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August 31, 2007
Cancer
Society Focuses Its Ads on the Uninsured (New York Times)
Salmonella
Found in Spinach After Routine Tests (Medical News Today)
Smokers'
Cough Is Not Just a Smokers' Disease, Study Shows (Bloomberg)
Confronting
Syphilis, Quite Candidly (New York Times)
Consumers
Warned on Tainted Beef (CNN)
Good
Eggs: Ovaries Aid the Brain (U.S. News and World Report)
Flaxseed
May Relieve Hot Flashes (Forbes)
August 30, 2007
E.
Coli Could Become Cavity Killer (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Arsenic
in Drinking Water Said to Be Rising Risk (New York Times)
New
Asthma Guidelines Urge Daily Control (Associated Press)
Will
Nothing Stop That Infernal Itch? (Washington Post)
It's
Banned But Not Gone: Lead Paint is Still a Danger (USA Today)
Patients
Turn to No-Interest Loans for Health Care (New York Times)
FDA
Approves Roche Molecular West Nile Virus Test (Sacramento Business
Journal)
August 29, 2007
Salmonella
Finding Prompts Spinach Recall (Associated Press)
Americans
Skip Sleep to Make Time for Leisure Activities (USA Today)
Congo:
Hemorrhagic Fever Suspected; 103 Die (New York Times)
Record
Number of Americans Lack Health Insurance (Forbes)
Botox
Before Moles for U.S. Dermatologists (Melbourne Herald Sun)
August 28, 2007
Early
Ovarian Surgery Linked to Dementia (Associated Press)
The
Solvable Problem of Organ Shortages (New York Times)
Smoking
May Turn On Lung Cancer Genes (WebMD)
Your
Best Shot Vs. Cancer? (New York Daily Sun)
August 27, 2007
Health
Care Safety Net Struggles to Cope with Rising Demand (Louisville
Courier-Journal)
Study
Eyes Diabetes in Pregnant Women (Associated Press)
The
Necessity, and Elusiveness, of Sleep (New York Times)
Stem
Cells Help Rat Hearts Recover After Attack (MedPage Today)
August 26, 2007
Poor
Diet, Medicines Can Mar Late Years (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Antibacterial
Soap Claims Just Don't Wash (Washington Post)
Maternal
Blood Pressure Linked to Kids' Obesity Risk (USA Today)
For
the Obese, Bad Advice by the Spoonful (New York Times)
August 25, 2007
Diseases
Spreading with Faster World Travel (International Herald Tribune)
WHO
Warns of Global Health Risks (AlJazeera.net)
Drugstore
Clinics Spread and Scrutiny Grows (New York Times)
Health
Care Quest Refreshed (Chicago Tribune)
Clinton
Talks Health Care at DHMC (Nashua Telegraph)
Sex
and Plan B (New York Daily News)
Fish
Oil Might Help Relieve MS (Forbes)
Romney
to Pitch a State-By-State Health Insurance Plan (New York Times)
August 24, 2007
FDA
Plans New Labeling for Sunscreen (New York Times)
FDA
Aims to Shed Light on Sunscreen (Los Angeles Times)
Bush
Administration Guidelines Rules Against Poor Children's Health Insurance
(Medical News Today)
Roche
Wins European Approval for Lung Cancer Drug (International Herald
Tribune)
Daily
Calcium Does Protect Bone (Forbes)
Brain
Protein Linked to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Mice (MedPage
Today)
August 23, 2007
One
Year and Counting for Morning After Pill (USA Today)
Unintentional
Introduction of OCD to Mice Offers New Insight Into Disorder
(Scientific American)
Rules
May Limit Health Program Helping Children (New York Times)
AGs
Urge Crackdown on Energy Drink Claims (Associated Press)
Non-Stick
Chemicals May Cut Birth Weight (USA Today)
