Reuters – Diabetics with stable heart disease do just as well taking drugs alone as getting quick angioplasty or bypass surgery to open blocked heart arteries, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.
HealthDay – SUNDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) With school out (or about to
be), youngsters are probably going to be spending less time sitting at a
desk and more time running, jumping and doing cannonballs.
AP – At one of the nation’s top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient’s bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that mix with the beeping monitors and hissing respirator keeping the man alive.
AP – Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley says that President Barack Obama “got nerve” to go sightseeing in Paris while telling lawmakers it’s time to deliver on a health care overhaul.
AP – When it comes to taxing health insurance benefits, President Barack Obama hasn’t said yes, and may never. But he and his top aides won’t quite say no, either, to an idea he attacked sharply in his campaign for the White House.
Reuters – Barack Obama may be pressuring Congress as no U.S. president has for decades as he aims to get two big domestic goals passed this year — reforming health care and fighting global warming.
Reuters – Novo Nordisk A/S’s experimental diabetes drug liraglutide was significantly better at helping patients control blood sugar than an older common medicine after two years of treatment, according to data from a clinical trial.
AP – The U.S. military says two cases of swine flu have been confirmed in soldiers at its medical center in Landstuhl, Germany.