2005

April

• Computer helps detect small breast cancers

• Fibroid treatment may not complicate pregnancy

• Memory remains intact in type 1 diabetics

• Genetic mutation wakes families before sunrise

• Treating vaginosis doesn’t prevent preterm birth

• Exercise helps middle-age adults stay spry

• Victims of Nazi medical experiments get more funds

• Kenyan business slow in tackling HIV/AIDS

• Marburg outbreak in Angola is deadliest ever

• Belly fat good predictor of diabetes in men

• China seeks to head off bird flu from N. Korea

• Pain relievers raise risk of kidney failure

• North Korea working to contain bird flu

• Vitamins may not protect elderly from infections

• New test detects multiple sclerosis

• Hormonal drug aids prostate cancer survival: study

• Fruit, veggies tied to lower pancreatic cancer risk

• Girls follow mom’s lead when eating fruits, veggies

• Another study finds no cell phone-brain cancer link

• HIV testing advised for all sexually active people

• Soweto sex survey shows S. Africa’s AIDS challenge

• Post-stroke rehab can benefit the very elderly

• Officials worried about jump in some Medicare costs

• Oral cannabis induces psychosis at low levels

• Arthritis inflammation increases cardiac death risk

March

• Report says people smuggling on increase in Europe

• ‘Baby talk’ may help infants learn language

• Lenient parents tied to teenage ecstasy use: study

• Requested sterilization often not performed

• Terri Schiavo dies in Florida hospice

• AIDS kills some 2,880 Tanzania teachers annually

• Angola’s Marburg death toll climbs to 126

• Peru’s Doe Run smelter poisoning children: NGOs

• Idaho couple can’t sue for wrongful birth: court

• Conjoined Singapore twins may have risky surgery

• Australian scientists find arthritis-causing enzyme

• Rare gay male sex disease enters Britain: report

• Viagra may cause vision loss

• Insomnia common in depressed HIV patients

• Donor age no long-term effect on transplant survival

• Mexico culls chickens with bird flu in the north

• Plasticized fetus stolen from ‘Body World’ exhibit

• Germany plans law to speed diesel filter adoption

• Physicians often reluctant to discuss drug costs

• Combination therapy effective for neurological pain

• Half of all US cancer deaths preventable: report

• Human damage to earth worsening fast: report

• U.S. child obesity dragging down health gains

• Oregon moves to limit junk food in schools

• Some free medicine programs too complex: survey

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