Read more medicine stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/45/medicine.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:16:36 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73986/army-medicine-failed-hasan-shooting-victims.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMedia coverage of the Fort Hood killings has been factually challenged and quick to jump to conclusions about terrorism and political correctness, but the underlying problem is much bigger, Mark Benjamin argues. The real question: Why was alleged shooter Nidal Malik Hasan an Army psychiatrist in the first place? Given...http://www.newser.com/story/73986/army-medicine-failed-hasan-shooting-victims.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 13 Nov 2009 11:52:37 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72780/fears-trigger-rush-on-liquid-tamiflu-for-kids.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagParents are scrambling in parts of the country to find liquid Tamiflu for their kids. It's selling out so quickly in drug stores that federal officials have given pharmacists a back-up plan: They can mix syrup with the powdery adult capsules—the precise ratio is determined by a child's weight—...http://www.newser.com/story/72780/fears-trigger-rush-on-liquid-tamiflu-for-kids.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 28 Oct 2009 18:06:14 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71902/deadly-carbon-monoxide-may-also-be-good-for-you.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLow-level doses of the deadly chemical carbon monoxide may actually have medical benefits, pioneering new research suggests. The research is preliminary, and no scientist denies the lethal results of CO poisoning. But studies in animals have found small, controlled doses of the gas can have benefits for organ transplantation and...http://www.newser.com/story/71902/deadly-carbon-monoxide-may-also-be-good-for-you.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 16 Oct 2009 16:45:31 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70959/3-us-genetics-researchers-win-medicine-nobel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThree American scientists won the Nobel Prize for Medicine today for their work on the replication of chromosomes, which has implications for cancer, aging, and stem cell research. The laureates focused on a string of DNA at the end of chromosomes, called telomeres, and discovered an enzyme that allows dividing...http://www.newser.com/story/70959/3-us-genetics-researchers-win-medicine-nobel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 05 Oct 2009 5:37:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70815/half-of-us-babies-will-see-100.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMore than half of the children born today in wealthy developed countries will live to see their 100th birthday. New research coming out of Denmark also suggests life expectancy in general has increased dramatically as medicine and diagnosis of diseases afflicting the elderly have improved. Since the 1950s, the BBC...http://www.newser.com/story/70815/half-of-us-babies-will-see-100.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 02 Oct 2009 10:06:20 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70455/dentist-dropoff-leaves-a-cavity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe number of dentists graduating from dental school is plummeting just as the first generation of Americans with their full set of real teeth hit their golden years. And those graduates are much more likely now than in the past to be specialists in things like orthodontics and oral surgery....http://www.newser.com/story/70455/dentist-dropoff-leaves-a-cavity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 28 Sep 2009 13:06:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66989/nations-only-late-term-abortionist-i-will-never-be-safe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe murder of George Tiller has left the nation with only one provider of late-term abortions—and that makes Warren Hern public enemy No. 1 on the fringes of the anti-abortion camp. "I will never be safe," Hern tells Esquire in a long profile. "I will always be looking over...http://www.newser.com/story/66989/nations-only-late-term-abortionist-i-will-never-be-safe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 15 Aug 2009 16:02:13 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65140/swine-flu-vaccine-trials-to-hit-8-cities-in-aug.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe National Institutes of Health will supervise a nationwide test of a swine flu vaccine in eight cities starting in August, the Seattle Times reports. Test subjects will be drawn from Seattle, Baltimore, Iowa City, St. Louis, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Houston, and Nashville. Thousands will receive “a vaccine you can't otherwise...http://www.newser.com/story/65140/swine-flu-vaccine-trials-to-hit-8-cities-in-aug.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 23 Jul 2009 12:53:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64922/docs-turn-to-gag-orders-to-choke-bad-web-reviews.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn explosion of online forums for the discussion and rating of physicians has doctors fighting back, the Washington Post reports. Afraid of negative—perhaps spurious—reviews on the Web, some MDs are denying care unless a patient signs a non-disclosure agreement. Though opponents call the agreements “illegal, unenforceable, and silly,...http://www.newser.com/story/64922/docs-turn-to-gag-orders-to-choke-bad-web-reviews.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Jul 2009 12:48:02 CDT