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Health Tip: Getting Ready for Cancer Treatment (HealthDay) - HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Treatment for cancer takes an emotional and physical toll on your body. But you can take steps to prepare for the treatment that will help make the process easier.
Kids' Fever Time Cut Using Ibuprofen First (HealthDay) - HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Fever in young children can be reduced for a longer period of time by giving them ibuprofen, according to British researchers.
Obesity Worsens Asthma (HealthDay) - HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 5 (HealthDay News) -- New research shows that obese people who have asthma are nearly five times more likely to be hospitalized for the problem and to have lower quality of life and worse control of the disease than those with asthma who are normal weight.
FDA posts list of potential problem drugs (AP) - AP - The government on Friday began posting a list of prescription drugs under investigation for potential safety problems, in an effort to better inform doctors and patients.
List of medications with potential safety problems (AP) - AP - List of medications with potential safety problems
Gene domino effect behind brain, pancreatic tumors (AP) - AP - Scientists have mapped the cascade of genetic changes that turn normal cells in the brain and pancreas into two of the most lethal cancers. The result points to a new approach for fighting tumors and maybe even catching them sooner. Genes blamed for one person's brain tumor were different from the culprits for the next patient, making the puzzle of cancer genetics even more complicated.
Philly school rekindles same-sex education debate (AP) -

Richard Cherry Jr., right, 15, departs Boys' Latin of Philadelphia with his father, Richard Cherry Sr, in Philadelphia Tuesday July 15, 2008. Boys' Latin of Philadelphia, one of the city's newer charter schools, aims to be an educational beacon in the financially and academically troubled district. But because it is single sex public school — one of four in Philadelphia — it faced huge opposition and almost didn't exist. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)AP - Calling all ninth-grade boys! Raise your hand if this school sounds like fun: wearing jackets and ties every day, staying until 5 p.m., learning Latin and — to top it all off — no girls.


FDA orders stronger warnings for 4 arthritis drugs (AP) - AP - The Food and Drug Administration ordered stronger warnings Thursday on four medications widely used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses, saying they can raise the risk of possibly fatal fungal infections.