Current Health News Today

Society Confidential: Arts, Beats & Heat; Janice Cosby getting her Oprah on
Our favorite musical wiseguys , The Polish Muslims , will perform "Happiness is a Warm Gun" at Arts, Beats & Eats in Royal Oak Saturday.

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:05:01 GMT

NDSU Center Gets Money for Brain Research
The Center for Visual and Cognitive Neuroscience at North Dakota State University is getting more funding for research on how the brain works.

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:04:39 GMT

Workers bear larger share of health premium costs
Researchers say workers are paying a larger portion of health insurance costs as businesses, trying to ride out the economic downturn, shift more of the burden to their employees.

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:02:50 GMT

Medical journal questions sale of diet pill Meridia
Editors of a top medical journal call Meridia "another flawed diet pill" and question whether it should stay on the market as a study shows it raises the risk of heart attack and stroke in people with heart problems.

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:02:23 GMT

Newsmaker: Dr. Thomas Julian
Occupation: Director of breast surgical oncology for West Penn Allegheny Health System; associate director of the Allegheny Breast Center; director of surgical breast cancer fellowship program at Allegheny General, funded by the Pittsburgh affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Foundation; associate professor of human oncology at Drexel University College ...

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:02:12 GMT