Tag: Health

Stigma hinders efforts to combat leprosy in India

Nirmala George · March 9, 2014 6:44 am

Black doctors’ association to meet in DC

Black doctors’ association to meet in DC

Washington Examiner · March 8, 2014 4:28 am

This handout image provide by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shows, from left, a current food nutrition label, a proposed label and an alternate label. Revamped food nutrition labels would change serving sizes for popular items like ice cream and sodas, make calories listing more prominent, and, for the first time, list any sugars that were added by the manufacturer. The overhaul of the omnipresent 20 year-old label comes as science has shifted. (AP Photo/FDA)

New food labels aim to make healthy shopping easy

darlene-supervillemary, Clare Jalonick · February 27, 2014 7:49 pm

FILE - In this June 3, 2011, file photo, first lady Michelle Obama tends the White House garden in Washington, with a group of children as part of the "Let's Move!" campaign. A government report published online Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that, overall, both adult and childhood obesity rates have been flat in the past decade however, the preschool obesity rate _ those children ages 2 to 5 _ decreased to 8 percent, from 14 percent a decade ago. That would represent a 43 percent drop. While Obama's "Let's Move" campaign and other efforts over the past 10 years have raised awareness about childhood obesity, stumbling blocks remain for some working parents. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Michelle Obama to unveil overhaul of nutrition labels

Brian Hughes · February 27, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is no fan of the new reality show "Friday Night Tykes" and has called on the TV show's network to yank the program from its lineup on the grounds that it's exploitive and "glorifies a culture of violent competitiveness."(Thinkstock Image)

Dick Durbin wants lights out for ‘Friday Night Tykes’

Sean Lengell · February 27, 2014 5:00 am

Video of Seth Rogen’s ‘Knocked Up’ congressional testimony on Alzheimer’s goes viral

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Video of Seth Rogen’s ‘Knocked Up’ congressional testimony on Alzheimer’s goes viral

Charlie Spiering · February 27, 2014 5:00 am

First lady Michelle Obama thinks you’re too dumb to read a nutrition label

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First lady Michelle Obama thinks you’re too dumb to read a nutrition label

Ashe Schow · February 27, 2014 5:00 am

Jennifer Fontaine kisses her baby daughter, Morgan, at her parents' home in Methuen, Mass., Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. A simple test that looks for fetal DNA in a pregnant woman's blood is far more accurate at detecting or ruling out Down syndrome and other common chromosome disorders than other screening methods used now, a major study finds. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

DNA blood tests show prenatal screening promise

Marilynn Marchione · February 26, 2014 11:07 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 25, 2010 file photo, a festival official touches the lip of a young expensive Majahim, dark-skinned originally from Najd, Saudi Arabia, camel during the final day of Mazayin Dhafra Camel Festival in outskirt of Zayed City about 120 kms south west of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Scientists say the mysterious MERS virus has been infecting camels in Saudi Arabia for at least two decades and that previous human cases have probably been missed. Since the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus was first identified in 2012, doctors have struggled to explain how most patients have fallen sick. MERS can cause symptoms including fever, breathing problems and kidney failure. To date, it has killed more than 180 people, mostly in the Middle East though infections have also spread to Europe and northern Africa. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Study: MERS virus infecting camels since 1992

Maria Cheng · February 25, 2014 11:24 am

The FDA announced last month that it was reviewing the safety of drugs like the blockbuster testosterone gel, AndroGel, in light of two recent studies that showed higher rates of cardiovascular problems in men. (AP Photo/The Longmont Times-Call, Richard M. Hackett)

Group wants heart attack warning on testosterone

Matthew Perrone · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

Endo Pharmaceuticals paying $172M False Claims Act settlement over Lidoderm patch

Endo Pharmaceuticals paying $172M False Claims Act settlement over Lidoderm patch

Jon Campisi · February 24, 2014 9:25 pm

A new fertilization technique that could eventually create babies from the DNA of three people raises a number of ethical questions, including whether the government should sanction the creation of genetically-modified humans. (Thinkstock)

FDA weighs risks of 3-person embryo fertilization

Associated Press, Matthew Perrone · February 24, 2014 3:40 pm