HealthDay - FRIDAY, Nov. 21 (HealthDay News) -- The cancer-fighting pill Iressa
works as well as chemotherapy as a second-line treatment for lung cancer,
researchers report.
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AP - Two years after the government urged making HIV tests as common as cholesterol checks, there are small gains but still one in five people infected with the AIDS virus doesn't know it, scientists said Thursday.
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 AP - D'Zhana Simmons says she felt like a "fake person" for 118 days when she had no heart beating in her chest. "But I know that I really was here," the 14-year-old said, "and I did live without a heart."
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AP - The health insurance industry said Wednesday it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all customers, regardless of pre-existing medical conditions ? but in return it wants lawmakers to mandate that everyone buy coverage.
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 AP - Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, a cardiac surgeon who performed the nation's first human heart transplant and who also developed lifesaving medical implants, has died. He was 90. Kantrowitz died Friday in Ann Arbor of complications from heart failure, said his wife, Jean Kantrowitz.
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Reuters - Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday.
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 AFP - Pfizer has dropped its bid to market its potency pill Viagra over the counter in Europe, the US pharmaceutical giant announced Thursday.
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HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of CenterWatch:
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HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Autism is a childhood developmental disorder
that has no cure. Autistic children have problems with social interaction,
communication, and may engage in repetitive behaviors.
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Reuters - Women who are heavy in their middle years are at greater risk of Alzheimer's disease, especially if they have large waists. However, for men, being underweight during that period of life actually increases the likelihood of developing the degenerative brain disease, researchers report in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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AP - Some advanced lung cancer patients already treated with chemotherapy might be able to skip some of the bad side effects of another series of chemo by taking a pill instead, a study suggests. An international study showed patients on Iressa, an expensive, newer targeted treatment, survived about as long as those on another course of chemotherapy.
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The first foreign office of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened Wednesday in Beijing after an influx of contaminated Chinese food and drug imports to the United States. 
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Two years ago, Karen Daniel was wider around than she was tall. Weighing 375 pounds, the 45-year-old wife and mother had high blood pressure, her knees hurt and she was always hot. But with a lot of detremination, hard work and help Daniel has managed to shed almost half her weight and move down 16 dress sizes. 
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As mental health advocates, policy makers, practitioners, educators and researchers gathered at the Carter Center to discuss the progress in addressing American children's mental health needs, a drama of sorts was reaching its conclusion halfway across the country. 
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A cancer treatment that comes in a pill is as effective as the standard chemotherapy for lung patients who had previously been treated for their cancer, according to a study released Thursday. 
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Doctors gave U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey a clean bill of health Friday morning after he apparently had a fainting spell, according to Gina Talamona, spokeswoman for Department of Justice. 
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After the fire, all that was left of Jonathan Reyes' massive Hot Wheels collection was a piece of metal that once was part of a toy car. 
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Medical experts hailed a "milestone in medicine" Wednesday as they announced the successful transplant of a human windpipe engineered with the patient's own stem cells. 
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The disease tends to affect older people - but can strike at any time.
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A week by week guide to pregnancy taking in how the baby develops, changes to the mother and key scan dates.
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Almost two in five people who drink to excess lie to their doctor about how much alcohol they really consume, says a survey.
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Parents of children whose organs were removed at Liverpool's Alder Hey hospital have until May to reclaim their body parts.
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Surgeons in Spain claim a major breakthrough by giving a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells.
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Rapid drug treatment of babies with HIV dramatically cuts their risk of death and debilitating disease, research shows.
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Emerging technologies could boost supplies of essential plant-based drugs to combat malaria, says a report.
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Most GPs have difficulty differentiating chronic severe lung disease from asthma, a UK survey finds.
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Hospitals need to be vigilant against an emerging drug-resistant bacterium, warn infection control experts.
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The government has struck a deal on the cost of drugs which should save the NHS in the UK £400m a year.
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The UK government's plan to fine hospitals for not hitting Clostridium difficile targets is unfair, experts say.
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A man from north Oxfordshire credits his pet Rottweiler with sniffing out his skin cancer.
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Police are tackling the growing problem of drink-related crime by offering youngsters a re-education programme.
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The direction a child is facing in their pram could affect their development and stress levels, a study suggests.
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'My Mum's experiences helped me to cope'
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How seagulls may contaminate your kitchen
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This model has no navel. Why the lack of tummy button?
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How conflict has driven medical advance
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A comprehensive guide to clinical conditions
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Avoiding the cold sore virus
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An implant which works by firing infrared light into the inner ear is being investigated by US researchers.
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Boys born to women exposed to hairspray in the workplace may have a higher risk of being born with a genital defect.
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The parents of a 17-month-old girl tell how surgeons used glue to seal tiny brain blood vessels that were threatening her life.
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The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe nears 300 as the water and sanitation situation "worsens", the UN says.
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Asbestos-related cancer victims and their families have won an important test case over access to compensation.
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The makers of the anti-impotence drug Viagra have withdrawn an application for the medicine to be available without a prescription.
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