News: August 2005
- New Orleans Hospitals Trying to Make Do (AP)
- Disease Outbreaks Considered Unlikely (Washington Post)
- Hope Over ‘Repairing’ Sun Cream (BBC)
- No Brain Cancer Link to Cell Phones, Study Finds (Reuters)
- Aspirin Before Surgery Benefits Bypass Patients (HealthDay)
- U.S. Bioterror Preparedness Lacking, Study Says (AP)
- Disease and Coordination Vie as Major Challenges (New York Times)
- The Heart Can Heal Itself, Sometimes (HealthDay)
- Women Less Likely to Survive Heart Bypass (Reuters)
- FDA Official Quits Over Plan B Pill Delay (AP)
- Katrina May Cause Serious Health Problems (MSNBC)
- Antibiotics Aren’t Always the Answer (New York Times)
- Glow’ Dye to Spot Early Dementia (BBC)
- RAND Study Examines Public Health Clinics (AP)
- The History of Chromosomes May Shape the Future of Diseases (New York Times)
- Cancer Drugs May Treat Aging Syndrome in Children (Reuters)
- New Technique May Help Stop Bedwetting (AP)
- FDA Delays Morning-After Pill’s Nonprescription Sale (USA Today)
- Statin Drugs After Heart Attack Reduce Deaths (Reuters)
- Indonesia Tries Again to Wipe Out Polio (AP)
- Morning-After Pill: Politics and the F.D.A. (New York Times)
- Study: Super-Skinny Won’t Live Longer (Reuters)
- U.S. to Help China Combat Surge in HIV (AP)
- C-Sections Linked to Higher Cavity Risk in Babies (HealthDay)
- China Backs Anti-Tobacco Treaty (BBC)
- Calif. AG Wants Warning Label on Fries (AP)
- Study: Homeopathy Is Little More Than Placebo Effect (HealthDay)
- Study Authors Didn’t Report Abortion Ties (New York Times)
- Mood Disorders Often Misdiagnosed in Blacks (HealthDay)
- Research Details Cancer Risk for Redheads (AP)
- Study Says Homeopathic Medicines Don’t Work (Reuters)
- Hormone May Dramatically Extend Life of Mice (Washington Post)
- Health Agency Tightens Rules Governing Federal Scientists (New York Times)
- Acupuncture Effective for Fibromyalgia (HealthDay)
- 3,100 Reported Ill From N.Y. Water Park (AP)
- Molecular Missing Link Found for Genetic Disease (HealthDay)
- World Slow to Face Bird Flu Threat (BBC)
- A Good Checkup for Americans’ Oral Health (HealthDay)
- Calif. Sues 39 Drug Makers for Price Gouging (Reuters)
- Study: Newer Malaria Drug Saves More Lives (AP)
- UK: Parents Lose Right-to-Life Appeal (BBC)
- Kidney Donor Exchange Programs Catching On (Reuters)
- Study Links Daydreaming, Alzheimer’s (AP)
- Americans Pay More for Health Insurance (Reuters)
- Age-Old Cures, Like the Maggot, Get U.S. Hearing (New York Times)
- Doctor in Trouble for Calling Patient Obese (AP)
- National Tracking System for Neonatal Herpes Is Urged (New York Times)
- Anesthesia Detox Therapy for Heroin Not a Plus (HealthDay)
- Drug as Effective as Surgery After Miscarriage (Reuters)
- Medical Journal Hears From Abortion Foes (AP)
- Researchers Cast Doubt on Fetuses’ Pain (AP)
- Obesity Rate Is Nearly 25 Percent, Group Says (New York Times)
- Study: Placebos Make People Feel Better (AP)
- High Doses of Aspirin Ward Off Colon Cancer (Reuters)
- Girls Do Better in Gym Class Without Boys (USA Today)
- Lifestyle Changes Credited in Drop in Heart Deaths (Reuters)
- National Tracking System for Neonatal Herpes Is Urged (New York Times)
- Putting a Value on Medical Injury (BBC)
- Is Exercising at Night Really So Bad? (MSNBC)
- Calif. Politicians Back Stem Cell Research (AP)
- Assisted Reproduction ‘Reasonable’ Until Age 44 (Reuters)
- Stem Cell Hybrids Reveal New Path to Therapies (MSNBC)
- Report: Obesity Rates Up in Most States (AP)
- Step Towards Making Human Lungs (BBC)
- New Rat Model Spurs Schizophrenia Research (HealthDay)
- 600M Asian Children in Poverty, Group Says (AP)
- Thinking You Look Young Can Be Satisfying (USA Today)
- Brain Damage Is Linked to Heart Failure (HealthDay)
- Nervousness, Worry May Predict Suicide Risk (Reuters)
- New Efforts Begin to Improve CPR (AP)
- Skin Cells ‘Reprogrammed’ to Stem Cells (Washington Post)
- Study: ADHD Haunts Children into Adulthood (USA Today)
- Violent Video Games Spur Aggression in Kids (HealthDay)
- Genetic Material May Aid SARS Treatment (AP)
- Drug Suicide Risk Fears Renewed (BBC)
