
Nov 17 - By Dr. Anthony Fauci, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Tuberculosis is one of the world's leading killers. Every year at least 9 million people are infected with TB, with almost 2 million deaths, according to estimates from the World Health Organization. Yet few citizens, scientists and policymakers are demanding more attention to TB research, treatment and prevention.

Oct 8 - By Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Enough already with the whining, moaning, demonstrating and protesting by health care workers. Doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, nurses’ aides, and anyone else who has regular contact with patients ought to be required to get a flu shot or find another line of work.
Aug 25 - By P.J. Dickerscheid, Associated Press Writer
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs now estimates that more than 600 veterans erroneously received letters telling them they had been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, VA spokeswoman Katie Roberts said Thursday.
Aug 24 - By P.J. Dickerscheid, Associated Press Writer
Former Air Force reservist Gale Reid received a letter from the Veterans Affairs Department that told her she had Lou Gehrig's disease, and she immediately put herself through a battery of painful, expensive tests. Five days later, the VA said its "diagnosis" was a mistake.
Aug 21 - By Linda Carroll, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
A new study has linked feeling forlorn to a nearly 80 percent increase in the risk of heart disease — but only in women.

Jul 17 - By JoNel Aleccia, health writer, msnbc.com
Foreigners who have HIV would be allowed to travel and immigrate to the United States under a plan by federal health officials to lift a 22-year ban on infected visitors that critics say was unnecessary from the start.

May 18 - By John Baiata, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
The phone had not even finished its first ring before my wife, Anna, snatched it from its cradle. Concern was etched in her face as she handed me the receiver: “It’s the police. It’s about Sue.”

May 14 - By Courtney Hazlett, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
There was ample opportunity this week to turn on the television and wonder why we were watching. The screens were filled with non-news stories about Elizabeth Edwards, Jon & Kate, and Miss California, Carrie Prejean.
May 8 - By Sarah Larimer, Associated Press Writer
A little beetle could cause big problems for Florida's multimillion-dollar avocado industry.
May 6 - By Matthew Brown, Associated Press Writer
The governors of Wyoming and Idaho say a federal plan to create a special livestock disease management zone in the Yellowstone region would "taint" the area's cattle industry but do nothing to eliminate the disease.
May 1 - By Brian Alexander, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
“No contact anywhere with an illegal alien!” conservative talk show host Michael Savage advised his U.S. listeners this week on how to avoid the swine flu. “And that starts in the restaurants" where he said, you “don’t know if they wipe their behinds with their hands!”

Apr 30 - By Mike Stuckey, MSNBC.com correspondent
With the swine flu outbreak rapidly spreading, state and local health officials are queasily considering what effect a pandemic could have on their budgets, already due for deep spending cuts amid the lingering recession.
Mar 29 - By Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer
Statin drugs, taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease, also can cut the risk of developing dangerous blood clots that can lodge in the legs or lungs, a major study suggests.

Mar 10 - By Brian Alexander, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
To most Americans, diseases with names like dengue fever, chikungunya, malaria, Chagas and leishmaniasis might sound like something out of a Victorian explorer’s tales of hacking through African jungles. Yet ongoing epidemics of these diseases are killing millions of people around the world. Now, disease experts are increasingly concerned these and other infections may become as familiar in the United States as West Nile or Lyme disease.
Feb 16 - By Associated Press
British experts said Tuesday that they have found the first evidence of a hemophiliac contracting mad cow disease from contaminated blood products.
Feb 5 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
One in four — or almost 80 million — Americans have some form of heart disease. It is the No. 1 killer disease in America, and up to half of those deaths could be prevented by changes in lifestyle, with diet leading the troops.
Jan 27 - By Associated Press
Former heavyweight boxer Scott LeDoux has Lou Gehrig's disease.

Nov 25 - By JoNel Aleccia, health writer, msnbc.com
Dr. Stephen Vogel should know better than to put chopped chicken livers on his Thanksgiving menu.

Nov 20 - By Dr. Edward V. Craig, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
There are searing images that make indelible and emotional imprints on our brains. The burning twin towers. Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald. Jack Nicholson’s demonic face in “The Shining.” I experienced one of those images as a medical student, on the first day I stepped into an anatomy laboratory.
Nov 9 - By Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer
People with low cholesterol and no big risk for heart disease had dramatically lower rates of heart attacks, death and stroke if they took the cholesterol pill Crestor, a large study found.
Oct 10 - By Associated Press
The U.N. health agency says it is investigating a mystery disease that killed three people in the South African city of Johannesburg.
Oct 5 - By Linda A. Johnson, AP Business Writer
An injected Johnson & Johnson biologic drug used to treat several immune diseases controlled Crohn's disease, a difficult-to-treat bowel disorder, better than a widely used pill, a study found.

Sep 7 - By Linda A. Johnson, AP Business Writer
In a new and disturbing twist on the obesity epidemic, some overweight teenagers have severe liver damage caused by too much body fat, and a handful have needed liver transplants.
Sep 4 - By Matthew Brown, Associated Press Writer
Montana has lost its federal disease-free status for brucellosis, triggering mandatory testing of cattle being shipped out of state.
Jul 17 - By Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer
Investing just $10 per person — roughly the price of a six-pack of beer and some chips — could greatly fuel community programs that get couch potatoes moving, prevent smoking and improve nutrition, researchers say.