This file photo shows a patient being wheeled through an emergency room. Two US hospitals were put on emergency lockdown Saturday after several patients arrived at St. Louis, Missouri emergency rooms after being exposed to an unknown substance, according to hospital officials.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)

WASHINGTON (AFP) -
Two US hospitals were put on emergency lockdown Saturday after [...]

Karina De Beule, Federal Nuclear Control Agency spokeswoman, holds up a map depicting Fleurus on August 29, 2008 during a press conference regarding contamination risks following a radioactive iodine leak. Belgian authorities reduced on Saturday a safety zone near a medical laboratory in the southern town of Fleurus where a leak of radioactive iodine occurred [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
The blood pressure drug
valsartan (sold as Diovan) safely and effectively lowers blood
pressure in youngsters aged 1 to 5 years who have high blood
pressure (also called hypertension), a study shows.

“The blood pressure reductions produced by valsartan were
clinically relevant and did not cause adverse effects,” Dr.
Joseph T. Flynn, from Children's Hospital and [...]

- Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by
editors of HealthDay:

Feds Can Bar Mad Cow Tests: Court

The U.S. government has the authority to bar meat companies from
testing their animals for mad cow disease, a federal appeals court has
ruled.

The Department of Agriculture's failure to test more than a fraction of
cows [...]

- SATURDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) — This Labor Day weekend, the
Vision Council and National Sleep Foundation are warning people of the
dangers of driving with poor vision or while drowsy.

These two rarely recognized driving hazards are just as deadly as poor
road conditions and drunk driving.

In a recent survey, Shedding Light on Driving in the [...]

A woman enjoys a beer on a night out. Alcoholism among women in Sweden rose by 50 percent between 2003 and 2007 as beer, wine and spirits have become more accessible in the country long known for its restrictive alcohol policy, a report written by the head of the Swedish National Institute of Public Health's [...]

PARIS (AFP) - Des spécialistes français ont réussi à détruire des tumeurs métastatiques au cerveau avec un laser, en contrôlant en temps réel l’opération grâce l’imagerie par résonance magnétique nucléaire (IRM), sans ouvrir la boîte crânienne.
“C’est la première fois que l’on utilise une technologie laser en intracrânien, c’est-à-dire le crâne totalement fermé, associé à un [...]

PARIS (AFP) - Des spécialistes français ont réussi à détruire des tumeurs métastatiques au cerveau avec un laser, en contrôlant en temps réel l’opération grâce l’imagerie par résonance magnétique nucléaire (IRM), sans ouvrir la boîte crânienne.
“C’est la première fois que l’on utilise une technologie laser en intracrânien, c’est-à-dire le crâne totalement fermé, associé à un [...]

MONTREAL, Quebec - A provincial health official says that an unusually high number of people have fallen ill with salmonella food poisoning across Quebec.
Horacio Arruda, a director with Quebec’s public health department, said Friday that 87 cases of salmonellosis have been reported and one death has been linked to the outbreak.
He said that there were [...]

PARIS (AFP) - Des spécialistes français ont réussi à détruire des tumeurs métastatiques au cerveau avec un laser, en contrôlant en temps réel l’opération grâce l’imagerie par résonance magnétique nucléaire (IRM), sans ouvrir la boîte crânienne.
“C’est la première fois que l’on utilise une technologie laser en intracrânien, c’est-à-dire le crâne totalement fermé, associé à un [...]