September 2012 - NPR Health Blog - The Network of Care

On The Road To Polio Eradication In Pakistan

Pakistan is one of the last three countries to still have entrenched polio. To eradicate the virus, a group of "social mobilizers" travels to hard-hit slums to help overcome social and physical barriers to vaccination. Read More...

Published Fri, Sep 21 2012 12:28 PM by Shots - Health Blog

How Cheap Can Lipitor Get? Try Free

Some grocery chains are now offering free atorvastatin, the generic version of Lipitor, at their pharmacies. The cholesterol drug requires a prescription, but now you don't need insurance or cash to get the pills. Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 12 2012 8:56 AM by Shots - Health Blog

'Downton Abbey' And The History Of Medical Quackery

In the British TV sensation, a servant's attempt to correct a debilitating limp with a dubious device ends in blood and disappointment. Despite tighter regulation over the years, quack devices remain a threat. Read More...

Published Fri, Sep 21 2012 9:58 AM by Shots - Health Blog

Let Sleepless Babies Cry (For A While), If They Want To

Researcher say parents don't need to worry about their babies being emotionally scarred by crying while they're learning to sleep. Techniques like controlled comforting and camping out for managing infant sleep are quite OK, they say. Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 10 2012 11:01 AM by Shots - Health Blog

How Americans Think About Screening

There are conflicting guidelines on when women should get mammograms and mounting questions on when the PSA blood test for prostate cancer is worthwhile. We asked how people are sorting things out. Read More...

Published Thu, Sep 06 2012 11:05 AM by Shots - Health Blog

Tiny Bubbles: Injectable Oxygen Foam Tested For Emergency Care

The experimental treatment, which hasn't been tried in humans, encapsulates pure oxygen in microbubbles made of fat molecules. The bubbles look quite a bit like shaving cream, one of the researchers says. Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 19 2012 1:07 PM by Shots - Health Blog

Detergent Packs Lead To Injuries Overseas, Too

A Scottish cluster of injuries caused by kids swallowing liquid detergent packs highlights risks from the popular products. In August, there were 735 calls to U.S. poison control centers about children under 5 being exposed to laundry packs, up from 725...

Published Thu, Sep 06 2012 6:53 AM by Shots - Health Blog

When Heat Kills: Global Warming As Public Health Threat

Emerging science shows that people respond more favorably to warnings about climate change when it's portrayed as a health issue, rather than an environmental problem. Should the symbol for danger be a child instead of a polar bear? Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 10 2012 12:08 PM by Shots - Health Blog

More Americans Have Health Insurance, But Not Many More

The Census Bureau reported a decline in the number of Americans without coverage in 2011. But the ranks of the uninsured remain pretty high. Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 12 2012 11:56 AM by Shots - Health Blog

South African Children's Hospital Closed Under Apartheid To Reopen

With local hospitals in Durban, South Africa, strained by the AIDS epidemic, city leaders are trying to restore and reopen a historic children's hospital shut down in the 1980s during apartheid. The hospital originally opened in 1931 with a mandate...

Published Mon, Sep 24 2012 12:57 AM by Shots - Health Blog

Romney And Abortion: Another Shift In The Works?

It's fairly well known that Mitt Romney proclaimed himself in favor of abortion rights when he ran for office in Massachusetts, then reversed himself before launching his presidential bid. But recently the GOP nominee seems to be softening his opposition...

Published Mon, Sep 03 2012 10:56 AM by Shots - Health Blog

New Virus Related To SARS Detected In The Middle East

A virus, which is genetically different than any seen before, has killed one man and hospitalized another. The virus comes from the same family as SARS, but it appears to be less contagious. Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 24 2012 2:55 PM by Shots - Health Blog

Experimental Drug Is First To Help Kids With Premature-Aging Disease

The new drug reversed changes in blood vessels that usually lead kids with the rare genetic disease progeria to have heart attacks and strokes. Research on the toxic protein responsible for progeria is also changing scientists' understanding of how...

Published Mon, Sep 24 2012 12:19 PM by Shots - Health Blog

Infection Risk Prompts New York City To Regulate Ritual Circumcision

The New York City Board of Health voted unanimously today in favor of a new regulation that would require parents of young boys who undergo ritual circumcisions involving "direct oral suction" to sign a consent form first. The practice has been...

Published Thu, Sep 13 2012 12:23 PM by Shots - Health Blog

Is CrossFit Training Good For Kids?

In the last few years, some sports medicine specialists have become convinced that strength training activities like CrossFit can be great for kids. But others worry that CrossFit trainers aren't teaching appropriate techniques for weight lifting...

Published Mon, Sep 24 2012 12:18 AM by Shots - Health Blog

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