AP – President Barack Obama, worried about growing resistance to his health care plan, exhorted Congress not to “lose heart” Friday and urged deeper cost cuts to calm concern over the huge expense of covering millions of uninsured Americans.
Reuters – President Barack Obama’s far-reaching plan to guarantee all Americans healthcare ran into trouble on Friday over its more than $1 trillion price tag, forcing Democrats to look for ways to reduce costs as they moved the bill forward.
HealthDay – THURSDAY, July 16 (HealthDay News) — Circumcision doesn’t reduce
transmission of HIV from infected men to women, says a study that included
922 HIV-infected men in Uganda.
HealthDay – (HealthDay News) — It’s difficult to prevent your child’s
asthma symptoms entirely, but you can help control them so they don’t
interfere with your youngster’s daily life.
HealthDay – (HealthDay News) — While the cause of many birth defects
remains a mystery, doctors do understand what causes many others — and
how to prevent them.
HealthDay – FRIDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) — Whether you have an easy baby or a
fussy one may have nothing to do with your parenting skills because the
combination of a certain gene and a particular pattern of brain activity
may determine a child’s temperament, a new study has found.
HealthDay – FRIDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) — Rapid evolution of the male sex
chromosome could result in its disappearance within a few million years.
But that won’t mean the end of males, say U.S. scientists.
HealthDay – FRIDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) — The beginnings of legislation
to overhaul the nation’s health-care system started to emerge from Capitol
Hill this week, raising hope among some health-reform advocates that this
may, at long last, be the year that Congress enacts a law to help
America’s uninsured and make health care more affordable.
HealthDay – Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by editors of HealthDay:
HealthDay – (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of CenterWatch and ClinicalConnection.com: