July 8, 2004
Study Signals Promise for New HIV Therapy
Yahoo! News: Researchers may finally be on track to fight the AIDS virus by blocking a long-elusive target, an HIV enzyme called integrase. An experimental drug that inhibits the enzyme helped to keep the infection in check in monkeys. Far...
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June 23, 2004
Compound In Breast Milk Treats Warts
BBC News: A cream containing an ingredient of human breast milk appears to be an effective treatment for warts. The preparation, nicknamed Hamlet by is Swedish creators, has been shown to dramatically reduce, and often completely banish, stubborn warts. It...
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June 14, 2004
A Fit Baby Equals A Fit Adult
The Rugged Elegance Inspiration Network: SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Lucy Brown somersaults backward down a ramp, leaps over a mat, rolls across a platform, jumps a series of hoops, squats into a yoga pose and hops over a row of...
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June 6, 2004
Drugs May Turn Cancer Into Manageable Disease
The New York Times: BAY 43-9006 [developed by Onyx Pharmaceuticals], which could reach the market in one to three years, is one of a new generation of "targeted" therapies that are transforming cancer treatment by attacking the underlying molecular mechanisms...
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Studies Suggest Statins Slash Cancer Risk
Yahoo! News: Cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins may prevent various forms of cancer, including prostate and colon cancer, two teams of researchers said on Sunday. Israelis who took statins had a 51 percent lower risk of developing colon cancer than those...
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May 31, 2004
Driven To Obesity?
CTV.ca | CTV News (Canada): You could be driving up your weight -- literally. According to a new study, the length of time spent driving translates into the size of the "spare tire" around your waist. Even more than income,...
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May 27, 2004
Breakthrough in Superbug Battle
HealthandAge: A new way of applying antibiotic treatment helps to keep superbugs away from critically ill patients. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a greatly feared bacterial infection, because it is resistant to most known antibiotics - including vancomycin. Researchers in...
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May 14, 2004
Game For A Little Therapy?
BusinessWeek Online: Wild Divine is heralding the arrival of a new genre: healthful games. While not all experts agree, there is an accumulating body of evidence that indicates they can aid relaxation, improve self-esteem, help to overcome phobias -- even...
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Stem Cells: Repairing The Engines Of Life
BusinessWeek Online: Ames's story captures the tragic collision of hope and promise that defines the nascent field known as "regenerative medicine." A growing cadre of scientists in academic and biotech labs across the world are pioneering a new approach to...
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May 10, 2004
Discoveries Show How Obesity Kills
Yahoo! News: Research into the biology of fat is turning up some surprising new insights about how obesity kills. The weight of the evidence: It's the toxic mischief of the flesh itself. Experts have realized for decades that large people...
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May 4, 2004
Abbott Labs Awaits Approval For Nonstop Glucose Monitor
Wall Street Journal: Measuring the level of glucose in the blood is a daily chore for the estimated 13 million people in the U.S. diagnosed with diabetes, one that involves pricking the skin and drawing blood. It's also a good-sized...
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May 3, 2004
Healthcare Cost Weigh On California
San Jose Mercury News: From care delivered through the mammoth Medi-Cal program to grants that subsidize university research, the burden of health care is woven into nearly every page of California's $99 billion budget. Last year, the state's medical bill...
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Key Stem Cell Mechanism Discovered
Medical News Today: Adult stem cell transplantation offers great therapeutic potential for a variety of diseases due to their ability to replenish diseased cells and tissue. While they are unique in this ability, it remains a challenge to effectively treat...
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April 28, 2004
DNA Computer Detects, Treats Disease in Test Tube
Yahoo! News: Scientists have come a step closer to creating a minuscule DNA computer that may one day be able to spot diseases like cancer from inside the body and release a drug to treat it. Professor Ehud Shapiro and...
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April 26, 2004
Diabetes Reportedly to Double Worldwide by 2030
Yahoo! News: Diabetes rates will double worldwide by 2030, to 366 million people with the disease, even if the obesity rate remains stable, an international team of researchers reported on Monday. But the rate will go up even higher if,...
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April 25, 2004
Life Expectancy: Now Only Death Is Certain After 100
New York Times: For nearly 150 years, people who lived past 100 could claim this accomplishment: They had outlived the point at which the life insurance industry technically predicted they would die. Now the industry is raising the bar, and...
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April 19, 2004
Southern Arizona: Epicenter of Obesity Epidemic
The Arizona Daily Star: Americans are in grave danger of undoing the greatest achievement of medical science - the doubling of the human life span from four decades just a century ago to nearly 80 years today. The culprits are...
