Health care bill clears Senate hurdle By DAVID ESPO Associated Press Writer Reader comments (414) Democrats unite to push historic legislation on to full-scale debate after Thanksgiving. Saturday, November 21, 2009		TPS adds swine-flu vaccine clinics By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer Reader comments (11) Tulsa Public Schools announced Friday the dates of added H1N1 vaccine clinics for students ... Saturday, November 21, 2009
Stem-cell research restrictions rejected By AP Wire Services Reader comments (3) The University of Nebraska's governing board on Friday rejected a proposal to restrict the ... Saturday, November 21, 2009		GOP puts women's health in spotlight By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Reader comments (0) Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms ... Saturday, November 21, 2009
Tulsa schools announce H1N1 vaccine dates By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer Reader comments (0) The district is receiving shipments of vaccine from the state, as well as some from the Tulsa ... Friday, November 20, 2009		Ex-Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office investigator ordered to stand trial By Associated Press Reader comments (3) The former chief investigator for the state Medical Examiner's office has been bound over for ... Friday, November 20, 2009
Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD By ALICIA CHANG AP Science Writer Reader comments (6) Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave ... Friday, November 20, 2009		White House at odds with bishops over abortion By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press Writer Reader comments (349) The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over ... Friday, November 20, 2009
Six die from flu across state By SARA PLUMMER World Staff Writer Reader comments (2) Six more people in Oklahoma have died from the flu, including one person in Tulsa County. Friday, November 20, 2009		Health bill would tax cosmetic surgery By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS Associated Press Reader comments (11) They call it the 'Botax.' Friday, November 20, 2009
Republicans blast 'bait and switch' health bill By DAVID ESPO Associated Press Reader comments (7) Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the Democrats' newly ... Friday, November 20, 2009		Shingles of the eye can be painful and infectious By PETER GOTT, M.D. Newspaper Enterprise Association Reader comments (2) Dear Dr. Gott:I am a 73-year-old female on no regular medications. Friday, November 20, 2009
Recent flu deaths include Tulsa County victim; H1N1 vaccine offered locally By Staff Reports Reader comments (0) According to the Oklahoma State Department of Health, 33 people have died from flu-like illness ... Thursday, November 19, 2009		Federal health reform plans a "monumental mistake," state chamber president says By SHANNON MUCHMORE World Staff Writer Reader comments (0) Health care reform plans at the federal level are a 'monumental mistake' that will increase ... Thursday, November 19, 2009
Narcotics allegedly missing from Oklahoma ambulance service By ANN KELLEY NewsOK.com Reader comments (13) Law enforcement officials are investigating allegations that narcotics are missing from Medicus, ... Thursday, November 19, 2009		Experts say radical measures won't stop swine flu By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer Reader comments (2) Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu — most notably quarantines imposed ... Thursday, November 19, 2009
Senate girds for historic debate on health bill By ERICA WERNER Associated Press Writer Reader comments (18) After months of maneuvering, the Senate stands at the brink of a historic battle over health ... Thursday, November 19, 2009		Senate approves veteran health bill, rejects Coburn amendment By JIM MYERS World Washington Bureau Reader comments (0) One of Coburn's main objections was that the bill, which he said would cost $3.7 billion over ... Thursday, November 19, 2009
Senate health-care bill unveiled By DAVID ESPO Associated Press Reader comments (7) Setting up a historic year-end health care debate, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled ... Thursday, November 19, 2009		Crowds turn out in Tulsa for H1N1 vaccine By SHANNON MUCHMORE World Staff Writer Reader comments (0) Crowds of people turned out again for an H1N1 vaccine clinic at Expo Square today, the second ... Wednesday, November 18, 2009

GOP: Health test recommendations could affect care
Saturday, November 21, 2009
WASHINGTON (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
Friday, November 20, 2009
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (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....

Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC
Friday, November 20, 2009
ATLANTA (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....

Pa. university students upset about fitness class
Friday, November 20, 2009
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A Pennsylvania university''s requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts....

Guidelines for cancer screening differ by group
Friday, November 20, 2009
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....

Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD
Friday, November 20, 2009
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (AP) -- Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images....

Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps
Friday, November 20, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- First mammograms. Now - in an apparent coincidence - Pap smears....

AP IMPACT: Gripes about swine flu vaccine abound
Friday, November 20, 2009
ATLANTA (AP) -- When the nation''s swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be 'messy.' They were right....

China to punish those concealing swine flu info
Thursday, November 19, 2009
BEIJING (AP) -- China''s health ministry said it will punish officials who underreport cases of swine flu after a doctor famous for exposing the extent of the 2003 SARS epidemic said he believes the true number of swine flu deaths is being covered up....

US survey shows southern counties most obese
Thursday, November 19, 2009
ATLANTA (AP) -- The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than 80 percent of counties in the Appalachian region that includes Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....