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Kids may mimic parents' smoking, drinking
Sep 5 2005 10:07PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Preschoolers pretending to shop for a Barbie doll's social evening were more likely to choose cigarettes if their parents smoked, and wine or beer if their parents drank, a study found.
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Scanners help determine what pleases women
Sep 5 2005 7:41PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Drug companies make $2.5 billion a year selling Viagra, Cialis and Levitra to help men enjoy sex. Since more women suffer from sexual dysfunction than men, developing a drug that could double those sales would seem to be a no-brainer.
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Vitamin B pills may not stop heart attacks
Sep 5 2005 7:09PM (CT)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Folic acid and vitamin B pills do not ward off heart attacks or strokes and may even be harmful when combined, new research suggests.
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Sodium nitrate could be disease cure
Sep 5 2005 7:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Could the salt that preserves hot dogs also preserve your health? Scientists at the National Institutes of Health think so. They've begun infusing sodium nitrite into volunteers in hopes that it could prove a cheap but potent treatment for sickle cell anemia, heart attacks, brain aneurysms, even an illness that suffocates babies.
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Doctors may be helping sick kids die
Sep 5 2005 7:07PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Researchers in the Netherlands, the first country to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill people, have found that doctors are helping hasten the deaths of sick children in a variety of ways, sometimes at the edges of what the law allows.
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Study finds newer blood thinner safer
Sep 5 2005 7:07PM (CT)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - In the largest study ever conducted on people in the throes of a heart attack, scientists have found that giving a newer blood thinner instead of the traditional one could halve the risk of causing life threatening bleeding.
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