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| Fawcett's cancer battle brings attention to rare illness
April 9, 2009 at 4:11 pm
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| The news that one of America's TV icons is suffering from cancer brought sadness. Learning the type of cancer she had made some squirm. |
| Food safety progress 'has plateaued,' CDC says
April 9, 2009 at 4:06 pm
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| In January, salmonella was linked to peanut products; last week, pistachio products. And on Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said overall infection rates for salmonella and other foodborne pathogens have not changed significantly over the last four years. | | | 
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| Kids Curb Marital Satisfaction (LiveScience.com)
April 9, 2009 at 1:13 am
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| | LiveScience.com - Parents all know that children make it harder to do some of the most enjoyable adult things. Bluntly put, kids can get between you. |
| Clinical Trials Update: April 8, 2009 (HealthDay)
April 8, 2009 at 11:50 pm
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| | HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: |
| Study points to calorie-burning fat (AFP)
April 8, 2009 at 9:57 pm
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|  AFP - Calorie-burning fat may seem like science fiction, but a study released found that adults have small blobs of metabolism-regulating brown fat previously believed to exist only in babies and children.
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| Studies of 'good' fat could help with weight loss (AP)
April 8, 2009 at 6:22 pm
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| | AP - Fight fat with fat? The newest obesity theory suggests we may one day be able to do just that. Just like good and bad cholesterol, there apparently are good and bad types of body fat. Scientists until recently believed this good fat, which spurs the body to burn calories to generate body heat, played an important role in keeping infants warm but by adulthood was mostly gone or inactive. |
| "Brown fat" may help adults lose weight (Reuters)
April 8, 2009 at 5:02 pm
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| | Reuters - A sparse form of fat that helps keep newborns warm is more common in adults than previously thought and that discovery that could lead to a new way to lose weight, researchers said on Wednesday. |
| Study: Heartburn drugs no help with asthma (AP)
April 8, 2009 at 5:02 pm
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| | AP - Asthma patients using powerful acid reflux drugs even though they don't have heartburn should stop taking them, lung experts say. It turns out the medicine doesn't improve asthma symptoms, as had been thought. Estimates are that 2.5 million to 5 million Americans with asthma also have gastroesophageal reflux, in which acid or food rises from the stomach into the throat, without any obvious heartburn symptoms. |
| Doctors: Thyroid drug can hurt liver, kill kids (AP)
April 8, 2009 at 5:01 pm
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| | AP - A pill used for thyroid disease can cause fatal liver failure in children and should no longer be used to treat them, two doctors warn. Doctors usually first try either propylthiouracil or methimazole to treat children with Graves' disease, the most common cause of an overactive thyroid. Other treatments are surgery and radioactive iodine. |
| Coartem Approved to Treat Malaria (HealthDay)
April 8, 2009 at 4:04 pm
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| | HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 8 (HealthDay News) -- The Novartis drug Coartem (artemether and lumefantrine) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat uncomplicated malaria in adults and children, the agency said Wednesday in a news release. | | | |
