High blood pressure in pregnancy ups heart risk
• Pregnancy • Mar 28 05
Women who develop high blood pressure during pregnancy appear to be at increased risk for death from Heart disease years later, according…
Diet counseling benefits colorectal cancer patients
• Cancer • Mar 28 05
In Colorectal cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy, individualized nutritional counseling promotes better nutrition and less weight loss, leading to a marked reduction in the severity…
Most cancer survivors able to stay on the job
• Cancer • Mar 28 05
Most working-age cancer survivors fare well enough to remain at their jobs in the first few years after treatment, according to a new study.
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S. Korea ready to help North contain bird flu
• Flu • Mar 28 05
South Korea can offer medicine and technology to help North Korea contain its bird flu outbreak, government officials said on Monday, and a local…
New compound may prevent allergies
• Allergies • Mar 28 05
A new chemical compound, partially derived from cats and partially derived from humans, may provide an end to cat allergies, U.S.…
Australians surgeons reattach boy’s foot, hands
• Surgery • Mar 28 05
An operation to simultaneously reattach an Australian boy’s foot and both his hands after a freak basketball accident was a success with the boy’s…
Kidney Victim Toll Rises in Fla
• Urine Problems • Mar 26 05
Florida health investigators are still trying to determine the common activity at two recent state fairs that connects more than a dozen people, mostly…
Ebola-Like Virus Deaths Climb in Angola
• Public Health • Mar 26 05
The death toll from an Ebola-like virus in Angola rose to 119 on Saturday, with two deaths reported in the capitol…
Pope, in Silence, Celebrates Good Friday
• Public Health • Mar 26 05
A silent and apparently very sick Pope John Paul II joined thousands at a Good Friday service via a live video link from his…
US advises firms on better drug safety monitoring
• Drug News • Mar 25 05
U.S. health officials gave drug companies suggestions on Thursday on ways to improve safety evaluations of medicines during early-stage development and after they are…
Chickenpox killed eight in U.S. in 2003-2004 - CDC
• Children's Health • Mar 25 05
Chickenpox killed at least eight adults and children in the United States in 2003 and 2004 combined, despite the availability of a…
U.S. drug trials proposal unethical, critics say
• Public Health • Mar 25 05
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is flouting ethical practice by proposing that international guidelines protecting patients need not apply to clinical trials conducted…
Eating eggs okay for the healthy heart
• Dieting • Mar 25 05
In healthy adults, consuming two eggs daily for 6 weeks does not have a harmful effect on endothelial function - an aggregate measure of…
More preemies surviving due to advanced therapies
• Pregnancy • Mar 25 05
A new study shows improved survival among infants born extremely early (before 25 weeks), thanks in part to more consistent application of some…
Exercise beneficial for knee arthritis
• Arthritis • Mar 25 05
Both aerobic walking and quadriceps strengthening exercises are equally effective at reducing pain and disability associated with Osteoarthritis of the knee, according…
Medicare may be harder to fix than Social Security
• Public Health • Mar 25 05
The U.S. Medicare system, which provides health care to the elderly, faces more serious shortfalls in coming years than Social Security does, and its…
Pneumonia vax curbs death in African infants
• Public Health • Mar 25 05
A vaccine against pneumonia has proven to be very effective in reducing hospitalizations and death among infants in a rural African setting,…
U.S. group calls for safer asthma drug compounds
• Drug News • Mar 25 05
U.S. regulators need to do more to protect asthma patients from inhaled medicines created by pharmacists from bulk ingredients, a consumer advocacy group said…
Six diseases cause 73 percent of child deaths - WHO
• Public Health • Mar 25 05
Six mainly preventable diseases account for 73 percent of child deaths each year, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.
Pneumonia accounts…
Abbott Says Withdrawing Attention Deficit Drug
• Drug News • Mar 25 05
Abbott Laboratories Inc. said Thursday it was halting sales of a 30-year-old attention deficit drug that a consumer group complained was too dangerous to…
China shuts down blood dealers to curb AIDS spread
• AIDS/HIV • Mar 25 05
China’s health ministry has closed 147 illegal blood collection agencies and arrested dozens of people since last May to prevent the spread of the…
Death toll from killer virus in Angola rises to 114
• Public Health • Mar 25 05
A total of 114 people in Angola, including an Italian doctor, have died in a rare Marburg epidemic, and health officials said on Friday…
Silica dust linked to esophagus cancer
• Cancer • Mar 25 05
Research in China provides further evidence that exposure to silica dust raises the risk of cancer of the esophagus, the organ that…
Pentagon offers new health benefits to reservists
• Public Health • Mar 25 05
The Pentagon said on Thursday that National Guard and Reserve troops ordered to active duty since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks will be…
Drug curbs chronic constipation
• Bowel Problems • Mar 25 05
The drug zelnorm (tegaserod) is an effective, well-tolerated treatment for chronic constipation, according to findings from a large multinational trial.