Daily dose of Health News with poll: Docs push for new look, warning labels on hot dogs to promote kid safety

Posted on Tue, Feb 23, 2010 : 9:22 a.m.

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Here's a look at some of the top health news being talked about around the U.S. and the world today:

• A group of physicians from the American Academy of Pediatrics is calling for warning labels and even a redesign of the hot dog, which they say is simply too easy for kids to choke on, USA Today reported.

• Stroke vicitms who struggle communicating can be helped with their verbal skills with song. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, a small group of stoke patients who struggled speaking were able to improve their verbal skills by singing their words, supporting previous research from the 1970s on the therapy.

• Americans and their doctors aren't doing enough to treat the condition of high blood pressure, one of the biggest risk factors for heart disease and stroke, a medical panel said Monday, the Los Angeles Times reported.

• The New York Times offered a look at an emerging science in transplants in which doctors actually hope the transplanted organ, like a liver, will eventually be rejected by the body. By that point, the idea is, patients will have regenerated their own healthy organ.

Tina Reed covers health and the environment for AnnArbor.com. You can reach her at tinareed@annarbor.com, call her at 734-623-2535 or find her on Twitter @TreedinAA.

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