- Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle
(AP)
 AP - Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.
- GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care
(AP)
 AP - Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul.
- Fired therapist: Stressed Marines get shoddy care
(AP)
 AP - Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist.
- Guidelines for cancer screening differ by group
(AP)
AP - Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer.
- Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps
(AP)
AP - First mammograms. Now — in an apparent coincidence — Pap smears.
- Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC
(AP)
 AP - Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday.
- Obesity in adolescence may increase girls' MS risk
(Reuters)
Reuters - A woman's risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) during her lifetime is doubled if she was obese at age 18, new research shows.
- Spray May Delay Ejaculation
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A spray touted as the first
potential treatment for premature ejaculation has proved effective in a
second study, according to the company that developed it.
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