2004

December

• SARS Vaccine To Be Tested On American Volunteers

• Crohn’s disease may respond to parasite therapy

• Maryland Hospitals Fight Back Against the Flu

• Women with breast implants have higher suicide risk

• RSV therapy not cost-effective for infants

• Heart attack risk rises after stopping NSAIDs

• Alcohol acts on blood vessels to promote cancer

• Ads for body-imaging health screens may mislead

• Anger or startling event may trigger stroke

• Mental distress linked with asthma flares

• Heart attack deaths spike over the holidays

• Vitamin E may stave off Lou Gehrig’s disease

• Stroke risk greater for migraine sufferers—study

• Christmas parties can damage your health

• U.S. government starts test of SARS vaccine

• Some kids may have autism risk from mercury—group

• Medicare aims to cut errors in half by 2008

• Simple smelling test detects Alzheimer’s risk

• Antismoking laws curb smoking and lung cancer

• Abbott Introduces Prostate Cancer Tests For Both Architect

• Hepatitis B vaccine

• Researchers Discover New Gene in Colon Cancer

• Diabetes vaccine to be tested on humans

• Mice study opens door to psoriasis treatment

• Does Chocolate Qualify as a Health Food?

• Eat your fruit and vegetables—get a prize

• Closer to a male ‘pill’

• FDA Adds Warnings For Painkiller Bextra

• Do We Take Too Many Pills?

• Celebrex Heart Risk Lower Than Vioxx

• Study Links Children’s Asthma To Hog Farms

• Antioxidants Reduce Cancer Risk in Men

• Yushchenko was poisoned

• Firms Want to Sell OTC Cholesterol Drugs

• FDA Says Heart Warning Added to Pfizer’s Bextra

• Obesity Predicts Childhood Leukemia Relapse and Survival

• Health officials consider future of sex offenders in overcrowded prison

• Alzheimer’s On The Road

• Sudden death in children with epilepsy usually not due to seizures

• Anorexia consequences need vigilant monitoring

• Kids with epilepsy don’t usually die of seizures

• Yushchenko in Austrian hospital for tests

• Botox curbs painful bladder condition

• US officials move toward drug safety independence

• FDA warns Chiron over flu vaccine plant

• Home exercise helps adults with cystic fibrosis

• Most school-aged children have imaginary friends

• Gene test can predict breast cancer chemo effect

• Abnormal Pap smears common in women with lupus

• Autistic brain seen to recall letters differently

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