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  • Obesity, Insulin Level Impact Prostate Cancer Survival (HealthDay) - HealthDay - SUNDAY, Oct. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Men who are overweight and who have high insulin levels when they are diagnosed with prostate cancer may be more likely to die from the disease, research shows.
  • New Test Detects Rare Leukemia More Quickly (HealthDay) - HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- A new technique may help doctors diagnose a rare form of leukemia in a matter of hours instead of weeks, researchers say.
  • Mental health treatment boosted in economic bill (AP) -

    The waiting room at a mental health center is seen in a file photo. (Lee Celano/Reuters)AP - Talk about going out with a win.


  • More U.S. than European kids take mental health meds (Reuters) -

    A woman holds a packet of an antidepressant drug in a file photo. (Darren Staples/Reuters)Reuters - US children are substantially more likely to be prescribed drugs for mental conditions than their peers in the Netherlands and Germany, new research shows.


  • Nobel is postscript to bitter 1980s HIV dispute (AP) -

    In this April 23, 1984 file photo, Dr. Robert Gallo, right, chief of the National Cancer Institute laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, along with Health and Human Services secretary Margaret Heckler talks to reporters in Washington, where they announce that the probable cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrom (AIDS) has been found, a cancer virus called HTLV-3. The awarding of the Nobel Prize in medicine to Dr. Luc Montagnier, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008, recalls a dispute in the 1980s over who deserved credit for discovering HIV and the resulting test to screen blood for it. (AP Photo/Lana Harris, File)AP - The awarding of the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday writes a postscript to a bitter scientific dispute in the 1980s over who deserved credit for discovering HIV and the resulting test to screen blood for it.


  • Scientists who found HIV virus in Nobel Medicine Prize win (AFP) -

    French virologist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi is pictured here in 2006. Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier have won the Nobel Medicine Prize for their discovery of the HIV virus, along with a German scientist for his groundbreaking research into cervical cancer.(AFP/File/Stephane de Sakutin)AFP - France's Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier shared the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for their discovery of the HIV virus, along with a German scientist for his groundbreaking research into cervical cancer.


  • Genes may explain racial disparities in asthma (Reuters) - Reuters - Asthma patients who are black tend to have more severe disease than asthma patients who are white, leading to more asthma control problems, higher rates of emergency department visits, and overall worse quality of life. These findings point to genetic differences that lead to poor responses to drug therapy as the source of these racial disparities.
  • Health Tip: Pregnancy and Asthma (HealthDay) - HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Having asthma doesn't necessarily mean an unhealthy pregnancy. The key is to control symptoms and prevent attacks.
  • Kids Who Wheeze With Rhinovirus at Higher Asthma Risk (HealthDay) - HealthDay - THURSDAY, Oct. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Young children who wheeze when they have rhinovirus infection -- the most common cause of colds -- are at much greater risk of developing asthma later during childhood, a new study says.
  • Asthma Meds Don't Work as Well in Overweight Patients (HealthDay) - HealthDay - THURSDAY, Oct. 2 (HealthDay News) -- The inhaled steroids that are often used to treat asthma don't work as well in the overweight or obese, new research shows.
  • AIDS pioneers and cancer scientist win Nobel prize (Reuters) -

    Professor Harald zur Hausen joint Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine 2008, poses in a laboratory at the cancer research center of the university in Heidelberg October 6, 2008. (Alex Grimm/Reuters)Reuters - Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who bucked conventional wisdom to find a virus that causes cervical cancer were awarded the 2008 Nobel prize for medicine on Monday.


  • Group Urges Depression Screening for Heart Patients (HealthDay) - HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 1 (HealthDay News) -- A new statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) emphasizes the need to screen heart patients for depression.
  • CDC says 1.1 million Americans infected with HIV (Reuters) -

    A tulip lays across names on the National AIDS memorial in San Francisco, California, December 1, 2007. (Kimberly White/Reuters)Reuters - A new estimate of how many Americans have the AIDS virus puts the number at about 1.1 million, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.


  • Research on AIDS virus and cancer wins Nobel Medicine Prize (AFP) -

    The portraits of the three Nobel Prize winners for Medicine in 2008 are projected as the Nobel Assembly announces the award of Nobel Prize in Medecine in Stockholm. French and German scientists credited with the discovery of the viruses behind AIDS and cervical cancer won Monday the Nobel Medicine Prize, the first of the prestigious awards to be announced this year.(AFP/Olivier Morin)AFP - French and German scientists credited with the discovery of the viruses behind AIDS and cervical cancer won Monday the Nobel Medicine Prize, the first of the prestigious awards to be announced this year.


  • 1 more hurdle to clear for mental health bill (AP) - AP - People with mental illness would get better health insurance coverage as part of a a giant financial bailout the Senate passed Wednesday, but the legislation's fate remains uncertain.

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