2005

March

• Senate’s Frist sees $14 billion Medicaid savings

• Singapore mulls HIV self-test kits as infections rise

• Heroin cheap and easy in remote Afghan North

• Childbirth kills 9,000 Tanzanian women annually

• Vietnamese relatives have bird flu, no symptoms

• Study: Plavix saves lives after big heart attacks

• Senators eye longer specialty hospital moratorium

• Think cats make your kid sneeze? Try cockroaches

• Australia government to outlaw Internet suicides

• Mental slowing in elderly a tip-off to dementia

• Sudanese women struggle to survive childbirth - UNFPA

• Pfizer Lipitor study has mixed results

• Thalidomide helps pancreas cancer patients - study

• Taiwan frets over record-low birth rate

• Stigma drives Darfur women to risky abortions

• Bed nets, drought help Eritrea slash malaria rate

• Singapore widens smoking ban to more public spots

• Toddlers in US often lack vaccination

• Zimbabwe twins on life support after separation

• Clinton to undergo heart operation, office says

• Smoking in pregnancy damages baby’s chromosomes

• New method makes ‘safer’ stem cells, study finds

• Virtual reality eases pain in kids with burns

• More kids, teens being injured on motorbikes

• Freezing tumors reduces cancer pain

• Vietnam checks if nurse caught bird flu from patient

• Gene therapy still benefits heart after 2 years

• Diabetes triples the risk of liver cancer

• Newer drugs may cut stroke, heart attack risk

• Medicaid fails to check drug pricing - report

• UN backs U.S. plea for total ban on human cloning

• Study: Vytorin tops Lipitor in high-risk patients

• Lung cancer no longer just a man’s disease

• Mini-stroke seen as urgent warning of major stroke

• U.S. defends opposition to addict injection rooms

• Kids safest strapped into car’s rear seat: study

• Fertility technique doesn’t affect development

• Some 545 Nigerians treated for horrid pregnancy injury

• Study shows why laughter is the best medicine

• Men get prostate screen, balk at colon cancer test

• Heavy drinking more common on campus than off - study

• Baking soda helps kids during severe asthma attack

• Vietnam nurse infected with bird flu - doctor

• Exercise, some calcium build strong bones - report

• Health crisis brews in Russia’s Chechnya

• Somalis call for help to clean up hazardous waste

• TB vaccine shows promise for genital warts

• Aspirin therapy affects men, women differently

• UK hospital superbug infections fall - govt

• Keeping An Eye On Workplace Eye Safety

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