Health Babe

Braxton’s Las Vegas show canceled amid health issues (USA Today)
A Las Vegas hotel has announced that the rest of Toni Braxton’s scheduled shows have been canceled so the singer can focus on her health. The show, Toni Braxton: Revealed, at the Flamingo Las Vegas had been dark since the 40-year-old entertainer was hospitalized April 7 with what hotel officials said at the time was a complaint of a chest pain. The show had been scheduled to resume June 6.

U.S. health insurers pitch policy changes (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Major U.S. health insurers on Thursday pitched several clinical and payment policy changes, adding their voice to a growing debate over reforming the nation’s costly and often inefficient health care system.

Doctor says Obama in excellent health (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is in excellent health and fit to serve as U.S. president, his doctor said on Thursday.

Obama’s doctor: Democrat is in ‘excellent health’ (AP via Yahoo! News)
Barack Obama’s doctor said Thursday the presidential candidate was in excellent health at the time of his last checkup 16 months ago, but he has a family history of cancer and a big, obvious risk a smoking habit that he’s trying, again, to break.