Calf. study finds decline in cancer risk (AP)
AP - A study released Friday found the cancer risk from air pollution in Southern California is down 15 percent, but the good news was tempered by the reality that the region still has some of the dirtiest air in the country. More »
Ouch! Cervical cancer shots painful (AP)
AP - The groundbreaking vaccine that prevents cervical cancer in girls is gaining a reputation as the most painful of childhood shots, health experts say. As Austin Powers would say; "Ouch, baby. Very ouch." More »
Research Gets Closer to Origin of Parkinson's Disease (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) -- The nerve cell death that helps drive Parkinson's disease may be triggered by a harmful modification in a particular nerve cell protein, new research reveals. More »
Menopause Issues? Walk It Off, Study Says
Being active can ease the stress and anxiety of menopause, a researcher says. More »
Bayer Recalls Diabetes Test Strips
Diabetics who use a certain kind of test strip may get readings that are too high. More »
Mayor Urges Oklahoma City To Go On Diet
The mayor of Oklahoma City is urging residents to go on a city-wide diet. More »
Some Faint After Anti-Cancer Shot
Doctors see more reports of girls fainting after getting a shot to help prevent cervical cancer. More »
Lawsuit Says Antibiotics Hurt Tendons
A consumer group says patients need to know more about how Cipro and Levaquin affect tendons. More »
Wii Elbow? Popular System Can Bring Pain
The Nintendo Wii can be downright dangerous, a doctor says. More »
Health Tip: Get Children Tested for Lead Poisoning (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) - Since exposure to even low amounts of lead among children can cause learning disabilities and behavioral problems, it's important for parents to prevent exposure at home. More »
Clinical Trials Update: Jan. 4, 2008 (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch: More »
Dengue fever killed 407 in Cambodia (AP)
AP - Dengue fever killed 407 people in Cambodia last year, the highest number of fatalities in nearly a decade, a health official said Friday. Most of those who died from the disease were children, said Ngan Chantha, director of the National Anti-Dengue Fever Program. More »
Thousands of Britons sickened by virus (AP)
AP - Thousands of people in Britain have been sickened by the biggest outbreak of a winter vomiting virus in five years. Doctors estimate that hundreds of thousands of people may be affected by norovirus in the coming days. Dozens of hospital wards across the country have already been closed to try to stop the virus' spread. More »
Docs: Home care OK for kids' pneumonia (AP)
AP - Children with severe pneumonia can be treated just as effectively at home as in a hospital, according to new research. Doctors in Pakistan found that children taking antibiotics at home were as likely to survive serious pneumonia as those treated in hospitals. The study was published Friday in the British medical journal, The Lancet. More »
Oklahoma City mayor puts city on a diet (AP)
AP - With a button-popping spread of cornbread, sausage and gravy, chicken fried steak and pecan pie designated as Oklahoma's official state meal, it's no surprise that Oklahoma City's mayor wants to put the city on a diet. Mick Cornett has challenged the city to shed 1 million pounds as its New Year's resolution. More »
Clinical Trials Update: Jan. 3, 2008 (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch: More »
Nigeria: Educators Rally Support for Family Life, HIV Curriculum
State Governments, State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEBs), Provosts of Colleges of Education and other basic education supervising agencies have been called upon to, as a matter of urgency, ensure budgetary provisions for the training of implementers of the Family Life and HIV Education (FLHE) Curriculum and dissemination of the messages of HIV/AIDS to different stakeholders in their communities. More »
Nigeria: HIV/Aids - '1m Children Now Orphans'
The Gombe state Director of the National Orientation Agency, (NOA) Mr. Ado Solomon has disclosed that About one million children in the country have lost their parents to HIV /AIDS. More »
Nigeria: Aids Killed 2.9m in 2006 - Unicef
About 2.9 million people died of HIV and AIDS-related illnesses world wide in 2006, UNICEF said in an annual report issued in Abuja. More »
Nigeria: SACA Tasks Pregnant Women On HIV Test
Project Manager, Ekiti State Action Committee on AIDS (SACA), Pastor Bayo Adenigba, has charged pregnant women to know their HIV status at the early stage of pregnancy, to prevent their unborn babies. More »
Sierra Leone: Muslim Leaders Poised to Fight HIV/Aids
Muslim leaders in the east of Freetown have expressed readiness to help in the fight against HIV/AIDS. More »
J&J drugs don't work in treating aggression: study (Reuters)
Reuters - Two Johnson & Johnson antipsychotic drugs long used to treat aggressive behavior in people with limited intelligence do not work and should not be prescribed for these patients, researchers said on Friday. More »