S’pore to host congress on alternative medicine
• Alternative Medicine • Jul 31 04
FOREIGN and local experts will attend an inaugural scientific congress on alternative medicine here next year, with topics as cutting edge as DNA profiling…
Acupuncture now in a pill
• Alternative Medicine • Jul 31 04
A Singapore government-backed biotechnology firm says it is on track to developing an acupuncture pill, claiming to have put the traditional Asian method of…
Diet-only diabetes strategy not ideal
• Dieting • Jul 30 04
British doctors could do a lot better in their efforts to manage patients with type 2 diabetes, say the authors of a report in…
Seizure drug helps reduce cancer pain
• Pain • Jul 30 04
A drug used to prevent seizures can improve pain relief for some people taking opioids for cancer pain, European researchers report.
There have been…
Tamoxifen doesn’t alter endometrial cancer outcome
• Cancer: Breast • Jul 30 04
For breast cancer patients who later developed endometrial cancer, prior treatment with tamoxifen does not reduce the chances of survival, researchers report.
Women…
Breast-feeding cuts genetic breast cancer risk
• Cancer: Breast • Jul 30 04
The well-known risk of breast cancer for women who harbor mutations in the BRCA1 gene is significantly reduced among those who have breast-fed for…
At last, a plus for weight gain: healthier babies
• Pregnancy • Jul 30 04
Women who put on a small amount of weight between pregnancies and add on enough pounds while pregnant are less likely to give birth…
Benefits short-lived with arthritis lotions
• Arthritis • Jul 30 04
Based on data from previous studies, the use of externally applied NSAIDs - a group of anti-inflammatory drugs that includes ibuprofen and ketoprofen -…
Pregnancy after heart repair may be harmful
• Pregnancy • Jul 30 04
Women who have had an operation in infancy to correct a congenital heart defect can have a successful pregnancy, but it carries a risk…
New pill may help recovering alcoholics stay sober
• Drug News • Jul 30 04
A new pill that aims to keep alcoholics from drinking again after they have quit could hit the shelves by the end of this…
Carpal tunnel screening not good for bottom line
• Pain • Jul 30 04
Companies that test potential employees for their risk of developing carpal tunnel syndrome may be wasting their money, a new study suggests.
Researchers say…
Heart enlargement appears early in type 1 diabetes
• Diabetes • Jul 30 04
Children and adolescents with insulin-dependent (type 1) diabetes, particularly girls, show early signs of changes in the heart, a research team in Belgium has…
Therapy soon after hip surgery improves mobility
• Surgery • Jul 30 04
Elderly people who undergo surgery for a broken hip are more mobile two months later if they begin physical therapy immediately following surgery rather…
Acne bacteria genome mapped
• Allergies • Jul 30 04
German researchers have completely sequenced the genome of the organism Propionibacterium acnes, which is implicated in acne and other diseases.
Ultimately, this knowledge will…
Chickenpox vaccination may not prevent infection
• Infections • Jul 30 04
During an outbreak of chickenpox in Minnesota in the fall of 2002, more than half the children who became infected had been immunized with…
India’s AIDS Children Shunned
• AIDS/HIV • Jul 29 04
Sitting cross-legged on the cement floor of a home for abandoned children, 7-year-old Rupa - one of at least 60,000 Indian children infected with…
School cafeterias resist low-carb pressure
• Food & Nutrition • Jul 29 04
Low-carb diets like Atkins and South Beach are changing the contents of grocery stores and the orders at fast-food restaurants.
But in school lunch…
Americans are sad three days a month
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jul 29 04
Down in the dumps? Americans reported spending an average of three days a month feeling “sad, blue or depressed,” according to a government survey…
Infant deaths on the decline, says CDC
• Children's Health • Jul 29 04
Deaths of babies less than a month old declined by a quarter in the United States the last decade, thanks to advances in the…
Report says 195,000 deaths due to hospital error
• Public Health • Jul 29 04
As many as 195,000 people a year could be dying in U.S. hospitals because of easily prevented errors, a company said on Tuesday in…
Disease spreads death in flood-ravaged South Asia
• Infections • Jul 29 04
Rain fell on the flooded Bangladesh capital on Wednesday, compounding the misery of half a million people crammed into emergency shelters as waterborne diseases…
SE Asia urged to pull together against bird flu
• Infections • Jul 29 04
Southeast Asian bird flu experts met in Thailand Wednesday to work out how to prevent a second wave of the virus, which has already…
Nigeria to make cheap Aids drugs
• AIDS/HIV • Jul 28 04
Nigeria is to get its first plant for manufacturing anti-retroviral drugs for people living with HIV and Aids.
The plant is expected to bring…
Flu shot doesn’t prevent kids’ asthma flare-ups
• Asthma • Jul 27 04
It’s recommended that children with asthma get an annual flu shot, but a new report indicates that this does not prevent asthma exacerbations. In…
Bad hygiene blamed for typhoid in Russia, Ukraine
• Bowel Problems • Jul 27 04
Russian and Ukrainian authorities said outbreaks of typhoid, a disease usually confined to less developed countries, had hit Moscow and southern Ukraine, saying poor…