Here’s what’s making health news this morning: Lung Cancer CT Scans: Just for Older Smokers (AP): New lung-cancer screening guidelines from three medical groups recommend annual scans but only for an older group of current or former heavy... 

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed legislation to create a statewide health-insurance exchange. Here is the original post: N.J.’s Christie Vetoes Creation of Health-Insurance Exchange  Read More →

U.S. government studies say young adults continue to get sunburned and tan indoors at a rate that increases their risk of skin cancer. Read more here:  Sunburns, Indoor Tanning Still Pose Cancer Risk for Young Adults, CDC Warns  Read More →

Here’s what’s making health news this morning: Study Damps Fears on Autism Change (WSJ):  A controversial change to the criteria for diagnosing autism turns out to “almost always” catch children diagnosed under the current guidelines, new data... 

iStockphoto Here’s what’s making health news this morning: U.S. Defends Safety of Nation’s Beef (WSJ): Officials said the testing regimen for mad cow disease is effective and that a diseased cow found in California was never a threat... 

As more of us live longer, we increasingly face the question of how to pay the rising cost of extended care, whether in a nursing home, an assisted-living center or at home. And the potential amounts are huge: The average cost of private room in a nursing... 

Here’s what’s making health news this morning: Frustrated ALS Patients Concoct Their Own Drug (WSJ): Patients with the fatal disease are trying to make their own treatment and test it on themselves.  All the World Isn’t a Stage, but... 

The Value of Colonoscopy: Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that screening colonoscopies to detect and remove growths in the gut can reduce the risk of death from colon cancer by 53%, the WSJ reports . The observational... 

Federal regulators have been firm in saying that they will stick to the October 1, 2013 deadline for the rollout of the new medical coding set known as ICD-10 . Now there’s a slightly different message emerging: OK, maybe not. Today the acting head... 

Investments in disease prevention — a core principle of President Obama’s health-care overhaul legislation — would face a setback under his budget proposal for next year. Obama’s fiscal 2013 budget would scale back the Prevention and...