Health Highlights: Dec. 18, 2004
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A drug approved last year as a last-ditch hope for some lung cancer patients who didn&#39;t find relief from other forms of therapy has come up short in a large clinical trial.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 8 (HealthDay News) -- There were important advances in the detection and treatment of cancer this year -- more people than ever are now surviving the disease -- but cuts in government cancer research dollars could slow progress in the fight.
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12/21/04 -- It&#39;s the third largest pain relief drug in recent months to be linked with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Search headlines from around the web, December 28, 2004.
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Intensive-care doctors monitor patients from miles away. Also: Vioxx might be responsible for more deaths than thought.... New network in southern India gives government a big boost.... and more.
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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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Numbers don't lie &#151; or do they? When it comes to public health, figures are seldom straightforward.
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US health officials from the CDC say that obesity is not killing as many people as first thought. They say the CDC will ask JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) to alter the figures it published in a study published last March.
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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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Gail Rutter of Frederick had a problem. Diagnosed earlier this year with diabetes, she and her two grown children thought that their traditional Christmas dinner would be off limits because of its high fat content and added sugar.
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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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A report released last month by the Centers for Disease Control makes for some pretty heavy reading -literally. The report, &quot;Mean Body Weight, Height, and Body Mass Index, United States 1960-2002,&quot; found that
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Nov, 17, 2004 - A third of Americans say that they or a family member have experienced a preventable medical mistake and that many of those mistakes resulted in severe pain, disability, and sometimes death.
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It has long been clear that chronic stress wreaks havoc on our health. Scientists have now found molecular signs of this harm. In a study of mothers of chronically ill children, the cells
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 18 (HealthDayNews) -- A generation ago, one in every 100 units of donated blood in the United States passed HIV or the hepatitis C virus to an unknowing recipient.
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Robert B. Saper, MD, MPH ; Stefanos N. Kales, MD, MPH ; Janet Paquin, PhD ; Michael J. Burns, MD ; David M. Eisenberg, MD ; Roger B. Davis, ScD ; Russell S. Phillips, MD.
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Â· Study suggests common process in combined cases  Â· Rise in weight problems and respiratory condition