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Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells
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11.19.2008 : 6:26 am
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LONDON -- Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.
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Panel urges revised warning on facial filler risks
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11.18.2008 : 5:10 pm
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WASHINGTON -- Cosmetic surgery patients who think facial fillers are a magical antidote to aging must be better informed of possible risks, government health advisers said Tuesday.
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Ginkgo fails to prevent Alzheimer's in large study
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11.18.2008 : 5:03 pm
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CHICAGO -- The dietary supplement ginkgo, long promoted as an aid to memory, didn't help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease in the longest and largest test of the extract in older Americans. "We don't think it has a future as a powerful anti-dementia drug," said Dr. Steven DeKosky of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, who led the federally funded study.
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Study puts a total on diabetes cost: $218 billion
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11.18.2008 : 4:08 pm
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TRENTON, N.J. -- As diabetes is rapidly becoming one of the world's most common diseases, its financial cost is mounting, too, to well over $200 billion a year in the U.S. alone, according to a new study.
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Family history can trump breast cancer gene test
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11.17.2008 : 5:32 pm
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WASHINGTON -- If breast cancer runs in the family, women can be at high risk even if they test free of the disease's most common gene mutations, sobering new research shows. The genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are linked with particularly aggressive hereditary breast cancer, and an increased risk of ovarian cancer, too.
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Doctors hoping for new era of artificial ankles
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11.17.2008 : 3:38 pm
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WASHINGTON -- What was left of Dan Sivia's ankle simply didn't work. He limped through his 30s by sheer force of will, one foot almost completely immobile from repeated broken bones and surgeries. Then a doctor offered his last hope: An ankle replacement. A what? Sivia knew about hip, knee, even shoulder replacements. But ankles?
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Burlington, Vt., is healthiest city, CDC says
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11.17.2008 : 2:05 pm
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What's the healthiest city in America? It appears to be Burlington, Vt. Vermont's largest city is tops among U.S. metropolitan areas by having the largest proportion of people -- 92 percent -- who say they are in good or great health.
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W. Virginia town shrugs at poorest health ranking
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11.16.2008 : 10:46 pm
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- As a portly woman plodded ahead of him on the sidewalk, the obese mayor of America's fattest and unhealthiest city explained why health is not a big local issue.
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Study: Vitamin C or E pills do not prevent cancer
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11.16.2008 : 2:43 pm
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Vitamin C or E pills do not help prevent cancer in men, concludes the same big study that last week found these supplements ineffective for warding off heart disease.
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ABCs plus playing nice equals better pre-K smarts
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11.14.2008 : 2:09 pm
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WASHINGTON -- Should preschool be more about ABCs or learning to play with others? With the help of Twiggle the Turtle, scientists found out that youngsters do better if they do both.
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FDA to detain food shipments from China
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11.13.2008 : 2:48 pm
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WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials on Thursday ordered dozens of imported foods from China held at the border as possible health risks. Most are ethnic treats, including snacks, drinks and chocolates.
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Doctors say marrow transplant may have cured AIDS
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11.13.2008 : 1:36 pm
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BERLIN -- An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said.
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Study: HPV vaccine prevents genital warts in males
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11.13.2008 : 12:39 pm
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ATLANTA -- For the first time, an expensive vaccine aimed at preventing cervical cancer in women has proven successful at preventing a disease in men, according to a study released Thursday by the vaccine's maker.
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More countries make spreading HIV a crime
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11.13.2008 : 9:18 am
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LONDON -- An increasing number of countries worldwide are making spreading HIV a crime, according to a new report from the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
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Study: Brain stimulation may ease anxiety disorder
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11.12.2008 : 5:52 pm
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NEW YORK -- The same kind of deep brain stimulation used to treat some patients for Parkinson's disease also helped a few people suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, French scientists reported.
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Study: Same-sex heart transplants are better
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11.12.2008 : 5:45 pm
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NEW ORLEANS -- Turns out men and women really are different at heart: New research finds that heart transplant patients have better odds of survival and a lower risk of rejection if they get organs from donors of the same sex.
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Allergists' dander up about Obama quest for dog
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11.12.2008 : 5:27 pm
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CHICAGO -- Not to put a damper on the Obama family's canine quest, but allergists have a news flash: There's no such thing as a hypoallergenic dog.
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Study: Diabetes drug fails to slow artery buildup
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11.12.2008 : 4:24 pm
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NEW ORLEANS -- The controversial diabetes pill Avandia failed to significantly slow plaque buildup in heart arteries compared with an older drug, though there were some hopeful signs in a new study reported Wednesday.
