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Tuesday, December 30, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 30, 2003 Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 30, 2003 Elderly Readily Admit Hearing Loss Doctors Tend to Prescribe Pricey Blood Pressure Drugs Study Absolves Men in Yeast Infections When Babies Get the Blues Not a Lean Year for Health News Keep the Holidays Safe -- and Sober Genetic Link to Inflammatory Bowel Disease Found Genital Herpes Vaccine to Be Tested Heart Patients May Have New Medicinal Snake U.S. Bans Ephedra
Monday, December 29, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 29, 2003 Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 29, 2003 U.S. Women Likelier to Survive Breast Cancer Workout in a Winter Wonderland Drugs Treat Late-Stage Anthrax Genetic Testing Helps Breast Cancer Patients Study Backs Early Prostate Screening for Blacks Smokers: Consider Your Legs Experts Insist U.S. Meat Supply Safe Chicken Soup Soothes More Than the Soul Brain's Insulation Key to Alzheimer's
Sunday, December 28, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 28, 2003 Shield Your Eyes While on the Slopes Trouble in Paradise? Diseased Cow Came From Canada, U.S. Officials Say The Smart Woman's Guide to Health Care
Saturday, December 27, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 27, 2003 Dry Lips Won't Take a Licking Helmets a Good Idea for Winter Sports U.S. Scrutinizing Its Beef Inspections
Friday, December 26, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 26, 2003 Holidays Hard for Those Who Have Lost Loved Ones Taking the Guesswork Out of Diabetes Management Seniors Should Steer Clear of These Meds Easing the Itch of Eczema Marines Help Test Hearing-Loss Drug
Thursday, December 25, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 25, 2003 Why Is Dark Meat Dark? U.S. Seeks Source of Mad Cow Infection Keep the Healthy in Your Holiday Eating And to All a Good... Night's Sleep Pour Another Tall One
Wednesday, December 24, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 24, 2003 New Protein Discovery Tied to Memory New Picture of Cell Death in Stroke U.S. Beef Supply Safe: Experts Helping Seniors Stay on Their Feet Mad Cow: Where Did It Come From? Studies Advance Myeloma Treatment Immediate Mad Cow Impact Likely to be Economic Keep Kids Safe During the Holidays Holidays Hit Women Hard Teen Pregnancy May Lead to Osteoporosis Exercise Can Keep Kids Healthy
Tuesday, December 23, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 23, 2003 States, Cities Defy U.S. in Importing Drugs How to Decompress During the Holidays Sober Holidays, Safe Holidays Local Anesthetic Eases Migraine Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 23, 2003 Costs of Smoking Linger Long After You Quit Combined Scans Speed Cancer Treatment Taming SARS: What Worked, What Didn't Bears Give Clues to Avoiding Osteoporosis Study: Steroids for COPD Don't Extend Life New Method for Detecting Alzheimer's 'You Never Forget'
Monday, December 22, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 22, 2003 Milk Does a Child's Body Good DVT Can Be a Danger During Travel Love and Marriage: An Emotional Mixed Bag Drug-Coated Stents Safe, Effective in Real World Poinsettias May Be Pretty, But ... Study Backs Keyhole Appendectomies Blood Vessels Enable Tumors Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 22, 2003 ICU Patients Often Exposed To Bacteria Why Memory Fades With Drinking Epilepsy Drug Effective Against Chronic Headache Obesity Worsens Prostate Cancer
Sunday, December 21, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 21, 2003 Safeguard Snooze Time During Holidays Maybe It's More Than Just Heartburn You Can't Catch a Cold out in the Cold
Saturday, December 20, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 20, 2003 Holiday Feasts May Bring on Gallstones The A-B-C's of Smart Antibiotic Use The Winter Blues
