john mccain

The lucky few: FSU researcher shines light on forgotten generati...

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Wed, 08/20/2008 - 23:00

(Florida State University) John McCain, Elvis Presley, Gloria Steinem and Martin Luther King Jr. took different paths in life, but they were all lucky.


 

Putting US Energy in the Wrong Place

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Wed, 08/20/2008 - 17:45

Viewpoint: John McCain says the U.S. ought to drill its untapped stores of natural gas and oil.

Here's another thought: mine the country's far larger reserves of alternative energy



 

Candidates' Abortion Views Not So Simple

washingtonpost.com - Health  Tue, 08/19/2008 - 23:00

The narrative of the presidential campaign appeared to be set on the issue of abortion: Sen. Barack Obama was the abortion-rights candidate who was reaching out to foes, seeking common ground and making inroads.

Sen. John McCain was the abortion opponent whose reticence about faith and whose batt...


 

McCain Biopsy Shows No Cancer

WebMD Health  Wed, 07/30/2008 - 00:00

The growth removed from Republican presidential candidate John McCain's upper right cheek on Monday shows no evidence of skin cancer, according to a statement released Tuesday by his press office.


 

McCain Has Growth Removed From Face

WebMD Health  Mon, 07/28/2008 - 00:00

Republican presidential candidate John McCain downplayed the removal of a growth from his upper right check, saying that his dermatologist is not worried.


 

McCain's health plan: A threat to employer plans?

washingtonpost.com - Health  Sun, 07/06/2008 - 14:25

WASHINGTON -- There's a great unknown about Sen. John McCain's health plan: How many employers would drop insurance coverage for their workers because of his tax policies?


 

Doctors Balk at Electronic Records

washingtonpost.com - Health  Mon, 06/23/2008 - 23:00

Replacing the manila folders behind your doctor's reception desk with more efficient and less error-prone electronic health records (EHRs) is a reform endorsed by both Sen.

John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). But the transition to computer-based systems seems to be going slowly ...


 

The forever war on terror: Dilemmas and choices

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Mon, 06/09/2008 - 23:00

(American Psychoanalytic Association) Sens. John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama all presented their plans to fight the "global war on terror" as they campaigned across the US this year.


 

McCain's Doctors Say the State of the Candidate's Health Is Exce...

MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Fri, 05/23/2008 - 17:55

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., -- Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was among the multitude of Americans who stopped taking ezetimibe/simvastatin (Vytorin) after publication of the ENHANCE trial, which found the drug did not reduce plaque burden


 

APNewsBreak: McCain appears cancer-free, healthy

Headlines from the Associated Press  Fri, 05/23/2008 - 09:06

FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz. (AP) -- Three-time melanoma survivor John McCain appears cancer-free, has a strong heart and is in otherwise general good health, according to eight years of medical records reviewed by The Associated Press....