- Graffiti, Litter May Help Spur Obesity (HealthDay)
- Reid Mini-Stroke Not Uncommon (AP)
- It’s the Simple Things, but Some Hospitals Don’t Do Them (New York Times)
- Weight Linked to Breast Cancer in Women With Gene Mutation (HealthDay)
- Insurers Focus on Keeping Kids in Shape (AP)
- Antibiotics From Crocodile Blood? (Wired)
- Early Humans ‘May Have Spread TB’ (BBC)
- More Hawaiians Practicing Native Healing (AP)
- Is Milk to Blame for Overweight Children? (MSNBC)
- Problems Linger for Pediatric Brain Cancer Survivors (HealthDay)
- American Indians Launch Suicide Hot Line (AP)
- Weight Loss Cuts Cancer Gene Risk (BBC)
- Health Insurance Costs Dog Would-Be Entrepreneurs (USA Today)
- Scientists Solve Nitroglycerin Mystery (HealthDay)
- Feds Step Up Battle Against Meth Abuse (AP)
- Racial Gap Shrinks for Some Medical Care (AP)
- Fetal Tissue Heals Burns (Washington Post)
- Brain Cancer Linked to Stem Cells (Wired)
- Chickenpox Vaccine Cuts Hospitalizations, Saves Money (HealthDay)
- A Good Report on AIDS, and Some Credit the Web (New York Times)
- Soda Makers Widen a Ban on School Sales (New York Times)
- Forget the Health Food, Gimme That Burger! (Washington Post)
- Study: Mammograms Boost Survival Odds (HealthDay)
- Long Working Hours ‘Health Risk’ (BBC)
- Doctors Try New Device to Block Aneurysms (AP)
- Hope for Eliminating ‘Latent’ HIV (BBC)
- Poor Care for Elderly Linked to Early Death (HealthDay)
- Doctors Trading Offices for House Calls (Washington Post)
- Heart Patients Wait Longer on Weekends (AP)
- Keeping Children in Back Seat Cuts Road Deaths, Study Says (New York Times)
- Teen Smoking Linked to Metabolic Syndrome (AP)
- Is Your Medicine Cabinet Making You Fat? (New York Times)
- Alcoholism May Be in the Genes, At Least for Flies (Reuters)
- FDA Won’t Ban Diet Drug Meridia (AP)
- Specialized Stem Cells May Lead to Brain Cancer (MSNBC)
- Gambling and Alcoholism May Have Different Roots (HealthDay)
- Vowing to Set the World ‘Straight’ (Washington Post)
- Grandparents Lament Fitness Program’s Loss (AP)
- Scientists Make Nerve Stem Cells (BBC)
- Study Links Painkillers, High Blood Pressure in Women (USA Today)
- In the Hospital, a Degrading Shift From Person to Patient (New York Times)
- Robotic Weight-Loss Surgery Passes Test (HealthDay)
- Crocodile Blood May Yield Powerful New Drugs (Reuters)
- Oregon’s Innovative Meth Bill Becomes Law (AP)
- Smokers Taking Controversial Cancer Test (AP)
- Pill Monitors Athletes’ Body Heat (Wired)
- Awash in Information, Patients Face a Lonely, Uncertain Road (New York Times)
- FDA Approves Accutane Registration Program (HealthDay)
- Many-Layered Apron May Cut MRSA (BBC)
- U.S. Medicare to Take Close Look at Adult Day Care (Reuters)
- Millions Suffer Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (AP)
- Scientists Studying How To Engineer Organs (Scripps Howard News Service)
- Cord Blood Presents Soaring Hope, Debate (Knight-Ridder)
- The Promise and the Pitfalls of Health Savings Accounts (New York Times)
- Nanotubes May Heal Broken Bones (Wired)
- Florida: Stem Cell Initiative Could Go To Voters (AP)
- Back to School, Back to Germs (HealthDay)
- Duke Patients Discuss Dirty Surgical Tools (AP)
- Expert Fears Embryo Screening A Way to Eugenics (Scotsman)
- VA Rechecking Post-Traumatic Stress Claims (AP)
- New Strategy Shows Promise in Treating HIV (AP)
- Passengers Weigh on Airlines (Chicago Tribune)
- People Try to Lose Weight at McDonald’s (AP)
- Reprogramming Complicates Stem Cell Debate (MSNBC)
- Bush’s Bioethicist on Stem Cell Alternatives (MSNBC)
- Could Be That Dad is Not Real Father, Report Shows (Reuters)
- Medical Bill Debt Hits Even the Insured (HealthDay)
- Child Cancer Exhaust Fume Risk (BBC)
- Feds Aren’t Subsidizing Recommended Foods (AP)
- Hold That Fat, New York Asks Its Restaurants (New York Times)
- Employees Pass on Health Flex Accounts (AP)
- High Anxiety Can Be Deadly (HealthDay)
- Vioxx Research Defended in Trial (AP)
- Sugar Association: No Link Between Sugar and Obesity (Reuters)
- Compound Can Hasten Harvest of Adult Stem Cells (Health Day)
- Skin Cancer Nearly Triples for Women Under 40 (Reuters)
