SARS Vaccine To Be Tested On American Volunteers
• Public Health • Dec 14 04
Federal health officials are testing an experimental vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Researchers have been studying SARS since it was first recognized in…
Crohn’s disease may respond to parasite therapy
• Bowel Problems • Dec 14 04
Crohn’s disease is common in countries where infection with intestinal parasites is rare, but uncommon in countries where it frequently occurs, Dr. Joel Weinstock…
Maryland Hospitals Fight Back Against the Flu
• Flu • Dec 14 04
Sick visitors to Washington County Hospital are being asked to don masks or stay away.
The Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury has asked…
Women with breast implants have higher suicide risk
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Dec 14 04
A new study adds to evidence that women with cosmetic breast implants have a higher rate of suicide than other women and shows, for…
RSV therapy not cost-effective for infants
• Children's Health • Dec 13 04
Treatment with Synagis (palivizumab), a type of antibody therapy, is not a cost effective way of preventing infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in…
Heart attack risk rises after stopping NSAIDs
• Heart • Dec 13 04
People who have recently stopped using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) therapy are about 50 percent more likely to experience a heart attack than nonusers,…
Alcohol acts on blood vessels to promote cancer
• Cancer • Dec 13 04
Previous reports have suggested that alcohol use helps cancers grow and now, new research offers a possible explanation for this phenomenon.
Rather than affecting…
Ads for body-imaging health screens may mislead
• Public Health • Dec 13 04
Many newspaper ads and brochures touting high-tech body imaging to screen for cancer and other ills may mislead consumers about the technology’s benefits and…
Anger or startling event may trigger stroke
• Neurology • Dec 13 04
Negative emotions and anger, as well as sudden changes in body position in response to a startling event, appear to be factors that can…
Mental distress linked with asthma flares
• Asthma • Dec 13 04
Frequent mental distress is relatively common among adults with asthma and is associated with unhealthy behaviors that raise the risk of disease flare-ups, a…
Heart attack deaths spike over the holidays
• Heart • Dec 13 04
Death rates from heart disease, as well as deaths from all other causes, are more common around Christmas and New Year’s Day than other…
Vitamin E may stave off Lou Gehrig’s disease
• Neurology • Dec 13 04
In a new study, regular users of vitamin E were at decreased risk for death from Lou Gehrig’s disease, also called amyotrophic lateral…
Stroke risk greater for migraine sufferers—study
• Migraine • Dec 13 04
Migraine sufferers are twice as likely to have a stroke as people who do not have these debilitating headaches, Canadian and American scientists…
Christmas parties can damage your health
• Public Health • Dec 13 04
Don’t dance on tables at the office Christmas party and resist the temptation to photocopy body parts in a drunken attempt to amuse…
U.S. government starts test of SARS vaccine
• Public Health • Dec 13 04
The first U.S. vaccine against SARS, which swept parts of Asia and around the world in 2003, is ready to be tested in human…
Some kids may have autism risk from mercury—group
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Dec 13 04
Some children may have an inherited weakness that may predispose them to develop autism when exposed to mercury from fish or other sources, an…
Medicare aims to cut errors in half by 2008
• Public Health • Dec 13 04
Steps aimed at cutting Medicare fraud and payment errors in half over the next four years were announced by U.S. health officials on Monday.
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Simple smelling test detects Alzheimer’s risk
• Neurology • Dec 13 04
People who have mild memory problems but who can correctly identify the source of certain smells are probably not in the first stages…
Antismoking laws curb smoking and lung cancer
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Dec 13 04
A 1970s law in Finland that restricted smoking in public places and banned tobacco advertising appears to have helped curb the country’s smoking habit…
Abbott Introduces Prostate Cancer Tests For Both Architect
• Cancer: Prostate • Dec 13 04
Free PSA And Total PSA Tests Measure Levels Of Prostate-Specific Antigen And Aid In The Early Detection Of Prostate Cancer And Other Prostate Diseases…
Hepatitis B vaccine
• Infections • Dec 13 04
Its murky status under state law shouldn’t obscure the value of being vaccinated.
Because of a strange convolution in state law, schools face the…
Researchers Discover New Gene in Colon Cancer
• Cancer • Dec 13 04
Cancer researchers at the Case Western Reserve University (Case) School of Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland (UHC) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have…
Diabetes vaccine to be tested on humans
• Diabetes • Dec 13 04
A vaccine against the most serious type of diabetes will be tested on humans for the first time next year, UK scientists said today.
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Mice study opens door to psoriasis treatment
• Skin Care • Dec 13 04
Researchers said on Sunday they may have discovered what causes psoriasis, a common and irritating skin ailment, and said their findings may open the…
Does Chocolate Qualify as a Health Food?
• Food & Nutrition • Dec 12 04
It’s the news we’ve all been waiting for - chocolate is a healthy snack. Or so one candy company says.
This holiday season, Bissinger’s…