2005

February

• Painful bladder condition relieved by lidocaine

• Thousands flee as plague kills 61 in Congo

• Remicade improves diabetes-related eye condition

• Media violence may affect kids in short term

• Dry Skin, Allergy or Something More Serious?

• Agents arrest medical marijuana grower on federal charges

• Food dye cancer scare

• Health Officials: Flu Virus Peaking In Michigan

• City Doctors still work for too long

• FDA grants priority review to levetiracetam for use in childhood epilepsy

• Irritable Bowels?

• Gene ‘signature’ may predict breast cancer relapse

• Social Security, Medicare not in crisis - Greenspan

• Violent video games spark rising debate on bans

• Writing out feelings helps, but not for asthma

• Alzheimer-risk gene makes brain work harder

• Spain doctor rebuilds penises cut off for AIDS cure

• Women laid off job may run risk of heart disease

• Drug for agitation can worsen dementia

• Parents see pros, cons to notification laws

• Canadian beef entered U.S. due to lax oversight -USDA

• Remicade doesn’t change cholesterol ratio

• Scientist sees risk in high Celebrex doses

• Polish health minister to stay on despite setback

• New flu strain picked for flu vaccine mix

• Natural disaster death toll jumps to 320,000 in ‘04

• Private plans should set drug prices - Medicare

• TB prevention among homeless faces hurdles

• Vietnam to slaughter poultry in big cities

• Prostate cancer vaccine helps patients live longer

• New prostate cancer treatment promising

• Harley Street man denies deception

• New study: Knoxville is ‘asthma capital’

• HIV vaccine trial begins in February 2005

• Only 0.2% of asylum seekers have TB, Kent tests show

• Truth Plea in row over hospitals

• Special Delivery:  connecting American couples with egg donors

• Blood drive to benefit cancer victim

• Prescription For Disaster

• Health Squabbles

• Hospital plans to remove patient from life support over family objections

• Health grant good news for our region

• Vatican Decries ‘Religion of Health’

• New US bills seek to promote stem cell research

• Early epidural does not raise c-section risk

• Radiation for breast cancer ups throat cancer risk

• Colon cancer survival better in US than Europe

• US senator questions new drug safety effort

• Young Blood gets new meaning with fresh study

• Polish health workers threaten strike over reforms

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