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Bird droppings linked to Indonesia deaths
Jul 25 2005 11:51PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Three family members who died of bird flu earlier this month were infected by chicken droppings that contained the deadly HN51 strain of the virus, Indonesia's agriculture ministry said Tuesday.
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Newborn Arizona twins need new hearts
Jul 25 2005 10:21PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The parents of 2-week-old twins born with a rare heart disease pleaded for organ donations Monday in hopes of saving the boys' lives.
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N.Y. diabetes-tracking plan draws concern
Jul 25 2005 10:03PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - At least half a million New Yorkers have diabetes, many of them at risk for blindness, kidney failure, amputations and heart problems because they are doing a poor job of controlling their illness. The question is, how much privacy are they willing to give up for a chance at better health?
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Mexico launches Latin America genetic map
Jul 25 2005 7:49PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - The Mexican government and private companies launched a project Monday to map the genes of Mexicans, in hopes of developing treatments for health problems such as diabetes, asthma and hypertension.
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Georgia ranks 6th worst in TB cases
Jul 25 2005 7:45PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia ranks sixth worst in the nation for cases of the respiratory disease tuberculosis. Last year, the state saw 537 reported cases of tuberculosis and 25 deaths. And in Atlanta, the rate is 2.5 times the national average with 14.2 cases per 100,000.
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Study: Exercise can't halt aging effects
Jul 25 2005 7:36PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Exercise can't hold off the effects of aging, but it can improve an elderly person's chances of hanging onto an independent lifestyle, researchers said, citing a new study that brought both good and bad news.
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Woman swallows camera pill for endoscopy
Jul 25 2005 7:33PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A funny thing happened five minutes after Dr. Amar Al-Juburi started an endoscopy procedure on Sandy Sellers. He was done. Sellers swallowed two cameras mounted in a clear pill the size of vitamin. After waiting 15 more minutes to make sure a computer captured the 2,600 images taken during the five-minute test, the woman was free to return to her job as a doctor's office technician.
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Cervical cancer deaths frustrate doctors
Jul 25 2005 7:25PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Virtually all deaths from cervical cancer are preventable, yet the disease will kill almost 4,000 women in this country this year. Frustrated scientists know who most of them will be: black women in the South, Hispanics along the Texas-Mexico border, white women in Appalachia and the rural Northeast, Vietnamese immigrants.
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Trial to test stem cells for heart attacks
Jul 25 2005 7:21PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A clinical trial to test the safety of treating heart attack damage with stem cells is about to get under way, following a study that showed the therapy helped in pigs.
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Experts say Afghan heroin spreading AIDS
Jul 25 2005 5:35PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Heroin flowing out of Afghanistan is creating a new AIDS epidemic among drug addicts in Eurasia, where the disease once had been rare, scientists said Monday.
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N.Y. may have had early Spanish flu bout
Jul 25 2005 4:46PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - New York City may have had a preliminary bout with the deadly Spanish Flu months before it swept the world in 1918, killing millions.
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Aid groups decry slow response to Niger
Jul 25 2005 10:13AM (CT)
MARADI, Niger (AP) - Nasseiba Ali is the face of hunger in Niger. The 20-month-old girl weighs just 12 pounds, and her eyes are clouded at night, one of the symptoms of her chronic malnourishment. Nasseiba may survive because her grandmother was able to get her to a feeding center. But aid groups despair that so many other children are dying because the world was slow to respond.
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Abortion pill deaths puzzle officials
Jul 25 2005 6:06AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal health investigators are baffled: Why have four California women died from a bloodstream infection after using a controversial abortion pill?
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