2005

January

• UnitedHealth in plan for low-cost health insurance

• Heavy metals warning for ayurvedic herbs is a distraction from the real threats to your health

• ConocoPhillips, US reach Clean Air Act settlement

• Antibody curbs late anthrax illness, in rats

• Bill would restrict cold pills to fight ‘meth’

• Quit smoking or quit your job, U.S. company says

• Glucose not sole risk for diabetic nerve problem

• Pregnancy outcomes worsening for diabetic women

• Secret ingredient for elderly romance

• Middle-age spread owes a lot to genes - study

• Bruise patterns may point to child abuse

• New treatment relieves men’s chronic pelvic pain

• Red Cross raises record $1.2 bln in tsunami aid

• Many black Americans may believe in HIV conspiracy

• Radiation seeds may be enough for prostate cancer

• Chirac proposes international tax to fight AIDS

• Thinning bones linked to Alzheimer’s risk

• 700,000 AIDS patients get drugs, funds short

• Return to sport possible after temporary paralysis

• Britain’s Brown to promise $1.8 bln for vaccines

• Did Britain’s “Dr Death” kill even more patients?

• N.J. gov. urges Bush to end stem-cell restrictions

• Boozy Britain gets even more time at the bar

• Couples in poor nations having fewer children - UN

• S. Africa Catholic Church attacks condom promotion

• San Francisco bars smoking in its parks

• Leavitt set for confirmation in US health post

• U.S. challenges tobacco executive over addiction

• Fearing bird flu, HK stocks up on drug Tamiflu

• Poor health, murders fuel Russia population crisis

• US asbestos bill debut delayed by silica issue

• Booster seats not getting used, study finds

• Economic woes accelerate Medicaid spending

• What to tell the kids? Sperm donation couples fret

• Sibling contact early in life reduces MS risk

• Spurn tobacco cash, health groups urge states

• California fights anti-abortion law

• Stem cell therapy improves heart failure

• Leaflet helps men make it to infertility clinic

• Study shows many alcoholics recover

• Cholera outbreak kills 23 in eastern Congo

• Heart-repair kids benefit from aerobic exercise

• Some Lyme disease Web sites misinform - study

• Warfarin plus painkiller ups gastric bleeding risk

• Scientists give more evidence of Vioxx heart risks

• Tobacco exec challenged about key stance in trial

• UN seeks drugs, prevention to curb AIDS in Africa

• Disease outbreak still risk in Indonesia’s Aceh - WHO

• Gates leads $1 bln cash boost for kids’ vaccines

• Asthma inhaler ‘step-down’ may be unnecessary

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