2005

April

• Alcohol not good for lactation, despite folklore

• Diabetes ups urinary infection risk in older women

• ‘Good’ bacteria help with eczema in infants

• Project shows indoor asthma triggers can be curbed

• Poor blood pressure control ups stroke risk

• Active teen girls run risk of stress fracture

• High carb diets may raise breast cancer risk

• EPA scraps controversial pesticide testing program

• Peanut allergy linked to lupin flour allergy

• Glaxo recalls Lamictal kits in US due to wrong dose

• Cheap new combination pill to help fight malaria

• Apologies after stillborn foetus taken with laundry

• Some say FDA should have sought Celebrex removal too

• Marburg spreads in Angola as death toll hits 174

• New study reduces Tanzanian HIV prevalence to 7 Pct

• Depression therapy may help HIV treatment

• Water-damaged buildings tied to workers’ asthma

• COX-2 drugs may suppress immune function-study

• Eat like the Greeks, live a longer life

• Refugees in West suffer from post-traumatic stress

• Skin lesions seen with newer arthritis drugs

• Panel defends study behind AIDS drug for babies

• Eating beans may stave off breast cancer

• A dash of onion halts bone loss in rats

• Roma tomatoes linked to US, Canadian salmonella outbreaks

• Experimental vaccine wards off lung infection

• Allergies less likely for women with several kids

• High blood pressure common in the overweight

• Offer money up front to prod vaccine makers

• Promoting abstinence ineffective against AIDS

• Pfizer stops arthritis drug Bextra sales

• Senators to stall FDA pick over contraception

• Deadly bird flu could spread beyond Asia

• U.S. focusing on disease spread through air travel

• Smoking, extra weight decrease odds of IVF success

• Judge lets U.S. troops get voluntary anthrax shots

• Kneepads, often optional, can curb sports injuries

• Vaccine promising against disease-causing HPV

• Millions of mothers, babies die needlessly - WHO

• Fend off dementia with sex, crosswords and a run

• Drinking milk may raise Parkinson’s risk in men

• Cholera outbreak kills 50 in Senegal

• FDA staff questions value of breast implant data

• Symptoms often felt long before lung cancer found

• Gene linked to TB immunity

• Sony invention beams sights, sounds into brain

• Bio-suits, fear at center of Angola Marburg outbreak

• Cannabis compound slows artery disease in mice

• Pilates indeed tones abs, but does little else

• Florida sues generic drug makers for overcharging

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