Employees Pay More and Get Less from Medical Coverage
The burden of healthcare is shifting from companies to workers, a survey says. Health care - Insurance - Business - United States - Kaiser Family Foundation

Avandia Faces Scrutiny in U.K.
On July 15 -- a day after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration completed two days of hearings on the diabetes drug Avandia -- a British advisory commission on drugs concluded that the product should be withdrawn from the market, according to an investigation conducted by BMJ. BMJ - United States - Food and Drug Administration - Health - GlaxoSmithKline

More Americans Taking Prescription Drugs
Nearly half of all Americans -- 48 percent -- took at least one prescription drug in a one-month period in 2007-2008, a four-percentage-point hike over a decade, researchers found. Health - Pharmacy - Drugs - Prescription drug - United States

Kids' Sports-Related Concussions Soar
Emergency department visits for concussions occurring in children's and teens' team sports have risen sharply since the late 1990s, researchers say. Sport - People - Training - Youth and High School - Family

Michael Douglas' Life as a Cancer Patient
Cancer patient survives 31 grueling days in radiation treatment similar to what "Wall Street" actor has already begun. Cancer - Health - Head and neck cancer - Conditions and Diseases - Organizations

'Miracle' Encounter: Nurse Finds Long-Lost Dad in Hospital Bed
A nurse was reunited with the father she had never met after a chance bedside encounter at a New York hospital for the terminally ill. Hospital - Nurse - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Organizations

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Garden of Death: Man Survives Freak Infection
Researchers have published a case report involving a 67-year-old man admitted to a hospital in March after spending eight days suffering from fever, shortness of breath and confusion. Doctors diagnosed pneumonia, but were at a loss to find the underlying cause, according to the report this week in The Lancet. Pneumonia - Infectious disease - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Bacterial

Discovery Gunman a Paranoid Schizophrenic?
Discovery Channel gunman James Lee's actions and the contents of the manifesto he is believed to have written lead mental health experts to believe he possibly lived with paranoid schizophrenia. Schizophrenia - Mental health - Health - Disorders - Paranoia

Osteoporosis Drugs May Up Esophageal Cancer Risk
A second look at British registry data indicates that esophageal cancer may be more common after all in patients taking oral bisphosphonate drugs, a type of drug used to treat osteoporosis, for long periods. Health - Esophageal cancer - Osteoporosis - Cancer - Conditions and Diseases