UN: Fukushima workers' deaths not from radiation
VIENNA (AP) -- A year after an earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima disaster, a United Nations agency preparing a report on the health effects says none of the six former reactor workers who have died since the catastrophe perished due to the effects of radiation.......
POSTED 05/23/2012 at 01:50 PM -- 
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Born to run barefoot? Some end up getting injured
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Swept by the barefoot running craze, ultramarathoner Ryan Carter ditched his sneakers for footwear that mimics the experience of striding unshod.......
POSTED 05/22/2012 at 09:26 AM --
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Health officials testing 35 babies for TB exposure
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Health officials are testing 35 babies for tuberculosis after a person with an active case of the life-threatening disease visited neonatal-intensive care units at two Northern California hospitals.......
POSTED 05/23/2012 at 01:37 PM --
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UN global health agency chief wins 2nd term
GENEVA (AP) -- Dr. Margaret Chan, who has steered the World Health Organization through crises over bird flu and the respiratory SARS bug, has won a second five-year term as its director-general.......
POSTED 05/23/2012 at 12:09 PM --
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UK may allow IVF for older women, same-sex couples
LONDON (AP) -- A powerful health advisory agency says Britain should extend free fertility treatments to women up to age 42 as well as same-sex couples, recommendations likely to be followed by many of the U.K.'s medical centers.......
POSTED 05/22/2012 at 11:38 AM --
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Auction claims it's selling vial with Reagan blood
LONDON (AP) -- A Channel Islands auction house says it's selling a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from Ronald Reagan - a move denounced Tuesday by the late U.S. president's family and his foundation.......
POSTED 05/22/2012 at 08:53 PM --
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Final advice: Panel against routine prostate test
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Healthy men shouldn't get routine prostate cancer screenings, says updated advice from a government panel that found the PSA blood tests do more harm than good.......
POSTED 05/21/2012 at 05:22 PM --
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Study: Simple scope exam cuts colon cancer deaths
A simple, cheaper exam of just the lower part of the bowel can cut the risk of developing colon cancer or dying of the disease, a large federal study finds.......
POSTED 05/21/2012 at 11:26 AM --
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Study: Fake malaria drugs common in Asia, Africa
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality, seriously undermining efforts to fight the disease, a study said Tuesday.......
POSTED 05/22/2012 at 05:12 AM --
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CDC: Half of overweight teens have heart risk
ATLANTA (AP) -- Half the nation's overweight teens have unhealthy blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar levels that put them at risk for future heart attacks and other cardiac problems, new federal research says.......
POSTED 05/21/2012 at 01:53 AM --
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