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Rare form of Alzheimer's strikes family
Jun 6 2005 8:02PM (CT)
FARGO, N.D. (AP) - For 16 years, Dean DeMoe watched Alzheimer's disease change his father, who died at age 58. Now, two of his brothers, both in their 40s, struggle with the disease.
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Mental illness can start in childhood
Jun 6 2005 7:50PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Most mental illness hits early in life, with half of all cases starting by age 14, a survey of nearly 10,000 U.S. adults found.
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Viagra ingredient OK'd in pulmonary cases
Jun 6 2005 7:50PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government has approved the key ingredient in the impotence pill Viagra as a treatment for hundreds of people left gasping by a rare but often fatal type of high blood pressure.
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Suicide attempts linked to weight perception
Jun 6 2005 7:49PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Suicidal impulses and attempts are much more common in teenagers who think they are too fat or too thin, regardless of how much they actually weigh, a study found.
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Junk food faces expulsion at N.J. schools
Jun 6 2005 7:49PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Junk food and soda will be all but expelled from New Jersey public schools by the start of the 2007-08 academic year under regulations announced by the state Monday.
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Experts push for faster child cancer drugs
Jun 6 2005 7:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nine-year-old Killian Owen was the first child to try an experimental leukemia treatment that was showing promise in adults _ but the chance came too late. Yet the youngster left a precious legacy: Scientists are using his preserved cells to help create stronger drugs for other children desperate for new options.
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Court ruling to affect cancer patients
Jun 6 2005 7:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Helping patients control pain and the nausea from cancer chemotherapy have been among the leading uses of medical marijuana. Such patients are likely to be affected by the Supreme Court's decision Monday allowing federal prosecution of sick people who use the drug, regardless of state laws.
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Pertussis booster favored for youngsters
Jun 6 2005 7:49PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Although a whooping cough booster shot for adults could be on the market soon, a new study suggests giving the shots to grown-ups wouldn't be as cost-effective as re-vaccinating only younger patients.
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Everyday apples pack antioxidant punch
Jun 6 2005 7:48PM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - America's most common apple also may be its most potent. Just don't skimp on the skin. A Canadian government study that measured the levels of antioxidants in eight varieties of apples found that Red Delicious contain the highest concentrations of the health enhancing chemicals.
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Red Tide hits Martha's Vineyard shellfish
Jun 6 2005 6:47PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Officials closed two areas off Martha's Vineyard to shellfishing on Monday as the largest red tide outbreak in decades continued to spread through New England waters.
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African experts eye malaria drug supply
Jun 6 2005 11:51AM (CT)
ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) - Medical experts, farmers and manufacturers began discussing efforts on Monday to ensure a reliable supply of a critical drug that could prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths from malaria, one of the world's leading killer diseases.
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Cold drug curbs considered in meth fight
Jun 6 2005 7:48AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The days of buying some cold remedies off the shelf in drug stores soon may be gone, a casualty of the methamphetamine epidemic.
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Schools opening up to alternative medicine
Jun 6 2005 7:29AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Once largely dismissed as a leftover fad from the Age of Aquarius, acupuncture, herbal remedies and other forms of alternative medicine are finding their way into curriculums at traditional medical schools _ most recently the University of Pennsylvania.
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