. 30, 2007
    The current program covers about 6 million children, but Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday said her party won't stop "until 10 million children receive the health-care coverage they deserve." According to the FDA, the infected oysters were distributed by Bon Secour Fisheries in Alabama to the restaurant in Chattanooga, and the shellfish may "still [be] available in other retail and food service settings." "From colds and the flu in the winter to allergies in the spring, a few ...
  7. 2008.01.02 -- Genetic Variation Doubles Risk of Liver Cancer
    Genetic Variation Doubles Risk of Liver Cancer This is a deadly cancer, and so progress in prevention and early detection is critically important." -- Madeline Vann SOURCE: Massachusetts General Hospital, news release, Jan. 1, 2008 id=611312
  8. 2008.01.15 -- U.S. Food Safety: The Import Alarm Keeps Sounding
    What Miller didn't know was that imported Mexican green onions in the salsa carried a deadly passenger: hepatitis A. "That's a huge reduction, and, at the same time, compared to 1972, we have a huge amount more of food imports." As part of normal distribution, she added, "they can mix boxes, and produce from several different countries can be reshipped out again without any kind of labeling."
  9. 2007.12.26 -- Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 26, 2007
    December 26, 2007 Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 26, 2007 (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch:
  10. 2007.12.18 -- Health Highlights: Dec. 18, 2007
    Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: "Bystolic offers a new treatment option for people who need to control their high blood pressure." "They can just take this pill before they go to bed at night, and it doesn't take over their whole life."
  11. 2007.12.16 -- Health Highlights: Dec. 16, 2007
    Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: The senior author of the paper, Caryn Lerman, the director of the university's Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center, said, "MRI may aid in the identification of smokers at increased risk for relapse who may require more intensive therapy." Liposuctioned Fat Stem Cells Effective in Breast Reconstruction after Lumpectomy, Study Finds
  12. 2007.12.15 -- Health Highlights: Dec. 15, 2007
    Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: CDC Cancels Bids for National Medical Processing Center for Ground Zero Workers More Blood Contaminants Found in People with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Study
  13. 2007.12.17 -- Cancer Killed Almost 8 Million Worldwide in 2007
    Cancer Killed Almost 8 Million Worldwide in 2007 In China alone, more than 350 million people smoke. SOURCES: Ahmedin Jemal, D.V.M., Ph.D., director, Cancer Occurrence Office, American Cancer Society, Atlanta; David Katz, M.D., M.P.H., director, Prevention Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.; Dec. 17, 2007, American Cancer Society report, Global Cancer Facts & Figures id=610938
  14. 2007.12.13 -- Common Infant Vaccine Recalled
    "Right now, this is not a health-threatening situation for children." "No documented contamination of the vaccine has been found." SOURCES: Dec. 12, 2007, teleconference with: Julie Gerberding, M.D., director; Anne Schuchat, M.D., director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Norman Baylor, M.D., director, Office of Vaccine Research and Review, U.S. Food and Drug Administration id=610864
  15. 2007.12.12 -- Steroid Fails to Ease Meningitis in Trials
    In less developed areas, it may lead to a change in recommendations there." There's more on bacterial meningitis at the U.S. National Library of Medicine. SOURCES: Matthew Scarborough, M.D., senior lecturer in infectious diseases, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England, and College of Medicine/Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Programme of Clincal Tropical Research, Blantyre, Malawi; Dean A. Blumberg, M.D., associate professor of pediatric infectious diseases, University of California, Davis; Dec. ...
  16. 2007.12.09 -- Health Highlights: Dec. 9, 2007
    Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Researchers from the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Cancer Institute reported at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology in Atlanta that Gleevec has been shown to improve outcomes for children with Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ph+ ALL), according to a university news release "The news about Gleevec and the childhood leukemia study as...
  17. 2007.12.08 -- Health Highlights: Dec. 8, 2007
    Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Half of Older Americans Haven't Had Screening Colonoscopy Changes Made to U.S. Nutrition Program for Women and Children
  18. 2007.12.07 -- Health Highlights: Dec. 7, 2007
    Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Half of Older Americans Haven't Had Screening Colonoscopy Changes Made to U.S. Nutrition Program for Women and Children
  19. 2007.12.06 -- New Kind of Stem Cells Reverse Sickle Cell Anemia
    New Kind of Stem Cells Reverse Sickle Cell Anemia Learn more about stem cells at the International Society for Stem Cell Research. SOURCES: Jacob Hanna, M.D., Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Whitehead Institute, Boston; Paul Sanberg, Ph.D., D.Sc., distinguished professor, neurosurgery, and director, University of South Florida Center for Aging and Brain Repair, Tampa; Dec. 6, 2007, Science Express online id=610648
  20. 2007.12.04 -- One-Third of HIV-Infected Gay Men Have Unsafe Sex: CDC
    "The new estimates are not final," he said, adding that the numbers "are still undergoing rigorous analysis and scientific review to ensure the accuracy of both the new methods and of the estimates." SOURCES: Dec. 3, 2007, teleconference, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National HIV Prevention Conference, Atlanta, with Kenneth Mayer, M.D., Ph.D., medical research director, Fenway Community Health, Boston; Kevin Fenton, M.D., director, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral ...

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