Preschool exercise varies, influences kids’ habits
• Children's Health • Nov 05 04
Some preschools encourage more physical activity than others, and all have a strong influence on how active students are in their daily lives,…
Overweight women may have longer labor
• Gender: Female • Nov 05 04
Women who are overweight or obese before becoming pregnant generally spend a longer time in labor than thinner women do, a new study…
Netherlands, Germany, Belgium await dioxin results
• Public Health • Nov 05 04
The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium are awaiting results of tests on whether animals and meat have been contaminated with cancer-causing dioxin after discovering it…
China’s capital installs SARS early-warning system
• Public Health • Nov 05 04
China’s capital, Beijing, has imposed an early-warning system for infectious diseases, anticipating a possible return of the SARS virus as winter sets in, the…
Lawyers to meet next week on Merck’s Vioxx - NYT
• Drug Abuse • Nov 05 04
Drugs giant Merck & Co. which pulled its blockbuster painkiller Vioxx from shelves in September, is about to become the target of hundreds of…
Efficacy of blood pressure drug questioned
• Drug News • Nov 05 04
A leading drug used by millions of people to lower blood pressure does not prevent deaths from heart attacks or other cardiovascular problems as…
Cancer center will offer state-of-the-art services
• Public Health • Nov 05 04
Sutter Health Network’s plans to rebuild, replace, and expand part of Northern California’s health-care infrastructure have come to Solano County.
Representatives from the health-care…
6,000 flu shots offered to most vulnerable North Coast residents
• Public Health • Nov 05 04
About 6,000 North Coast residents who are most vulnerable to the flu will be inoculated against the virus this weekend at five clinics stretching…
A founder of James Graham Brown Cancer Center dies
• Public Health • Nov 05 04
Joseph S. Chalfant, a founder of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, died Thursday at his home in New Albany, Ind., after a…
Elizabeth Edwards Diagnosed With Breast Cancer
• Cancer: Breast • Nov 05 04
Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards, was diagnosed with breast cancer the day her husband and Sen. John Kerry…
Cancer tests for Kerry’s wife
• Cancer: Breast • Nov 05 04
The wife of losing Democratic US Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards will undergo more tests to determine how far her breast cancer has advanced…
White physicians slower to prescribe HIV medications for African-Americans than for whites
• AIDS/HIV • Nov 05 04
A new UCLA study shows that African-American HIV patients treated by white doctors receive life-saving HIV medication less than those who have an African-American…
Heavy Passengers Weigh On Airlines’ Bottom Lines
• Obesity • Nov 05 04
America’s bulging waistlines are now weighing down the airline industry, as it takes more and more fuel to get planes in the air.
A…
Why giving girls the Pill raises teen pregnancy
• Pregnancy • Nov 05 04
Giving girls under 16 contraceptives has been shown to raise the number of underage pregnancies.
This is because the policy appears to encourage…
Scant progress seen on cutting medical errors
• Public Health • Nov 04 04
Five years after a major report describing an epidemic of medical errors in the U.S. health care system shocked patients, policy makers and physicians,…
U.S. moves to clarify rules for supplement makers
• Public Health • Nov 04 04
U.S. health officials announced steps on Thursday aimed at clarifying the way regulators police the safety and advertising claims of vitamins, herbs and other…
Researchers grow sperm stem cells from mice
• Fertility and pregnancy • Nov 04 04
U.S. researchers said on Thursday they had found sperm stem cells in mice, grown them in lab dishes and used them to father baby…
Gene linked to type 2 diabetes
• Diabetes • Nov 04 04
Variants of a gene called PTPN1 are associated with differing responses to insulin and control of blood sugar levels, according to a report in…
Dietary fatty acids may help prevent asthma
• Asthma • Nov 04 04
Increased dietary intake of omega-3 fatty acids may help prevent allergies and asthma in children, researchers have shown. Avoiding exposure to dust mites…
Abortion foes hail gains in new US Congress
• Public Health • Nov 04 04
Opponents of abortion said Thursday they expect that, led by a re-elected President George Bush, the new Congress that will be sworn in next…
High blood pressure linked to severe brain lesions
• Brain • Nov 04 04
White matter lesions in the brain that are associated with stroke and dementia are commonly seen in people with unstable blood pressure, European investigators…
Obesity, inactivity raise uterine cancer risk
• Cancer • Nov 04 04
Obesity and low physical activity are strong risk factors for endometrial cancer, a disease involving the lining of the uterus, according to a Dutch…
Drug for osteoporosis curtails knee arthritis
• Arthritis • Nov 04 04
Treatment with a drug used to combat the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis appears to reduce the occurrence of osteoarthritis-related damage in the knee, according to…
Doctors urged to push flu vaccine for seniors
• Public Health • Nov 04 04
The number of seniors vaccinated for flu and pneumococcal infections rose in most of the United States last year, but remained below the government’s…
Pfizer says Celebrex safe following newspaper report
• Arthritis • Nov 04 04
Pfizer Inc. said on Thursday its arthritis drug Celebrex was safe after a report in a Canadian newspaper linked it to 14 deaths.
The…