KIDK - Health News http://www.kidk.com/news/health RSS Feed for KIDK - News - Health en-us Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:25:00 GMT From Haiti, a surprise: good news about AIDS http://www.kidk.com/news/health/50030327.html In the early 1980s, when the strange and terrifying disease showed up in the U.S. among migrants who had escaped Haiti's dictatorship, experts thought it could wipe out a third of the country's population. Instead, Haiti's HIV infection rate stayed in the single digits, then plummeted. Study: New flu inefficient in attacking people http://www.kidk.com/news/health/50030052.html With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is - so far - more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. Fawcett's death spotlights a rare cancer http://www.kidk.com/news/health/49697277.html In a perverse twist of medical fate, Farrah Fawcett has become the poster girl for anal cancer, a rare disease often linked to a sexually transmitted virus. Few survive cardiac arrest, even with hospital CPR http://www.kidk.com/news/health/49697232.html You don't have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a big Medicare study concludes. CDC: Private health care coverage at 50-year-low http://www.kidk.com/news/health/49697202.html The percentage of Americans with private health insurance has hit its lowest mark in 50 years, according to two new government reports. FDA reviewing safety of Sanofi's Lantus insulin http://www.kidk.com/news/health/49619462.html The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it is reviewing data on the safety of Lantus, a synthetic insulin made by Sanofi-Aventis SA. Mississippi's still fattest but Alabama closing in http://www.kidk.com/news/health/49619357.html Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers. FDA requires Chantix, Zyban to have warning http://www.kidk.com/news/health/49619152.html The Food and Drug Administration will require two smoking-cessation drugs, Chantix and Zyban, to carry the agency's strongest safety warning over side effects including depression and suicidal thoughts. Gene variants linked to higher schizophrenia risk http://www.kidk.com/news/health/49619067.html A handful of typos in a mysterious region of the human genetic code are connected to a slightly higher risk of schizophrenia, new studies show. FDA panel: Lower maximum daily dose of Tylenol http://www.kidk.com/news/health/49550787.html Government experts called for sweeping safety restrictions Tuesday on the most widely used painkiller, including reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and eliminating prescription drugs such as Vicodin and Percocet.