WSBT - Your Health Matters http://www.wsbt.com/health RSS Feed for WSBT - Your Health Matters en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:32:24 GMT Your Health Matters SickWatch http://www.wsbt.com/health/5250061.html WSBT News and the Memorial Medical Group are teaming up to bring you a weekly feature, the Your Health Matters SickWatch. The Memorial Medical Group’s network of doctors and clinics provide WSBT News with information about high rates of certain illnesses in communities throughout Michiana. Flu Shot Clinics http://www.wsbt.com/health/56648337.html Click here for a list of locations offering seasonal flu and H1N1 shots. US report:Women in 20s can go 2 years between Paps http://www.wsbt.com/health/70629332.html WASHINGTON (AP) — New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch slow-growing cervical cancer. Palliative medicine draws doctors interested in easing suffering http://www.wsbt.com/health/70629622.html SEATTLE — It was a personal experience that first exposed Dr. Christine Cofer to palliative medicine. Hospital's Facebook chat offers swine flu answers http://www.wsbt.com/health/70623317.html CHICAGO (AP) — Got a swine flu question? Get an answer during a live Facebook chat offered by Chicago's Rush University Medical Center. Report: 6 in Ind. died from swine flu last week http://www.wsbt.com/health/70531132.html INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Six more Indiana swine flu deaths were reported last week, even as the number of people hospitalized with flu symptoms continued to drop. Ex-Kiss drummer: Breast cancer not just for women http://www.wsbt.com/health/70362307.html SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) — Lying in bed one night in 2007, Peter Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast. Bill would cause increase in Medicare premiums http://www.wsbt.com/health/70354957.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Seniors would pay $49 billion in higher premiums over the next decade as a result of legislation headed for a House vote that raises fees for doctors treating Medicare patients, according to an estimate by congressional budget officials. Local breast cancer survivors react to new detection guidelines http://www.wsbt.com/health/70335872.html New guidelines set forth by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force say women shouldn't get their yearly mammograms until age 50, and recommend against teaching women how to perform breast self-examinations. White House at odds with bishops over abortion http://www.wsbt.com/health/70613942.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.