USDA mulls listing stores involved in meat recalls
• Public Health • Mar 02 05
U.S. consumers would no longer have to wonder whether their local grocery stores are selling recalled meat products under regulations being developed by…
Music has a flavour to woman who “tastes” sounds
• Alternative Medicine • Mar 02 05
Music can be a mouth-watering experience for one Swiss musician who “tastes” combinations of notes as distinct flavours, according to a report in the…
U.S. ‘bunker buster’ bomb production halted again
• Anemia • Mar 02 05
The plant that makes 2,000-pound (900 kg) “bunker buster” penetration bombs has stopped production for a second time after workers developed anemia due to…
Cow urine touted as cure-all in India
• Alternative Medicine • Mar 02 05
NEW DELHI - Alongside life-size posters of Hindu nationalist leaders, Indian political activists can now buy lotions, potions and pills to cure anything from…
US may drop anti-abortion line at UN conference
• Gender: Female • Mar 02 05
The United States signaled it may drop a demand for anti-abortion language that raised hackles at a U.N. women’s conference, but the top U.S.…
Smoking ups risk of premenopausal breast cancer
• Cancer: Breast • Mar 02 05
Both active and “passive” smoking (exposure to secondhand smoke) increase the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal but not postmenopausal women, a study of…
High levels of vitamin E cut prostate cancer risk
• Cancer: Prostate • Mar 02 05
High blood levels of the major vitamin E components, alpha- and gamma-tocopherol, seem to cut the risk of prostate cancer by about 50 percent…
School programs help kids stay fit, healthy
• Children's Health • Mar 02 05
Schools with programs that encourage kids to eat well and exercise tend to have a much healthier and fitter student body, new research hints.
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UK has one of Europe’s worst drugs problems - UN
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 02 05
Britain ranks in the top three for heroin and ecstasy abuse in Europe and has the biggest amphetamine problem in the region, a United…
Republicans to meet again on asbestos bill
• Public Health • Mar 02 05
Senate Republicans will meet again on Thursday to discuss a proposal for a $140 billion asbestos compensation fund, Sen. Arlen Specter said after a…
Drug curbs asthma flares tied to the common cold
• Asthma • Mar 02 05
Young children with occasional mild bouts of asthma triggered largely by catching the common cold may be helped by treatment with the asthma drug…
Steroid injection won’t quiet ringing in the ears
• Ear / Nose / Throat • Mar 02 05
Contrary to some previous reports, a new study suggests that people who suffer with severe, disabling ringing in the ears known as tinnitus are…
New studies point to crisis among U.S. black men
• Public Health • Mar 02 05
A batch of new studies suggesting that black males in the United States are falling ever further behind other groups in health, education…
Europeans oppose US anti-abortion push at UN meet
• Gender: Female • Mar 02 05
European countries are opposing a move by the United States to push a U.N. conference into stating that women do not have the right…
Smoking may be greater kidney risk than thought
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 02 05
The link between smoking and kidney cancer may be stronger than experts have appreciated.
Pulling together data from 24 studies conducted since the 1960s,…
Illegal drug sales booming on Internet
• Drug Abuse • Mar 02 05
Illegal drug sales on the Internet are booming as unlicensed online pharmacies selling drugs like morphine evade a patchy global effort to stop them,…
Passive smoking blamed for 10,000 UK deaths a year
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 02 05
Britain’s doctors and nurses on Wednesday redoubled demands for smoking to be outlawed in enclosed public places as a new study showed that passive…
Ancient wheat could yield celiac-friendly bread
• Bowel Problems • Mar 02 05
An analysis of ancient strains of wheat could eventually yield a bread recipe that people with celiac disease can relish.
Celiac disease is a…
Mother’s Asthma or Allergies May Increase Risk of Autism in Her Children
• Asthma • Mar 01 05
Asthma or allergies in an expectant mother may increase the likelihood that her child will exhibit symptoms of autism, according to a Kaiser Permanente…
Common Sleep Problem Can Lead to Serious Health Risk
• Heart • Mar 01 05
Twenty percent of Americans have trouble sleeping. Millions of them have a common condition called obstructive sleep apnea, a respiratory disorder marked by upper…
‘Smart Gene Therapy’Protects Against Damage from Heart Attack
• Genetics • Mar 01 05
Early intervention with a novel kind of “smart gene therapy” might effectively prevent the organ damage commonly suffered by heart attack victims, suggests a…
Food trends: Will ‘low-G’ muscle out ‘low-C’?
• Food & Nutrition • Mar 01 05
“Low-carb” is gone. So what comes next? The “low-G” trend?
U.S. food companies slow to respond to the low-carb craze would love to know…
Who’s the diet expert?
• Dieting • Mar 01 05
Good nutritional advice is important for all of us. But not every nutritionist has the hard-earned qualifications that they need
I have had a…
Exercise Tolerance is Good Screening Test for Chest Pain Patients
• Pain • Mar 01 05
Mayo Clinic researchers studying patients in the emergency department with acute chest pain report in the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings that exercise…
NFL players may be too fat, study finds
• Fat, Dietary • Mar 01 05
America’s professional football players may be bigger than life on the field but one in four is also so fat they risk weight-related…