[Health] Hundreds Sickened On 2 Cruise Ships After Virus Outbreak

Hundreds Sickened On 2 Cruise Ships After Virus Outbreak
http://www.cinemablend.com/pop/Hundreds-Sickened-2-Cruise-Ships-Virus-Outbreak-50889.html
Vacationers typically spend cruises working on their tans and hitting up the buffet a comical number of times. Unfortunately for many aboard the Queen Mary 2 and the Emerald Princess this week, they had to add another activity to that itinerary: giving stool ...

Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Winner, Dies at 103
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/science/dr-rita-levi-montalcini-a-revolutionary-in-the-study-of-the-brain-dies-at-103.html
Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, a Nobel Prize-winning neurologist who discovered critical chemical tools that the body uses to direct cell growth and build nerve networks, opening the way for the study of how those processes can go wrong in diseases like dementia ...

What's your New Year's resolution? Weight loss, quitting smoking and saving ...
http://www.cleveland.com/brecksville/index.ssf/2012/12/how_did_you_do_on_your_new_yea.html
As 2012 comes to a close, many are looking forward to the New Year by coming up with resolutions that would improve their life. The Oakland Press has compiled a list of the most common resolutions, with ways to stay on track in 2013.

Michigan hospital blazes trail in fight against fungal meningitis
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/year-review-meningitis-outbreak-challenge/story?id=18085624
By Julie Steenhuysen. CHICAGO | Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:04am EST. CHICAGO (Reuters) - After his first day working at St Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor hospital's newly created Fungal Outbreak Clinic, Dr David Vandenberg struggled to describe to his boss the ...

Early flu season could be severe, experts warn
http://www.healthaim.com/flu-season-might-be-severe-says-experts/
Flu season in the United States is having its earliest start in nearly a decade and health officials say this season could be a bad one.

Williamson County area among regions statewide applying for up to $11.4 billion ...
http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/williamson-county-area-among-regions-statewide-app/nTh8z/
Weeks from now, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission will decide whether to approve a plan that could bring at least $50.2 million in local and federal funding for projects aimed at improving health care in Williamson County and nearby areas.

Health officials: Whooping cough cases continue to climb around Ariz.; Up 67 ...
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/de1b0d6b538c4e0c8eb3482b0e465069/AZ--Whooping-Cough
State health officials say that as of Dec. 15, the number of probable and confirmed cases of whooping cough is up 67 percent from 2010 and up 5 percent from last year and the number has climbed steadily since 2007.

Dental Accident Sends Drill Bit into Woman's Lung
http://socialmediaseo.net/2012/12/29/dental-accident-sends-drill-bit-womans-lung/
Dental patients around the world now have a new reason to fear dentists: a drill bit came loose during a dental procedure and fell into a woman's lung.

Renowned US Doctor Given Task Of Eliminating Cholera In Haiti
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g2gpGq3YOzSiJhTQ2s8r64SpYlVA?docId=CNG.938abb7d2cb3ae0c754fc30122f6116e.531
(Newsroom America) -- Renowned United States physician Paul Farmer has been appointed to help galvanize support to eliminate cholera in Haiti, where the disease has already claimed over 7,750 lives.