
Nov 20 - By Juliana Barbassa, Associated Press Writer
This city did not wait for Washington's health care overhaul. Most uninsured adults here are already reaping the benefits of a government-run health care program — seeing doctors, filling prescriptions, and getting surgeries they could not otherwise afford.
Nov 20 - By Andrew DeMillo, Associated Press Writer
A nonprofit group's campaign to hold free medical clinics for the uninsured in three states is turning into a not-so-subtle jab at moderate Democrats to support their party's efforts to reform health care.

Nov 20 - By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Writer
The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
Nov 19 - By Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer
First mammograms. Now — in an apparent coincidence — Pap smears.

Nov 19 - By Associated Press
China's health ministry said it will punish officials who underreport cases of swine flu after a doctor famous for exposing the extent of the 2003 SARS epidemic said he believes the true number of swine flu deaths is being covered up.

Nov 19 - By Alicia Chang, AP Science Writer
Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.

Nov 19 - By Mike Stobbe, AP Medical Writer
When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right.
Nov 19 - By Alan Fram, Associated Press Writer
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has included at least $100 million in Medicaid funds for Louisiana in his health care bill at the same time he is trying to persuade that state's wavering Democratic senator to cast a pivotal vote for the overhaul legislation.
Nov 19 - By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press Writer
Congressional investigators said Thursday that tens of thousands of questionnaires aimed at measuring the mental and physical health of returning combat troops can't be found.
Nov 19 - By Matthew Perrone, AP Business Writer
Federal health experts on Thursday brushed off lingering safety questions about a popular inhaler drug and suggested it carry bolder benefit claims.

Nov 19 - By Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Did you hear an enormous thud around 3 p.m. yesterday? That was the sound of Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius throwing her scientists under a bus.

Nov 19 - By Mike Stobbe, AP Medical Writer
The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than 80 percent of counties in the Appalachian region that includes Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nov 19 - By Maria Cheng, AP Medical Writer
Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu — most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms — have failed to contain the disease.
Nov 18 - By Associated Press
Health care legislation headed for the Senate floor includes higher payroll taxes for upper income wage earners.
Nov 18 - By Will Weissert, Associated Press Writer
China's health minister said Wednesday his country is vaccinating 1.5 million people a day against swine flu, part of a mammoth effort to reach nearly 7 percent of inhabitants of the world's most populous country by year's end.

Nov 18 - By Associated Press
A member of the independent panel whose new mammogram recommendations have led to confusion defended the task force's report, saying Thursday that it was based on the most up-to-date, accurate information available.
Nov 18 - By Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer
A CT scan — a kind of super X-ray — provides a faster, cheaper way to diagnose a heart attack when someone goes to the emergency room with chest pains, a new study suggests.