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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – They're discreet, flavorful and come in cute tin boxes with names like "frost" and "spice." And the folks who created Joe Camel are hoping Camel Snus will become a hit with tobacco lovers tired of being forced outside for a smoke. But convincing health officials and smokers like Ethan Flint that they're worth a try may take some ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Inmates with open, bleeding wounds routinely use communal showers and suicidal prisoners are sometimes kept for hours inside small cages, witnesses testified in a lawsuit over state prison crowding. The four guards who testified before a three-judge panel Thursday supported earlier evidence suggesting that substandard medical and mental health care is a result of jam-packed prisons. The state, ...

POMONA, Calif. - Terry Fujimoto sees the future of agriculture in the exposed roots of the leafy greens he and his students grow in thin streams of water at a campus greenhouse. The program run by the California State Polytechnic University agriculture professor is part of a growing effort to use hydroponics - a method of cultivating plants in water instead ...

MOSCOW - Russia's top AIDS official on Friday lambasted the government's approach to fighting HIV, saying the number of registered cases was growing 10 percent a year despite increased federal funding. A misguided focus on treatment instead of prevention has undermined efforts to fight the disease's spread, said Vadim Pokrovsky, head of the state-funded Federal AIDS Center, which is charged with ...

Democratic and Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate have signaled they will work together to pass sweeping healthcare reform legislation next session. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and party leaders of the relevant committees issued a statement promising to unite to "achieve comprehensive healthcare reform," The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Indications are that President-elect Barack Obama's healthcare reform enjoys broad support ...

LAS VEGAS - A doctor and his wife have been convicted of treating patients with a Botox knockoff at their Las Vegas clinic. Federal jurors returned the verdict late Wednesday against 53-year-old Dr. Stephen Lee Seldon and 41-year-old Deborah Martinez Seldon. They are convicted of mail fraud and adulterating a drug while held for sale. Deborah Seldon was her husband's office ...

President-elect Barack Obama should rescind President Bush's limits on stem cell research, said Jim Hardy, president and CEO of Gahaga Biosciences Inc. in Frederick. Bush's decision not to fund stem cell research is keeping the U.S. behind other countries like Southeast Asia, India, Japan and most parts of Europe, said Hardy, who writes a blog on the Frederick County Biotech Community. ...

When factory manager Tony Kitchen had an accident at work, there was no doubt he'd been seriously hurt. But he didn't expect surgery to make his condition worse. Tony had been standing on a pile of packing boxes when a forklift truck smashed into it. He fell 20ft to the ground. Although he landed on his feet, he suffered a serious ...

LONDON (AP) — Some advanced lung cancer patients already treated with chemotherapy might be able to skip some of the bad side effects of another series of chemo by taking a pill instead, a study suggests. An international study showed patients on Iressa, an expensive, newer targeted treatment, survived about as long as those on another course of chemotherapy. "This will ...

WASHINGTON — When he endorsed Barack Obama for president in January, Sen. Edward Kennedy said it was because his young colleague "understands what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now.' " Ten months later, the haunting quote that Obama made a theme of his campaign holds an even deeper significance for Kennedy. Though battling incurable brain cancer, ...

It’s horrifying to see video of staffers at the Cherry mental health facility in Goldsboro playing cards, watching television, talking on cell phones, even dancing around as a patient sat nearby – unnoticed and dying. It’s unconscionable and criminal that those employees lied to investigators and falsified medical records to cover up their lack of care. But they did, according to ...

WASHINGTON – Two years after the government urged that HIV tests become as common as cholesterol checks there are small gains but still one in five people infected with the AIDS virus don't know it, scientists said Thursday. Eleven states that once required special consent for HIV testing have changed their laws, a key step to making an HIV test part ...

Publicly funded mental health care for children has improved in the past 25 years, but top officials in more than one out of five states say no child with serious mental disorders receives good care in their states, a report says today. The report "gives us reason to be extremely concerned about children's mental health," says Michael Hogan, commissioner of the ...

ATLANTA – A little less "I'm Lovin' It" could put a significant dent in the problem of childhood obesity, suggests a new study that attempts to measure the effect of TV fast-food ads. A ban on such commercials would reduce the number of obese young children by 18 percent, and the number of obese older kids by 14 percent, researchers found. ...

Health care professionals often have questions about how to pursue locum tenens jobs. From a latin phrase meaning “to substitute or hold the place of,” locum tenens is the industry term used to describe healthcare providers who take temporary positions at healthcare facilities. Hospitals,clinics and medical groups typically use locum tenens providers to fill vacation or maternity leaves, open positions, or ...

A fresh sign of a possible early attempt at health-care reform by President-elect Barack Obama emerged on Nov. 19 with word that former Senate leader Tom Daschle accepted Obama's offer to become Secretary of Health & Human Services. In that job, Daschle will oversee the government's sprawling medical benefits bureaucracy, but perhaps more importantly, he may guide the new Administration's health-care ...

DETROIT – Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, a cardiac surgeon who performed the nation's first human heart transplant and who also developed lifesaving medical implants, has died. He was 90. Kantrowitz died Friday in Ann Arbor of complications from heart failure, said his wife, Jean Kantrowitz. In 1967, Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States, three days after the ...

MIAMI – D'Zhana Simmons says she felt like a "fake person" for 118 days when she had no heart beating in her chest. "But I know that I really was here," the 14-year-old said, "and I did live without a heart." As she was being released Wednesday from a Miami hospital, the shy teen seemed in awe of what she's endured. ...

Do you know someone who deserves a truly amazing gift? If money is no object, these two amazing gifts will make anyone's holiday season.                 [page] 23andMe Personal Genome Service [photo:30036] Named the Invention of the Year by TIME Magazine, 23andMe's Personal Genome Service allows anyone to get a map of their own genome, ...

Looking to spend a little more on gifts? These 10 gifts are all under $100 and perfect for a variety of healthcare professionals. [page] Medical Professional Teddy Bear [photo:30005] This teddy bear, wearing scrubs, is a fantastic gift for an adult or child. Say "Happy Holidays" or "Thanks!" with this great gift. Cost: $42.00 Good For: Nurses, Medical Assistants, Doctors, Physician ...