2004

August

• Meloxicam leads to few stomach upsets

• Heart attack patients without support fare poorly

• Inhaled steroids don’t up kids’ fracture risk much

• Estrogen gel helps girls with chromosome disorder

• Men and women differ in risk for type 1 diabetes

• New technique saves babies with immune disorder

• Eli Lilly wins US approval for new depression drug

• Senate leader raises doubts on asbestos plan

• Female basketball players at risk for knee injury

• Migraine drugs OK in terms of stroke, heart attack

• Foot injury may be on rise in football players

• Atypical antipsychotics increasingly used in kids

• Diabetic foot ulcers linked with activity pattern

• Heart patients often stop their medication

• Low “good” cholesterol may flag breast cancer risk

• Arthritis patients stay strong after training

• US kids without insurance miss doctor visits

• U.S. OKs wrinkle-filler for HIV patients

• Study finds agreement on “ideal” nose

• Helping teens in HIV-affected families pays off

• U.S. approves two AIDS drug combinations

• Dietary neurotoxin linked with neurologic disease

• Web sites promote unproven cancer therapies-expert

• Get antioxidants from food, not pills

• ER tramadol effective for osteoarthritis pain

• Flu exposure in womb may raise schizophrenia risk

• Gender disparities in academic medicine persist

• Study shows babies born slightly early are at risk

• Vitamin E alone does not help control asthma

• Cloning experiment shows cancer reversible

• For kids, dad can buffer mom’s depression

• Many high school girls report dating violence

• Smoking during pregnancy linked to facial clefts

July

• S’pore to host congress on alternative medicine

• Acupuncture now in a pill

• Diet-only diabetes strategy not ideal

• Seizure drug helps reduce cancer pain

• Tamoxifen doesn’t alter endometrial cancer outcome

• Breast-feeding cuts genetic breast cancer risk

• At last, a plus for weight gain: healthier babies

• Benefits short-lived with arthritis lotions

• Pregnancy after heart repair may be harmful

• New pill may help recovering alcoholics stay sober

• Carpal tunnel screening not good for bottom line

• Heart enlargement appears early in type 1 diabetes

• Therapy soon after hip surgery improves mobility

• Acne bacteria genome mapped

• Chickenpox vaccination may not prevent infection

• India’s AIDS Children Shunned

• School cafeterias resist low-carb pressure

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