HealthDay – SUNDAY, Oct. 4 (HealthDay News) — You can’t channel surf at all
these days without stumbling across drug advertisements featuring happy
people, sunny days, vague descriptions and a quickly mumbled list of side
effects.
HealthDay – SUNDAY, Oct. 4 (HealthDay News) — Hairstylists can do more than
make their clients look good, they may also be helpful in getting some
elderly people the health-care services they need, an Ohio State
University study suggests.
HealthDay – SUNDAY, Oct. 4 (HealthDay News) — An estimated 13 million
infants worldwide are born premature each year and more than one million
of them die within the first month of life, according to a report released
Sunday.
AP – They call it kangaroo care: A premature baby nestles skin-to-skin against mom’s bare, warm chest. In Malawi, mothers’ bodies take the place of too-pricey incubators to keep these fragile newborns alive.
AP – Two Canadian scientists whose discovery of stem cells has paved the way for controversial research could be candidates for the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine, the winners of which will be announced Monday.
AFP – Poor countries face “explosive outbreaks” of the global swine flu pandemic and need speedy financial assistance to access vaccines, UN officials warned on Sunday.
HealthDay – SATURDAY, Oct. 3 (HealthDay News) — Imagine that you see a new
mole and don’t like the looks of it so you take a picture of it using your
cell phone and e-mail it to your family doctor for an opinion.
AFP – US health authorities are hoping to contain what they say is an intensifying swine flu pandemic with a massive A(H1N1) vaccination campaign starting this week.
AFP – Ethiopia is stockpiling medicine to counter an expected surge in malaria cases due to hotter weather, its health ministry said on Saturday.