2006

February

• First solid data on health effects of a low-fat diet

• Urgent Need for Lethal Bacteria Disease Vaccine

• S.Koreans grumble, French pleased about sex: survey

• Cocoa-derived medicines still years away: experts

• More girls than boys trying drugs for first time

• Bird flu kills again, spreads to another country

• Herbal remedies may calm irritable bowel

• Virtual reality device aids people with MS

• Researchers define a new “first step” that initiates sepsis

• Climate change may affect length of respiratory infection season

• Teens’ chronic headaches often untreated

• Children Fare Better at Pediatric Trauma Centers

• Take Medications as Directed, Reduce Overall Healthcare Costs

• U.S. reviewing safety of Bayer heart-surgery drug

• Saw palmetto does nothing for enlarged prostates

• UK reports third ‘mad cow’ case from transfusion

• Sex: It’s costly but worth it. Just ask a microbe

• Tiniest babies can become functional young adults

• Bristol-Myers Squibb and Otsuka Pharmaceutical announce availability of 2 mg Abilify (aripiprazole)

• FDA grants fast track status for ViroPharma’s Maribavir

• New technology for accelerating development of vaccines against H5N1 flu

• Women more sensitive to pain during periods of low estrogen

• Discovery of the molecular mechanism that inhibits HCV replication in vitro

• Low-Fat Diet Has Little Effect on Reducing Risk of Breast Cancer

• Merck rushed unsafe Vioxx to market, lawyer argues

• Some kids gain weight after adenotonsillectomy

• Anticholinergic drugs may lead to mild mental impairment in elderly

• Poor kidney function ups death risk in heart failure

• Levitra effective for ED due to spinal cord injury

• Alzheimer disease has a genetic cause in up to 80 percent of cases

• Poverty early in life may set into motion a consistent pattern of antisocial behaviours

• Alzheimer’s highly inherited, twins study finds

• Teens fight less if they think parents disapprove

• Call for public health intervention to treat young injection drug users infected with the hepatitis

• French face transplant woman grateful for new life

• Injury risks posed by paper shredders

• Xenical OTC

• Reduction in Respiratory Illnesses in Babies Breastfed Six Months vs. Four

• Quit Smoking for Surgery—Best Chance to Quit for Good

• New Saint Louis University research finds SIDS strikes premies later

• Kegel exercises reduce urinary incontinence in women

• $3.7 million to improve high blood pressure control

• FDA approves faster test for bird flu in humans

• Anti-inflammatory Drugs May Do More Harm than Good in Tendinopathy

• Cocaine can cause major stomach problems: surgeon

• Hepatitis C recurs rapidly after liver transplant

• Study looks at placebo effect

• 60 new genes controlled by regulatory sequences

• Can Islam Help Muslim Smokers to Quit?

• Childhood flu vaccination rates in US still low

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