2005

January

• Disease risk still high in Indonesia’s Aceh: WHO

• Tuberculosis case sparks Dutch health scare

• Singapore in medical school alliance with Duke

• Human stem cells form nerve cells: study

• Hormone shots could cut preterm births: US study

• Bird flu kills Vietnam girl, Cambodia case possible

• Mental health charity calls for cannabis probe

• IQ-related brain areas may differ in men, women

• Illinois governor blasts US over flu vaccine delay

• Smoking harms women more than men: study

• EU Commission proposes ban on mercury exports

• China’s Wen urges “all measures” against bird flu

• Steroid puffs do not up nonvertebral fracture risk

• Head cooling may reduce brain damage in infants

• Botox may soothe ‘musician’s cramp’

• Age a factor in cervical cancer treatment

• Bulgaria struggles to kick chain-smoking habit

• Erectile dysfunction may signal heart problems

• Scrushy’s lawyers attack witness as liar, drunk

• Race a factor in pancreatic cancer surgery

• Heart devices may cost Medicare $2 billion

• Bush offers high-tech health care prescription

• Mad cow measures protect human food chain

• Calcium cuts women’s colorectal cancer risk

• U.S. tries to redistribute flu vaccines

• Malaria in Aceh under control, aid group says

• Heart attack diagnosis less likely in women

• Drug ups survival in diabetics with heart failure

• Study identifies keys to healthy teen development

• Nevada gov. wants to scrap retiree health benefits

• Vietnam deploys bird flu riot police

• Kids’ passive smoking tied to later lung cancer

• Mad cow disease found in French goat, EU says

• Britain clamps down on facelift ‘cowboys’

• Treatment easier for mammography-detected tumors

• Cialis impotence drug returns to Super Bowl

• Bird flu infects five more people in Vietnam

• Japan sees problems with idea of global AIDS tax

• Tsunami survivors risk fungal infection - report

• Pressure on sports docs could harm athletes - study

• Lean couch potatoes get up more, sit less

• Britain aids malaria fight in push to help Africa

• UK’s “Dr Death” probably killed 250 patients

• Soft palate implants safely reduce snoring

• Markets, politicians react coolly to Chirac tax

• Statins reduce deaths among dialysis patients

• Response prevented tsunami deaths from disease - UN

• Survey finds 80 pct of U.S. doctors witness mistakes

• Asia acts but helpless if deadly bird flu occurs

• Whooping cough outbreaks reported in US hospitals

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