Group: Weight training can help elderly
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:51 pm PDT
 AP - Pumping a little iron can help elderly nursing home residents and heart failure patients gain strength for everyday life, the American Heart Association says, expanding on earlier advice. Full Story | Top |
Study: Older diabetes drugs safe to use
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:42 pm PDT
AP - Older, cheaper diabetes drugs are as safe and effective as newer ones, concludes an analysis that is good news for diabetics and may further hurt sales of Avandia, a blockbuster pill recently tied to heart problems. Full Story | Top |
Food label warnings seen as confusing
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:17 pm PDT
 AP - More and more foods bear a mishmash of warnings that they might accidentally contain ingredients that could seriously sicken people with food allergies. Yet there are signs that the labels are creating confusion among families that should heed them — even as new testing shows there is a real, if probably small, chance that foods with even the most vaguely worded warnings truly pose a risk. Full Story | Top |
Safer cigarettes coming soon?
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:08 pm PDT
 AP - The federal agency charged with keeping food and drugs from harming people may soon be asked to take a consumer product that kills more than 400,000 people a year and make it safer. Full Story | Top |
Chlamydia common among young women and men
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:20 pm PDT
Reuters - A large number of people between the ages of 14 and 39 years have chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease, a new report indicates, while gonorrhea, another STD, is less prevalent. Full Story | Top |
Brain cancer therapy impairs kid's learning ability
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:22 pm PDT
Reuters - Children who have undergone radiation treatment for brain cancer tend to have lower grades in school than their healthy peers, investigators in Finland have found. Still, most survivors in their study group completed the ninth grade at the appropriate age. Full Story | Top |
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