Vol. 133 No. 2717, February 2005
Index
- Can saliva samples replace blood work?
- Kids curious about genetic dads.
- Home testing for rare disease.
- "Memory and other cognitive functions do not show significant decline in all elderly," contends Beth Ober, professor of human development at the University of California, Davis.
- Blood tests to determine the amount of cholesterol and the lipid triglyceride in the bloodstream, which are primary risk factors for heart disease, are nearly always conducted after a 12-hour fast.
- Children living on pig farms.
- Doctors appear willing to use intensive measures to lessen otherwise untreatable pain and severe symptoms in dying patients even if the treatment at least in theory, risks hastening the dying process.
- Groups considered at high risk for the flu should consider getting a pneumonia vaccine as well.
- Increased mortality following discharge.
- Interacting with and petting animals.
- Mail order drugs tainted by heat.
- Sleep researchers from the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, and colleagues report sleep loss and fatigue affect medical residents in several ways, including learning, job performance, and personal relationships.
- The proportion of admissions to substance treatment programs for abuse of narcotic prescription medications, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine has increased in the past 10 years, while those for cocaine abuse declined.
- Doctors now writing "info" prescriptions.
- Librarians give pointers for online searches.
- An apple a day may keep dementia away.
- Many tests and surgeries simply are a waste.
- Memory loss but not Alzheimer's.
- Contributing gene finally found.
- Many short kids happy as is.
- Oral exposure boosting infection.
- Counseling improves immune system.
- Cure-all drug remains risky.
- Disease may be family affair.
- Cellular inflammation precursor to heart disease.
- Exhibition explores images of quacks and quackery.
- Statins sustain cardiac victims.
- Don't be haunted by a toothless grin.
- Former smokers survive longer.
- Minimizing damage after a heart attack.
- "Permanent" injuries may have a cure.
- Knee flare-ups can be controlled.
- Sufferers prefer home remedies.
- Easing discomfort of swollen feet.
- Hormones make all the difference.
- Women prone to upper body maladies.
- Disease gene linked to evolution.
- Infant neglect surfaces in mid life.
- Parasympathetic nervous system at risk.
- African-Americans fatter, less fit than Caucasians.
- Black girls most likely to be obese.
- Retailers reduce sales of cigarettes to kids.
- The ABCs of the flu.
- Why do pharmacies sell tobacco?
- Is smoking finally out of style?