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April 17, 2004
Now Can We Talk About Health Care?
The New York Times: Twenty-first-century problems, like genetic mapping, an aging population and globalization, are combining with old problems like skyrocketing costs and skyrocketing numbers of uninsured, to overwhelm the 20th-century system we have inherited. The way we finance care...
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April 15, 2004
Genetic Breakthrough in Leukemia Treatment
Mercury News: Looking deep inside the genes of malignant cells, two teams of leukemia researchers have uncovered new ways to help identify the severity of a patient's cancer, the best treatments and how long a patient might live. While this...
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April 11, 2004
Keratoplasty: Surgical Fix for Near-Sightedness
New York Times: "I'm a little vain," Mr. Miller conceded. Though the new procedure, which uses radio waves to correct near-vision problems, had not yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for his problem, he had it done...
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Robots Seen As Companions for Elderly
Yahoo! News: To some scientists, robots are the answer to caring for aging societies in Japan and other nations where the young are destined to be overwhelmed by a surging elderly population. In one of a budding series of robot-therapy...
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April 9, 2004
Has Obesity Met Its Match In Rimonabant?
BW Online: The French pharma Sanofi is getting positive results so far with a drug that suppresses appetite. And it may have cardiac benefits, too At the American College of Cardiology annual meeting last month, Paris-based Sanofi-Synthelabo caused a stir...
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April 6, 2004
The Altered Human Is Already Here
New York Times: Many people, however, have already made a different kind of leap into the posthuman future. Their jump is biochemical, mediated by proton-pump inhibitors, serotonin boosters and other drugs that have become permanent additives to many human bloodstreams....
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March 30, 2004
Stem Cells Used to Grow Blood Vessels
Daily Yomiuri (Japan): A Japanese research team has become the first in the world to grow structurally complete capillary blood vessels from human embryonic stem cells, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Monday. The team, led by Prof. Kazuwa Nakao of Kyoto...
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Stem Cells Attack Cancer in Mice
Yahoo! News: Stem cells, immature cells already showing promise as tools to regenerate and replace damaged tissue, may also help target and destroy cancer, U.S. scientists said on Monday. Tests in mice showed [stem] cells could deliver powerful cancer-killing...
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March 24, 2004
Medicare Overseers Expect Soaring Costs
New York Times: Medicare's financial condition has significantly deteriorated, partly because of exploding health costs and partly because of the new Medicare law, the government reported on Tuesday. In its annual report to Congress, the Medicare board of trustees said...
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March 22, 2004
The Epidemic of Stomach Stapling
Reuters.com Just when the U.S. government has declared obesity a public health crisis, insurers are growing more skeptical of drastic -- and expensive -- remedies like "stomach stapling" surgery. Demand is skyrocketing for these bariatric surgeries, which shrink the stomach...
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March 21, 2004
Pfizer's Pregabalin: $3 Billion Painkiller
WBBM (Chicago): Now awaiting final approval from European regulators and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, pregabalin is expected to generate sales of at least $3 billion a year for New York-based Pfizer. Sales could reach $6 billion "within 10...
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New Studies Question Value of Opening Arteries
New York Times: Researchers are also finding that plaque, and heart attack risk, can change very quickly -- "within a month, according to a recent study" -- by something as simple as intense cholesterol lowering. "The results are now snowballing,"...
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March 17, 2004
Health Savings Accounts
KXAN: There are some healthy benefits in the new Medicare law that could help you save money. Health Savings Accounts, or HSAs, have been in effect since Jan. 1. Like Roth IRAs, they're a tax-free way for people to set...
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March 14, 2004
Is 'Good' Cholesterol Good?
New York Times: For years, doctors have been saying that to prevent heart disease, patients should pay attention to both the so-called bad cholesterol, or L.D.L., and the good cholesterol, or H.D.L. The good, they said, can counteract the bad....
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March 13, 2004
Vietnam's Bird Flu Battle
Asia Times: Mere months after the successful containment of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the last thing the Vietnamese government wanted was another dramatic public-health crisis. Unfortunately, as the world now knows, another crisis is exactly what it got. Vietnam's...
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Endovascular Therapy To Replace 70% of Conventional Surgery
Yahoo! News: When Dr. Jeffrey Snell looks at a patient, he sees the complex network of veins and arteries as the route to clearing clogged heart arteries, preventing strokes and keeping bulging vessels from rupturing -- all without major surgery....
