New York warns of fast, resistant strain of HIV
• AIDS/HIV • Feb 14 05
One day after the discovery of a drug-resistant, fast-developing AIDS case in New York prompted city health officials to announce an alert, leading experts…
How to decrease your risk for cervical cancer
• Cancer • Feb 14 05
Are you getting appropriate cervical cancer screening? Dr. Judith Reichman explains simple tests that can aid prevention
Last year, 10,000 women in the United…
Editorial: Slowing Alzheimer’s
• Neurology • Feb 14 05
Frank Broyles came home from his job as University of Arkansas athletic director one day to find his wife, Barbara, crying.
“She tried to…
Underactive Thyroid Cuts Breast Cancer Risk
• Cancer: Breast • Feb 14 05
Women with an underactive thyroid are less likely to develop breast cancer. For those that do get breast cancer, their chances are better that…
Scientists Trying To Find Source Of Possible HIV Strain
• AIDS/HIV • Feb 14 05
AIDS scientists are studying viruses isolated from two people to find out if either of them are the source of a possibly more aggressive,…
WHO recommends influenza vaccine composition for N Hemisphere 2005-2006 influenza season
• Public Health • Feb 14 05
Each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Influenza Programme convenes meetings to analyse the global data on circulating influenza virus strains and make…
Cancer Patient Who Killed Self May Have Missed All-Clear Letter
• Cancer • Feb 14 05
British officials say a cancer patient who hanged himself may not have received a letter sent by doctors, saying he was clear of…
Science finds genetic link to origin of love
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Feb 14 05
Is there a reason we fall in love with certain people? Does science have anything to do with love? One UConn student proposed a…
Women and heart attacks
• Heart • Feb 14 05
Heart disease remains the number one cause of death in this country, among men and women. But the symptoms of a heart attack are…
Mental Health Charity Calls for Cannabis Probe
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 13 05
A British health charity called on Saturday for an investigation into evidence that smoking cannabis may cause psychosis in people at risk of mental…
NYC health authorities find rare drug-resistant form of HIV
• AIDS/HIV • Feb 12 05
City health officials are working to track down sex partners of a man diagnosed with a rare strain of highly drug-resistant HIV that progressed…
Iowa’s DHS Says It Will Guard Mental Health Records
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Feb 12 05
The Department of Human Services said it will tightly guard personal information on thousands of mental health patients.
The agency wants to collect names,…
Rare, drug-resistant HIV strain diagnosed in New York
• Drug News • Feb 12 05
A rare, highly virulent and drug-resistant strain of the HIV virus that leads to AIDS has been detected in a New York City man,…
Flu season may be peaking
• Public Health • Feb 12 05
Michigan officials report widespread cases of illness.
The flu season may be peaking in Michigan.
State health officials Friday reported “widespread” flu activity,…
Meningitis Drug Shortages Possible
• Drug News • Feb 12 05
Health officials are bracing for the possibility of shortages of a new shot that prevents the type of meningitis that often spreads on college…
Good news, bad news on teen vaccine
• Infections • Feb 12 05
New shot is better at stopping meningitis, but shortages are expected until factory gears up.
Health officials are bracing for the possibility of shortages…
Senator Says FDA Trying to Suppress Study on Painkillers
• Drug News • Feb 12 05
With the Food and Drug Administration set to hold hearings next week on the safety of popular painkillers like Bextra and Celebrex, a U.S.…
New ‘HIV’ strain found
• AIDS/HIV • Feb 12 05
A new strain of highly drug-resistant HIV that leads to the rapid onset of Aids has been detected in a New York man, it…
People can change some stroke risk factors
• Neurology • Feb 12 05
High blood pressure is a big risk factor for stroke, but people with normal blood pressure can have a stroke. In a new…
Vets to get cancer care in Indy
• Cancer • Feb 12 05
Regional official says treatment there costs less, but there’s no system to decide who will be referred.
Some local veterans with cancer who would…
A New Twist On HIV/AIDS Research
• AIDS/HIV • Feb 12 05
Since Dean’s World has become the Internet’s hub for detailed discussion of HIV and AIDS we offer for your always-lively and candid discussion this…
Survey finds pain common in children and teenagers
• Pain • Feb 11 05
Most children and adolescents commonly experience pain, such as headache or gastric discomfort, which often restricts activities of daily living, according to a study…
Mortality not higher for most with prostate cancer
• Cancer: Prostate • Feb 11 05
The mortality rates for most men diagnosed with prostate cancer in the United States are no higher than those in the general population, a…
Vitamin D, calcium OK for Crohn’s-related bone loss
• Bowel Problems • Feb 11 05
Adding etidronate to calcium and vitamin D therapy is not necessary in the treatment of bone loss in patients with Crohn’s Disease, results…
Bush vows veto of any tampering with Medicare plan
• Public Health • Feb 11 05
President George W. Bush warned Congress on Friday he would veto any legislation that would take away prescription drug coverage for senior citizens, a…