Reuters - A 21-year-old Indonesian man from West
Jakarta has died of bird flu, taking the death toll from the
virus to 86, a health ministry official said on Monday.
September 30th, 2007
AP - Dengue fever is spreading across Latin America and the Caribbean in one of the worst outbreaks in decades, causing agonizing joint pain for hundreds of thousands of people and killing nearly 200 so far this year.
September 30th, 2007
AP - He was one of America’s first defenders on Sept. 11, 2001, a Marine who pulled burned bodies from the ruins of the Pentagon. He saw more horrors in Kuwait and Iraq.
September 30th, 2007
HealthDay - SATURDAY, Sept. 29 (HealthDay News) — U.S. health experts on
Friday urged the federal Food and Drug Administration to consider banning
the sale of over-the-counter cough and cold medicines for young
children.
September 29th, 2007
AP - Very young children simply should not take some commonly used cold and cough medicines, federal health officials say in recommending that the “consult your physician” advice to parents on the labels be dropped.
September 29th, 2007
AP - It sounds like science fiction but it’s true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die.
September 28th, 2007
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) — The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus can
pass through the placenta of pregnant women and into the fetus, Chinese
scientists report.
September 28th, 2007
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) — One in seven women suffers from
depression before, during or after pregnancy, a new study finds.
September 28th, 2007
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of Thomson CenterWatch:
September 28th, 2007
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 29 (HealthDay News) — U.S. health officials
announced Friday a crackdown on drug companies that make unapproved
prescription drugs containing the narcotic hydrocodone, which is used as a
cough suppressant and pain killer.
September 28th, 2007
AFP - A British school closed its website after links to hardcore pornography and impotence drugs were discovered on the parents' forum.
September 28th, 2007
AP - Customer satisfaction with a toll-free help line for Medicare beneficiaries appears to be dropping based on interviews conducted earlier this year by the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services.
September 28th, 2007
Reuters - A low-carbohydrate/high-fat
diet and a high-carbohydrate/low-fat diet both improve weight
loss, enhance mood, and speed thinking, a study shows, but the
low-carb diet may offer less benefit in terms of the rate of
cognitive processing.
September 28th, 2007
Reuters - People with a certain gene
mutation are more likely to get Parkinson's disease early —
before the age of 50 — compared to those without the gene
abnormality, according to a new study.
September 28th, 2007
Reuters - In men with early or
"localized" prostate cancer, the strategy of active
surveillance of their cancer does not appear to increase levels
of psychological stress any more than undergoing immediate
treatment does, according to UK researchers.
September 28th, 2007
Reuters - A long-term study shows that
sexual dysfunction is a major problem that does not fully
subside after a type of stem cell therapy called hematopoietic
cell transplantation, or HCT. This is true in both men and
women.
September 28th, 2007
AP - Very young children simply should not take some commonly used cold and cough medicines, federal health officials say in recommending that the “consult your physician” advice to parents on the labels be dropped.
September 28th, 2007
AP - Clinical trials that enroll millions of patients in tests of experimental drugs and medical devices get scant government oversight, according to a report released Friday.
September 28th, 2007
AP - Government health officials on Friday gave drug companies until Oct. 31 to stop making and selling any unapproved medicines labeled for use by children younger than 6 that contain the painkiller and cough suppressant hydrocodone.
September 28th, 2007
Reuters - Rwanda plans to encourage male
circumcision to help the tiny African nation curb HIV/AIDS
rates, a senior official told Reuters on Friday.
September 28th, 2007
Reuters - Breast cancer is becoming more
prevalent in Asia and affecting younger women than those in the
U.S. and Europe, a cancer specialist in Hong Kong said.
September 28th, 2007
Reuters - A report to be released on Friday
finds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does very little to
ensure the safety of patients who help test drugs in clinical
trials, The New York Times reports.
September 27th, 2007
AP - Congress approved legislation Thursday that would potentially add 4 million children to a popular health care program, setting up a veto fight that President Bush probably will win but handing Democrats a campaign issue for next year’s elections.
September 27th, 2007
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) - A tremor is an uncontrolled, involuntary,
rapid movement of a muscle, and can be caused by a medication or certain
conditions such as Parkinson's disease.
September 27th, 2007
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Sept. 27 (HealthDay News) — Three or more drinks a day
boosts a woman's risk for breast cancer by 30 percent. And it doesn't seem
to matter which form of alcohol — wine, beer, or spirits — is consumed,
researchers report.
September 27th, 2007
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of Thomson CenterWatch:
September 27th, 2007
AP - People who develop cervical or testicular cancer may face another harsh reality: they are more likely to get divorced than those without the disease, a new study says.
September 27th, 2007
Reuters - Setting up a veto showdown with
President George W. Bush, the U.S. Congress on Thursday
approved legislation to expand a popular children's health care
program and pay for it with higher taxes on tobacco products.
September 27th, 2007
AP - A study released Thursday credits New York’s 2003 Clean Indoor Air Act with an 8 percent drop in heart attacks statewide because of reduced exposure to second-hand smoke.
September 27th, 2007
American Cancer Society - The breast cancer death rate in the United States continues
to fall by around 2% a year, as it has since 1990, according to Breast Cancer Facts &
Figures 2007-2008, a report on breast cancer statistics and trends
produced every other year by the American Cancer Society. That’s an
impressive winning streak for an important indicator of success in the
fight against cancer, made possible in large part, the report says, by
advances in early
detection and treatment.
September 27th, 2007
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