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AARP: Wholesale drug prices top inflation
Aug 15 2005 11:53PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wholesale prices for the brand-name prescription drugs widely used by older Americans rose at more than twice the rate of inflation during the year that ended March 31, the AARP says.
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Ag Dept. cites plants on mad-cow rules
Aug 15 2005 10:12PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Inspectors have found more than 1,000 violations of rules aimed at preventing mad cow disease from reaching humans, the Agriculture Department said Monday. No contaminated meat reached consumers, the agency said.
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Pediatricians' weight could be obstacle
Aug 15 2005 9:58PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - For many doctors, it's tough enough to talk to an adult about a weight problem, let alone a child. Apparently, that's an even bigger challenge if the doctor is fat, or thin. Some skinny pediatricians worry they'll seem unsympathetic. Their overweight colleagues, meanwhile, risk seeming hypocritical when they give advice to chubby children.
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New step reported for muscular dystrophy
Aug 15 2005 9:57PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have taken a new step in the quest for gene therapy for muscular dystrophy. Three years after researchers experimenting with mice discovered that gene therapy might one day work, another team has found a way to deliver such therapy throughout the body.
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Painkillers linked to hypertension
Aug 15 2005 9:50PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Women taking daily amounts of non-aspirin painkillers _ such as an extra-strength Tylenol _ are more likely to develop high blood pressure than those who don't, a new study suggests.
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Dramatic surgery fixes rare skull defect
Aug 15 2005 1:17PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Every morning, Rebecca Ackerman's nose would run for a few hours, infuriating the 5-year-old. Then a doctor made a startling discovery: Those pesky drips weren't allergies but spinal fluid _ Rebecca had a hole inside her skull.
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Atlanta group promotes black men's health
Aug 15 2005 6:48AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Although an avid tennis player and very trim at age 58, Terrell Slayton Jr. has a host of chronic conditions _ including diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. But he knows that many other black men in his community don't even know the status of their health.
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U.N.: Polio cases reach 219 in Indonesia
Aug 15 2005 2:52AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - The number of Indonesians stricken by polio climbed to 219, the U.N. health agency said Monday, with 14 new cases reported in children who hadn't been vaccinated for the crippling disease.
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