Advances May Help Preserve Fertility
• Fertility and pregnancy • Oct 18 04
Doctors are reporting two advances that may give women with cancer safer ways to preserve their ability to have children without compromising their chances…
Government official tells people to relax about flu vaccine
• Infections • Oct 18 04
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said Monday there will be enough flu vaccine available for most people who need it and…
Beslan terrorists were addicted to heroin, morphine and other softer drugs
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 18 04
The terrorists who took over a school in Beslan last month were drug addicts, says Nikolay Shepel, Deputy Prosecutor General, Russia. He said they…
Advances in stroke detection and treatment
• Neurology • Oct 18 04
A still relatively unknown diagnostic procedure available at Lakes Region General Hospital may help identify persons most at risk for one of the more…
Pfizer arthritis drug gets heart test
• Drug News • Oct 18 04
Pfizer Inc. said Monday it plans to sponsor a major clinical study to further assess the cardiovascular safety of its arthritis drug Celebrex following…
A New Culprit In Depression?
• Brain • Oct 18 04
A New Culprit In Depression? Study Finds Surprising Differences In Gene Activity In The Brains Of Depressed People
The brains of people with severe…
FDA Approves Temporary Artificial Heart
• Heart • Oct 18 04
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a partial artificial heart intended to keep people alive in the hospital while they are awaiting…
Study finds blood pressure drug halts decline in Alzheimer’s patients
• Brain • Oct 18 04
Patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease who took a specific type of blood pressure drug that penetrates the brain were stabilized in their cognitive decline…
Intranasal insulin may protect against diabetes
• Diabetes • Oct 18 04
Insulin nasal spray may prevent the development of type 1 diabetes in high risk patients, according to a new study.
Research published this month…
50,000 Sisters of Women with Breast Cancer Needed to Help Find Causes
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 18 04
A new study that will look at 50,000 sisters of women diagnosed with breast cancer opened today for enrollment across the United States. The…
REMICADE(R) Study Demonstrates Significant and Rapid Improvements in the Course of Psoriatic Arthrit
• Arthritis • Oct 18 04
Treatment with REMICADE(R) may provide significant and rapid improvements in both the arthritis and psoriasis of patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA), according…
Prevalence of Diabetes Among Hispanics, US
• Diabetes • Oct 18 04
Diabetes disproportionately affects Hispanics in the United States (1). However, the Hispanic population is composed of culturally distinct subpopulations that tend to be regionally…
Lilly antidepressant effective in treating pain - study
• Pain • Oct 18 04
Eli Lilly and Co.‘s new antidepressant Cymbalta was shown in a small clinical trial to be effective in reducing pain in women suffering from…
Heavy kids face higher cancer risk as adults
• Cancer • Oct 18 04
Children who are overweight appear to be at increased risk of cancer later in life, according to an analysis of British records.
A group…
UN urged to ignore Bush plea for human cloning ban
• Genetics • Oct 18 04
Britain’s national academy of science urged the United Nations on Monday to ignore a call by President Bush to ban all forms of human…
Airborne fungi may underlie chronic sinusitis
• Flu • Oct 18 04
Exaggerated immune responses to common airborne fungi seem to be the basic cause of chronically inflamed nasal passages and sinuses in at least some…
More than gym class, after-school sports help boys
• Children's Health • Oct 18 04
Young boys seem to reap many more fitness benefits from joining an extracurricular soccer team than from standard gym classes, new research indicates.
Spanish…
Gulf War illness may never be explained - scientist
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 18 04
Veterans of the Gulf War suffer more health problems than other members of the military but the causes of the mysterious array of…
Drinking by men or women affects miscarriage risk
• Fertility and pregnancy • Oct 18 04
Women who are thinking about becoming pregnant are usually advised to stay away from alcoholic beverages. Now, new research suggests that their partners…
Bristol-Myers arthritis drug promising in trial
• Drug News • Oct 18 04
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. said on Sunday its experimental drug for rheumatoid arthritis showed highly promising results in two late-stage clinical trials.
The drug, abatacept,…
British government criticized over smoking report
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Oct 18 04
A leading anti-smoking group accused the British government Monday of sitting on a confidential report that confirms the health dangers of passive smoking.
ASH…
How Does Obesity Cause Cancer?
• Obesity • Oct 17 04
A German physician was awarded a Nobel prize in 1931 for determining that sugar feeds cancer. Now contemporary researchers have determined some of the…
Clinical trials find no increase in heart disease risk with celecoxib
• Heart • Oct 17 04
Pharmaceutical firm Pfizer Inc. recently said that three large long-term Celecoxib studies involving more than 6,000 patients have not shown any significant safety issues…
Coca-Cola labels to include expanded nutritional information, calories
• Food & Nutrition • Oct 17 04
No more math required to figure out how many calories are in that big bottle of Coca-Cola. Revised labels will calculate it for you…
Too few use cholesterol-lowering drugs
• Dieting To Lose Weight • Oct 17 04
Perhaps no medicine today is so widely regarded as a wonder drug as the cholesterol-lowering statin. From Zocor to Lipitor to Pravachol, statins are…