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Officials urge parents to get kids vaccinated

Officials urge parents to get kids vaccinated

   SPRINGFILED, IL (AP) - State health officials are urging parents to make sure their children have received all their recommended vaccinations.    The Illinois Department of Pub...

WOMEN HAVE NEW OPTIONS FOR BREAST CANCER SURGERY

WOMEN HAVE NEW OPTIONS FOR BREAST CANCER SURGERY

CHICAGO (AP) -- Treating breast cancer almost always involves surgery, and for years the choice was just having the lump or the whole breast removed. Now, new approaches are dramat...

BAXTER DRUG FAILS TO SLOW ALZHEIMER'S IN BIG STUDY

BAXTER DRUG FAILS TO SLOW ALZHEIMER'S IN BIG STUDY

DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Baxter International Inc. says that a blood product it was testing failed to slow mental decline or to preserve physical function in a major study of 390 pa...

MEASLES SURGES IN UK YEARS AFTER FLAWED RESEARCH

MEASLES SURGES IN UK YEARS AFTER FLAWED RESEARCH

LONDON (AP) -- More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of now discredited research that linked the vaccine to a...

OB/GYNS TOLD ROBOT HYSTERECTOMY NOT BEST OPTION

OB/GYNS TOLD ROBOT HYSTERECTOMY NOT BEST OPTION

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pricey robotic surgery shouldn't be the first or even second choice for most women who need a hysterectomy, says advice issued Thursday to doctors who help those...

HOSPITALS SEE SURGE OF SUPERBUG-FIGHTING PRODUCTS

HOSPITALS SEE SURGE OF SUPERBUG-FIGHTING PRODUCTS

NEW YORK (AP) -- They sweep. They swab. They sterilize. And still the germs persist. In U.S. hospitals, an estimated 1 in 20 patients pick up infections they didn't have when th...

MORNING-AFTER PILL USE UP TO 1 IN 9 YOUNGER WOMEN

MORNING-AFTER PILL USE UP TO 1 IN 9 YOUNGER WOMEN

NEW YORK (AP) -- About 1 in 9 younger women have used the morning-after pill after sex, according to the first government report to focus on emergency contraception since its appro...

OFFICIALS ALARMED BY INCREASING SUPERBUG REPORTS

OFFICIALS ALARMED BY INCREASING SUPERBUG REPORTS

NEW YORK (AP) -- Health officials are reporting an alarming increase in some dangerous superbugs at U.S. hospitals. These superbugs from a common germ family have become extreme...

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