Paris anger at moves on wine adverts
• Public Health • Oct 17 04
A French government minister has denounced a parliamentary move to loosen the law restricting alcohol advertising, saying it could undermine efforts to combat alcoholism…
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 17 04
According to the Philippine Cancer Society, Inc. (PCSI), breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death among women in the Philippines today.…
Walk it off
• Fat, Dietary • Oct 16 04
A year ago, Dr. James Hill took a deliberate step to change fat America: Every day, he declared, people should walk a little more…
Drugs must have warnings on suicide
• Drug News • Oct 16 04
The federal government on Friday ordered that all antidepressant drugs be sold with a prominent “black-box” to warn doctors that the medications increase the…
New Hope in the Fight Against Breast Cancer
• Cancer: Breast • Oct 16 04
Mammograms have become a rite of passage for 40-year-old American women, and a compulsory exercise for those over 40.
But as rote as those…
Brain injuries and depression
• Depression • Oct 16 04
The soft tissue sloshing around our skulls dictates more than intellectual capacity, brain experts say.
Amrik Singh, who killed himself and his wife in…
What is Asthma?
• Asthma • Oct 16 04
Asthma is a long-lasting (chronic) disease of the lungs and airways (bronchi) that affects 5 people in every 100. In children, this figure is…
Cholesterol meds highlight conflict of interest debate in medicine
• Drug News • Oct 16 04
They led influential medical groups, starred at prestigious meetings, published in top journals and were undisputed giants in their field.
But when these…
Very small mice are bad mothers
• Gender: Female • Oct 16 04
Female mice that are abnormally small due to gene “knockout” technology are also bad mothers whose poor parenting skills cause their young to die…
You can be an asthmatic without actually suffering from asthma
• Asthma • Oct 16 04
3,500,000 UK people with mild to moderate asthma currently suffer daily or weekly symptoms and are vulnerable to potentially life-threatening asthma attacks.1 But a…
FDA Says None of Chiron Influenza Vaccine Safe for Use
• Drug News • Oct 16 04
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that none of the influenza vaccine made by Chiron Corp. (CHIR) is safe for use.
…
Loss of Libido
• Libido • Oct 16 04
One of the most common myths about sexuality is that people, especially men, are always ready and looking for sex; the reality is far…
The first and only fusion inhibitor for the treatment of HIV
• Drug News • Oct 16 04
Roche and Trimeris, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has granted traditional approval to FUZEON(R)
(enfuvirtide), the…
Is it Menopause?
• Menopause • Oct 16 04
In the midst and even in the aftermath of treatment for breast cancer, it may be difficult to tell whether you have gone into…
Menopause and Breast Cancer Therapy
• Menopause • Oct 16 04
Certain chemotherapies can force the ovaries into retirement within a few months of treatment: This is medical menopause. Fifty percent of women younger than…
Baby euthanasia stirs heated debate
• Children's Health • Oct 16 04
Four times in recent months, Dutch doctors have administered lethal doses of drugs to newborns they believe are terminally ill, setting off a new…
U-M hospital improves care for asthmatic kids
• Asthma • Oct 16 04
A team of physicians from the University of Michigan’s C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, says comparing their treatment of asthma patients…
Implant for migraine headaches is tested
• Headaches • Oct 16 04
Chronic migraine sufferers may be able to zap their pain away one day.
Medtronic Inc. said the first test patient has been implanted with…
Urinary incontinence can run in the family
• Urine Problems • Oct 15 04
The risk of urinary incontinence appears to be one of the things mothers can pass on to their daughters, according to new findings released…
Arthritis drug lumiracoxib has low ulcer risk
• Arthritis • Oct 15 04
Compared with ibuprofen, the use of the lumiracoxib by patients with osteoarthritis is associated with a lower risk of gastric ulcers. The risk is…
Singapore hit by rare Cholera outbreak
• Infections • Oct 15 04
Singapore was investigating on Friday a rare cluster of cholera cases after eight people contracted the illness in the eastern part of the city-state.
…
Support group may help women with “cancer genes”
• Cancer • Oct 15 04
Professionally led support groups may ease anxiety and depression in women who carry gene mutations linked to breast and ovarian cancers, a new…
Study confirms ephedrine diet supplements can kill
• Dieting • Oct 15 04
A study in dogs confirms that ephedrine weight loss supplements can kill, U.S. researchers said on Thursday, supporting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s…
Human lie detectors almost never miss, study finds
• Psychiatry / Psychology • Oct 15 04
As he lies, the young man shrugs, flutters his eyelids and shakes his head. Another, on a witness stand, grimaces for a millisecond as…
Prostate drug might cut cancer risk
• Cancer: Prostate • Oct 15 04
Men who take Avodart (dutasteride) to treat an enlarged prostate apparently have a reduced risk for developing prostate cancer, a new study indicates.
Avodart…