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News Vetoing Children?s Health (New York Times) President Bush?s shortsighted ideological opposition to a a highly successful children?s health program would leave millions of children without health insurance at a time when medical costs are soaring. Iraq's Tareq Aziz back in jail after health scare (AFP via Yahoo! News) Former Iraqi deputy premier Tareq Aziz had medical tests after collapsing at a US prison camp but was given a clean bill of health and has been returned to custody, the US military said Saturday. Health Highlights: July 21, 2007 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News) Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Bush faces possible veto override on child health bill (Los Angeles Times) WASHINGTON -- As they tell the story in Texas, when George W. Bush was governor, he fought hard to put austere limits on a new federal-state plan to provide health insurance for children of low-wage workers in the state. Outmaneuvered by Democrats, he corralled the program's chief sponsor on the statehouse floor and conceded defeat, saying, "You crammed it down our throats." Cultivated Medicine: Finding Health Benefits in a Fiery Food (US News & World Report) Six millennia ago, farmers living in modern-day Mexico made a wise health move: They domesticated the chili pepper. Last week, researchers at the Smithsonian Institution announced the discovery of a 1,000-year-old (and very dried out) stash of more than 100 cultivated chili peppers, indicating that the Zapotec people who once occupied Mexico's Mitla River Valley ate a cuisine very similar to the ... Proposal Funds Child Health Care with Tobacco Tax (NPR) All Things Considered , July 21, 2007 · Some Senators hope to pay for expanded health insurance for low-income children by boosting taxes on tobacco products. That proposal produced some unusual discourse at a committee meeting last week. Proposal Funds Child Health Care with Tobacco Tax (NPR) Some Senators hope to pay for expanded health insurance for low-income children by boosting taxes on tobacco products. That proposal produced some unusual discourse at a committee meeting last week. Pesticides And Schools: A 'Tragic' Health Hazard (Science Daily) Pesticides in schools are a pervasive, unnecessary health hazard, according to an entomologist at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs. The most widely used insecticides are nerve poisons, which cause nerves to fire in an uncontrolled manner and disrupt endocrine (hormone) systems, Lame said. Prolonged exposure to these chemicals can result in similar effects on the ... Bill Clinton urges better health care while visiting AIDS projects in Zambia (CP via Yahoo! Canada News) LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) - Former U.S. president Bill Clinton said Saturday cheap anti-AIDS drugs are no magic bullet for ending the epidemic ravaging Africa, and that the continent needs better overall health care. Thomas Pyle, 67, Innovator in 1980s Health Care Plans (New York Times) Thomas O. Pyle, who built the Harvard Community Health Plan into one of the nation?s largest and most innovative health care providers, died Wednesday. Side effects of natural health products used with prescription drugs under-reported (ANI via Yahoo! India News) Washington, July 21 (ANI): Canadian researchers have cautioned that the adverse effects of the simultaneous use of prescription drugs and natural health products (NHP) are being under-reported, and that health-care professionals and the public may be underestimating the potential risks of combining the two therapies. Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton conducted a survey of 132 ... Forget Filing -- Personal Health Records Can Organize Your Medical ... Chippewa Herald - This can include family health history, over-the-counter medications and even current diet or exercise programs. Knowing this type of personal information is incredibly helpful for doctors, and adding this type of information can also further enhance ... |
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