President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect non-infected patients.
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Mobile phone users could face a higher risk of developing cancer in later life, according to a decade-long study. The report will be published later this year found that heavy mobile use is linked to brain tumors.
First Lady Michelle Obama took an impressive turn hula hooping today at a “healthy kids fair” she hosted on the South Lawn of the White House.
A new study finds that surfing the Web keeps your mental skills sharp and preserves them as you age.
Patients who use medical marijuana to control pain or decrease side efforts of chemotherapy have one less thing to worry about, thanks to President Obama. Along with chronic pain, the American College of Physicians told Bloomberg News that marijuana can be used to treat glaucoma, multiple sclerosis and nausea.
Pot-smoking patients will no longer be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by the Justice Department.
Federal prosecutors are being told it is not a good use of their time to arrest people who use or provide medical marijuana in strict compliance with state law. However, federal agents will continue to go after people whose marijuana distribution goes beyond what is permitted under state law or use medical marijuana as a cover for other crimes.
Charles D’Angelo transformed himself from overweight teen to fit adult. He is now a fitness coach who has a mission to make exercise fun so that kids will want to stay healthy. CNN spoke to D’Angelo in a special report on childhood obesity:
Monthly cramps plague many of us, but for 15 percent of menstruating women, the pain is far worse. Dysmenorrhea — stabbing or aching lower abdominal or back pain associated with our monthly cycles — keeps many women home and in bed for days.
Until now, the only real option was over-the-counter medications that helped ease the pain, but a new pill being tested targets the cause of the stomach cramps, rather than just treating its symptoms. The drug, currently going by VA111913, is in clinical trials in Britain and in the United States.
“I think it would be fair to call it a breakthrough. There is certainly no other treatment like it,” researcher Dr. Jim Phillips told Britain’s Daily Mail. “From our research there is nothing to suggest it won’t work.”
If the trials continue to be successful, the drug will be branded and available within about four years.