Rheumatoid arthritis does not have to mean an end to the things you love.

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Each year hundreds of thousands of Americans, including some 700,000 Medicare recipients, get on a treadmill not for exercise but to try to determine if their hearts are healthy. Tim Russert, the NBC journalist, had such an exam, called an exercise or treadmill stress test, six weeks before he died of a heart attack last month at age 58. His results had been deemed normal, prompting people to question how worthwhile this test could be.

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As with any product used to excess, consumers often wonder about the health consequences of caffeine.

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The exercise stress test has no value unless its findings are interpreted in the context of a person’s other risk factors for heart disease.

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Medpedia Forms Online Medical Encyclopedia Site looking for … EndoNurse -20 hours ago SAN FRANCISCO - The Medpedia Project recently announced that the world's largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine, Medpedia, will launch soon.

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Washington Post

A Genetics Pioneer Who Mapped the Inner World Washington Post -Jul 23, 2008 By David Brown Insights from the fully transcribed human genome — those 3 billion letters of DNA — will drive the medical discoveries of the 21st century and probably the 22nd century as well.

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CDC: Foreign-Born Groups In US At Higher TB Risk AHN -Jul 22, 2008 Atlanta, GA (AHN) - Foreign-born immigrants account for more than half of new tuberculosis cases in the US in recent years, according to a study in a major medical journal.

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Voice of America

FDA Inspectors Say Peppers May Be Linked to Salmonella Outbreak Voice of America -Jul 23, 2008 By Paul Sisco US government inspectors searching for the cause of a recent salmonella outbreak have a new lead. Inspectors at the US Food and Drug Administration have linked a Mexican grown jalepeno pepper to the outbreak that has spread through the …

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Experts say reproductive tourism a growing worry Reuters -17 hours ago By Michael Kahn LONDON (Reuters) - Thirty years after doctors delivered the world's first test tube baby, Louise Brown, fertility experts say they must tackle a growing problem of reproductive tourism that puts women and babies at risk. Free-market baby makingLog Cabin Democrat In vitro fertilization called an ethical failureLondon Free Press New York Daily News - FOXBusiness - AFP - NDTV.com all 67 news articles

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Fighting West Nile Alexandria Gazette Packet -22 hours ago By Michael Lee Pope Ever since West Nile virus was first identified in the United States in 1999, the city of Alexandria has been taking steps to identify potential problems and help residents protect themselves.

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