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Cells change identity in promising breakthrough
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 at 4:43pm
Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases.
In NYC, new HIV infections 3 times national rate
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 at 5:48pm
New data show New York City residents are contracting the virus that causes AIDS at three times the national rate.
Police: Disabled Palestinian siblings hidden away
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 at 6:04pm
A Palestinian couple locked their disabled son and daughter away for decades out of fear they would ruin the marriage prospects of a healthy child if discovered, police said Wednesday.
FDA OKs blood test for heart transplant rejection
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 at 3:51pm
Government regulators on Wednesday cleared the way for broader use of a blood test that can spare heart transplant patients the ordeal of repeated biopsies to check if their bodies are rejecting the new organ.
Study outcome won't sway company on eye drug
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 at 4:50pm
What does a company do when there's anecdotal evidence that two of its drugs are equally effective in treating a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, one costing patients $60 per treatment and the other $2,000?
New attack ad on TV, but this one targets hot dogs
Posted: 26 Aug 2008 at 5:12pm
A new TV commercial shows kids eating hot dogs in a school cafeteria and one little boy's haunting lament: "I was dumbfounded when the doctor told me I have late-stage colon cancer."
Number of uninsured drops; poverty holds steady
Posted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:54pm
The number of people without health insurance fell by more than 1 million in 2007, the first annual decline since the Bush administration took office, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Incomes edged up for the middle class while poverty held steady.
Study links preterm births, simmering infections
Posted: 25 Aug 2008 at 9:23pm
Infections may play a bigger role in premature birth than doctors have thought, says a new study that found almost one in seven women in preterm labor harbored bacteria or fungi in their amniotic fluid.
How to clear confusion from food allergy warnings
Posted: 25 Aug 2008 at 3:59pm
It's one of the biggest frustrations of life with food allergies: That hodgepodge of warnings that a food might accidentally contain the wrong ingredient.
Audits of Medicare drug plans lacking
Posted: 22 Aug 2008 at 5:52pm
Nearly three years into the Medicare drug benefit, federal officials have yet to ensure that private drug plans enacted programs to deter fraud and abuse, government investigators say.
