http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Health AP 60 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00:26 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1349124.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1349124.html Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:48 EST The number of people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS - about 33 million - has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years, United Nations experts said Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1348639.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1348639.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:23 EST President Barack Obama rolls out the red carpet Tuesday for India in the first official state visit of his presidency, but the stresses of a key relationship in a tinderbox part of the world will lie just beneath the glitz and glamour of a state dinner. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1348244.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1348244.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:43 EST A technology originally developed for premature babies may be helping to save some of the sickest swine flu patients by rerouting their blood so their lungs can rest. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1348211.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1348211.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:28 EST Schoolteacher Kinzi Blair makes only $46,000 a year, but she has what many would consider a "Cadillac" health plan, now targeted for a big tax increase by health reformers. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1347866.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1347866.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:20 EST For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1347425.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1347425.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:38 EST Parents who thought their preschoolers were spending time in home-based day cares, taking naps, eating healthy snacks and learning to play nicely with others may be surprised to discover they are sitting as many as two hours a day in front of a TV, according to a study published Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1346519.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1346519.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:19 EST Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1346516.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1346516.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:52 EST The former director of the National Institutes of Health is advising women to ignore new guidelines that delay the start of routine mammogram testing for breast cancer. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1344334.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1344334.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:31 EST Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1344055.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1344055.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:21 EST Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1343713.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1343713.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:41 EST In a Nov. 17 story about drug interactions between heartburn medications and the blood thinner Plavix, The Associated Press misidentified Johnson & Johnson's Mylanta as part of the H-2 blocker drug family. Mylanta is an antacid. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1343405.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1343405.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:36 EST Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1343387.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1343387.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:46 EST The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1343197.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1343197.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:31 EST First mammograms. Now - in an apparent coincidence - Pap smears. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1343181.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1343181.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:16 EST China's health ministry said it will punish officials who underreport cases of swine flu after a doctor famous for exposing the extent of the 2003 SARS epidemic said he believes the true number of swine flu deaths is being covered up. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1343158.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1343158.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:06 EST Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1342502.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1342502.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:11 EST Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1342334.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1342334.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:01 EST When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1342216.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1342216.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:26 EST Federal health experts on Thursday brushed off lingering safety questions about a popular inhaler drug and suggested it carry bolder benefit claims. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1341916.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/healthAP/story/1341916.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:11 EST The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than 80 percent of counties in the Appalachian region that includes Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.