Advocates: HIV Prevention Pill Could Save Lives

Doctors and others asking FDA to allow wider marketing of Truvada

2012-05-12

Lindsey Tanner AP Medical Writer

CHICAGO (AP) -- A pill to prevent HIV infection is already being given to some healthy people, but without government approval, it remains out of reach and too costly for many who need it. Read the complete article

Rethinking Psychiatry Second Annual Symposium Focuses on Forced Drugging of Kids

Over-use of psychotropic medications on kids in foster care, elderly in care facilities also explored

2012-05-10

Of The Skanner News

The Second Annual Rethinking Psychiatry Symposium coming up this weekend focuses on psychotropic drugs and their use on children and the elderly in care facilities. Read the complete article

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Study Ties Fertility Treatment, Birth Defect Risk

In the United States, more than 60,000 babies were born in 2009 from 146,000 IVF attempts

2012-05-05

Marilynn Marchione 
AP Chief Medical Writer

Test-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have long wondered: Is it because of certain fertility treatments or infertility itself? A large new study from Australia suggests both may play a role. Read the complete article

Chaplain: Seau's Brain to Be Donated for Research

Some have speculated that brain injuries from football may have played a role in his suicide, though no medical proof has backed that up

2012-05-04

Bernie Wilson AP Sports Writer

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The family of former NFL star Junior Seau will donate his brain for research into repetitive head injuries. Read the complete article

More Teens Taking Hits as Pot Use Climbs

Trend could be tied to parents’ tendency to warn against only harder drugs

2012-05-02

Jennifer C. Kerr The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More teens are smoking dope, with nearly 1 in 10 lighting up at least 20 or more times a month, according to a new survey of young people. Read the complete article

Eye Check: Vision Loss is Not a Normal Part of Aging

NIH Encourages Americans to Make Healthy Vision Last a Lifetime

2012-05-02

National Eye Institute Director Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D.

Vision changes as people get older, but vision loss is not a normal part of aging. Read the complete article

Seriously? Doctors Say They're Underpaid

School debt, long hours and fraudulent patients cause more than half of all physicians to eye more compensation

2012-05-01

Dr. Anthony Youn, Special to CNN

(CNN) -- Full disclosure: I have no complaints about how much I make. But many other physicians are not as satisfied - a recent study by Medscape revealed that 49% of doctors believe they're not fairly compensated. Of primary care physicians, this percentage increases to 54%. Read the complete article

Soft Drinks: Public Enemy No. 1 in Obesity Fight?

Many researchers see soda reduction as a simple way millions can boost health

2012-04-29

Caleb Hellerman, CNN

(CNN) -- Pushing her meal cart into the hospital room, a research assistant hands out tall glasses of reddish-pink liquid, along with a gentle warning: "Remember, you guys have to finish all your Kool-Aid." Read the complete article

Berries May Delay Memory Decline

Study findings will sound sweet to American population confronting more cases of Alzheimer’s

2012-04-28

Elizabeth Landau, CNN

(CNN) -- As the number of Americans living with Alzheimer's disease continues to rise, researchers are investigating various ways that people can prevent memory decline through nutrients in foods we might eat often anyway. Read the complete article

Burger King Causes Stir With Cage-Free Promise

Fast food giant says all its eggs and pork will fit the humane-aimed description by 2017

2012-04-28

Tracie Cone The Associated Press

The movement by U.S. food corporations toward more humane treatment of animals experienced a whopper of a shift Wednesday when Burger King announced that all of its eggs and pork will come from cage-free chickens and pigs by 2017. Read the complete article

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