Health - KOB.com/health

NMSU exceeded mercury limit

The city of Las Cruces says New Mexico State University is in violation for having high mercury levels in the campus sanitary sewer system.

AP Breaking News Scrolling Video

Buddy Check 4

On the 4th of every month we remind you to please do your monthly breast self exam and then call your "buddy" and remind her to do the same.

Pill as good as chemo on lung cancer, but costlier

Some advanced lung cancer patients already treated with chemotherapy might be able to skip some of the bad side effects of another series of chemo by taking a pill instead, a study suggests. An international study showed patients on Iressa, an expensive, newer targeted treatment, survived about as long as those on another course of chemotherapy.
Updated: 06:11 PM

HIV tests not yet as routine as cholesterol checks

Two years after the government urged making HIV tests as common as cholesterol checks, there are small gains but still one in five people infected with the AIDS virus doesn’t know it, scientists said Thursday.

Astronauts venture out for spacewalk No. 2

Astronauts ventured back outside the international space station to perform more repair work on a jammed joint Thursday and promised to keep a tight grip on all their tools so nothing would get away this time.

Teen lives 4 months with no heart, leaves hospital

D’Zhana Simmons says she felt like a "fake person" for 118 days when she had no heart beating in her chest. "But I know that I really was here," the 14-year-old said, "and I did live without a heart."

Study: Banning fast-food TV ads could dent obesity

A little less "I’m Lovin’ It" could put a significant dent in the problem of childhood obesity, suggests a new study that attempts to measure the effect of TV fast-food ads.

Surgeon who did first US heart transplant dies

Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, a cardiac surgeon who performed the nation’s first human heart transplant and who also developed lifesaving medical implants, has died. He was 90. Kantrowitz died Friday in Ann Arbor of complications from heart failure, said his wife, Jean Kantrowitz.