A cancer drug has been shown to stimulate the growth of new blood vessels in oxygen-starved areas of the heart, offering a potential new treatment for people with clogged heart arteries.
A Leaky Situation
A New Day: Fashion Contemplates Fresh Icons
A postal worker is sent home from a hospital after doctors tell him he has the flu. The next day he returns and dies of anthrax.
A study of more than 4,000 Medicare patients with peptic ulcers suggests many are not being warned against using pain relievers such as aspirin and ibuprofen, which can cause the ailment or make it worse.
A supermarket tabloid mailroom worker infected with inhaled anthrax is ``doing great'' and his stepdaughter said Saturday she's anxious for his release from the hospital
A surprising and provocative study of brain tissue from people with Huntington's disease will stir debate about how a defective gene causes the disorder - and how to devise a treatment.
A widely used blood pressure drug shows strong potential for slowing the metabolic overdrive that makes patients waste away after severe burns and other major injuries, researchers say.
Anthrax Authorities Discover How Little They Know
Anthrax scare causes flu confusion
Anthrax, Flu Tough To Tell Apart
Authorities say they have pinpointed the New Jersey post office sorting box from which anthrax-bearing letters were sent, advancing their investigation even as two more people were found to have the skin form of the disease.
BioGems: Saving Endangered Wild Places A project of the Natural Resources Defense Council
Building Big: World Trade Center - stats and facts.
Bush White House Reverses Clinton Decision on Mining
Caffeine Can Help Soldiers
California Governor Warns of Threat at State's Bridges
CDC Releases Anthrax Guidelines
Cipro for Chickens Sets Off Antibiotic Debate
Cipro is not the only antibiotic that fends off anthrax. Two other drugs are widely available, have fewer side effects and are much cheaper, a message the government is struggling to get out. Read the story and comments from a Harvard physician.
Cipro Medicine Has Some Side Effects
Ciprofloxacin (CIPRO ): Use by pregnant & lactating women
Court To Consider Drug Mixing Case
Demand Far Exceeds Supply for Flu Shots
Doctors can save the lives of many elderly heart attack victims by quickly giving blood transfusions to those who have even mild anemia, a U.S. study found.
Doctors Say Call to Get Flu Shots Could Backfire
Does The Pill Affect Libido By Blunting A Woman's Sense Of Smell?
Doxycycline Could Harm Fetuses
Doxycycline: Use by pregnant & lactating women
Drug Preparedness and Response to Bioterrorism
Early Warning Needed On Bioterrorism
Earth Shoe Returns, Walking Tall
Estimates of Death Toll From Mad Cow Disease Vary Widely <<CFD
Estrogen And Strokes - October 25, 2001
Estrogen pills fail to ward off new strokes in older women who have already suffered them, a U.S. study finds.
Exercise And Arthritis -
Exercise Can Reduce Arthritis Risk
Genes are likely to have a much bigger role than environmental factors in asthma, suggests research on twins in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. The UK, Australia and New Zealand have the highest rates of asthma in the world, with between 17 and 30 per cent of the population affected.
Health Fitness
Health Focus: What's Up With The Flu?
Heart attack patients with normal EKGs may be in more danger than doctors realized.
Heart Attacks - October 26,2001
Hidden Agenda Behind "War On Terror"
How high is too high when it comes to blood pressure? New research suggests a reading a few points below the official benchmark for high blood pressure significantly increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Read the story and comments from a Harvard physician.
In a finding that may someday help scientists understand and treat ordinary baldness, researchers say they've identified a normal role for a gene that causes two rare hair-loss disorders when it's disabled. Read the story and comments from a Harvard physician.
In a landmark ruling that has followed 13 years of litigation, France's highest court has recently ordered that damages be paid to the Perruche family and their son Nicolas himself, because medical errors allowed him to be born. Read the story and comments from a Harvard physician.