Soldiering
On, Home to Home, in a Squeezed Health System (New York Times)
Do
This, And Prevent Dementia (HealthNews-Stat.com)
Pathogens
Prevalent in Unpasteurized Milk (Scientific American)
High
Blood Pressure in Young Misses, Study Finds (Los Angeles Times)
Too
Little Food to Grow On (Baltimore Sun)
August 22, 2007
Children
May Lose Out on Insurance (Boston Globe)
Criticism
of a Gender Theory, and a Scientist Under Siege (New York Times)
FDA
Approves Strong Psych Drug for Kids (Associated Press)
Controlling
AIDS Lies in Distant Hope of Vaccine (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
To
Reap Psychotherapy's Benefits, Get a Good Fit (New York Times)
Coping
With Stress Helps Cholesterol (WebMD)
World
of Warcraft: A Pandemic Lab? (Time)
August 21, 2007
Gastric
Bypass Lowers Risk of Death (Time)
Cutting
Cholesterol, an Uphill Battle (New York Times)
AG
Targets Home Health Care Fraud (New York Daily News)
Emory
Working on Vaccines for AIDS and Flu Based on New Technology (Tech
Journal South)
Once a Year
Osteoporosis Drug Reclast Gets FDA Approval (Medical News Today)
For
Health Info, Women Often Turn to the Web (Forbes)
Scientists
Drug Test Whole Cities (Associated Press)
A
Hospital, Pulse of a Neighborhood, Is Mourned (New York Times)
August 20, 2007
Looking
Past Blood Sugar to Survive with Diabetes (New York Times)
Tips
to Help Patients Manage Their Care (New York Times)
Obesity
May Be Only One Piece of Diabetes Puzzle (New York Times)
An
Increase in Diagnoses May Not Mean a Higher Rate of the Disease (New
York Times)
Eye
Exams Keep Kids Focused (USA Today)
Americans
Using Painkillers More Than Ever (Medical News Today)
Medicare
to Stop Paying for Some Hospital Errors (Wall Street Journal)
August 19, 2007
Darker
Fruits Could Fight Cancer (BBC News)
Medicare
Says It Won't Cover Hospital Errors (New York Times)
China
Brings Blue-Ear Pig Disease Under 'Preliminary Control' (People's
Daily Online)
U.S.
FDA Warns Nursing Mothers of Codeine Risk (Forbes)
Studies
Highlight Hazards of Manicurists' Chemicals (New York Times)
Dendreon
Breast Cancer Drug Effective in Trial (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
August 18, 2007
Parents
Warned Cough Medicines Imperil Infants (New York Times)
Heavy
Drinking Boosts Stroke Risk for Chinese Men (Forbes)
Lobes
of Steel (New York Times)
Multivitamin
Prostate Warning (BBC News)
We're
Very Worried About How Pollution is Affecting Health (Canada.com)
August 17, 2007
Three
Area Firms to Compete for HIV/AIDS Relief Work (Washington
Post)
Lonliness
May Be Bad for the Health (Times of India)
Immunization:
Tracking the Response to Hepatitis B Vaccine (New York Times)
Sex is
Prime Cause of China's HIV (BBC News)
Behavior:
Hostility May Raise Risk for Disease (New York Times)
Third Wave Gets
Genetic Testing Boost (Madison Capitol Times)
August 16, 2007
Medical
Science Aims to Microchip You (Toronto Star)
Six
Killers: About the Series (New York Times)
Too
Fat? Common Virus May Be to Blame: Study (Reuters)
Vitamin-Rich
Sorrel is Worth a Try (Toronto Star)
Snacks
Get a Hearty Boost (Los Angeles Times)
August 15, 2007
A
Grass-Roots Effort to Grow Old at Home (New York Times)
Indiana
State Fair Bans Trans Fats (USA Today)
Food
Labels Don't Tell All (Tacoma News Tribune)
Mitt
Owns Stock in Stem Cell Research (Boston Herald)
Sweatology