Friday, December 19, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 19, 2003 Snuff Packs Biggest Nicotine Punch Fever in Pregnancy Linked to Kids' Behavioral Problems Keeping Smoke Away From Baby More Study Needed on Salt's Health Risks Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 19, 2003 Babies Harmed by Pollution, too Snowmobile Deaths Increase in New England Steering Clear of Colds CDC: Flu Outbreak Now an Epidemic Keep Track of Your Meds During the Holidays Heart Patients Gain by Quitting Smoking
Thursday, December 18, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 18, 2003 Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 18, 2003 How Anthrax Goes Into Hiding Titanic Survival Is a Wash Cholesterol-Free Mice Created Older Americans Are on the Cuspid of Dental History 'Economy-Class Syndrome' Not a Myth: Study Prolonged Use of Ritalin May Change Brain Internet Dating Fuels Syphilis Spike in Gay Men Fighting Childhood Cancer Go to the Head of the Class, Die Sooner AIDS Vaccine Trial Starts Heigh-Ho! Silver Cars Are Safer
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 17, 2003 Health Highlights: Dec. 17, 2003 Periodontitis an Antisocial Disease? Drug Company Fees to FDA Don't Buy Special Treatment Two Drugs Better Than One for Enlarged Prostate SARS Can Take Flight Did West Nile Conquer Alexander the Great? Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 17, 2003 'Morning-After' Pill Could Halve Unintended Pregnancies Some Male Alcoholics Lack Feelings Studies: Inflammation a Bad Actor for Heart Race May Be Factor in Who Gets Flu Shots New Prostate Cancer Drug to Be Tested Alcohol Isn't Your Friend in Car Crashes
Tuesday, December 16, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 16, 2003 Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 16, 2003 Moves Urged to Boost Childhood Vaccine Supply Another New Drug for Psoriasis Nailing Down Gender Differences in Heart Disease New Heart Therapy Wins Tempered Praise Soothing News for Psoriasis Sufferers New Technique Tames Tonsillectomy Pain MS Drug Offers Hope to Cocaine Addicts Oral Drug Could Help Prevent Breast Cancer Metabolic Syndrome Players Deadly When Combined 'Healthy Steps' Puts Parents on Path to Better Child-Rearing Unfit Today, Heart Trouble Tomorrow
Monday, December 15, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 15, 2003 Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 15, 2003 Childhood Cancer Victims Not Followed Closely Enough Measuring the Risk for Colorectal Cancer Genetics Play Smaller Role in Late Alzheimer's Alzheimer's Signs Found in Young Adults Alcohol Acts as Social Grease for the Very Nervous Breast Cancer Survivors Can Also Be Moms Pollution Harder on Heart Than Lungs Dampening the Desire to Drink Stroke May Boost Alzheimer's Risk A New Drug for Multiple Sclerosis Urine Test May Find Early Kidney Cancer
Sunday, December 14, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 14, 2003 Neighborhoods That Nudge People to Exercise Beware the Snowblower Heart Health in the Cold
Saturday, December 13, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 13, 2003 Winter Tough on Skin and Sinuses Keep That Holiday Glow Under Control
Friday, December 12, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 12, 2003 Signaling Pathway for Nerve Growth Found Safe Toys Make for Happy Holidays A Toy Story With a Twist New Risk for Heart Disease Found Gene That Causes Alcohol Intoxication Found Glycerin May Heal Skin Borage Oil No Salve for Eczema Sound Slumber the Natural Way Cost Savings of New Arthritis Drugs Questioned Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 12, 2003 Pesticide Exposure High in Migrant Workers
Thursday, December 11, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 11 2003 Some Animals Engage in Higher Thinking Passive Smoking Can Kill Nonsmokers The Mechanics of Muscular Dystrophy Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 11, 2003 Monkeying With Evolutionary Genes Food Labels Facing Overhaul Gulf War Vets Still Struggle With Health Problems Got Crohn's? Maybe the Fridge is to Blame U.S. Buys More Flu Vaccine as Outbreak Widens ADHD, Reading Disabilities May Spring From Same Source Why Sixth Graders Light Up Can Fear to Boldly Go Shorten Life?
