Health News

• Study: Colonoscopy cuts colon cancer death risk (AP)
  AP - Millions of people have endured a colonoscopy, believing the dreaded exam may help keep them from dying of colon cancer. For the first time, a major study offers clear evidence that it does.
  
  
• Exercise in Pregnancy Safe for Baby, Study Finds (HealthDay)
  HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Exercising at moderate or -- for very active women -- even high intensity during pregnancy won't hurt your baby's health, a new study finds.
  
  
• Endometriosis Could Raise Risk of 3 Ovarian Cancers (HealthDay)
  HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Women with a history of endometriosis have a significantly increased risk of developing three types of ovarian cancer, according to a new study.
  
  
• Researchers Spot New Gene Mutation Linked to Breast Cancer (HealthDay)
  HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have identified a new gene mutation linked to breast cancer.
  
  
• Toddlers With Angry Parents May Have More Temper Tantrums (HealthDay)
  HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Toddlers are more likely to become easily upset and act out if their parents anger quickly and overreact to their children's behavior, according to a new study involving adopted youngsters.
  
  
• FDA Advisers Back Weight-Loss Drug Qnexa (HealthDay)
  HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel gave its endorsement Wednesday to a highly anticipated weight-loss pill that had been rejected by the health advisers once before.
  
  
• New Melanoma Drug May Extend Survival (HealthDay)
  HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Melanoma that has spread to other areas of the body is almost always fatal, but a new drug appears to double survival for those with a certain type of this skin cancer, researchers report.
  
  
• U.S. advisers back experimental obesity pill (Reuters)
  Reuters - An experimental obesity drug from Vivus Inc won the backing of a U.S. advisory panel on Wednesday, raising hopes regulators would approve a weight-loss pill for the first time in 13 years.
  
  
• Common prenatal tests become campaign issue (AP)
  

  AP - First birth control, now prenatal testing? Once again a fact of life for many American women has become a jarring issue in the presidential race.

  
  
  
  
• US drafts plan to fight feared Alzheimer's disease (AP)
  AP - The Obama administration declared Alzheimer's "one of the most feared health conditions" on Wednesday as it issued a draft of a new national strategy to fight the ominous rise in this mind-destroying disease.