By LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – What if you could be fat but avoid heart disease or diabetes? Scientists trying to break the fat-and-disease link increasingly say inflammation is the key.
In the quest to prove it, a major study is under way testing whether an anti-inflammatory drug – an old, cheap cousin of aspirin [...]
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors have just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants to patients who too often never qualify.
“A whole new doorway of hope opened,” says Tom Otten, a suburban St. Louis police officer [...]
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Medical Writer
Fresh results from the world’s first successful test of an experimental AIDS vaccine confirm that it is only marginally effective and suggest that its protection against HIV infection may wane over time.
Yet the findings are exciting to scientists, who think that blood samples from the trial may show how to [...]
By DEVLIN BARRETT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal drug agents won’t pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama administration.
Two Justice Department officials described the new policy to The Associated Press, saying prosecutors will be told it is not [...]
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – As the swine flu outbreak strikes the U.S. early and hard, health officials note a worrisome number of child deaths and warn that supplies of vaccine will remain scarce for at least the next couple of weeks.
Delays in producing the vaccine mean 28 million to 30 million doses, [...]
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – A key Senate panel is expected to take up the most contentious issue of the health care reform debate as lawmakers go back to work Tuesday on President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.
The Senate Finance Committee is likely to consider whether the government should offer its own health [...]
By FRANK JORDANS
Associated Press Writer
GENEVA (AP) – Pharmaceutical companies will be able to produce about 3 billion doses of swine flu vaccine a year, much less than previously expected, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
The U.N. agency had predicted that companies would be able to make 5 billion doses each year.
The agency said ensuring poorer [...]
By ERICA WERNER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – A leading Democratic senator’s decision to release his long-awaited health care overhaul bill Wednesday with no Republicans on board dims the chances for a bipartisan compromise on President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.
Sen. Max Baucus, the Senate Finance Committee chairman, insisted Tuesday that he’ll keep negotiating with the [...]
By STEVEN R. HURST
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama began a week that will dwell heavily on overhauling the health care system, declaring himself confident Congress will pass “a good health care bill” even though some Republican opponents were trying to kill the measure for political gain.
At the same time, the president and [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is working to reclaim the initiative from critics of his health care initiative and boost momentum to push his chief domestic priority through Congress.
Obama kept up a steady weekend drumbeat of cheerleading for his health care plan in a campaign-style rally, on the radio and Internet, and on network [...]
