Health

Many immigrants hesitate to seek health insurance

Many immigrants hesitate to seek health insurance

HOUSTON (AP) — Each day, Adonias Arevalo tried to calm his other people' nerves, trying to persuade them it was once safe for him to make use of for presidency-backed scientific medical insurance in the course of the nation's new safety laptop.

 
 

New drug, study method show breast cancer promise

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A novel strategy to pace the trying out of most cancers medicine and quickly separate winners from duds has yielded its first large outcome: an experimental medicine that shows promise against a difficult-to-deal with form of breast cancer.

 
 

Shaken not stirred: Did 007 have alcoholic tremor?

Shaken not stirred: Did 007 have alcoholic tremor?

LONDON (AP) — He will have a license to kill, however is he sober sufficient to shoot?

 
 

Exercise helps women tolerate breast cancer drugs

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Train might assist girls beat breast most cancers. Researchers discovered it will possibly ease the achy joints and muscle ache that lead many patients to cease taking drug treatments that deal with the illness and lower the chance of a recurrence.

 
 

Pa. students’ robotic arm can make you stronger

Pa. students’ robotic arm can make you stronger

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Desire a hand lifting one thing? A robotic software invented by using College of Pennsylvania engineering students can assist its wearer raise an additional 40 pounds.  

 
 

Study says many lung cancer tumors prove harmless

Study says many lung cancer tumors prove harmless

CHICAGO (AP) — Innocuous lung cancer? A provocative study found that nearly 1 in 5 lung tumors detected on CT scans are most probably so slow-rising that they might by no means result in problems.

 
 

Health care debate has trust, politics themes, too

Health care debate has trust, politics themes, too

WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, the debate was once all about laptop code. About response times. About glitches and bugs.

 
 

Fertility drugs lead to more big multiple births

Triplets-and-extra increasingly more are the result of medicine given to ladies to make them produce eggs — no longer from the usage of multiple embryos from IVF, or lab-dish fertilization, new analysis shows.

 
 

Face transplants thriving 2 years after operations

Face transplants thriving 2 years after operations

CHICAGO (AP) — The nation's first full face transplant sufferers are rising into their new appearances — actually.

 
 

Updated healthcare.gov gets mixed reviews

Updated healthcare.gov gets mixed reviews

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Counselors helping people use the federal government's online health exchange are giving mixed opinions to the up to date website, with some zipping during the utility process whereas others are going through the same previous sputters and even crashes.

 
 

Critics slam woman’s forced C-section in Britain

LONDON (AP) — An area British authority is coming beneath harsh criticism for having a courtroom declare a pregnant Italian woman incompetent, forcing her to have a cesarean part after which taking her baby into custody.

 
 

Fertility doctors aim to lower rate of twin births

Fertility doctors aim to lower rate of twin births

BOSTON (AP) — In the 5 years because the "Octomom" case, giant more than one births have gone way down however the twin fee has barely budged. Now fertility experts are pushing a new intention: One.

 
 

Hospital worker to be sentenced in hepatitis case

Hospital worker to be sentenced in hepatitis case

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A touring clinical technician who contaminated dozens of patients in a couple of states with hepatitis C through tainted syringes used to be because of find out Monday how many a long time he'll spend in a New Hampshire jail.

 
 

Latest health law delay: small business website

Latest health law delay: small business website

CHICAGO (AP) — Small businesses curious about buying market health insurance plans for his or her staff should purchase them from dealers, brokers or insurance corporations for the subsequent year, relatively than through the federal government web site.

 
 

Tongue pierce lets the paralyzed drive wheelchairs

Tongue pierce lets the paralyzed drive wheelchairs

WASHINGTON (AP) — An experimental software is letting paralyzed people pressure wheelchairs simply by flicking their tongue in the proper direction.