Study suggests too many invasive heart tests given (AP) - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:03:52 GMT
AP - A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.

Panel: Women need chance to avoid repeat C-section (AP) - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:14:21 GMT
AP - Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section."

CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella (AP) - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:03:10 GMT
AP - As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries.

Hoped-for drop in childbirth deaths not happening (AP) - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:04:34 GMT
AP - Eleven days after her son Benjamin's birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just as her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do, she dropped dead from a blood clot.