Adelphi, Md. -- Government experts called for sweeping safety restrictions Tuesday on the most widely used painkiller, including reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and eliminating prescription drugs such as Vicodin and Percocet. The Food and Drug Administration assembled 37 experts ...Read More
ATLANTA — Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up the ...Read More
RALEIGH, N.C. | A cluster of four Tamiflu-resistant cases of H1N1 flu at Duke University Medical Center has raised concerns that changes in the virus may make severe infections more difficult to treat.
Three of the Duke patients died. All were ...Read More
ATLANTA (AP) - Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of H1N1 flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday.
The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up ...Read More
Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up the biggest ...Read More
(AP) -- Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up ...Read More
ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that's resistant to the drug Tamiflu. It's the first cluster of that many cases seen in the U.S. Health officials said Friday ...Read More
Epidemic experts have launched an investigation of four Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cases at Duke University Medical Center to see whether the resistant virus has begun spreading person-to-person at the Durham, N.C. hospital and beyond. If so, the cluster appears to be ...Read More
Several Long Island breast cancer experts - dismayed that a government task force has recommended less frequent mammograms - said Monday more women could die of the disease if they cut back on annual screening. "I think this would be a ...Read More
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Rush Holt toured a Princeton hospital today while stumping for health care reform legislation now before Congress.
"Improving quality of care, lowering costs, offering choice and putting the patient first," Pelosi said of the legislation ...Read More
Now that more H1N1 flu vaccine is available and more families have had their children inoculated, a new concern is worrying parents: whether they will find the second dose recommended for those under 10 in time. Below are answers to ...Read More
TUESDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) -- New research on cancer patients adds to the controversy surrounding anemia drugs such as Procrit and Aranesp, concluding that they increase the risk of venous thromboembolism, potentially fatal blood clots. These drugs, called erythropoiesis-stimulating agents ...Read More
TUESDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly people with weak muscles may be at increased risk for Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study. Researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago followed 970 older adults (average age 80) who didn't ...Read More
It's been about six weeks since Frank Aylor had open heart surgery, and he's already up and jogging again. "I'm not the type that likes to sit at home, I like to be at work," Aylor said. Fortunately for Aylor, only one ...Read More
For pregnant women, an influenza vaccination leads to bigger babies and infants who are less likely to get the flu, according to three studies presented here.
Experts said the findings -- presented at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society ...Read More
RICHMOND, Va. – The doctor doesn't look like much of a crusader, bent over the frail frame of 90-year-old Alberta Scott.
He has a lavender stethoscope strung round his neck and some serious bedside manner at work on this stubborn nonagenarian ...Read More
THURSDAY, Oct. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Fever after a vaccination is a normal and essential part of building an immune response, and giving children acetaminophen -- best known in the U.S. as Tylenol -- after a shot could dampen that ...Read More
Giving babies Tylenol to prevent fever when they get childhood vaccinations may backfire and make the shots a little less effective, surprising new research suggests.
It is the first major study to tie reduced immunity to the use of fever-lowering medicines. ...Read More
LAS VEGAS -- An SUV that ran up on a sidewalk on the Las Vegas Strip hit a 9-year-old California boy, causing life-threatening injuries. Las Vegas police say the vehicle apparently went onto the sidewalk and crashed into a fire hydrant ...Read More
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A newborn snatched from a Nashville home was missing and his mother recovering from stab wounds she said she suffered in a struggle with the woman kidnapper posing as an immigration agent, authorities said Wednesday. Maria Gurrolla told ...Read More
NEW YORK -- Treating even mild diabetes that develops during pregnancy helps keep moms and babies from gaining too much weight and makes for easier deliveries, new research shows. Pregnant women in the U.S. are routinely tested and treated for ...Read More
