Report says people smuggling on increase in Europe
• Public Health • Mar 31 05
Human trafficking for the sex trade and cheap labour is on the increase in Europe but is less visible because it is going deeper…
‘Baby talk’ may help infants learn language
• Children's Health • Mar 31 05
That special tone of voice adults use with babies may be an important part of how infants learn language, a new study suggests.
Lenient parents tied to teenage ecstasy use: study
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 31 05
Teenagers are more likely to experiment with the ecstasy drug if they have grown up with lenient, indulgent parents, according to a study on…
Requested sterilization often not performed
• Fertility and pregnancy • Mar 31 05
Only about half of pregnant women who express a desire for sterilization following delivery actually undergo the procedure, according to a report in the…
Terri Schiavo dies in Florida hospice
• Public Health • Mar 31 05
Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman at the heart of a wrenching dispute over her fate that drew in the U.S. Congress and President…
AIDS kills some 2,880 Tanzania teachers annually
• AIDS/HIV • Mar 31 05
Tanzania is losing an average of 2,880 school teachers to HIV/AIDS every year because of lack of condoms and life-prolonging drugs, the…
Angola’s Marburg death toll climbs to 126
• Infections • Mar 31 05
Angola’s killer Marburg epidemic has claimed nine more victims this week bringing the death toll to 126, the country’s health ministry and World Health…
Peru’s Doe Run smelter poisoning children: NGOs
• Public Health • Mar 31 05
Almost all young children in Peru’s La Oroya mining town have harmful levels of lead in their blood and many are suffering from
Idaho couple can’t sue for wrongful birth: court
• Public Health • Mar 31 05
An Idaho couple whose child was born with severe defects and later died cannot sue their doctors for a “wrongful birth,” the state’s top…
Conjoined Singapore twins may have risky surgery
• Surgery • Mar 31 05
Doctors in Singapore may separate one-year-old Indonesian twin girls conjoined at the waist but are weighing whether the risks are too great.
Australian scientists find arthritis-causing enzyme
• Arthritis • Mar 31 05
Australian scientists have identified an enzyme that destroys cartilage in mice and believe the find may lead to new drugs that stop cartilage joint…
Rare gay male sex disease enters Britain: report
• Infections • Mar 31 05
A rare disease found in gay men in the Netherlands two years ago, and since reported in France, Sweden, Belgium, Germany and the…
Viagra may cause vision loss
• Eye / Vision Problems • Mar 31 05
In a new study, US researchers describe seven patients who developed nonarteritic ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), an eye problem that can result in permanent…
Insomnia common in depressed HIV patients
• Depression • Mar 31 05
HIV-infected patients who also have depression are more likely to have sleeping problems, which may add to the burden of…
Donor age no long-term effect on transplant survival
• Surgery • Mar 31 05
In patients who undergo liver transplantation because of Hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related Cirrhosis, donor age is inversely related to…
Mexico culls chickens with bird flu in the north
• Emergencies / First Aid • Mar 31 05
Mexico slaughtered chickens on farms in Northern Mexico this month and put a million more in quarantine after discovering low-pathogenic cases bird flu, a…
Plasticized fetus stolen from ‘Body World’ exhibit
• Public Health • Mar 31 05
Police in Los Angeles were searching on Wednesday for two women observed via security cameras taking a plastic-coated human fetus from the traveling “Body…
Germany plans law to speed diesel filter adoption
• Public Health • Mar 31 05
Germany’s government promised on Wednesday to present draft legislation before the summer to speed the introduction of diesel engine particle filters after air pollution…
Physicians often reluctant to discuss drug costs
• Public Health • Mar 31 05
Even though physicians are aware that the cost of medications can be a problem for their patients, being rushed for time and fear of…
Combination therapy effective for neurological pain
• Pain • Mar 31 05
Combined treatment with morphine and gabapentin is more effective at lower doses than either agent alone at controlling neurological pain, according to a report…
Half of all US cancer deaths preventable: report
• Cancer • Mar 31 05
More than 60 percent of all cancer deaths could be prevented if Americans stopped Smoking, exercised more, ate healthier food and underwent recommended cancer…
Human damage to earth worsening fast: report
• Public Health • Mar 31 05
Humans are damaging the planet at an unprecedented rate and raising risks of abrupt collapses in nature that could spur disease, deforestation or “dead…
U.S. child obesity dragging down health gains
• Obesity • Mar 30 05
Child Obesity has more than tripled in three decades and the increased health risk associated with being fat has wiped out progress in other…
Oregon moves to limit junk food in schools
• Public Health • Mar 30 05
Oregon’s state legislature is considering putting limits on sales of soda pop, candy and other junk food in public schools, saying that such food…
Some free medicine programs too complex: survey
• Public Health • Mar 30 05
Drug company programs that offer free medicines to the poor are too time-consuming and complex for some health clinics that serve mostly low-income patients,…