Vol. 134 No. 2725, October 2005
Index
- New "spearing" rule for college football.
- Plastic surgeons on front lines in Iraq.
- Deformities handicap mentally disabled kids.
- Why people want plastic surgery.
- A nine percent decline in illicit drug use among American youth between the ages of 12-17 from 2002-04 has been announced by the Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C.
- Diseases that are transmitted human to human are more of a concern for health officials in New Orleans than those spread by insects and other animals, maintains an epidemiologist at the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine, West Lafayette, Ind.
- Doctors are not following the recommended asthma guidelines and are underprescribing controller medications while overprescribing rescue drugs for patients who visit the emergency room, suggests a nationwide study by the American College of Chest Physicians, Northbrook, Ill.
- During dental or surgical procedures, bacteria that reside in the mouth or upper respiratory tract can travel to an in-office computer keyboard and survive as long as 24 hours.
- New target found to fight Parkinson's.
- Obesity drives up the cost of health care by increasing the incidence of diabetes, hypertension, and a wide variety of expensive chronic health conditions, many of which are significant risk factors for other serious diseases, say researchers at Emory University, Atlanta.
- The revised guidelines for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension caution against the use of calcium channel blockers--used to combat high blood pressure--in unstable patients.
- Up to 98,000 individuals die as a result of medical errors each year.
- Asthma and allergies may reduce risk.
- Less invasive biopsy for large tumors.
- New MRI aids early detection.
- Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
- Implants not implicated in cancer recurrence.
- Can new drug stop infant infections?
- Emotional factors can worsen symptoms.
- Redheads remain more susceptible.
- Smooth muscle cells may hold key.
- Stressed-out victims of Katrina.
- Common complication following surgery.
- The art of medicine in Ancient Egypt.
- Bottom line bolstered by branding.
- Childhood poverty indicator for women.
- Predictors different among sexes, races.
- Are workouts best remedy?
- Disease linked to amino acid deficiency.
- Exercise alleviates anorexia and bulimia.
- Does chlorination lead to miscarriage?
- Injuries higher among the obese.
- Recovering users mourn "lost love".
- Shame, not guilt linked to addiction.
- Admissions up on all drug fronts.
- Ways to avoid foot problems.
- Doctors' neckties can make patients sick.
- Nanotubes help broken bones mend.
- Therapists at highest risk for asthma.
- Essential fats may prevent bone loss.
- Head lice hit most school districts.
- Man and beast both at risk.