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Nurse practitioners filling care void
Source: USATODAY.com - Jun 25 2006 21:03
Increasingly, patients are being treated by health care professionals with N.P. after their name instead of M.D. or D.O. The ...





Test may help answer Alzheimer's question (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jun 25 2006 16:08
AP - A new test may help scientists answer a perplexing "which came first" question about the development of Alzheimer's disease, possibly pointing the way to earlier diagnosis or even treatment.

Patients waiting longer to see the doctor
Source: USATODAY.com - Jun 24 2006 03:22
Patients on average spent more time waiting for a doctor in hospital emergency rooms in 2004 than they did seven years earlier, ...


Health Tip: Restless Legs Are a Real Disorder (HealthDay)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jun 23 2006 23:19
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Restless legs syndrome is a neurological disorder with unknown cause. The Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation says RLS may be a side effect of another underlying condition, and it often occurs during pregnancy. Symptoms of RLS in pregnant women typically go away after birth.

Could a Low-Carb Diet Slow Alzheimer's? (HealthDay)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jun 23 2006 23:18
HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) -- A low-calorie diet, particularly one that's low in carbohydrates, may reduce or even reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, a new study in mice suggests.

Breast Cancer Treatment Safe During Pregnancy (HealthDay)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jun 23 2006 23:11
HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) -- Some 3,000 pregnant women in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, and many worry about the effects cancer treatment could have on the fetus.

Clinical Trials Update: June 23, 2006 (HealthDay)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jun 23 2006 23:07
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch:

Women should be given more birth choices
Source: Reuters - Jun 23 2006 22:57
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) said women should be allowed to decide whether they want to give birth at home, in hospital or at specialist midwife units and given more information to help them make that decision.


New imaging technology improves cancer detection
Source: Reuters - Jun 23 2006 17:03
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - New imaging technology that combines the power of CAT scans with the finesse of a PET scan can catch cancer and other diseases earlier, potentially boosting survival rates and cutting costs, researchers said on Wednesday.


FDA approves new drug to combat HIV
Source: USATODAY.com - Jun 23 2006 17:56
A new drug to treat HIV won federal approval Friday, the first approved HIV medication for its maker, Johnson & Johnson. It's ...


All downhill from here: June 23 happiest day, researcher says
Source: USATODAY.com - Jun 23 2006 16:28
Feeling more happy than usual this particular Friday? You should be, according to a scholar in seasonal disorders at a British ...


WHO says bird flu virus mutated (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jun 23 2006 14:10

A graphic shows the latest worldwide death toll from bird flu since 2003. A viral strain that caused the first lab-confirmed cluster of human-to-human transmission of bird flu was a genetic "dead end" that could not have caused a pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.(AFP/File/Martin Megino)AP - A World Health Organization investigation showed that the H5N1 virus mutated slightly in an Indonesian family cluster on Sumatra island, but bird flu experts insisted Friday it did not increase the possibility of a human pandemic.



FDA approves generic versions of Zocor (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jun 23 2006 14:32
AP - The first generic versions of Zocor, the widely used cholesterol drug made by Merck & Co. Inc., received federal approval Friday.

India records 53 cases of polio, fuelling fears of resurgence (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Jun 23 2006 09:43

An Indian health worker gives polio drops to a child at a health center in Amritsar in May 2006. India has recorded 53 cases of polio since January, a government official has said, raising fears of a resurgence of the crippling disease affecting children.(AFP/File/Narinder Nanu)AFP - India has recorded 53 cases of polio since January, a government official has said, raising fears of a resurgence of the crippling disease affecting children.



More women than men hospitalized for asthma
Source: Reuters - Jun 22 2006 13:24
It's not that women have more severe asthma, the researchers say. Rather, it seems that women perceive their asthma symptoms as worse than men do. Sex bias on the part of healthcare professionals may also factor in to the higher admission rates for an asthma attack among women.


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