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Fathers-to-be who smoke and want to protect the health of their families should take it outside, suggests new research from Korea.
More... Health Highlights: Nov. 20, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:02:24 GMT
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:
More... Zimbabwe deadlock reaps 'health and food emergency': US (AFP via Yahoo! News)Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:55:56 GMT
Cholera and starvation are spreading in Zimbabwe as a political deadlock and economic meltdown trigger a manmade "food and health emergency," the US ambassador to Harare James McGee said Thursday.
More... Health Insurers Offer to Accept All Applicants, on Condition (New York Times)Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:35:48 GMT
The health insurance industry said it would support a plan requiring insurers to accept all customers, but asked that Congress require all Americans to have coverage in return.
More... Zimbabwe health service in 'state of collapse,' doctors say (CNN)Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:45:09 GMT
Zimbabwe's health system, once the envy of many African nations, is "in a state of collapse" -- with many hospitals either completely shut down or unable to admit new patients, a leading doctors' group said Thursday.
More... UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News (UPI)Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:20:29 GMT
Vast water glaciers found on Mars ... Abuse of politicians' DNA feared ... 25,000 Americans don't know they have HIV ... Study: Females bond through language ... Health/Science news from UPI.
More... Final Glance: Health Care Equipment companies (AP via Yahoo! Finance)Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:55:06 GMT
Shares of some top health care equipment companies were down at the close of trading: Becton Dickinson fell $1.66 or 2.7 percent, to $60.26.
More... Daschle to be Obama's health secretary (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:13:31 GMT
WASHINGTON — Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a veteran of Capitol Hill and a backer of President Bill Clinton's administration's failed health care effort of the early 1990s, is President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be secretary of health and human services.
More... Farmers' Health Insurance: A Costly Row To Hoe (NPR)Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:16:18 GMT
Many U.S. farmers struggle to meet their health care costs. A recent survey by the nonprofit Access Project says farmers pay twice as much as nonfarmers for insurance and out-of-pocket expenses. As small-business owners, they have few options and often buy insurance as individuals.
More... Health of California's seniors is deteriorating (Los Angeles Times)Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:57:10 GMT
A new UCLA study shows that high blood pressure, diabetes and other chronic health problems have worsened among seniors in recent years, particularly in South L.A. and the Central Valley. Felicitas Conde, 60, loves to walk.
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