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Does wearing the color red give you a sexual edge? Maybe, according to a new study, which found that men find women sexier if they're sporting a crimson hue rather than, say, blue or green.

The Director of Hanwei Eggs was contrite. "We solemnly apologize to consumers," said Han Wei. "We apologize to the distributors. We solemnly declare that our company has never purchased melamine. We have never adopted melamine to the feeds or products." But somehow melamine got into eggs produced at the company's plant in Dailin in northeast China.

The current economic downturn and the recent enactment of a $700 billion bailout for Wall Street firms could have implications for the next president's health care proposal, as well as other plans, the Chicago Tribune reports.

"On Election Day, Arizonans can give the nation the gift of a good example" through the passage of Proposition 101, a ballot measure that "could shape the health care debate that will arrest or accelerate the nation's slide into statism," syndicated columnist George Will writes in the Washington Post.

The November

A 6-foot-4 football player is more than a million times the size of a typical Staphylococcus bacterium. But under the right conditions, that athlete could find himself defenseless against the microscopic bug. Hospitals have long been known to be hot spots for transmitting staph, but recently cases have cropped up in the sports world and other community settings.

Recent surveys have found that, as a result of the current economic downturn, "many Americans are skimping on medications, physician visits and preventive screening in order to pay other household bills," and the trend "could be dangerous to their health and costly for the economy if more Americans lose work time or end up in the hospital," a

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The man sits gently rocking on the bed, one hand clutching a cloth, the other hiding his face from view.

Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell (R) announced on Thursday that she has postponed until February 2009 a mandatory switch for 345,000 low-income HUSKY beneficiaries to new insurers, the Hartford Courant reports. HUSKY is the state's Medicaid program (Keating, Hartford Courant, 10/24). The state

When a woman goes through breast cancer treatment, the shape of her chest changes, hair falls out and eyebrows thin. She'd probably tell you she's had better days.

Many more people blame the insurance industry for rising health care costs than blame anyone else. When asked who is most to blame, 41% of adults blame insurance companies compared to far fewer who blame the pharmaceutical companies (16%), the government (16%), hospitals (6%), or physicians (4%). These are some of the results of The Harris Poll®, a new nationwide survey of 2,119 U.S. adults surveyed online between October 16 and 20, 2008 by

CMS officials on Friday said that the agency likely will take regulatory action this week to address concerns about commissions that some insurers plan to pay their agents for enrolling beneficiaries in Medicare Advantage plans, the AP/Miami Herald reports (Freking, AP/Miami Herald, 10/24). CMS on Sept.

PatientAssistance.com, Inc., a nonprofit organization providing information on thousands of patient assistance programs to help users better manage and reduce prescription drug costs, announced today the release of a new integrated service on the Google Health platform. The new application enables users to automatically search for patient assistance drug programs they are eligible for based on the medications included in their Google Health profile.

Congress needs to reform flawed 401(k) laws that could push back retirement for millions of Americans whose savings have collapsed along with the stock market, a University of Illinois elder law expert says. Law professor Richard L. Kaplan says 401(k) accounts were meant to supplement traditional defined-benefit pensions, but have evolved into the sole nest egg for the bulk of U.S. workers whose employers offer any kind of savings program.

Nine of 10 American workers are losing sleep over financial worries, according to a survey released Monday by a company that helps workers deal with wellness issues.

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Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) has "secretly been orchestrating" and overseeing meetings with members of both parties to draft health care legislation to present to the new president and Congress next year that would extend health insurance to all U.S. residents, the Washington Times reports.

While mainstream news coverage is still a primary source of information for the latest in policy debates and the health care marketplace, online blogs have become a significant part of the media landscape, often presenting new perspectives on policy issues and drawing attention to under-reported topics.

Summaries of several recent developments related to health care issues in the presidential election appear below.Ad spending: Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) this year has spent $113 million on television advertisements related to health care, eight times the amount that Republican presidential nominee Sen.