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AP - Only 2 percent of graduating medical students say they plan to work in primary care internal medicine, raising worries about a looming shortage of the first-stop doctors who used to be the backbone of the American medical system.

Reuters - Survival rates have improved in the
United States for children with three common types of blood
cancer since the 1990s, thanks to improved treatment,
researchers in Germany said on Tuesday.

Reuters - Most U.S. hospitals are failing to
meet a key quality benchmark for care of colon cancer patients
– checking enough lymph nodes after surgery to see if the
cancer has spread, researchers said on Tuesday.

AP - Some 55 prostate cancer patients were given too-low doses of radiation treatment at the local Veterans Affairs hospital in the past six years, and federal investigators want to know why.

AP - Nearly two-thirds of hospitals fail to check colon cancer patients well enough for signs that their tumor is spreading, says a study that advises patients to ask about this mark of quality care before surgery.

AP - Only 2 percent of graduating medical students say they plan to work in primary care internal medicine, raising worries about a looming shortage of the first-stop doctors who used to be the backbone of the American medical system.

There may be somewhat of an explanation for a disorder that has long puzzled doctors and has always been a suspicion clouded disease that many think is merely  different symptom of depression.  Patients were tested for levels of certain chemicals in the hippocampus, which is one of the main areas responsible for the smell, or […]

AP - Lawmakers on Tuesday castigated Veterans Administration health officials for ordering the destruction of biomedical specimens on Legionnaires’ disease and other infectious diseases that two prominent researchers had collected over a quarter-century.

Reuters - Many doctors and therapists use
unproven approaches such as drugs, art or play therapy on
children suffering trauma when old-fashioned talk therapy has
been shown to work, a report released on Tuesday said.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of CenterWatch:

HealthDay - TUESDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) — The most comprehensive
global snapshot ever taken of lung cancer diagnoses and related death
rates among patients who have never smoked has found that, contrary to
prior indications, lung cancer risk is not on the rise.

Reuters - Emphysema and similar lung
diseases seem to put African Americans at particularly high
risk for developing lung cancer, a new study suggests.

AP - Demand for amphetamines, Ecstasy and other synthetic drugs appears to have stabilized in the West, but the problem is worsening in Asia and spreading to new markets in the Middle East, a U.N. report said Tuesday.

AP - Demand for amphetamines, Ecstasy and other synthetic drugs appears to have stabilized in the West, but the problem is worsening in developing countries and rapidly spreading to new markets in the Middle East, a U.N. report said Tuesday.

AFP - Shirin does not consider herself too posh to push, but she is against natural childbirth. Like many other women in Iran, the 32-year-old has opted to have her baby by Caesarian section.