A clinical supervisor sets up monitoring equipment in a file photo. Five years of cancer care for America’s elderly cost Medicare $21.1 billion, a figure that will swell as the baby boomer generation ages, U.S. government researchers said on Tuesday. (Lee Celano/Reuters)

CHICAGO (Reuters) -
Five years of cancer care for America's
elderly cost Medicare $21.1 billion, a [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
The results of a clinical trial
suggest that a new drug slows the functional decline seen in
patients with mild Alzheimer's disease, according to a report
in the online issue of The Lancet Neurology.
The drug is called tarenflurbil, which is an agent that
selectively and safely lowers amyloid-beta-42, which form
amyloid. The major characteristic of the [...]

LONDON (Reuters) -
The first batch of 1 million doses of
bluetongue vaccine has been delivered and is ready to be
distributed, Britain's farm ministry said on Wednesday.
Britain's first ever case of the bluetongue virus, a
disease which can be highly dangerous to sheep and cows, was
reported in eastern England in September 2007.
“Vaccination offers the only realistic prospect of
controlling [...]

A mother breastfeeding her baby in a breastfeeding room in Manila, the Philippines. Breastfeeding a baby can reduce the risk of cot death by a third, a new study released by a British charity has found.(AFP/File/Joel Nito)

LONDON (AFP) -
Breastfeeding a baby can reduce the risk of cot death by a third, a new study released [...]

A baby is fed by a nurse. Levels of arsenic in rice formula for babies are worryingly high, according to an investigation published into products widely sold in British stores.(AFP/File/Maxim Marmur)

PARIS (AFP) -
Levels of arsenic in rice formula for babies are worryingly high, according to an investigation published Wednesday into products widely sold in British [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google on Monday launched Google Health, a long-anticipated medical records service letting US users store and manage their health care information online.

The offering raises privacy concerns and draws yet another battle line between Internet search king Google and global software giant Microsoft, which began offering a similar HealthVault service in October.
“It [...]

- (HealthDay News) — There's no need to stop exercising during
pregnancy. But your doctor should know about and approve of what you're
doing.

It's especially important to speak with your doctor if you didn't
exercise
before pregnancy, but plan to do so now.

The American Pregnancy Association offers these general guidelines:

Kegel exercises, swimming, walking, light dancing and yoga are
generally [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google on Monday launched Google Health, a long-anticipated medical records service letting US users store and manage their health care information online.

The offering raises privacy concerns and draws yet another battle line between Internet search king Google and global software giant Microsoft, which began offering a similar HealthVault service in October.
“It [...]

- TUESDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) — Few studies consider the
appropriate measurements for assessing drug clinical trials that enroll
children, say University of Liverpool researchers who reviewed 9,000
pediatric clinical trials conducted since 1950.

They also found that few studies have involved parents, and none have
involved children in the process to select which measurements to use in
assessing [...]

- TUESDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) — Employer-based health insurance
premiums have skyrocketed at a pace that far exceeds the rate of American
wage increases since 2000, a new study reveals.

According to an analysis of government statistics being released
Tuesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the average dollar
amount employees must pay per year for family [...]