thDay - (HealthDay News) -- Regular self-exams of the skin can help you
spot the beginning signs of skin cancer, allowing you to start treatment
while the cancer is in its early stage.
thDay - THURSDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) -- Death and disease rates
vary widely among distinct groups of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and
Pacific Islanders, but these groups can benefit from culturally
appropriate prevention and care programs, new studies show.
Reuters - In May, 2002, Jerome Mitchell, a 17-year old college freshman from rural South Carolina, learned he had contracted HIV. The news, of course, was devastating, but Mitchell believed that he had one thing going for him: On his own initiative, in anticipation of his first year in college, he had purchased his own health insurance.
thDay - FRIDAY, March 19 (HealthDay News) -- A new review of studies on the
controversial diabetes drug Avandia finds that most of the researchers who
reported positive results had financial ties to pharmaceutical companies,
but it's not clear if being paid by drug makers directly leads to
supportive research.
LiveScience.com - Fat Actress star Kirstie Alley - following a well-publicized
failure as spokeswoman for weight loss company Jenny Craig - has
developed a new diet system called Organic Liaison. So if you want to
look like Kirstie Alley, here's your chance.
But Organic Liaison is not just a diet, since diets per se
cannot be trademarked or copyrighted.
The legislation has become controversial not only in the ways it would alter US health care, but also because of public concern about the machinery employed
