2004

November

• Preschool exercise varies, influences kids’ habits

• Overweight women may have longer labor

• Netherlands, Germany, Belgium await dioxin results

• China’s capital installs SARS early-warning system

• Lawyers to meet next week on Merck’s Vioxx - NYT

• Efficacy of blood pressure drug questioned

• Cancer center will offer state-of-the-art services

• 6,000 flu shots offered to most vulnerable North Coast residents

• A founder of James Graham Brown Cancer Center dies

• Elizabeth Edwards Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

• Cancer tests for Kerry’s wife

• White physicians slower to prescribe HIV medications for African-Americans than for whites

• Heavy Passengers Weigh On Airlines’ Bottom Lines

• Why giving girls the Pill raises teen pregnancy

• Scant progress seen on cutting medical errors

• U.S. moves to clarify rules for supplement makers

• Researchers grow sperm stem cells from mice

• Gene linked to type 2 diabetes

• Dietary fatty acids may help prevent asthma

• Abortion foes hail gains in new US Congress

• High blood pressure linked to severe brain lesions

• Obesity, inactivity raise uterine cancer risk

• Drug for osteoporosis curtails knee arthritis

• Doctors urged to push flu vaccine for seniors

• Pfizer says Celebrex safe following newspaper report

• Better than Botox? New York women try acupuncture

• Obesity surgery data on elderly scarce, panel says

• Before You Have A Hysterectomy

• Am I Pregnant? Pregnancy testing

• Suppository reduces pain from childbirth damage

• Painkiller use in pregnancy tied to schizophrenia

• A jog in the pool may spare sore joints

• White bread, starch increases diabetes risk

• UK Christmas idea—plastic surgery gift vouchers

• IBM says it’s encouraged by health study it commissioned

• “Gene gun” vaccine prevents allergy in mice

• Reduced-dose flu shot method seems protective

• Mass antibiotic treatment may wipe out trachoma

• Pot of ancient Roman cosmetic cream found UK

• Drug may prevent heart disease in diabetics

• Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

• One-sided brain stimulation improves Parkinson’s

• Arthritic joints stand up to intensive exercise

• Checking foot temperature may curb diabetic sores

• Many older adults drink too much

• Medicare boosts payments for doctors, hospitals

• Reading lessons may change adult dyslexics’ brains

• FDA delays response to prescription drug lawsuit

• Drug Therapy Delayed for Blacks With HIV

• Home monitors underestimate kids’ blood pressure

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