Thousands of Babies Have Strokes Annually
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - New York Newsday
| It looked like a seizure when little Alexzandra Gonzales jerked and then went limp, barely breathing. A frantic race to the hospital led to a diagnosis her parents found hard to believe: Just days before her first birthday, she had had a stroke.
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Cancer Survivors May Not Get Needed Care
Monday, November 7, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - New York Newsday
| The nation's 10 million cancer survivors require customized follow-up for years that too few now receive, says a major study that calls for oncologists to create a "survivorship plan" to guide every patient's future health care.
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Feds Prepare for Super-Flu Disaster
Monday, October 10, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - New York Newsday
| A super-flu could kill up to 1.9 million Americans, according to a draft of the government's plan to fight a worldwide epidemic. Officials are rewriting that plan to designate not just who cares for the sick but who will keep the country running amid the chaos, said an influenza specialist who is advising the government on those decisions.
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Bush presses vaccine makers on bird flu
Friday, October 7, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Kansas City Star
| President Bush summoned vaccine manufacturers to a White House meeting Friday, hoping to personally boost the rickety industry amid increasing fears of a worldwide outbreak of bird flu. It's the latest in a flurry of preparations for a possible pandemic after criticism of the government's response to Hurricane Katrina.
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Obesity Increases Risk of Miscarriage
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - New York Newsday
| Pounds can become an obsession during pregnancy, but they should be a concern before conception. Obesity increases women's risk of miscarriage and other serious, even life-threatening, complications.
Dieting during pregnancy is a big no-no -- it can harm the baby.
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Sodium Nitrate Could Be Disease Cure
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - New York Newsday
| Could the salt that preserves hot dogs also preserve your health? Scientists at the National Institutes of Health think so. They've begun infusing sodium nitrite into volunteers in hopes that it could prove a cheap but potent treatment for sickle cell anemia, heart attacks, brain aneurysms, even an illness that suffocates babies.
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Education Could Be Key to Stop Bedwetting
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - New York Newsday
| To help a 7-year-old overcome bedwetting, Dr. Howard Bennett reaches for red water balloons and a superhero named Bladderman. Bedwetting is a problem for more than 5 million U.S. children age 6 or older.
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FDA delays decision on morning-after pill
Sunday, August 28, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Philadelphia Inquirer
| The government on Friday put off its long-awaited decision on whether to sell emergency contraception without a prescription, saying the pill was safe to sell over-the-counter to adults but grappling with how to keep it out of the hands of those under 17.
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Research details cancer risk for redheads
Sunday, August 28, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| Redheads sunburn easily, but that may not be the only reason they are at high risk of skin cancer. New research suggests the pigment that colors their skin may set them up for cancer-spurring sun damage even if they do not burn.
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FDA won't ban diet drug Meridia
Thursday, August 18, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - St. Paul Pioneer Press
| The government won't ban the prescription diet drug Meridia but, faced with reports of deaths, says it will closely monitor a European study designed to better assess the pill's heart risks.
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FDA tightens access to acne drug
Saturday, August 13, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Orlando Sentinel
| The thousands of Americans who take the acne drug Accutane -- and people who prescribe and dispense it -- must enroll in a national registry, part of a major government program to tighten access to the medicine that causes birth defects.
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FDA panel rejects artificial heart
Thursday, June 23, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Birmingham News
| Government scientists on Thursday narrowly rejected the first fully implantable artificial heart, saying they were unsure if a few extra months of life outweighed the serious side effects.
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U.S. doctors discover new danger in West Nile
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - San Diego Union-Tribune
| Patricia Heller was super-healthy, an avid skier and competitive bicyclist. So when she collapsed in the street after a daylong bike ride, she first shrugged off the weakness as cramps.
By the next morning, Heller's left leg was paralyzed. She had been stricken by West Nile virus after a mosquito bite she doesn't remember. The Colorado woman needed months of grueling therapy to walk again and, almost two years later, isn't fully recovered.
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FDA looking into possible Viagra-blindness link
Friday, May 27, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Baltimore Sun
| Federal health officials are examining rare reports of blindness among some men using the impotence drug Viagra.
The Food and Drug Administration still is investigating, but has no evidence yet that the drug is to blame, said spokeswoman Susan Cruzan.
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Study: Risks Jump As Obesity Escalates
Saturday, April 30, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - New York Newsday
| When the fat get even fatter, their risk of death jumps, too, especially if they have an apple-shaped waistline. So concludes a study of 90,000 women in the United States, the first to look closely at the alarming trend of extreme obesity, being at least 90 pounds overweight.
