ATLANTA - Health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak that has reportedly sickened nearly 400 people in 42 states, but they don’t know how the bacteria are spreading.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not named all the states.
Ohio officials say at least 50 people there have been sickened by salmonella since October. [...]

CHICAGO (Reuters) -
A drug used to suppress the immune system in cancer and rheumatoid arthritis has helped extend the life of a Minnesota boy struggling with a rare and deadly form of the genetic disorder Pompe disease.

A team of researchers led by Dr. Nancy Mendelsohn of Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota used a novel [...]

A child is vaccinated against measles in Rotterdam. Cases of measles have risen sharply in parts of Europe, reflecting the mobility of people carrying the disease and the failure to complete vaccination strategies among key communities, The Lancet reported on Wednesday.(AFP/ANP/File/Ed Oudenaarden)

PARIS (AFP) -
Cases of measles have risen sharply in parts of Europe, reflecting the [...]

LONDON (Reuters) -
Too many children remain unvaccinated against measles for Europe to have any realistic hope of eliminating the disease by 2010, researchers said on Wednesday.

In 2006 and 2007, more than 12,000 measles cases were reported in the region, mainly in Romania, Germany, Britain, Switzerland and Italy where fewer children have immunizations against the disease, [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
U.S. health officials proposed paying for wider use of PET scans to help doctors decide the initial course of treatment in some cancer patients, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said on Tuesday.

CMS currently allows the scans for cancer patients enrolled in Medicare but requires doctors and patients to enroll in a [...]

CHICAGO (Reuters) -
U.S. researchers may have found an obesity treatment that unlocks the fat-fighting promise of leptin, an appetite-suppressing hormone once hailed as the answer to the battle of the bulge.

The problem with leptin is that it loses its power in obese people, but a team at Harvard Medical School may have found a way [...]

- TUESDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) — Encouraging your workers to work
out works, a new study says.

Home Depot employees who participated in a company-sponsored program
to support workers in setting exercise goals notably increased their
levels of moderate or vigorous physical activity.

The findings were published in the February edition of American
Journal of [...]

- (HealthDay News) — If you have a long-term illness, improving
your appearance can help you feel better, the American Cancer Society
says.

The ACS offers the following suggestions for improving the way you look
(and feel):

Take time to shave, wash and fix your hair or put on a wig or toupee,
and put on makeup. Do this if [...]

- (HealthDay News) — If you develop trouble chewing, it's
important to make sure you are still getting each day's worth of vital
nutrients.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration offers these suggestions to help
you maintain a healthy diet as you age:

Instead of trying to munch on raw fruits, opt for fruit juice and
canned fruits. Raw fruit [...]

- TUESDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) — Due to slower spending on
prescription drugs, health-care spending in the United States grew at the
lowest rate in a decade in 2007, a new federal report found.

Yet despite the slowdown, most health-care costs continue to rise, with
consumers' out-of-pocket expenses having increased 40 percent in the last
10 years, largely [...]