U.S. dietary guidelines get personal
• Dieting To Lose Weight • Apr 19 05
The US Department of Agriculture today presented its new guidelines that for the first time advise consumers to personalize their diet and exercise, geared…
Osteoporosis drug may reduce mental decline risk
• Gender: Female • Apr 19 05
Postmenopausal women taking the drug Evista to prevent and treat the bone-thinning disease Osteoporosis may also reduce their risk of mild cognitive impairment and…
Rheumatoid arthritis drugs may up lymphoma risk
• Cancer • Apr 19 05
Taking “TNF blockers,” such as Remicade and Enbrel, to treat Rheumatoid Arthritis does not increase the overall cancer risk, but the drugs may heighten…
Diet, exercise best for preventing pre-diabetes
• Diabetes • Apr 19 05
Lifestyle changes are more effective than drug treatment in preventing metabolic syndrome, the cluster of disorders that can lead to diabetes and Heart disease,…
Post-Attack Vaccine Plus Antibiotics Best Against Anthrax Release
• Public Health • Apr 19 05
A combination of immunization plus antibiotics is the most cost-effective way to treat people who may have been exposed to Anthrax during…
Bird Flu and SARS: Are You Prepared For The Next Pandemic?
• Public Health • Apr 19 05
The warnings for this flu season are ominous. Although it has been mild so far, we are being told to prepare, for the worst…
Government Issues 12 New Food Pyramids
• Public Health • Apr 19 05
Concerned about steadily expanding waistlines, the government flipped the food pyramid on its side, adding a staircase for exercise and giving consumers 12 individually-tailored…
Kids with blood in urine should be closely watched
• Children's Health • Apr 19 05
It’s relatively common to discover that children sometimes have blood in their urine, either visible to the unaided eye or under a…
Many seniors won’t take prescribed drugs -study
• Public Health • Apr 19 05
Up to 40 percent of U.S. seniors do not take all their prescription drugs, either because of the cost or because they do not…
U.S. drug case against Towson doctor to start
• Public Health • Apr 18 05
An ordinary diet doctor or an illegal drug dealer?
That question should take center stage in federal court today when a once-prominent Towson…
Heart experts target childhood obesity
• Obesity • Apr 18 05
The dire health effects associated with the ballooning waistlines of children and adolescents in the United States have prompted the American Heart Association to…
New stents as effective for women as men
• Heart • Apr 18 05
The benefits of the TAXUS coronary artery stent, which slowly releases a drug to prevent re-clogging of the artery, appear to apply to women…
Aldara cream remedies skin damage from sun
• Skin Care • Apr 18 05
A particular type of skin lesion called actinic keratosis, caused by long-term exposure to the sun, responds well to thrice-weekly application of…
Deadlier form of cancer found in black women
• Cancer: Breast • Apr 18 05
Women of African descent are more likely than whites to suffer an earlier and more virulent form of breast cancer, and…
Study finds ear tube surgery safe for youngsters
• Ear / Nose / Throat • Apr 18 05
Children with ear infections so severe that tubes have to be inserted in their ears early in life hear as well as…
Statins lower advanced prostate cancer risk
• Cancer: Prostate • Apr 18 05
Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins may slash a man’s risk of advanced Prostate cancer, according to research presented Monday.
A study that…
New partnership needed for child cancer - report
• Cancer • Apr 18 05
The National Cancer Institute should work more closely with drug companies to help them find new and better drugs to treat childhood cancer, a…
Traditional medicine derivatives kill cancer cells
• Chinese Medicine • Apr 18 05
Compounds derived from indirubin, a component of a Chinese herbal medicine, can cause human cancer cells to self-destruct, researchers have shown.
A traditional Chinese…
Painkillers protect against oral cancer in smokers
• Cancer • Apr 18 05
A class of painkillers - nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDs - cuts the risk Oral cancer in active, moderate cigarette
Top court to hear US appeal on hallucinogenic tea
• Public Health • Apr 18 05
The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether the federal government must allow the U.S. branch of a Brazilian-based religion to…
More US college students drinking and driving
• Public Health • Apr 18 05
The number of US college students who drive while intoxicated has risen to 2.8 million, new study findings indicate.
In addition, the number of…
Most IVF parents plan to tell kids: survey
• Fertility and pregnancy • Apr 18 05
The majority of parents who conceived through assisted reproduction plan to tell their children about their conception, but they’re often uncertain how to go…
Long-term Strattera seen OK for adults with ADHD
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Apr 18 05
The non-stimulant treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Strattera, is safe and effective when taken long-term by adults with the condition, according to interim…
Treadmill test for heart disease iffy for women
• Heart • Apr 18 05
Exercise treadmill testing is not a very accurate method of detecting clogged coronary arteries in women, new research suggests, even when a specially designed…
WHO: Last killer flu lab samples seen destroyed soon
• Public Health • Apr 18 05
All laboratories that received a killer flu bug in test kits have destroyed the virus, except for a few in the United States where…