(New York Times)
Avandia
To Carry Stronger Heart Failure Warning (Forbes)
It Can
Make You Cool or Make You Miserable (New York Times)
11th
Doctor Sees 'Ghost' (Washington Post)
August 14, 2007
Hooked
on Junk Food in the Womb (China Daily)
Zen
and the Art of Coping with Alzheimer's (New York Times)
California
in Hot Spot with Medical Pot (Washington Post)
A
Vaccine Doesn't Treat HPV (Wall Street Journal)
Google
and Microsoft Look to Change Health Care (New York Times)
Western
Pattern Diet Linked to Recurring Colon Cancer (Voice of America)
How
to Enjoy the Rest of the Summer with Someone Who Has Dementia (HealthNews-Stat.com)
August 13, 2007
Sniff
Test May Signal Disorder's Early Stages (New York Times)
One
in Ten Patients Receives Wrong Medication (CTV.ca)
Waist-to-Hip
Ration May Better Predict Cardiovascular Risk (HealthNews-Stat.com)
Smokers
Drag Down a Workplace, Study Says (CNN)
Mites Are Here
and It Is Unclear Why (Chicago Daily Herald)
Electrodes
Take Aim at Brain Damage (Washington Post)
August 12, 2007
Bone
Matters (Washington Post)
These
Drugs Are for Colds, Not Fidgets (New York Times)
Decline
in U.S. Breast Cancer Tied to Drop in Hormone Use (Forbes)
Caffeine
Helps Women, But Not Men, Stay Sharp (New York Times)
Modern
Coasters May Carry Heart Risks (Los Angeles Times)
Patients
Say Wary After China Product Recall (Reuters)
August 11, 2007
The
Beam of Light That Flips a Switch That Turns On the Brain (New York
Times)
Relief
in Sight? (Los Angeles Times)
Select
Hospitals Reap a Windfall Under Child Bill (New York Times)
Wellness
Partners LLC Announces Search Engine for Continence Services (HealthNews-Stat.com)
Mexico
City Pollution Harms Child Lung Growth (Reuters)
Training
Helps Alzheimer's Caregivers (Associated Press)
In
the Land of Gers, a Future Doctor Emerges (Tufts Daily)
August 10, 2007
Molecule
May Predict Prostate Cancer's Return (Forbes)
AIDS
Virus a 'Double Hit' to the Brain (Reuters)
Lessons
in Healthful Eating Stay with Kids (Associated Press)
Healthier
Outlook (Baltimore Sun)
"Healthy"
Fast Foods Not Easier on the Heart (Reuters)
Traditional
Mongolian Medicine (Wikipedia.org)
Medical
Science Aims to Microchip You (Toronto Star)
August 9, 2007
West
Nile Cases Increase As Summer Steams On (USA Today)
Trans
Fat Task Force on Tap (BizJournals.com)
Healthy
Recipe Finder (Washington Post)
Weight
Gain During Pregnancy Reviewed (Associated Press)
Sexually
Transmitted Diseases Surging (Toronto Star)
Chevron
Workers' Journey to Health Begins with 10,000 Steps (San Francisco
Chronicle)
August 8, 2007
Underinsured
Children Shut Out From Recommended Vaccines (MedPage Today)
Skin Patches
Have Their Down Side (Toronto Star)
Court
Rejects the Right to Use Drugs Being Tested (New York Times)
Preventative
Steps Could Save 100,000 U.S. Lives: Study (Reuters)
Folic
Acid Doubts (Los Angeles Times)
Number
of Hospital Burn Units Falls (Associated Press)
Study:
Quarantines Work Against Pandemics (Time)
In
Short, Marketing Works (Los Angeles Times)
New
Website Will Help People with Diabetes (HealthNews-Stat.com)
Waking Up
During Surgery (Toronto Star)
China
Spending $1 Billion on Food, Drug Safety (Reuters)
Peanut
Allergy Is Tough Nut to Crack (Baltimore Sun)
Stranger's
Kidney Is a Gift of Life (Los Angeles Times)
August 7, 2007
Deadly
Inheritance, Desperate Trade-Off (New York Times)
