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Depression Largely Untreated in Low-Income Cancer Patients (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, May 6 (HealthDay News) -- Close to a quarter of minority women with cancer suffer depression, but only about one in 10 of them is diagnosed or treated for it ...
Doc Says Arthritis Killed Columbus (AP)
AP - Bad food or a sexually transmitted disease probably crippled Christopher Columbus, a researcher suggested Friday.
Drug combos up survival for heart disease patients (Reuters)
Reuters - Drug combinations involving
statins, aspirin, and beta-blockers improve the survival of
people with heart disease involving ischemia -- restriction of
blood flow through the ...
Survey finds Americans prefer 'safer' older drugs (Reuters)
Reuters - Concerned by recently discovered
dangers of relatively new arthritis and depression drugs, most
Americans would prefer a drug that has been on the market at
least a decade ...
Brain-Damaged Fireman's Recovery a Mystery (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News) -- No one really knows why it happened -- why Donald Herbert suddenly started speaking and responding to people a decade after a brain injury ...
Health Tip: Uncovering Child Abuse (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Each year, thousands of children are physically abused in the United States, and many needlessly die as a result of abuse.
Clinical Trials Update: May 5, 2005 (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:
Chlamydia Outbreak Kills a Dozen Penguins (AP)
AP - An outbreak of chlamydia at the San Francisco Zoo has left a dozen penguins dead, according to a spokesman.
35 percent of Philippine policemen are obese (AFP)
AFP - Over 40,000 policemen in the Philippines, or about 35 percent of the country's entire police force, are obese, a newspaper report said.
Breast cancer risk less when pregnant mom smoked (Reuters)
Reuters - Women whose mothers smoked
while they were pregnant have a reduced likelihood of
developing breast cancer, according to a new study.
Immune system, blood altered in autism -studies (Reuters)
Reuters - Children with autism show different
immune system responses from children without the condition,
and these might be measured in the blood for a possible
screening test, U.S.
Morphine for chest pain worsens death risk-study (Reuters)
Reuters - High-risk heart attack patients
given morphine for their chest pain have almost a 50 percent
higher risk of dying, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
Natural enzyme helps mice live longer in study (Reuters)
Reuters - Mice genetically engineered to
produce a human antioxidant enzyme lived longer than normal
mice, which U.S. scientists on Thursday cited as evidence that
antioxidants can ...
Indonesia steps up polio vaccinations (Reuters)
Reuters - Indonesia stepped
up polio vaccinations around several villages in West Java
province on Friday as international concern grew over an
outbreak of the virus that has crippled six ...
Bacterial meningitis outbreak in Delhi causes panic
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A strain of bacterial meningitis has killed nine people in the Indian capital and possibly affected 42 others, sending thousands of panicky people rushing to ...
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