Wednesday, December 10, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 10 2003 Survey Reveals How Female Docs Watch Their Health What Daily Exposure to Radiation Can Do Air Travelers Face 'Mild' Blood Clot Risk Birth Defects Tied to Dieting in Pregnancy Interferon Doesn't Improve Odds With Melanoma Help for Hereditary Breast, Ovarian Cancer a Call Away Stem Cells Coaxed Into Sperm Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 10, 2003 Using Virtual Reality for Car Crash Traumas Overweight Boys More Prone to Stress New Clue to Sudden Coronary Death Researchers ID Most Effective HIV Drugs
Tuesday, December 9, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 9, 2003 Childhood Vaccines Are Safe Nitric Oxide Helps Newborns With Respiratory Failure Vitamin D Seems to Thwart Colorectal Cancer Blood Molecule Tied to Hypertension Risk Whooping Cough on the Rise Alcoholism Runs in the Family Striking Back at Stroke Teenage Weight Predicts Future Weight Atkins Diet May Help Kids With Epilepsy Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 9, 2003 U.S. Officials Scramble to Meet Flu Shot Shortage 'Super' TB Sheds Light on How It Infects
Monday, December 8, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 8, 2003 Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 8, 2003 PTSD Not Just for War Survivors New Drug Helps in Fight Against Common Leukemia Death, Hospital Risks Higher in Anemic Seniors Diabetes Drugs Called Safe, With Monitoring Early Treatment Key for Infant Eye Disease Stress May Contribute to Alzheimer's Eating Cereal Helps Kids Control Weight More TV Time for Teens Means Fewer Fruits, Vegetables Protecting the Knees of Seniors Bullies Rule the School Gleevec Needs Time to Work
Sunday, December 7, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 7, 2003 Keep Germs at Arm's Length Stuffy Nose in the Cold Repetitive Tasks Tax the Bones
Saturday, December 6, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 6, 2003 New Clue to Breast Cancer Mortality Soothing Road Rage Doctor, Patient Need to Manage Diabetes Together
Friday, December 5, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 5, 2003 How the Brain Makes Decisions Flu Shot Shortage Looms Amid Early Outbreak Parental Size Can Spell Health Trouble for Kids Bracing for a Second Round of SARS Motherhood Makes Teens More Responsible Secondhand Smoke Might Ignite Asthma Brain Differences Found in ADHD Kids Another Key to Lupus Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 5, 2003 Chaperones No Sure Thing During Pap Smears China's Gender Imbalance Hot Cocoa, the Healthy Drink?
Thursday, December 4, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 4, 2003 Red Wine May Protect Against Breast Cancer Mast Cells Linked to Allergic Diarrhea New Scanner Catches Early Signs of Breast Cancer Moderate Drinking Shrinks Brain Company Defends New Drug-Coated Stent's Safety Record Second Opinion Matters With Breast Cancer Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 4, 2003 Penicillin No Panacea for Sore Throat in Kids Anti-Aging Supplement May Clog Arteries Dirty Air Can Boost Lung Cancer Risk Master the Migraine Before It Starts SARS Vaccine May Be on the Horizon
Wednesday, December 3, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 3, 2003 Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 3, 2003 Elderly Prostate Cancer Patients Can Tolerate Radiation Therapy Discovery of 'Heart Attack Gene' Offers Treatment Options Predicting Breast Cancer's Spread Gene Key to Success of Bone Marrow Transplant Noninvasive Technique Removes Benign Breast Tumors Pancreas Transplants Raise Death Risk Test Shows Who'll Respond to Gleevec Anorexia May Lead to Emphysma Estrogen May Impair Ability to Handle Stress Insurance Changes Alter Drug-Taking Behavior Incontinence Drug May Mar Memory
Tuesday, December 2, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 2, 2003 Echinacea Doesn't Treat Kids' Colds Intense Weight Lifting Linked to Fatal Heart Trouble Study Finds Hypertension Drugs Equal When the Hearts of Young Athletes Fail The Cholesterol Paradox Checking Obesity Heart Failure Can Kill Embryos Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 2, 2003 Prostate Cancer Tests Overdone in Elderly Tamoxifen's Effect May Be Muted by Hot Flash Meds Battling Bone Marrow Diseases Catching Colorectal Cancer in its Tracks
Monday, December 1, 2003 return to top... Health Highlights: Dec. 1, 2003 Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 1, 2003 From Stem Cells a Jaw is Made Women's Risk of Lung Cancer Double That of Men Virtual Colonoscopy Finds Colorectal Cancer Kids Can Suffer From Disc Degeneration, Too Gastric Bypass Surgery Risky in Very Obese Faster Brain Images Help Stroke Patients Better Breast Scans Hitting the Greens Can Hurt Your Hips The Elusive Search for an AIDS Vaccine Scientists Find New Role for Estrogen
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