Senator’s tearful plea helps pass suicide bill
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jul 09 04
For a few moments on Thursday, the only sounds in the U.S. Senate chamber were the sobs of a grieving father.
Oregon Republican Gordon…
Teens seeing too many magazine alcohol ads: report
• Children's Health • Jul 09 04
Teenagers may be more likely than adults of legal drinking age to come across alcohol ads in their favorite magazines, new research suggests.
The…
UV light may give frequent tanners a lift
• Skin Care • Jul 09 04
For frequent tanners, the tanning bed may offer more than a bronzed skin. The ultraviolet (UV) radiation used in indoor tanning may actually…
Stress boosts immunity, but only in the short term
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jul 09 04
A short burst of stress appears to help the body fight off infections, but chronic stress may produce the opposite effect, according to a…
New HIV therapy shows promise
• AIDS/HIV • Jul 09 04
Researchers may finally be on track to fight the AIDS virus by blocking a long-elusive target, an HIV enzyme called integrase. An experimental drug…
Top U.S. AIDS official discusses new Vietnam funding
• AIDS/HIV • Jul 09 04
Vietnam is expected to receive about $10 million in HIV/AIDS funds under a $15 billion U.S. program, with prevention and treatment as the main…
Mutant syphilis strain resists common cure
• Infections • Jul 08 04
A fast-spreading mutant strain of syphilis has proved resistant to the antibiotic pills that are offered to some patients as an alternative to painful…
Women with genital pain have low pain threshold
• Pain • Jul 08 04
The cause of vulvodynia - painful discomfort in the vulva - is unknown, but researchers have now found that women with the condition are…
Drug guards child’s heart in cancer therapy -study
• Heart • Jul 08 04
A drug made by Pfizer Inc. can protect young cancer patients’ hearts from the ravages of chemotherapy and keep them from developing serious cardiac…
Hong Kong official resigns over SARS
• Infections • Jul 08 04
Bowing to pressure over a slow response to SARS, Hong Kong’s health secretary resigned yesterday and took the blame for the crisis that killed…
China culls 20,000 chickens to contain bird flu
• Infections • Jul 08 04
China culled more than 20,000 chickens in central Anhui province to isolate a new outbreak of bird flu, a local official said on Thursday,…
Specialized foster care curbs teen violence
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jul 08 04
An expert panel is recommending that a specialized form of foster care be an option for teens who are particularly likely to engage in…
Test predicts prostate cancer death, study says
• Cancer: Prostate • Jul 08 04
The PSA blood test widely used to detect prostate cancer can also predict who is most likely to die from the disease, researchers said…
Depression ups risk of ‘metabolic syndrome’
• Depression • Jul 08 04
Women who have had an episode of depression have increased odds of having “metabolic syndrome” - a cluster of conditions such as abdominal obesity,…
No Law Broken In Rx Cost Row
• Public Health • Jul 08 04
Bush administration officials broke no laws in withholding from Congress estimates of the cost of the new Medicare law, says an internal investigation made…
U.S. clears new use for robot-like surgical device
• Surgery • Jul 08 04
Intuitive Surgical Inc. won U.S. approval to market its robot-like surgical device for use in coronary artery bypass surgery, U.S. regulators said on…
Asian AIDS crisis, prevention in focus at Bangkok
• AIDS/HIV • Jul 08 04
Asia’s rapidly growing AIDS crisis, the latest advances in lifesaving drugs and stalled efforts to get them to millions of people in need will…
Milk found to help lower cancer risk
• Cancer • Jul 08 04
People who drank about two 8-ounce glasses of milk a day had a 15 percent reduction in risk of getting colorectal cancer, according to…
Ovarian cancer: Not the ‘silent killer’ it was
• Cancer • Jul 08 04
The bad news is that it still kills thousands. The good, says Dr. Judith Reichman, is that better detection tests are on the way
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New drugs lock out AIDS but vaccine proves elusive
• AIDS/HIV • Jul 07 04
Two decades into the AIDS pandemic, the world has two dozen drugs to fight the virus and researchers have high hopes for new classes…
Long nursing shifts raise error risk
• Public Health • Jul 07 04
Nurses in U.S. hospitals about 40 percent of the time are working long shifts that raise the risk of medical mistakes such as…
Deadly bird flu erupts again in Thailand, China
• Infections • Jul 07 04
The strain of bird flu that killed 24 people in Southeast Asia early this year has erupted again in Thailand and China, but authorities…
Brief screening spots domestic abuse
• Children's Health • Jul 07 04
It takes only a few minutes and a couple of questions to spot many hidden cases of domestic abuse in adults accompanying children to…
New surgical technique could mean faster recovery
• Surgery • Jul 07 04
A new surgical technique may help doctors operate on internal organs without making any cuts in the skin, researchers reported on Wednesday.
Using a…
Obesity risk doubled for kids of obese moms
• Obesity • Jul 07 04
Children whose mothers were obese when they became pregnant are at increased risk of becoming obese themselves, according to a new study.
The results…