2004

May

• New methods to detect breast cancer show promise

• Pilates, milk reign at ‘junk free’ schools

• New breast cancer detection method promising

• Obese kids more prone to bully, be bullied

• Blood pressure rise in U.S. kids, teens bodes ill

• Health Profit Disappoints, 500 Jobs Cut

• U.S. study finds more marijuana abuse

• Report says more focus needed on child mothers

• Treating sleep apnea could cut road deaths

• Obstetricians told to talk, write more clearly

• Recognize stroke, call ambulance, be a hero - CDC

• Surgery found to halve stroke risk in some patients

• Health probe clears NJ racetrack of mad cow fears

• Health experts propose new anti-malaria strategy

• Doctors often cause needless radiation burns - UN

• US scientist defends ‘morning-after’ pill decision

• VA restructuring hospital operations

• WHO still searching china lab for SARS ‘smoking gun’

• Lawsuits may be tool for fighting U.S. obesity

• China’s cabinet orders urgent measures to curb AIDS

• China releases patient, says SARS controlled in Anhui

• High hormone levels linked to prostate risk

• New generation of nurses ‘too posh to wash’

• Teenagers not told of cancer treatment risks - study

• China releases two more SARS patients, four remain

• U.S. uninsured health care cost put at $125 billion

• Survey: U.S. children not wearing bike helmets

• Impotence drug could offer long-term help -study

• AIDS-related skin cancer down sharply, study finds

• U.N.: AIDS poses ‘unique threat to human society’

• Mexico rushes out measles vaccines to curb outbreak

• Latina moms may see heavy kids as healthy kids

• Stroke survivors have a high risk of dementia

• Mass smallpox vaccination not needed: report

• Study: 6.7 percent of S. African children have HIV

• Fast-food breakfast may inflame blood vessels

• Take action now on childhood obesity, expert says

• Eating fish during pregnancy may up fetal growth

• Pneumonia’s racial disparity cut by vaccine

• Calif. court rules lesbian egg donor lacks rights

• House backs two bills on ‘Uninsured Week’

• Birth control shot linked to bone thinning

• U.S. health chief sees backing for tobacco accord

• Researchers: exercise lowers employers’ health costs

• Computers miss errors in drug prescribing: study

• Lawmaker questions USDA mad cow efforts

• U.S. worried by high arthritis rates

• Arthritis grips 25 percent of Americans

• Cholesterol drugs promising for multiple sclerosis

• Set for ban, DDT lingers in battle against malaria

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