Health Highlights: Dec. 8, 2004
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Scientists in Hong Kong say they&#39;ve developed a test that&#39;s able to detect bird flu in people within one or two hours instead of the week or more required to get results from previous kinds of tests.
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TUESDAY, Dec. 28 (HealthDayNews) -- There's a new U.S. government Web site to provide seniors with information about the safe use of medicines.
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counting carbs, watching kilos, and keeping an uneasy eye on the growing list of health problems linked with obesity. But it&#39;s not just the number
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WASHINGTON - Medical officials are urging families to talk not just turkey this Thanksgiving but also medical history - generations of it â-o help identify breast, heart and other problems early enough to prevent them.
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Feeling much better today. Health is beginning to return. I owe it all to patience, lots of sleeping, drinking fluids, and not trying to be healthy before I actually am. Today I'm going to take a 20 minute easy walk in the sun.  Watching General Petreus testify today. The Dems are very polite. Sorry I still think we should get the hell out of Iraq. I don't think any more Americans should die there.  Elizabeth Dole is speaking now.
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Search headlines from around the web, December 27, 2004.
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MONDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that diabetes -- not obesity -- puts people at risk of developing critical illness and dying early.
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[Health India]: Washington, Oct 12 : An article published in the October 11 issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, has revealed that alcohol consumption may slightly increase the risk for developing a certain type
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MONDAY, Dec. 6 (HealthDayNews) -- Toy safety should be at the top of your list when you select Christmas presents for children.
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NEW YORK  - In a new study, a 12-week  program designed to change unhealthy lifestyles helped adults  with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high blood  sugar reach their goal risk-factor levels without using drug  therapy.
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By Shelli Derobertis, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif.  Dec.
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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 24 (HealthDayNews) -- In all the excitement of the holidays, families can overlook the fact that the more frail and elderly among them are no longer able to take part in traditional holiday tasks, such as decorating or cooking.
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About 6,000 to 8,000 doses of influenza vaccine will be available this month to St. Louis County residents who are considered to be at high risk of catching the flu.
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A website goes the extra mile to make sure voters aren & rsquo;t confused this Tuesday.  Also: West Virginia organizes the first public supercomputer & hellip;.  FDA keeps its eye on a new pain relief drug & hellip;. and more.
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The first day of December probably doesn&#39;t register as a life-changing date for most Americans. AIDS doesn&#39;t get the public attention it deserves.
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An unsurprising response from the FDA.
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Christmas is associated with joy; so is the Christmas tree which now will bring joy to many suffering from pain. Researchers have found a group of anti-inflammatory compounds called phenolics in the bark of