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CDC: Half of overweight teens have heart risk
Half the nation's overweight teens have unhealthy blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar levels that put them at risk for future heart attacks and other cardiac problems, new federal research says.
Lung-cancer scans advised for older heavy smokers
New lung-cancer screening guidelines from three medical groups recommend annual scans but only for an older group of current or former heavy smokers.
Lung cancer CT scans: Just for older heavy smokers
New lung cancer screening guidelines from three medical groups recommend annual scans but only for an older group of current or former heavy smokers.
Mad cow quarantines lifted at 2 California dairies
Quarantines were lifted on two Central California dairies associated with a case of mad cow disease after investigators found no link between the illness and food the diseased bovine might have consumed, federal officials said Friday.
Researcher apologizes for study of gay therapy
A prominent retired psychiatrist is apologizing to the gay community for a decade-old study that concluded some gay people can go straight through what's called reparative therapy.
CONKO: High price of cheap drug imports
With the Senate set to vote on one of the few "must-pass" bills of the year, pharmaceutical industry critics are plotting ways to add poison pills to the Prescription Drug User Fee Act.
CDC to baby boomers: Get tested for hepatitis C
For the first time, the government is proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C.
Panel debates bioterrorism protection for children
The Obama administration is asking a presidential commission to help decide an ethical quandary: Should the anthrax vaccine and other treatments being stockpiled in case of a bioterror attack be tested in children?
Obama seeks to woo military vote from Republicans
Democrats lost the veterans vote by big margins in the last two presidential elections, but Obama campaign officials said Thursday they intend to reverse that trend by arguing that Mitt Romney would cut veterans' benefits.
More doctors are ditching the old prescription pad
Dropping a paper prescription at the drugstore is becoming old-school: More than a third of the nation's prescriptions now are electronic, according to the latest count.
TB patient charged in Calif for not taking meds
Armando Rodriguez was warned several times to continue taking his tuberculosis medicine.
Tuberculosis patient jailed, charged in California
A tuberculosis patient has been charged in California after authorities said he failed to take medication for the highly contagious disease.
Study: US clears drugs faster than Europe, Canada
Researchers say the U.S. approved more new medicines in less time than Europe and Canada in the last decade, challenging long-standing criticisms that the Food and Drug Administration lags behind its peers in clearing important new drugs.
TB patient charged in Calif for not taking meds
Authorities in California took the unusual step of jailing and charging a tuberculosis patient who they say refused to take medication to keep his disease from becoming contagious.
Pour it on: Study ties coffee to longer life
Coffee seems to be good for you. Or at least it's not bad, say researchers who led the largest-ever study of coffee and health.