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Heart Attack Rates Declining, But Hospitals Lag On Providing Best Care

Getting the best heart attack care is still something of a crap shoot –- in the United States as well as Sweden, where a new study shows heart attack and survival rates dropping after best practices were implemented. Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 1:49 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Where Is The Public On Medicare? Depends How You Ask The Question

Public opinion on Medicare seems to depend on how much people are told about the various proposals on the table, according to a study by the polling team at the Kaiser Family Foundation. Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 27 2011 1:18 PM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Mysterious Leprosy Cases Linked To Armadillos

Genetic studies have confirmed that some humans handling armadillo meat contracted a never-before-seen strain of the bacterium that causes leprosy. The armadillo is the only animal, besides humans, that is known to carry the bacterium. Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 28 2011 10:22 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Jamie Oliver Helps Get LA Schools To Ax Flavored Milks

Jamie Oliver has been chastising the LA Unified School District for serving flavored milk on the current season of his television show. A glass of flavored milk has much sugar as a can of soda and kids drink a lot of it at school. Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 28 2011 6:29 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

How Do They Know He Was Bin Laden?

A U.S. intelligence official said a DNA match, using DNA from several family members, provided virtual certainty that the body taken from the compound in Abbottabad, Pakisatan, was bin Laden's. Read More...

Published Mon, May 02 2011 11:25 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

4 Million Bumbo Baby Seats Recalled

After more than 50 reports of children sustaining head injuries from falls, the South African maker of molded foam Bumbo seats is recalling them. The company has a fix to help keep babies from falling out. Read More...

Published Wed, Aug 15 2012 6:55 AM by Shots - Health Blog

Bill Gates Crowns Toilet Innovators At Sanitation Fair

During a festival this week at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, scientists from around the world showcased the latest toilet technologies. Bill Gates himself awarded top-performing commodes, including a solar-powered toilet and one that dehydrates...

Published Wed, Aug 15 2012 2:25 PM by Shots - Health Blog

Probes Of Sketchy Drug Sales Nearing Settlement

Securities filings by Google and Johnson & Johnson earlier this week revealed details about government probes related to the marketing of prescription drugs. Settlements of the allegations are said to be near. Read More...

Published Fri, May 13 2011 7:02 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Has The Time Come To Destroy Smallpox For Good?

Member states of the World Health Organization are expected to decide whether to destroy the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus on the planet. A decison Read More...

Published Mon, May 16 2011 7:32 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Obesity Could Be Big Factor In Kids' Daytime Sleepiness

Researchers found that obesity was more likely than sleep-disordered breathing to keep kids from staying awake during the day. But they're not sure which comes first: the weight problem or the sleepiness. Read More...

Published Tue, May 17 2011 11:55 AM by NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Blog

Can We Learn To Forget Our Memories?

Our capacity to forget is as important, and certainly as interesting, as our ability to remember. But can we train ourselves to suppress certain memories, or the meaning we attach to life events? Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 03 2012 1:02 AM by Shots - Health Blog

High Blood Pressure: Often Recognized, But Still Poorly Controlled

Most adults with high blood pressure are being treated these days. But more than half of all Americans with hypertension still haven't got it under control. Read More...

Published Tue, Sep 04 2012 2:06 PM by Shots - Health Blog

As Genetic Sequencing Spreads, Excitement, Worries Grow

The cost of deciphering a person's genetic code has dropped faster than the price tag on flat-screen TVs. But some experts are concerned that access to genomic information could stoke fears and invade privacy. Read More...

Published Tue, Sep 18 2012 12:34 AM by Shots - Health Blog

Ebola's Unlikely Victims: Health Care Workers

The World Health Organization has confirmed 72 cases of the dreaded virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo since May; 23 of them are health care workers. Despite elaborate protective garb and other precautions, it's hard for doctors, nurses and...

Published Wed, Sep 19 2012 12:04 AM by Shots - Health Blog

New Experimental Drug Offers Autism Hope

The drug, called Arbaclofen, made people with Fragile X syndrome less likely to avoid social interactions, according to a study in Science Translational Medicine. Researchers suspect it might do the same for people with autism. Read More...

Published Thu, Sep 20 2012 12:33 AM by Shots - Health Blog

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