Innovative
ER Facility May Become New Model (Washington Post)
Foot-and-Mouth:
The Key Questions (London Times)
In
a Hospital Stay, No Time to Rest (New York Times)
South
Asia Floods Displace Millions, Spark Fears of Widespread Disease
(Washington Post)
Richardson
Offers Health Care Plan (Associated Press)
Labs
Probable Source of Foot and Mouth (Reuters)
Caffeine
Protects Thinking and Memory in Older Women (Medical News Today)
August 6, 2007
Beyond
the Fog of Fear (Washington Post)
Publix
to Offer 7 Popular Antibiotics for Free (Associated Press)
It
Banishes Uterine Fibroids, But for How Long? (New York Times)
Microbes
Putting More Beachgoers at Risk, Study Finds (USA Today)
Research
Identifies Brain Site for Fever (New York Times)
Hub
Mosquito Tests Positive for West Nile (Boston Herald)
Africa: Daily
HIV/AIDS Report (AllAfrica.com)
August 5, 2007
Doctors
Warn Against Infrared Thermometers (New York Times)
Report
on Chemical's Study Called Biased (USA Today)
Setback
for Novartis in India Over Drug Patent (New York Times)
Death
Points to Risks in Research (Washington Post)
In a
Former First Family, Cancer Has a Grim Legacy (New York Times)
Data
Show Schip to Be About as Good as It Gets (Wall Street Journal)
Alzheimer's
Protein Implicated in Glaucoma (Forbes)
August 4, 2007
FDA
Approves New AIDS Drug (Associated Press)
Good
Readers Better Able to Retain Brain Skills (New York Times)
Foods
Taste Better with McDonald's Logo, Kids Say (Forbes)
In Tiny
Part of the Brain, A Key to Foreign Tongues (New York Times)
LDL
the Culprit in Diesel Damage (Chicago Tribune)
Records
Show Concerns Over Transplant (Los Angeles Times)
Counseling
By Phone Benefits Drinkers (New York Times)
Mystery
Illness Fells Campsite Visitors (Edmonton Sun)
August 3, 2007
Is
West Nile Virus a Threat in Your Area This Year? (Infection Control
Today)
Brain
Electrodes Help Man Speak Again (Associated Press)
Ovary
Transplant Between Sisters Produces Embryos (Medical News Today)
Man
Emerges from Six Year Coma (CanWest News Service)
Puerto Rico
Seizes 'Fake Doctors' (BBC News)
Reprieve Urged
for Risky Diabetes Medicine (Toronto Star)
Eye
Infections from Solution Continuing to Harm Users (New York Times)
Some
Doctors Refuse Services for Religious Reasons (USA Today)
August 2, 2007
"Whispering
Stroke" Impairs Quality of Life (Reuters)
Botulism
Victim Remains in Critical Condition (Houston Chronicle)
FDA
Suspends Plan to Close Many of its Field Laboratories (New York
Times)
New
Mexico Man with Botulism Paralyzed (Seattle Times)
Uganda Reports
Outbreak of Deadly Marburg Virus (Voice of America)
Health
Highlights (Forbes)
House
Passes Children's Health Plan, 225-204 (New York Times)
Amgen
Challenges New Medicare Policy (Reuters)
August 1, 2007
Transplant
Case Could Affect Donations (Washington Post)
Senate
Bill Revisits Medical Safeguards (New York Times)
N.J.
Approves Needle Exchange Program (Associated Press)
Science
Explores Shift Work-Linked Fatigue (Forbes)
A
Beginning Doctor Dissects Her Way Toward Understanding (New York
Times)
Health
Care When You Want It (Wall Street Journal)
Doctors'
Group Prescribes Private Health Care (CanWest News Service)
Sicko (Internet Movie
Database)
Sicko (Official Site)
Giuliani
Seeks to Transform U.S. Health Care Coverage (New York Times)
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