HEALTH BEAT
BEIJING (AP) -- Two men are on trial in China, accused of making and selling the chemical at the center of a tainted-milk scandal blamed for killing six children and sickening nearly 300,000 others.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have discovered the atomic structure of a powerful "molecular motor" that packages DNA into the head segment of some viruses during their assembly, an essential step in their ability to multiply and infect new host organisms.
(NBC) -- A popular Christmas decoration is being recalled because of a fire hazard.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Worries over lead paint in mass-market toys made the holidays a little brighter for handcrafted toy makers last year.
People who suffer with Parkinson's disease face many obstacles including control of their speech, especially volume. A new treatment now aims to help break down the communication barrier for patients and make their speech easier to hear and understand.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court is reinstating one of President George W. Bush's clean air regulations while the Environmental Protection Agency makes court-mandated changes.
The lebed method promises to improve both physical and psychological health after a battle with breast cancer.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York is updating its nutrition program to offer healthier options and discourage obesity among low-income women, infants and children.
HAMPDEN (NEWS CENTER) -- The Hampden Water District is encouraging people with older homes to have their water tested for lead.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Companies that make cold pills containing ingredients used to make methamphetamine cannot be forced to pay the costs of fighting the illegal drug in Arkansas counties, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
BALTIMORE (AScribe Newswire) -- Digitalis-based drugs like digoxin have been used for centuries to treat patients with irregular heart rhythms and heart failure and are still in use today.
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Washington is the latest state that is considering legislation to outlaw smoking in vehicles when children are passengers.
(AP) -- Beth Flanders was on her way to China to adopt her 17-month-old daughter in September when she received a warning from her adoption agency: An industrial chemical that can cause kidney stones had been found in Chinese baby formula, and parents should not feed it to their new children.
ROSEMONT, Ill. (PRNewswire-USNewswire) -- Each year thousands of patients undergo total hip replacement surgery in order to help alleviate pain associated with debilitating hip disease and other related hip problems.
ROSEMONT, Ill. (PRNewswire-USNewswire) -- Although Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurological disorder, according to an article in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the disease also increases a person's risk of experiencing complicated orthopaedic conditions.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (PRNewswire-USNewswire) -- As a part of National Cervical Health Awareness Month, Acting Secretary of Health Everette James Friday reminded women of the importance of cervical cancer prevention and the need for pap tests.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota Human Services officials say the state has received more than $67,000 as its share of a settlement with drug maker Cephalon, Inc.
PORTLAND (NEWS CENTER) -- Dr. Lou Jacobs, a chiropractor in Portland, is holding his second annual weight loss challenge, in the hopes of motivating people to lose weight, get in shape and move toward better health.
ST. IGNATIUS, Mont. (AP) -- Randy Trudeau has been practicing medicine here for 13 years.
BOSTON (AP) -- A bill designed to give nursing mothers more legal protections to breast-feed in public is on Gov. Deval Patrick's desk.
BALTIMORE (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of Johns Hopkins neuroscientists has worked out how some newly discovered light sensors in the eye detect light and communicate with the brain.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A smoking ban in one Colorado city led to a dramatic drop in heart attack hospitalizations, according to a new study.
BEIJING (AP) -- Trials have been taking place in China stemming from the country's tainted milk scandal.
BALTIMORE (AScribe Newswire) -- When researchers look inside human cancer cells for the whereabouts of an important tumor-suppressor, they often catch the protein playing hooky, lolling around in cellular broth instead of muscling its way out to the cells' membranes and foiling cancer growth.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- The federal government is reminding New Hampshire's elderly time is running out to make changes in some Medicare health and prescription plans for 2009.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hospitals in about a dozen states are testing whether some simple steps, such as arm-strengthening exercises, could reduce the risk of one of breast cancer's troubling legacies -- the painful and sometimes severe arm swelling called lymphedema.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Obesity surgery can reverse diabetes in teens, just as it does in adults, according to a small study.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A federal judge has refused to certify a class action on behalf of thousands of Gulf Coast hurricane victims who claim they were exposed to potentially hazardous Formaldehyde fumes while living in government-issued trailers after hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
PHILADELPHIA (PRNewswire-USNewswire) -- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is named the nation's best pediatric hospital by Parents magazine.
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