2004

September

• Virtual colonoscopy shows promise

• Blacks more likely to develop bedsores

• Low-birthweight kids prone to poorer eyesight

• Increase gym time to combat obesity in girls

• Culture plays a role in dyslexia, scientists say

• Disaster workers have high rate of stress disorders

• Anti-calcium drug blocks cervical cancer in mice

August

• Low-dose estrogen slows bone loss

• Chronic fatigue differs from depression

• Little racial difference seen in atherosclerosis rates

• Full-body scans raise cancer risk

• Mammography-detected cancers have better prognosis

• New benefit found from blood pressure drug

• Improvements in women’s health have been mixed

• Deconditioning may help athletes with heart condition

• Death risk in breast cancer patients can vary widely

• Make exercise a family affair, experts say

• Cancer survivors’ quality of life below the norm

• Counterfeit Cialis recalled in Britain

• Cold weather snaps are bad for your heart

• Mental Marijuana

• Anti-psychotic drugs useful for severe depression

• Quick statin dose marginally helps heart patients

• Obesity linked to worse prostate cancer outcome

• Diabetes undetected in many heart patients

• Exercise may preserve immune response in older men

• Most heart attacks easily predictable

• Diabetes undetected in many heart patients

• Great outdoors may ease ADHD symptoms

• Gov’t acts on hepatitis report

• ‘Low-cost’ medical plan aims at NHS patients

• Cholera kills 40 people in first outbreak in five years

• Food Labelling Forum for Aberdeen, Scotland

• Scientists fear new Ebola outbreak may explain sudden gorilla disappearance

• Existing Drugs Considered to Treat Addiction

• HIV Scare - Health Workers Move Into Public Health Practice

• Cancer recovery rates improving

• Vioxx Heart Risk Finding Re-Ignites Debate

• Preterm birth impairs brain development

• Drugs, surgery comparable for angina in elderly

• Antibiotics no use in preventing heart attacks

• Docs grow new jawbone for cancer survivor

• Fish oil supplements lower lupus symptoms

• Heart attack on right side? Just say NO

• Got grapefruit? It may help you lose weight

• Tamiflu still choice for bird flu, pandemic - WHO

• Exercise during pregnancy keeps cholesterol down

• Lactobacillus no help for yeast infections

• C-section less likely to cause painful sex problem

• Diet guidelines stops short of urging less sugar

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