Medical Device Approvals
Medical Officials Gearing Up For Confusing Flu Season
Medical Treatment Should Not Await A Diagnosis Of
Medicare's new multimillion-dollar consumer education campaign features humorous TV commercials touting a 24-hour hotline to help seniors navigate the massive health insurance system.
Nearly 10,000 On Anthrax Drugs
Never too thin?
New surgical techniques could save the lymph nodes and avoid radiotherapy after breast cancer surgery, a leading expert said.
Outlook India
Painless Heat Used In New Cancer Treatment
Pakistan Atom Experts Held Amid Fear of Leaked Secrets
Patients with congestive heart failure should not begin using the rheumatoid arthritis drug Remicade, the drug's makers warned physicians. Read the story and comments from a Harvard physician.
Power Lines May Aid Cancer Cells
Prostate Cancer Screening
Psychological Effect Of Biological Weapons Worse Than Physical Harm,
Questions and Answers on Doxycycline for Consumers
Researchers have found a gene that protects cells from a destructive form of oxygen and could possibly give mammals a longer life span. The finding could lead to drugs to help cells resist aging.
Salmonella DNA Test Speeds Detection
Save Endangered Wild Places << GWB destroying what few wild life preseves left in our world, The Artic too, this was on TV the other evening, the polar bears, an other animals are nearly extint, from greed again by the huge corporations..Stop now!
School Officials Need Refresher Course On Asthma
Scientists Find Simple Way Of Identifying The Likeliest Days To Conceive,
Scientists Link Tumors to Bone Marrow Cells
Second D.C. Anthrax Letter Possible - October 27, 2001
S.E.C. Opens Investigation Into Enron<<maybe
Slightly High Blood Pressure Shown to Raise Risk for Heart
Smokers take longer to conceive
Spotting bioterrorism early can be crucial to preventing its spread, but few cities have even crude systems in place to identify the first patients.
Steam, chemicals and even radiation have been used for decades to fight the dangerous germs that settle on everything from chicken parts to surgical instruments.
Stem Cell Registry to Be Posted Within a Week, Official Says
Study Issues Blood Pressure Warning
Study Looks at Absence of Referrals by Doctors
The best evidence yet that mammograms save lives - a lot of lives - is presented in a new long-term Swedish study that dates to 1968, when no screening was taking place because mammography had not yet been introduced. Read the story and comments from a Harvard physician.
The eight activities that cause the most muscle and bone injuries to children - bicycling and basketball top the list - stick America with a bill of about $33 billion a year, a new study says. Read the story and comments from a Harvard physician.
The U.S. government released guidelines Oct. 25 for treating confirmed cases of anthrax, providing a list of antibiotics that can be used against the cutaneous and inhaled forms of the infection.
Thestar.com/Somalia feared next safe haven for terrorists
Three hours after a cancerous tumor was removed from his kidney, David Rist drove himself home from the hospital.
To see the revised label and patient package insert, go to the MedWatch 2001 Safety Information posting for Xeloda at:
Tssues Blood Pressure Warning
Two germ banks tucked away in the smog and sprawl of the hemisphere's largest city stock dozens of petri dishes filled with anthrax, the bacteria that have sparked a worldwide panic. But there are no armed guards, no security cameras and no health officials tottering about in germ-proof space suits. In fact, these labs in Mexico City sell, swap or even give away the potentially deadly microbe to those with scientific credentials.
Two new findings may someday help doctors deal a one-two punch against inhaled anthrax, targeting not only anthrax bacteria with drugs like Cipro but also the poison those bacteria pump out.
University Foundation Says Geron May Lose Stem-Cell Rights
WASHINGTON (AP) - The post office is turning to the latest in anti-bacteria technology to clean the mail, while urging Americans to take the old-fashioned precaution of Washing their hands because the safety of mail can't be guaranteed.
Who Gets Scleroderma?
World AIDS Conference Begins
World Trade Center "Photos"
