Frustrated by the political bickering that has blocked U.S. health care reform for years, a coalition of business and labor groups has joined with an advocacy group for the elderly to try to break the gridlock and achieve success under the next president.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most U.S. hospitals are failing to meet a key quality benchmark for care of colon cancer patients -- checking enough lymph nodes after surgery to see if the cancer has spread, researchers said on Tuesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - A new way to test for cervical cancer is more accurate than a pap smear and identified more dangerous lesions, an Italian study showed on Tuesday.
Personal animosities at a Veterans Administration health facility led to the destruction in just a few hours of biomedical material on Legionnaires' disease that two prominent infectious disease researchers had collected over a quarter-century, a House panel says.
