http://www.comcast.net?cid=rssfeed&attr=article_ AP - ap.online.headlines.health News Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:56:19 -0500 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:29:37 -0500 http://www.comcast.net/news/articles/health/2008/11/19/MED.Artificial.Heart/?cid=rssfeed&attr=article_news_health_MED.Artificial.Heart 30c13f3b44bbe3d1:-65feced4:11db01959ef:-65c9 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." Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:30:52 -0500 http://www.comcast.net/news/articles/health/2008/11/19/Health.Insurers/?cid=rssfeed&attr=article_news_health_Health.Insurers 30c13f3b44bbe3d1:-65feced4:11db01959ef:-699f 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. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:08:58 -0500 http://www.comcast.net/news/articles/health/2008/11/19/Obit.Kantrowitz/?cid=rssfeed&attr=article_news_health_Obit.Kantrowitz 30c13f3b44bbe3d1:-65feced4:11db01959ef:-65c8 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. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:58:12 -0500 http://www.comcast.net/news/articles/health/2008/11/19/EU.MED.Windpipe.Transplant/?cid=rssfeed&attr=article_news_health_EU.MED.Windpipe.Transplant 30c13f3b44bbe3d1:-65feced4:11db01959ef:-734b Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:03:26 -0500 http://www.comcast.net/news/articles/health/2008/11/19/MED.Ginkgo.Dementia/?cid=rssfeed&attr=article_news_health_MED.Ginkgo.Dementia 30c13f3b44bbe3d1:-65feced4:11db01959ef:-65c7 The dietary supplement ginkgo, long promoted as an aid to memory, didn't help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease in the longest and largest test of the extract in older Americans. "We don't think it has a future as a powerful anti-dementia drug," said Dr. Steven DeKosky of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, who led the federally funded study. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:10:55 -0500 http://www.comcast.net/news/articles/health/2008/11/19/MED.Face.Fillers/?cid=rssfeed&attr=article_news_health_MED.Face.Fillers 30c13f3b44bbe3d1:-65feced4:11db01959ef:-679c Cosmetic surgery patients who think facial fillers are a magical antidote to aging must be better informed of possible risks, government health advisers said Tuesday. Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:32:44 -0500 http://www.comcast.net/news/articles/health/2008/11/19/MED.Breast.Cancer/?cid=rssfeed&attr=article_news_health_MED.Breast.Cancer 30c13f3b44bbe3d1:-65feced4:11db01959ef:-679b If breast cancer runs in the family, women can be at high risk even if they test free of the disease's most common gene mutations, sobering new research shows. The genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are linked with particularly aggressive hereditary breast cancer, and an increased risk of ovarian cancer, too. Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:38:21 -0500 http://www.comcast.net/news/articles/health/2008/11/19/MED.HealthBeat.New.Ankles/?cid=rssfeed&attr=article_news_health_MED.HealthBeat.New.Ankles 30c13f3b44bbe3d1:-65feced4:11db01959ef:-7349 What was left of Dan Sivia's ankle simply didn't work. He limped through his 30s by sheer force of will, one foot almost completely immobile from repeated broken bones and surgeries. Then a doctor offered his last hope: An ankle replacement. A what? Sivia knew about hip, knee, even shoulder replacements. But ankles? Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:46:46 -0500 http://www.comcast.net/news/articles/health/2008/11/19/MED.Unhealthiest.City/?cid=rssfeed&attr=article_news_health_MED.Unhealthiest.City 30c13f3b44bbe3d1:-65feced4:11db01959ef:-679a As a portly woman plodded ahead of him on the sidewalk, the obese mayor of America's fattest and unhealthiest city explained why health is not a big local issue. Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:05:35 -0500 http://www.comcast.net/news/articles/health/2008/11/19/MED.Healthiest.City/?cid=rssfeed&attr=article_news_health_MED.Healthiest.City 30c13f3b44bbe3d1:-65feced4:11db01959ef:-6799 What's the healthiest city in America? It appears to be Burlington, Vt.