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Key 'switch' found for popular breast cancer drug
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11.12.2008 : 1:00 pm
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WASHINGTON -- Scientists have pinpointed the molecular on-off switch that the powerful drug tamoxifen uses to attack breast cancer and which prevents it from working in some women.
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Report urges states to tackle preterm birth crisis
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11.12.2008 : 7:39 am
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WASHINGTON -- The odds of having a premature baby are lowest in Vermont and highest in Mississippi. The March of Dimes mapped the stark state-by-state disparities in what it called a "report card" on prematurity Wednesday -- to track progress toward meeting a federal goal of lowering preterm births.
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State premature birth rates
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11.12.2008 : 12:04 am
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Fat kids found to have arteries of 45-year-olds
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11.11.2008 : 9:10 pm
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NEW ORLEANS -- Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart disease, say doctors who used ultrasound tests to take a peek inside.
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Exercise no magic cure for heart failure patients
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11.11.2008 : 6:58 pm
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NEW ORLEANS -- Exercise can do a lot of good for most people, but it apparently isn't much help to those with heart failure, the fastest-growing heart problem in the United States.
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Study: Deadly stomach bug more common than thought
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11.11.2008 : 5:08 pm
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ATLANTA -- A nasty, sometimes deadly stomach bug is at least six times more common than was thought, researchers said Tuesday, based on a survey of hundreds of U.S. hospitals. The germ, Clostridium difficile, is resistant to some antibiotics and has become a regular menace in hospitals and nursing homes.
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Studies: Elderly fare well in open-heart surgery
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11.11.2008 : 7:41 am
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NEW ORLEANS -- Eighty-year-olds with clogged arteries or leaky heart valves used to be sent home with a pat on the arm from their doctors and pills to try to ease their symptoms. Now more are getting open-heart surgery, with remarkable survival rates rivaling those of much younger people, new studies show.
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Rerouting urinary nerves may help spina bifida
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11.10.2008 : 6:00 pm
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WASHINGTON -- It's a delicate and daring experiment: Could doctors switch a leg nerve to make it operate the bladder instead? Families of a few U.S. children whose spina bifida robs them of the bladder control that most people take for granted dared to try the procedure -- and early results suggest the surgery indeed may help, in at least some patients.
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AMA acts against trans fats, texting while driving
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11.10.2008 : 5:56 pm
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CHICAGO -- The American Medical Association on Monday took a stand against two unhealthy habits -- eating foods made with artificial trans fats and text-messaging while driving.
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Blood pressure gap leads to deaths of 8,000 blacks
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11.10.2008 : 5:45 pm
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ATLANTA -- The lives of nearly 8,000 black Americans could be saved each year if doctors could figure out a way to bring their average blood pressure down to the average level of whites, a surprising new study found. The gap between the races in controlling blood pressure is well-known, but the resulting number of lives lost startled some scientists.
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Massive malaria vaccine trial to begin in Africa
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11.10.2008 : 2:46 pm
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Researchers trying to create the world's first malaria vaccine are launching a massive medical trial as early as next month involving 16,000 children that could be the largest such trial ever conducted on children in Africa.
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Music headphones can interfere with heart devices
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11.10.2008 : 7:38 am
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NEW ORLEANS -- Have a pacemaker or an implanted defibrillator? Don't keep your iPod earbuds in your shirt pocket or draped around your neck -- even when they're disconnected. A study finds that some headphones can interfere with heart devices if held very close to them.
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Study: Wider cholesterol drug use may save lives
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11.9.2008 : 6:36 pm
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NEW ORLEANS -- People with low cholesterol and no big risk for heart disease had dramatically lower rates of heart attacks, death and stroke if they took the cholesterol pill Crestor, a large study found.
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Studies: Vitamin pills don't prevent heart disease
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11.9.2008 : 1:17 pm
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NEW ORLEANS -- Vitamins C and E -- pills taken by millions of Americans -- do nothing to prevent heart disease in men, one of the largest and longest studies of these supplements has found.
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NY family opposes end to care for brain-dead boy
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11.8.2008 : 10:12 pm
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NEW YORK -- A Washington hospital has asked a judge for permission to stop treating a brain-dead 12-year-old cancer patient, even though his ultra-religious New York parents want to keep him on life support.
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Gov't seizes more contaminated heparin
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11.6.2008 : 2:03 pm
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WASHINGTON -- Federal agents Thursday seized quantities of a contaminated blood thinner made in China from a small manufacturer in Cincinnati, officials said.
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