- Staph Infections Take Heavy Toll on Hospitals (Health Day)
- In Heartland, Stem Cell Research Meets Fierce Opposition (Washington Post)
- Joint Jabs no Link to Infections (BBC)
- Probe of FDA Breast Implant Plans Sought (AP)
- Cold Truth Is: Viruses Elude Cure (Baltimore Sun)
- Today’s Insider Trading Suspect May Wear a Lab Coat (New York Times)
- Study Examines Euthanasia in Netherlands (AP)
- New Zealand: New Surgery for Paraplegics Could be Done in Dunedin (NZPA)
- Melanoma Is Epidemic. Or Is It? (New York Times)
- Today’s HIV Patients: Just as Heavy as the General Population (HealthDay)
- Heart Drug Becomes Cancer Killer (BBC)
- FDA to Rule on Morning-After Pill by Month’s End (AP)
- Two New Methods to Sequence DNA Promise Vastly Lower Costs (New York Times)
- Some Health Systems Explore Laborists Idea (USA Today)
- People Warned off Sickness Stats (BBC)
- California: Group Files Lawsuit to Halt Research at Stem Cell Institute (San Diego Union-Tribune)
- Hearing Aids for the Unimpaired (Wired)
- Clinical Trials Still Short of Minority Patients (AP)
- Antibiotic Holds Promise as Huntington’s Treatment (HealthDay)
- Religious Groups Differ on the Morality of Stem-Cell Research (AP)
- WHO Chief Urges Unconventional Approaches (AP)
- Allergy Sensitivity Doubles Since 1970s (USA Today)
- Study: Shot Protected Some From Monkeypox (AP)
- Texas: State’s First Cord-Blood Bank Opens its Doors (AP)
- California Drug Proposals Spark Huge Campaigns (AP)
- US Scientists Find Flexible Stem Cells in Placenta (Reuters)
- Study Suggests Melanoma May Be Overdiagnosed (HealthDay)
- One ‘Cure All’ Flu Jab For Life (BBC)
- Yoga May Help Keep Weight Off at Mid-Life (AP)
- Maternal Folic Acid Level Linked to Birth Weight (MSNBC)
- What Are The Five Healthiest Habits? (MSNBC)
- NY: Bill Easing Rules on Pill Is Vetoed by Pataki (New York Times)
- Drug Fights Fatigue During Night Shift (HealthDay)
- Prehypertension’ Triples Heart Attack Risk (Reuters)
- WHO Recommends More Pig Disease Tests (AP)
- French Hospitals Storing Fetuses, Stillborns (AP)
- Scientists Pinpoint New Breast Cancer Genes (Reuters)
- Positive Outlook for Baby of Brain-Dead Woman (AP)
- India to Fight AIDS With Female Condoms (AP)
- Alzheimer’s Toxin May Be Key to Slowing Disease (Reuters)
- Experts Home in on Cancer Genes (BBC)
- After Cosmetic Surgery, the ‘Do Over’ (New York Times)
- Researchers: Higher Levels of Arsenic in U.S. Rice (USA Today)
- Amphetamines May Help Slow Parkinson’s (Reuters)
- Exercise Guidelines for Women Established (AP)
- Brain-Dead Woman in Va. Gives Birth (AP)
- Cognitive Therapy Halves Risk of Second Suicide Attempt (HealthDay)
- C-section Most Common Hospital Procedure (Reuters)
- Drug Companies Adopting New Ad Guidelines (AP)
- Injuries At Home Cause Most Childhood Deaths (HealthDay)
- Diabetes Threat Looms Even As Life Begins (USA Today)
- As Atkins Exits, Other Diet Gurus Rush to Lead (AP)
- Rescued From Dustbin, Paper Medical Record Tells Its Tale (New York Times)
- Diabetes Raises Pancreatic Cancer Risk (Reuters)
- Study Links Malnourishment, Schizophrenia (AP)
- Nanotechnology Kills Cancer Cells (BBC)
- Cosmetic Surgery’s Bright, Shiny New Face (MSNBC)
- Study Links Tobacco Smoke With Belly Fat (AP)
- Perrigo Recalls Oral Drops for Children in U.S. (Reuters)
- Babies Born at Night More Likely to Die (LiveScience)
- Your Body Is Younger Than You Thin (New York Times)
- Atkins Company To Slim Itself Down (Healthday)
- New Diet Aid—The Power of Suggestion? (Reuters)
- FDA Approves Celebrex for Spinal Arthritis (AP)
- Euthanasia Regularly Practiced in Colombia (AP)
- My Genes Love Your Genes (HealthDay)
- Study: Women Should Keep Ovaries With Hysterectomy (AP)
- FDA Move on Breast Implants Draws Swift Reactions (HealthDay)
- UK: Hospitals See Child Drinking Rise (BBC)
- A Company’s Troubled Answer for Prisoners With H.I.V. (New York Times)
- Stem Cell Sponsor Sees Veto-Proof Senate Backing (Reuters)
- DNA Machine May Advance Genetic Sequencing for Patients (New York Times)
- Children of Smokers Have More Attention Deficit (Reuters)
- For Toned Look, Some Teens Use Supplements (AP)
