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Saturday, 6 December 2008 at 4:18 pm Posted by smp

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Youthfulness an American obsession — at what cost? (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 04:42 PM CST

Dr. Jeffry Life, right, checks patient Ed Detwiler, a 47-year-old real estate developer, at the Cenegenics Medical Institute in Las Vegas, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008. The clinic specializes in 'age management,' a growing field in a society obsessed with staying young. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - It's one of those photos that make you do a double-take. Dr. Jeffry Life stands in jeans, his shirt off. His face is that of a distinguished-looking grandpa; his head is balding, and what hair there is is white. But his 69-year-old body looks like it belongs to a muscle-bound 30-year-old.

Obama hopes to avoid Clinton health care missteps (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 09:36 AM CST

Former U.S. Senate Majority leader Tom Daschle, who is the nominee for health and human services secretary in the Obama administration, applauds before speaking about plans for reforming the country's health care system during the 2008 Colorado Health Care Summit in Denver on Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. The summit capped off a 31-county tour of Colorado by U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., to discuss the condition of the nation's health care system with elected officials and business owners. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)AP - President-elect Barack Obama and his aides are determined not to repeat the mistakes the Clinton administration made 15 years ago in trying to revamp the nation's health care system. That means applying some of the lessons learned — moving fast, seizing momentum and not letting it go.

WHO limits melamine in food, says traces seem safe (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 09:15 AM CST

Newborn babies lie at hospital in Beijing on December 1, 2008. The World Health Organization on Friday issued safety limits for melamine levels in food as international concern mounted over a widening tainted food scandal in China.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AP - The World Health Organization said Friday that tiny traces of the chemical melamine are not harmful in most foods, but it joined the U.S. and EU in setting a strict limit that regulators should impose before pulling products off the shelf.

Heart attack patients get 'big chill' treatment (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2008 08:03 PM CST

A patient is cooled in the thermosuit Monday, Nov. 11, 2008 at Ochsner Hospital in Jefferson, La., a suburb of New Orleans. A pump rapidly inflates it as doctors Velcro on a plastic topsheet. Tubes spray naked patients with frigid water as other tubes drain it away, taking heat from the patient's skin with it. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)AP - It took five mighty shocks to get Cynthia Crawford's heart to start beating again after she collapsed at Ochsner Clinic a few weeks ago.

Study: Most Child Abuse Goes Unreported (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 08:10 AM CST

Time.com - A series of reports on child abuse suggest that as many as nine in 10 cases of child maltreatment and neglect go unreported

Genentech drug boosts leukemia patient survival (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 04:08 PM CST

Reuters - A combination of Genentech Inc's cancer drug Rituxan and chemotherapy reduces by 41 percent the risk of death or cancer progression, compared with chemotherapy alone, for patients with a common form of leukemia, the company said on Saturday.

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