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Study: Pregnancy may not help depression
Jan 31 2006 10:52PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Pregnant women who stop taking antidepressants run a high risk of slipping back into depression, a study found, busting the myth that the surge of hormones during pregnancy keeps mothers-to-be happy and glowing.
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Tests miss heart disease in women
Jan 31 2006 6:22PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Conventional tests won't uncover heart disease in as many as 3 million U.S. women _ because instead of the usual bulky clogs in main arteries, these women have a hard-to-spot buildup in smaller blood vessels, researchers said Tuesday.
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Researcher: Anger common before injury
Jan 31 2006 5:54PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Guys, watch out the next time anger threatens to overtake common sense. You could wind up in the hospital. That's the conclusion of a University of Missouri-Columbia researcher who found that anger increased the risk of injury, especially for men, after interviewing more than 2,400 emergency-room patients at three Missouri hospitals.
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FDA OKs drug for chronic constipation
Jan 31 2006 4:19PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A drug to treat adult chronic constipation with no known cause won federal approval Tuesday. Lubiprostone works by increasing the secretion of intestinal fluids, which help ease the passage of stool and alleviate symptoms associated with chronic idiopathic constipation, the Food and Drug Administration said.
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S. Africa race policy may have cut HIV
Jan 31 2006 4:01PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - A controversial policy in AIDS-ravaged South Africa that barred many blacks and even the country's president from donating blood led to a substantial drop in HIV-tainted blood supplies, a study found.
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One's own stem cells may treat lupus
Jan 31 2006 4:01PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - For all of her 20s, when Edjuana Ross should have been relishing the thrill of early adulthood, she was instead in and out of hospitals, battling a disease that attacked her skin, brain and heart.
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Iraq tries to contain bird flu outbreak
Jan 31 2006 2:56PM (CT)
BINGIRD, Iraq (AP) - Amina Qader gazed sadly as her 70 ducks and chickens, once her main source of income, were hauled away Tuesday in plastic bags to be buried alive in a nearby muddy grave.
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Tally of human bird flu cases rises to 160
Jan 31 2006 11:57AM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - The U.N. health agency on Tuesday raised to 160 its official tally of people worldwide who have been infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu virus after laboratory tests in London confirmed that at least 12 people in Turkey have been infected with the disease.
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Report: 8M with birth defects each year
Jan 31 2006 9:16AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - About 8 million children worldwide are born every year with serious birth defects, many of them dying before age 5 in a toll largely hidden from view, the March of Dimes says.
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