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Study a Positive Sign on Alzheimer's
Sunday, April 24, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - New York Newsday
| The first attempt at gene therapy for Alzheimer's patients appeared to significantly delay worsening of the disease in a few people who have tested it so far, scientists reported Sunday.
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Scientists seek more cord blood supplies
Friday, April 15, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Charlotte Observer
| Blood saved from newborns' umbilical cords could help treat about 11,700 Americans a year with leukemia and other devastating diseases, yet most is routinely thrown away, a panel of influential scientists said Thursday in calling for a tripling of the nation's supply.
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Gel breast implants debated anew
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Philadelphia Inquirer
| Thirteen years after most use of silicone-gel breast implants was banned, the government reopened emotional debate yesterday on whether to lift the restrictions - despite lingering questions about how often the devices can break inside women's bodies and how bad those breaks are.
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U.S. flu vaccine supply cut in half
Wednesday, October 6, 2004
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
| Americans' supply of flu vaccine was abruptly cut in half Tuesday, prompting the government to ask most healthy adults to delay or skip flu shots so that the elderly and others most at risk from influenza can get scarce supplies.
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Implant Device Appears to Block Strokes
Thursday, September 30, 2004
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - New York Newsday
| A tiny tent-like device implanted into the heart appears to block strokes caused by a common irregular heartbeat, sealing off a spot where dangerous blood clots form, German and U.S. researchers reported Wednesday.
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States Under Pressure on Newborn Tests
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - New York Newsday
| Gracie Clay's mother says her child could still be alive had she been born in, say, Mississippi instead of Georgia: Which state you live in determines whether your newborn is tested for several dozen rare but devastating inherited diseases.
Many of these illnesses, like the one that killed 19-month-old Gracie last February, can be treated easily if parents know in time. Testing requires a single drop of blood. But many states mandate newborn testing for only a fraction of the diseases.
Next week, a government advisory committee is expected to move to end the geographic disparity, as it debates whether every state should test every newborn for 30 genetic illnesses.
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FDA Testing Limits of Medical Technology
Sunday, September 12, 2004
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| A little-known Food and Drug program is testing the latest medical technology to determine how safe and useful it can be.
One cutting-edge experiment is designed to see if injecting certain drugs directly into diseased arteries works better than commonly used stents in keeping arteries clear.
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Age, Eating Habits Catch Up With Clinton
Saturday, September 4, 2004
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Los Angeles Times
| Bill Clinton is a man close to 60, with a little pudge and a longtime love of junk food. That fits the stereotype for heart disease. Needing bypass surgery, however, suggests that the former president's disease is relatively extensive, and that's surprising for an active dignitary who presumably has top-notch and timely physical checkups.
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Researchers: Cats Can Spread Bird Flu
Thursday, September 2, 2004
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Connecticut Post
| Cats not only can catch the deadly bird flu but can spread it to other felines, Dutch researchers said in a report Thursday that raises important questions about the pets' role in outbreaks.
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Revenge Is Indeed Sweet, Study Finds
Thursday, August 26, 2004
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
| WASHINGTON - Dirty Harry had it right: Brain scans show revenge really might make your day. Planning revenge sparks enough satisfaction to motivate getting even - and the amount of satisfaction actually predicts who will go to greater lengths to do so, report Swiss researchers who monitored people's brain activity during an elaborate game of double-cross.
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Obesity raises risk for 9 cancer types
Monday, August 23, 2004
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
| Heart disease and diabetes get all the attention, but expanding waistlines increase the risk for at least nine types of cancer, too. And with the obesity epidemic showing no signs of waning, specialists say they need to better understand how fat cells fuels cancer growth so they might fight back.
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Studies Find Rats Can Get Hooked on Drugs
Friday, August 13, 2004
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Los Angeles Daily News
| Rats can become drug addicts. That's important to know, scientists say, and has taken a long time to prove. Now two studies by French and British researchers show the animals exhibit the same compulsive drive for cocaine as people do once they're truly hooked.
Only through experiments with addicted animals can scientists eventually learn what makes some people particularly vulnerable to addiction while others can quit at will, addiction specialists say.
Addicted rats also could help uncover new anti-drug therapies.
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New Pain Guidelines Help MDs and Patients
Thursday, August 12, 2004
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - New York Newsday
| New guidelines seek to improve treatment for millions of Americans with unrelieved pain by spelling out exactly how to prescribe powerful painkillers like Oxycontin and morphine without attracting the wrath of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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CDC Ships 'Chem-Packs' for Preparation
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
| States are beginning to receive long-awaited federal shipments of antidotes against chemical weapons, under a program that aims to have stocks in every state within two years.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began quietly shipping the so-called chem-packs four months ago. New York City and Boston, sites of the upcoming national political conventions, were among the early recipients.
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