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Shaping good health as teens outgrow pediatrician - 01/05/2009

Ever watched a teen skulk in the corner of a toddler-packed pediatrician's waiting room, obviously wishing to be anywhere else? Adolescents aren't just big kids, and too many start falling through cracks in the health care system when they pass the stage of preschool shots and summer camp checkups _ what a major new report calls misse

MySpace is research place for busybody 'Dr. Meg' - 01/05/2009

Many teenagers cleaned up their MySpace profiles, deleting mentions of sex and booze and boosting privacy settings, if they got a single cautionary e-mail from a busybody named "Dr. Meg." The e-mail was sent by Dr. Megan Moreno, lead researcher of a study of lower-income kids that she says shows how parents and other adults can encoura

Nursing industry desperate to find new hires - 01/05/2009

Please, please accept a high-paying job with us. In fact, just swing by for an interview and we'll give you a chance to win cash and prizes. Sounds too good to be true, especially in an economy riddled with job cuts in nearly every industry. But applicants for nursing jobs are still so scarce that recruiters have been forced to get in

Doctor, former patient now colleagues in Detroit - 01/03/2009

When Dr. Trevor Banka treats cancer patients alongside Dr. Michael Mott he is working with not only his mentor, but the physician who helped save his life. "I wanted to work next to Dr. Mott and I wanted to train with him," said Banka, a 28-year-old second-year oncology resident at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital. "We hav

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• Trying to prevent lymphedema after breast cancer

• Hard to hear at holiday parties? Blame your brain

• Study: Obesity surgery reverses diabetes in teens

• Study: Family behavior key to health of gay youth

• Hospitals ill from more bad debt, credit troubles

• Millions of older Americans use risky drug combos

• Too sick to work? Need health care? Take a number

• Avoiding the painkiller-overuse rut in migraines

• Sex no longer a taboo subject at nursing homes

• Got the flu? CDC says Tamiflu may not be much help

• Nursing home industry worries about new ratings

• New rule for health providers stirs objections

• Tumor in Colorado newborn's brain contained foot

• Woman gets near-total face transplant in Cleveland