Vol. 136 No. 2749, October 2007
Index
- Athletes collapsing from sickle cell trait.
- Fad treatments on the rise.
- Autism programs are huge failure.
- Key genetic finding for autism.
- A groundbreaking system that could deliver surgery without scars has been developed by engineers at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute at the University of Texas, Arlington, in collaboration with physicians and the Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center.
- A soft margarine spread is the healthier choice in the long-debated butter-or-margarine controversy, maintains Jo Ann Carson, clinical nutritionist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.
- In its first laboratory tests on human tissue, a light-based probe built by researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, Durham, N.C.
- Infants with whooping cough (pertussis) were most likely infected by the people they live with, according to a multicountry study led by researchers from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
- Men age 65 and older who have smoked should have a one-time screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm, indicates cardiac surgeon Frank Arko.
- Multiple sclerosis.
- New blood tests for panic disorder.
- People with astigmatism and cataracts may benefit from a revised Medicare rule extending coverage for the new type of implantable lenses that treats both conditions.
- A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City.
- Key tests for COPD vastly underutilized.
- Poor teen diet can lower lung function.
- Student musicians should protect hearing.
- Faulty membrane repair causes complications.
- Noninvasive approach provides better "image".
- Pot belly is key indicator.
- The many mysteries of the human heart.
- Determining when the time is right.
- Poor employee health costs employers plenty.
- Ten symptoms not to ignore.
- Ways to alleviate acute shortage of RNs.
- Make medical and financial preparations.
- Success depends on spouse and workplace.
- Key milestone of the last 100 years.
- Miniature devices treat epilepsy, glaucoma.
- When will television finally get it right?
- Better to emphasize health over appearance.
- Myths spreading like an epidemic.
- Putting bacteria on birth control.
- Will teenage girls have more sex?
- Girls surpass boys in deadly practice.
- Pregnancy may increase risk.
- Procedure among safest in U.S.
- A fish tale.