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 |  | | | | |  | | | | November 18, 2008 01:44 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Primary care doctors in the United States feel overworked and nearly half plan to either cut back on how many patients they see or quit medicine entirely, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
| | | November 18, 2008 12:07 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. states have not lived up to their commitment to devote a major portion of their huge legal settlement with the tobacco industry a decade ago on anti-smoking efforts, health advocacy groups said on Tuesday.
| | | November 18, 2008 04:49 PM ET
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Regular exercise can reduce a woman's risk of cancer, but the benefits may slip away if she gets too little sleep, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
| | | November 18, 2008 05:25 PM ET
| CHICAGO (Reuters) - Women who get pregnant after weight-loss surgery tend to be healthier and less likely to deliver a baby born with complications compared to obese women, researchers said on Tuesday.
| | | November 18, 2008 03:39 PM ET
| NEW ORLEANS (Reuters Health) - Levels of "bad" LDL cholesterol among adult Americans have fallen somewhat since 1980. However, harmful triglyceride levels have nearly quintupled over the same time period, according to research presented at the
| | | November 18, 2008 05:26 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - The rise of serious heart risks in drugs that treat chronic conditions has become one of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's top worries and is changing how the agency weighs new medicines, a top FDA official said on Tuesday.
| | | November 18, 2008 04:49 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Drugs used to control diabetes may lower the risk of prostate cancer, investigators at the University of Tampere in Finland report.
| | | November 18, 2008 10:15 AM ET
| BEIJING (Reuters) - Washington plans to check Chinese food for bugs and toxins before it even sets sail for the United States, as part of a strategy to keep consumers safe in the face of global trade challenges, the U.S. Health Secretary said on Tuesday.
| | | November 18, 2008 04:50 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although often billed as a memory and cognition enhancing product, the medicinal herb Ginkgo biloba does not stave off cognitive decline or help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association this week.
| | | November 18, 2008 11:09 AM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Individuals with celiac disease -- a common digestive problem in which the body cannot breakdown and absorb a protein found in wheat -- are at significantly increased risk for developing thyroid disorders, including hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism and thyroiditis, investigators in Sweden have found.
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Many doctors plan to quit or cut back: survey
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