| (USA TODAY) -- Stem cells harvested from a patient's own heart can be used to help repair muscle damaged during a heart attack, according to a preliminary study published online Monday in The Lancet. Though it's too soon to know whether the technique will help patients live longer, the study is the second small, promising study of cardiac stem cells in three months.
CHICAGO (Chicago Tribune) -- Children living next to driveways or parking lots coated with coal tar are exposed to significantly higher doses of cancer-causing chemicals than those living near untreated asphalt, according to a study that raises new questions about commonly used pavement sealants.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Call it the alter-ego of super-sizing. Researchers infiltrated a fast-food Chinese restaurant and found up to a third of diners jumped at the offer of a half-size of the usual heaping pile of rice or noodles -- even when the smaller amount cost the same.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama, grappling with a political firestorm that threatened to consume his administration, unveiled a birth control compromise Friday that he said would both protect religious liberties and ensure that women have access to free contraception.
LONDON (AP) -- Researchers have encouraging news for women who find themselves in a very frightening situation: having cancer while pregnant. Studies suggest that these women can be treated almost the same as other cancer patients are, with minimal risk to the fetus.
(USA TODAY) -- Congressional leaders and Republican presidential candidates joined Catholic religious groups on Wednesday in denouncing the Obama administration's mandate requiring health insurers to offer birth control coverage, but the White House stood its ground.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The ancient Chinese exercise of tai chi improved balance and lowered the risk of falls in a study of people with Parkinson's disease.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Trust your doctor? A survey finds that some doctors aren't always completely honest with their patients.
NEW YORK (AP) -- People learned better when a key part of their brains got mild zaps of electricity, a finding that may someday help Alzheimer's patients keep more of their memories.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Good news for budget-minded travelers: There's no proof that flying economy-class increases your chances of dangerous blood clots, according to new guidelines from medical specialists.
ATLANTA (Canadian Press) -- An executive with a major U.S. breast-cancer charity has resigned after a dispute over funding for the country's best-known family planning organization and its providing of abortions, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Junk food remains plentiful at the nation's elementary schools despite widespread efforts to curb childhood obesity, a new study suggests.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Bread and rolls are the No. 1 source of salt in the American diet, accounting for more than twice as much sodium as salty junk food like potato chips.
(Associated Press) -- Students at Shippensburg University in central Pennsylvania can get the "morning-after" pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine installed at the request of the student government.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Supporters are rallying around Planned Parenthood after renowned breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure decided to cut breast screening grants to the reproductive health organization.
LONDON (AP) -- Malaria may be killing around twice as many people as experts previously thought, and it could also be hitting older children and adults -- long considered the least susceptible -- a new study suggests.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity on Friday abandoned plans to eliminate grants to Planned Parenthood. The startling decision came after three days of virulent criticism that resounded across the Internet, jeopardizing Komen's iconic image.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania health officials say the number of people stricken with illness after consuming raw milk from the same dairy has risen to 35 in four states.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pfizer Inc. is recalling 1 million packets of birth control pills after uncovering a packaging error that could leave women with an inadequate dose of the hormone-based drugs and raise the risk that they will get pregnant accidentally.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The nation's leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates -- creating a bitter rift, linked to the abortion debate, between two iconic organizations that have assisted millions of women.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first drug that treats the root cause of cystic fibrosis won approval Tuesday, offering a life-changing treatment for a handful of patients with the deadly illness and broader hope for thousands more patients with the inherited disease.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal regulators on Monday approved a pill that treats the most common type of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When a stroke hits at 52, like what happened to Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, the reaction is an astonished, "But he's so young."
(USA TODAY) -- From Maine to Phoenix to southern Louisiana, Catholic churches across the USA this weekend echoed with scorn for a new federal rule requiring faith-based employers to include birth control and other reproductive services in their health care coverage.
ATLANTA (Canadian Press) -- The Carter Center on Monday announced it received $40 million in donations to help fuel its mission to eradicate Guinea worm disease, a debilitating parasite that once plagued millions of people across the developing world.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system's conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of work to get the bugs out, according to experts who spent months studying the issue.
(Associated Press) -- Surprising results from two new studies may reopen debate about the value of Avastin for breast cancer. The drug helped make tumors disappear in certain women with early-stage disease, researchers found.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Imagine having the feeling that tiny bugs are crawling on your body, that you have oozing sores and mysterious fibers sprouting from your skin. Sound like a horror movie? Well, at one point several years ago, government doctors were getting up to 20 calls a day from people saying they had such symptoms.
ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) -- American schools will serve more of the good stuff -- vegetables, fruits and whole grains -- and less of the not-so-good -- salt, fat and sugar -- under new rules issued Wednesday, the first to significantly revamp the nation's school lunch program in 15 years.
CHICAGO (AP) -- About 16 million Americans have oral HPV, a sexually transmitted virus more commonly linked with cervical cancer that also can cause mouth cancer, according to the first nationwide estimate.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Foot and leg amputations were once a fairly common fate for diabetics, but new government research shows a dramatic decline in limbs lost to the disease, probably due to better treatments.
CHICAGO (AP) -- An acid reflux drug often used for hard-to-treat asthma doesn't help children with the breathing disease and may cause side effects, a study in 300 children found.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The pharmaceutical industry won approval to market a record number of new drugs for rare diseases last year, as a combination of scientific innovation and business opportunity spurred new treatments for diseases long-ignored by drug companies.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- A class of drug long used to treat prostate enlargement appears to have benefits for men diagnosed with low-risk, localized prostate cancer -- delaying disease progression and reducing patients' anxiety, a Canadian-led international study has found.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Recent headlines offered a fresh example of how the health care system subjects people to too many medical tests -- this time research showing millions of older women don't need their bones checked for osteoporosis nearly so often.
(USA TODAY) -- The mantra "Just do it" is not one to live by when trying out health and fitness apps for mobile devices, exercise physiologist Carol Torgan says.
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A crude new method of making methamphetamine poses a risk even to Americans who never get anywhere near the drug: It is filling hospitals with thousands of uninsured burn patients requiring millions of dollars in advanced treatment -- a burden so costly that it's contributing to the closure of some burn units.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Two legally blind women appeared to gain some vision after receiving an experimental treatment using embryonic stem cells, scientists reported Monday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists who created easier-to-spread versions of the deadly bird flu said Friday they're temporarily halting more research, as international specialists debate what should happen next.
LONDON (AP) -- A multiple sclerosis drug made by industry giant Novartis is under investigation after at least 11 patients taking the medicine died.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Good news: Sex is safe for most heart patients. If you're healthy enough to walk up two flights of stairs without chest pain or gasping for breath, you can have a love life.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A routine news story took a strange turn when an ABC "Nightline" anchor had a full body scan that turned up a possible warning sign.
ATLANTA (AP) -- New research could mean millions of older women can skip frequent screening tests for osteoporosis: If an initial bone scan shows no big problems, many can safely wait 15 years to have another one, the study suggests.
CHICAGO (AP) -- America's obesity epidemic is proving to be as stubborn as those maddening love handles, and shows no sign of reversing course.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Paula Deen, the Southern belle of butter and heavy cream, makes no apologies for waiting three years to disclose she has diabetes while continuing to dish up deep-fried cheesecake and other high-calorie, high-fat recipes on TV.
(Associated Pres) -- Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is setting what it calls an ambitious goal for Alzheimer's disease: Development of effective ways to treat and prevent the mind-destroying illness by 2025.
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