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March 10, 2004
Rimonabant: Quit Smoking & Lose Weight
KansasCity.com: How's this for a salubrious daily double - a pill that helps you quit smoking and lose weight at the same time? An experimental drug shows significant promise of doing just that, according to two studies presented Tuesday at...
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March 9, 2004
Obesity To Surpass Tobacco As #1 Killer
Yahoo! News: Americans are sitting around and eating themselves to death, with obesity closing in on tobacco as the nation's No. 1 underlying preventable killer. The government is offering constructive, even lighthearted, advice to fight what it calls an epidemic...
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Healthcare Technology: Saves Lives, Busts Budgets
Forbes: The cost of saving lives from heart disease just went through the roof. At a meeting of cardiologists, doctors today presented results of a giant, 2,500-person government study showing that heart failure patients implanted with pricey cardiac defibrillators were...
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Cholesterol Targets Should Be Set Far Lower
New York Times: The findings, cardiologists say, will greatly change how doctors treat patients with heart disease and will provide the impetus to re-evaluate how low cholesterol levels should be. The study compared high doses of one of the most...
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Striking Benefits Found In Ultra-Low Cholesterol
WashingtonPost.com: High doses of a popular cholesterol-lowering drug can sharply boost protection against getting or dying from a heart attack, according to new research that many experts said is likely to transform the treatment of the nation's leading killer. The...
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More Complex Carbs + More Exercise = Greater Weight Loss
WebMD: The thinnest people eat the most carbs, a four-nation survey shows. If you've been following the latest U.S. diet fads, that isn't what you'd expect. But the data come from an intensive, four-nation study of more than 4,000 men...
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March 8, 2004
Childhood Obesity Programs Lacking
San Jose Mercury News: By the time children are referred to a program such as Kaiser's, obesity has often taken a heavy emotional toll. More failure will hurt badly. Yet to succeed, they have to dramatically change the way they...
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March 7, 2004
Childhood Obesity Rate Triples
San Jose Mercury News: The alarm over childhood obesity rang in 2002. New data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey showed that 15.5 percent of children were seriously overweight and 15 percent more were at risk of becoming...
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March 1, 2004
Greek Scientists Weaken Cancer Cells
Yahoo! News: Greek scientists said they have found a way to lower cancer cell resistance to medical treatment in what could be a major step in treating a disease that kills more than six million people every year. The procedure,...
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Is Biotechnology Losing Its Nerve?
New York Times: Biotechnology companies were once known for going boldly where the big pharmaceutical companies would not, developing genetically engineered medicines like Avastin, the Genentech drug, approved on Thursday, that attacks cancer by a new method and prolongs the...
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February 27, 2004
First Anti-Angiogenesis Drug Wins Approval
New York Times: The Genentech drug Avastin, which validated a decades-old theory about a new way to attack cancer while spurring investor enthusiasm for the biotechnology industry, won approval yesterday from the Food and Drug Administration. The drug, approved for...
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February 20, 2004
Expanding Life Expectancy in U.S.
Life in the Age of Old, Old Age In the annals of human longevity, the Blaylock sisters represent a happy aberration, an anomaly so rare that they have donated blood for the sake of genetic research. They have all sailed...
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February 19, 2004
Lung Cancer Vaccine Study Produces 'Exciting' Results
Scotsman.com News: A leading British scientist today hailed pioneering new research into lung cancer as "promising and exciting." Dr Richard Sullivan, Head of Clinical Programmes for UK Cancer Research said an experimental vaccine that wiped out lung cancer in some...
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February 17, 2004
Research in Italy Turns Up a New Form of Mad Cow Disease
New York Times: A new form of mad cow disease has been found in Italy, according to a study released yesterday, and scientists believe that it may be the cause of some cases of human brain-wasting disease. While the strain...
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February 16, 2004
Russia's Health Care System Is Crumbling
Wall Street Journal (registraton required): The dire state of Russia's public-health system has helped create what President Vladimir Putin calls a national emergency: Every year nearly a million more Russians die than are born. Even with surging immigration, mostly from...
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February 15, 2004
Insurers Push Doctors to Drop Older Patients
Beacon Journal: The insurance industry argues that rates are set to cover the cost of doing business. And in the case of nursing homes, the industry says that cost is increasing because of a rising number of lawsuits. Frank O'Neil,...
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February 12, 2004
Information Technology May Have Cured Low Service-Sector Productivity
New York Times: But the recent evidence compiled by Mr. Triplett and Mr. Bosworth shows that information technology may just be the cure for Baumol's disease. They found that from 1995 to 2001, labor productivity in services grew at a...
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