U.S. uninsured health care cost put at $125 billion
• Public Health • May 27 04
The cost of providing health care for U.S. citizens who have no insurance will total $125 billion this year, with taxpayers and private entities…
Survey: U.S. children not wearing bike helmets
• Children's Health • May 27 04
Fewer than half of all U.S. children wear helmets while biking, skating and riding scooters, a survey by safety researchers said on Tuesday.
Many…
Impotence drug could offer long-term help -study
• Fertility and pregnancy • May 27 04
Anti-impotence drugs could offer long-term help to some men who have had prostate surgery or who otherwise lose their sexual potency, researchers reported on…
AIDS-related skin cancer down sharply, study finds
• Cancer • May 27 04
The number of HIV patients with Kaposi sarcoma, a once-rare cancer that became a marker for AIDS in the early days of the epidemic,…
U.N.: AIDS poses ‘unique threat to human society’
• AIDS/HIV • May 27 04
The world is not ready for the full social and economic impact of AIDS, which has killed more than 20 million people in the…
Mexico rushes out measles vaccines to curb outbreak
• Infections • May 27 04
Mexico said on Monday it was rushing measles vaccinations to 16.5 million people across the country after an outbreak of the disease among adults…
Latina moms may see heavy kids as healthy kids
• Childbirth • May 27 04
When it comes to signs of a healthy child, low-income Hispanic-American mothers may put more stock in a bright smile than a slim…
Stroke survivors have a high risk of dementia
• Psychiatry / Psychology • May 27 04
The results of a study published in the journal Stroke suggest that patients who have suffered a stroke have twice the risk of dementia…
Mass smallpox vaccination not needed: report
• Infections • May 27 04
Mass vaccination may not be necessary to contain smallpox in the event of a biowarfare attack, scientists said on Wednesday.
Instead, they suggested that…
Study: 6.7 percent of S. African children have HIV
• AIDS/HIV • May 27 04
Nearly 7 percent of South African children between 2 and 9 years old are infected with HIV, a survey said Wednesday, offering grim new…
Fast-food breakfast may inflame blood vessels
• Food & Nutrition • May 27 04
Downing a big fast-food breakfast may spur a temporary but large inflammatory response in the blood vessels, a small study suggests.
Researchers say that…
Take action now on childhood obesity, expert says
• Fat, Dietary • May 27 04
Ten percent of children, or at least 155 million youngsters worldwide, are overweight or obese, a leading health expert said Wednesday, citing new evidence…
Eating fish during pregnancy may up fetal growth
• Pregnancy • May 27 04
Women who regularly eat fish during the late stages of pregnancy appear to be less likely have a low-birth weight infant, according to new…
Pneumonia’s racial disparity cut by vaccine
• Respiratory Problems • May 27 04
A childhood vaccine approved in 2000 for use in the United States has started to ease a racial disparity that saw blacks more…
Calif. court rules lesbian egg donor lacks rights
• Public Health • May 27 04
A woman who donated her eggs to her lesbian partner has no parental rights over the twin girls they produced, a California appeal court…
House backs two bills on ‘Uninsured Week’
• Public Health • May 27 04
The House of Representatives approved two Republican-backed bills on Wednesday aimed at making health care more affordable, addressing what opinion polls have shown is…
Birth control shot linked to bone thinning
• Gender: Female • May 27 04
Depo-Provera (depot medroxyprogesterone), a popular birth control injection, seems to promote bone loss, and the effects increase over a 2-year period, new research…
U.S. health chief sees backing for tobacco accord
• Tobacco & Marijuana • May 27 04
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said Friday he was hopeful the United States would ratify a global treaty this year to…
Researchers: exercise lowers employers’ health costs
• Obesity • May 27 04
Companies can save millions in health-care costs simply by encouraging their employees to exercise a little bit, researchers reported on Friday.
They said obese…
Computers miss errors in drug prescribing: study
• Alternative Medicine • May 27 04
Computers have reduced medical errors by making prescriptions clearer and more legible but some do not warn doctors of potentially deadly problems, British researchers…
Lawmaker questions USDA mad cow efforts
• Infections • May 27 04
The U.S. Agriculture Department’s blunder in failing to test a condemned Texas cow for mad cow disease may reflect wider problems in the…
U.S. worried by high arthritis rates
• Arthritis • May 27 04
Approximately one quarter of American adults have been diagnosed with arthritis and another 17 percent may be suffering from the crippling disease, the…
Arthritis grips 25 percent of Americans
• Arthritis • May 27 04
Approximately one-quarter of American adults have been diagnosed with arthritis and another 17 percent may be suffering from the crippling disease, the Centers for…
Cholesterol drugs promising for multiple sclerosis
• Drug News • May 27 04
Cholesterol-lowering drugs, widely used to reduce the risk of heart attack, could also be effective in treating multiple sclerosis, according to new research published…
Set for ban, DDT lingers in battle against malaria
• Infections • May 27 04
Few poisons have ridden such a roller coaster through environmental history as DDT.
Once hailed as a miracle pesticide, DDT is outlawed as one…