Investment in water needed to reduce hunger - FAO
• Public Health • Jan 31 05
Poor countries urgently need investment to improve water usage in agriculture and ecosystems to reduce hunger, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation…
Disease risk still high in Indonesia’s Aceh: WHO
• Public Health • Jan 31 05
Tsunami-stricken Indonesia has escaped major disease outbreaks so far but hundreds of thousands of people are at high risk due to poor conditions in…
Tuberculosis case sparks Dutch health scare
• Infections • Jan 31 05
A supermarket worker in a central Dutch town has been diagnosed with a virulent form of tuberculosis (TB), sparking the largest health screening of…
Singapore in medical school alliance with Duke
• Public Health • Jan 31 05
Singapore, keen to boost its medical science sector, will open its second medical school in 2007 in an alliance with Duke University of the…
Human stem cells form nerve cells: study
• Neurology • Jan 31 05
Stem cells taken from human embryos were coaxed into becoming motor neurons in an experiment that might one day help scientists repair damaged nervous…
Hormone shots could cut preterm births: US study
• Pregnancy • Jan 31 05
Weekly injections for pregnant women of a drug derived from the hormone progesterone could have prevented nearly 10,000 premature births in 2002, U.S. researchers…
Bird flu kills Vietnam girl, Cambodia case possible
• Flu • Jan 31 05
Bird flu has killed a 10-year-old girl in southern Vietnam, doctors said on Monday, and they hoped the death of a Cambodian women…
Mental health charity calls for cannabis probe
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Jan 31 05
A British health charity called on Saturday for an investigation into evidence that smoking cannabis may cause psychosis in people at risk of…
IQ-related brain areas may differ in men, women
• Brain • Jan 31 05
While neither men nor women may be the more intelligent sex, their brains may take different paths to reach the same intellectual level, according…
Illinois governor blasts US over flu vaccine delay
• Public Health • Jan 31 05
Illinois may be unable to resell hundreds of thousands doses of flu vaccine it committed to buy in Europe three months ago but…
Smoking harms women more than men: study
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 31 05
Cigarette smoking is more harmful to women than to men, cutting more than a decade off female smokers’ life expectancy but much less for…
EU Commission proposes ban on mercury exports
• Public Health • Jan 31 05
The European Union, the world’s largest supplier of mercury, is set to ban exports of the metal by 2011 under new rules proposed by…
China’s Wen urges “all measures” against bird flu
• Public Health • Jan 28 05
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao called on Friday for “all possible measures” to fight the emergence and spread of deadly bird flu that has appeared…
Steroid puffs do not up nonvertebral fracture risk
• Respiratory Problems • Jan 28 05
In the short term, the risk of nonvertebral fracture is not increased in older adults with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who…
Head cooling may reduce brain damage in infants
• Children's Health • Jan 28 05
Cooling the head with a special cap may help reduce brain damage in infants with neonatal encephalopathy, a serious neurologic condition that occurs…
Botox may soothe ‘musician’s cramp’
• Neurology • Jan 28 05
Injections of the wrinkle-banisher Botox may help soothe the involuntary muscle contractions that plague some professional musicians, according to a new study.
Musicians are…
Age a factor in cervical cancer treatment
• Cancer • Jan 28 05
Elderly women with invasive cervical carcinoma are less likely to receive aggressive treatment than younger patients, and are more likely to die from the…
Bulgaria struggles to kick chain-smoking habit
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 28 05
Milena hates herself for it, but she lights another cigarette anyway.
She and her husband think it may have been her smoking habit that…
Erectile dysfunction may signal heart problems
• Gender: Male • Jan 28 05
Erectile dysfunction is sometimes more than just an issue that negatively impacts a man’s quality of life - it can also be an early…
Scrushy’s lawyers attack witness as liar, drunk
• Public Health • Jan 28 05
The defense team for former HealthSouth Chief Executive Richard Scrushy on Thursday accused a former chief financial officer of the healthcare company of being…
Race a factor in pancreatic cancer surgery
• Cancer • Jan 28 05
It’s known that African Americans have an elevated risk of pancreatic cancer, but new study findings show they may also be less likely to…
Heart devices may cost Medicare $2 billion
• Public Health • Jan 28 05
Wider coverage for expensive implanted heart devices likely will cost the U.S. Medicare program for seniors about $2 billion over five years, the program’s…
Bush offers high-tech health care prescription
• Public Health • Jan 28 05
President Bush on Thursday proposed increasing federal funds to promote computerized medical records, which he said would save patients’ lives and money as…
Mad cow measures protect human food chain
• Food & Nutrition • Jan 28 05
Current measures to prevent meat from animals infected with mad cow disease from entering the human food chain are effective, scientists said on Thursday.
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Calcium cuts women’s colorectal cancer risk
• Cancer • Jan 28 05
Diets rich in calcium reduce women’s risk of colorectal cancer, and women who also take calcium supplements can cut their risk even more, researchers…