July 2012 - NPR Health Blog - The Network of Care

New Home Test For HIV May Cut Down New Infections

Public health officials hope OraQuick, which just won the FDA's approval, will help identify some of the nearly quarter-million Americans who are infected with HIV but don't know it. These unknowingly infected people are one reason why there are...

Published Tue, Jul 03 2012 3:04 PM by Shots - Health Blog

True Or False? Elected Officials Interpret The Health Law

Though elected officials have strong opinions on both sides of the healthcare law, it seems that some are hazy on the details. Test your own knowledge of what the health care ruling means for Americans. Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 03 2012 11:28 AM by Shots - Health Blog

How You Move Your Arm Says Something About Who You Are

A part of the brain called the premotor cortex does some pretty complicated work. It's where the brain plans and strategizes about how to take action, and it may also reflect a person's personality. Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 19 2012 1:47 PM by Shots - Health Blog

Firefighters Prevail In Fight for Health Insurance

President Obama has told federal agencies to start offering seasonal firefighters the same health benefits year-round federal employees get. The order came as legislation to make the change was introduced in Congress. Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 11 2012 12:55 PM by Shots - Health Blog

Why You Should Keep Medicines Out Of Summer Heat

What happens if you can't store medicines at the recommended temperature? A pharmacist explains why drugs need to be kept cool and dry and what happens if they aren't. Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 11 2012 7:05 AM by Shots - Health Blog

Virus Suspected In Mysterious Cambodian Outbreak

Scientists have found enterovirus 71 in samples taken from children sickened in Cambodia. The virus can cause hand, foot and mouth disease. Symptoms of that illness are consistent with those reported in an outbreak that has been seen since April. Read...

Published Mon, Jul 09 2012 8:56 AM by Shots - Health Blog

Under Pressure, Pfizer Agrees To Change Vitamin Claims

Under an agreement between the drugmaker and the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Pfizer won't make claims about "*** health" or "colon health" for Centrum products. In return, the consumer group agreed not to take legal...

Published Fri, Jul 06 2012 8:58 AM by Shots - Health Blog

How A 'Google Bomb' Improved Russia's HIV Drug Supply

When Russian officials downplayed shortages of HIV drugs, activists turned to the Web to raise awareness about the problem. Since 2004, the AIDS epidemic has worsened in Russia, despite a law that requires drug treatment people with HIV. Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 26 2012 10:02 AM by Shots - Health Blog

How To Make Condoms For Women Fashionable

How do you get women to rethink condoms made for them? Advocates are trying a fashion show and the world's longest chain of paper dolls at the international AIDS meeting in Washington. Female condoms are the only contraceptive initiated by woman that...

Published Tue, Jul 24 2012 11:21 AM by Shots - Health Blog

Needle Exchanges Often Overlooked In AIDS Fight

Few strategies to prevent HIV infection are so effective, or so thoroughly proved. Yet needle exchanges aren't offered in some places that have been hit hard by the virus. In the U.S. there is pressure on funding that raises concerns the programs...

Published Tue, Jul 24 2012 8:51 AM by Shots - Health Blog

Epidemics Prefer Changing Planes In JFK Over ATL

Researchers at MIT have developed a pretty nifty computer model to figure out the most influential U.S. airports in the early stages of an epidemic's spread. John F. Kennedy International is No. 1, followed by Los Angeles International. You might...

Published Wed, Jul 25 2012 8:50 AM by Shots - Health Blog

As Pain Pills Change, Abusers Move To New Drugs

Prescription drug abuse has soared in the last decade, leading pharmaceutical companies to alter the recipes for their painkillers to thwart misuse. But communities fighting the growing problem see drug users switching to new medicines to get around the...

Published Wed, Jul 25 2012 12:58 PM by Shots - Health Blog

Texas Slow To Review Health Insurance Rate Hikes

To make insurance more affordable, the federal health law requires every state to conduct a special review whenever a health insurer wants to raise premiums more than 10 percent. The Texas insurance department hasn't completed a reviews of any of...

Published Fri, Jul 20 2012 12:30 PM by Shots - Health Blog

Ebola Outbreak Kills At Least 14 In Uganda

At least 20 people have been infected with the deadly Ebola virus in rural Uganda. The number of infections is expected to rise, as more patients are admitted to hospitals. An international team has been dispatched to the region to contain the outbreak...

Published Mon, Jul 30 2012 10:42 AM by Shots - Health Blog

Could The Health Law End Up Back In Court? Opponents Think So

Some conservative scholars think they may have discovered a flaw that could send the law back to court, or at least cause some big problems for its implementation. Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 18 2012 12:08 AM by Shots - Health Blog

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