Eat your fruit and vegetables—get a prize
• Food & Nutrition • Dec 12 04
If a healthy heart and smaller waistline aren’t incentive enough for kids to eat healthful foods, maybe a bracelet or key chain will do…
Closer to a male ‘pill’
• Gender: Male • Dec 12 04
With promising studies and changes in social norms, safe hormonal contraception for men could soon be available.
A birth control pill for men -…
FDA Adds Warnings For Painkiller Bextra
• Drug News • Dec 12 04
The government is warning of potential heart problems associated with the use of the painkiller Bextra in people who have recently had heart bypass…
Do We Take Too Many Pills?
• Drug News • Dec 12 04
Millions of Americans have resorted to smuggling to obtain prescription drugs, CNN TV says in a three-day series titled “Over-Medicated Nation” that began November…
Celebrex Heart Risk Lower Than Vioxx
• Drug News • Dec 12 04
People in a study who took the arthritis drug rofecoxib (Vioxx) were 2.7 times as likely to have a heart attack as people who…
Study Links Children’s Asthma To Hog Farms
• Asthma • Dec 12 04
A University of Iowa study released Thursday said children living on hog farms are more likely to have asthma. The prevalence of asthma is…
Antioxidants Reduce Cancer Risk in Men
• Gender: Male • Dec 11 04
Low-dose antioxidant supplements may reduce cancer risk in men, but not in women, according to a new study.
Researchers in France conducted a study…
Yushchenko was poisoned
• Public Health • Dec 11 04
Ukrainian opposition leader and presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko’s mysterious illness was caused by dioxin poisoning, doctors said Saturday.
“There is no doubt about the…
Firms Want to Sell OTC Cholesterol Drugs
• Drug News • Dec 11 04
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. said on Friday it will ask federal regulators to allow it to sell its cholesterol-lowering medicine, Pravachol, without a prescription.
Meanwhile,…
FDA Says Heart Warning Added to Pfizer’s Bextra
• Drug News • Dec 11 04
Pfizer Inc.‘s painkiller Bextra will come with a new warning about the possibility of heart attacks and blood clots in patients who have just…
Obesity Predicts Childhood Leukemia Relapse and Survival
• Cancer • Dec 10 04
Preadolescents and teenagers with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who are overweight at diagnosis have a higher risk of leukemia relapse and poorer event-free survival.
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Health officials consider future of sex offenders in overcrowded prison
• Public Health • Dec 10 04
Earlier this week, News 10 told you about concerns over the future of 71 violent sex offenders, most of whom are pedophiles.
The…
Alzheimer’s On The Road
• Brain • Dec 10 04
It’s a degenerative disease that affects the brain of millions of elderly people. It’s estimated that there are twenty-five thousand people living with Alzheimer’s…
Sudden death in children with epilepsy usually not due to seizures
• Epilepsy • Dec 10 04
Although children with epilepsy are at moderately increased risk of mortality, the cause of death is not usually related to the occurrence of seizures,…
Anorexia consequences need vigilant monitoring
• Children's Health • Dec 10 04
Because adolescent girls with anorexia frequently develop hormonal, blood and bone density abnormalities, they require intensive clinical monitoring, according to a new report.
“Early…
Kids with epilepsy don’t usually die of seizures
• Epilepsy • Dec 10 04
Children with epilepsy have a moderately increased risk of dying early, but the cause of death is not usually related to seizures, investigators report.…
Yushchenko in Austrian hospital for tests
• Public Health • Dec 10 04
Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko checked into an Austrian hospital to undergo new tests, and doctors said they wanted to re-examine him to assess…
Botox curbs painful bladder condition
• Urine Problems • Dec 10 04
Surprisingly, Botox injections seem to reduce pain caused by a condition called interstitial cystitis, results of a small study indicated.
Botulinum toxin A, commonly…
US officials move toward drug safety independence
• Drug News • Dec 10 04
U.S. lawmakers and health officials are moving to give more independence to an office that reviews drug safety, but some experts say ensuring…
FDA warns Chiron over flu vaccine plant
• Drug News • Dec 10 04
U.S. health regulators sent a warning letter to Chiron Corp. detailing manufacturing violations at a British flu vaccine plant and demanding more information on…
Home exercise helps adults with cystic fibrosis
• Respiratory Problems • Dec 10 04
Adults with cystic fibrosis fare better when they undertake an unsupervised home exercise regimen tailored to their liking, UK researchers report in the…
Most school-aged children have imaginary friends
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Dec 10 04
Approximately 65 percent of young children befriend imaginary companions, and nearly one-third continue to play with them through age 7, new research shows.
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Gene test can predict breast cancer chemo effect
• Cancer: Breast • Dec 10 04
A genetic test for patients with early breast cancer can identify those who will be helped by chemotherapy, and for those women the benefits…
Abnormal Pap smears common in women with lupus
• Arthritis • Dec 10 04
Women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are more likely to have an abnormal Pap test result than other women, according to a new report.…
Autistic brain seen to recall letters differently
• Brain • Dec 10 04
A new brain-imaging study suggests that people with autism use different parts of the brain when remembering letters - regions normally associated with…