HealthDay – FRIDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News) — Earlier this year, Janice
Axelrod, an insurance broker in Chicago, visited a plastic surgeon for a
“makeover” — a chemical peel and injections of abdominal fat under her
eyes, around her lips and at the corners of her mouth.
HealthDay – SATURDAY, Aug. 1 (HealthDay News) — The key to a satisfying vacation
may be to have fewer negative feelings about the trip, rather than having
more positive experiences, a new study says.
AFP – President Barack Obama hailed Saturday a key congressional committee’s approval of a bill embracing his plan to overhaul the US healthcare system as a “historic consensus.”
AP – One plaintiff is a cancer patient. Another is represented by his widow. The third, has emphysema and rolls into the courtroom on a wheelchair with tubes trailing out of his nose. The three Japanese are waging a minnow-vs.-whale battle against Big Tobacco in one of the world’s most smoker-friendly countries. But precedent suggests they’re likely to lose, and they hope their suit will at least draw attention to the dangers of smoking.
AP – President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are looking ahead to a health care showdown on the House floor in September following a key committee’s passage of sweeping overhaul legislation.
AFP – Fifty-one more swine flu-related US deaths were reported in the United States over the previous week, bringing the toll to 353 in the country worst affected by the global pandemic.
Reuters – Diabetics who took the drug metformin, which makes the body process insulin better, had a 62 percent lower risk of pancreatic cancer compared to those who had never received it, U.S. researchers said on Saturday.