Stroke patients benefit from early home rehab
• Neurology • Feb 16 05
People who are mildly to moderately impaired after a stroke do better when they are sent home early from the hospital, with support…
Kids with diabetes often have impaired hearing
• Children's Health • Feb 16 05
Hearing loss occurs early during the course of uncontrolled type 1 diabetes in children, researchers report. They say diabetic damage to nerves or blood…
Group asks US FDA for ibuprofen warnings
• Drug Abuse • Feb 16 05
A group of physicians and families called on US regulators Tuesday to warn the public about a rare but potentially fatal set of skin…
Vietnam says bird flu subsiding, no new human cases
• Flu • Feb 16 05
Vietnam’s latest bird flu epidemic, which has killed 13 people in a little more than a month, is showing sign of subsiding and no…
Other Vioxx-like drugs also risky for heart
• Drug Abuse • Feb 16 05
Evidence is accumulating that the heart attack and stroke risks linked to the pain reliever Vioxx (rofecoxib) are not confined to this drug but…
Study: The Pill changes women’s taste in men
• Gender: Female • Feb 16 05
Scientists reported on Wednesday a remarkable new side effect of the Pill - it changes women’s preference in men.
Psychologists at the University…
Sunlight lowers need for painkillers after surgery
• Pain • Feb 16 05
Increasing the amount of sunlight in a patient’s hospital room reduces their “perception of pain and their need for analgesic medication,” according to…
Disease, cold kill over 100 Afghans, officials say
• Public Health • Feb 16 05
Cold weather and an outbreak of whooping cough have killed nearly 130 people, most of them children, in central and western Afghanistan in…
Rasagiline improves movement in Parkinson’s
• Drug News • Feb 16 05
A new drug called rasagiline reduces fluctuations in the control of movement by people with Parkinson’s disease who are being treated with…
S. Africa scraps race as risk factor in donated blood
• Public Health • Feb 16 05
The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) said on Tuesday it was scrapping its controversial use of race as a risk factor when assessing…
Coffee may reduce risk of liver cancer
• Cancer • Feb 16 05
Habitual coffee drinking seems to be associated with a lower risk of developing liver cancer, according to a study conducted in Japan and reported…
Twin U.S. doctors accused of switching IDs
• Public Health • Feb 16 05
An attorney has filed the latest in a series of civil lawsuits against twin physician brothers, accusing them of impersonating one another and sexually…
Sudden rises in HIV levels no concern, report says
• AIDS/HIV • Feb 16 05
Sudden jumps of HIV levels in patients taking drugs for the AIDS-causing infection are harmless blips and do not mean the treatment against the…
Online info influences teen drug use
• Drug Abuse • Feb 16 05
Adolescents use information on the Internet to tailor their drug use, sometimes with the aim of minimizing risk but often to extend their experimentation,…
New test could improve bladder cancer detection
• Cancer • Feb 16 05
Bladder cancer could be more readily spotted - and therefore cured - with a new urine assay that provides same-day results, according to a…
Air pollution damages babies in womb - study
• Children's Health • Feb 16 05
Babies’ DNA can be damaged even before they are born if their mothers breathe polluted air, according to a study published on Tuesday.
“This…
Study may mark advance in diabetes transplant care
• Diabetes • Feb 16 05
Doctors were able to eliminate the need for insulin injections in diabetic women for a year or more by simplifying the technique of…
Quit smoking and live longer, study confirms
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 16 05
U.S. and Canadian researchers have shown that middle-aged people who were helped to quit smoking for good were less likely to die over the…
S. Africa AIDS activists step up pressure on gov’t
• AIDS/HIV • Feb 16 05
Thousands of South African AIDS activists marched on parliament on Wednesday, vowing to step up their campaign for free HIV drugs in the country…
New organs could come from pig embryos - study
• Public Health • Feb 16 05
Pig embryos could provide sources of new organ and tissue transplants for people, and they may pose fewer risks than using material from adult…
Low thyroid activity may lower breast cancer risk
• Cancer: Breast • Feb 16 05
A new study indicates that women with abnormally low thyroid function - a condition known as hypothyroidism - seem to be protected to…
Vietnam’s largest city orders mass kill of poultry
• Infections • Feb 16 05
Ho Chi Minh City has ordered the slaughter of all poultry in hopes of stamping out the deadly bird flu virus that has killed…
German clinic discovers organ donor had rabies
• Public Health • Feb 16 05
A donor whose organs were used in transplants by six German hospitals had probably contracted rabies before dying, one of the hospitals said on…
Senators try to forge bipartisan U.S. asbestos bill
• Public Health • Feb 16 05
Senators are trying to jump-start stalled efforts on asbestos legislation by forging a bipartisan plan from proposals by Republican Sen. Arlen Specter and Democrat…
Herbal extract shows promise for diabetes
• Diabetes • Feb 16 05
An herb long used in traditional Indian medicine appears to control the rise in blood sugar that follows a meal - suggesting, researchers say,…