Doctor's innovation saves people from hip replacements
Dec. 27, 2002
Because Dr. Marc Philippon is not one to brag, someone else will have to tell you that the list of private numbers in his cell-phone memory would be the envy of any sports agent or fan.

Study: Light drinking during pregnancy may have implications for child later in life
Dec. 27, 2002
Women who drink light-to-moderate amounts of alcohol during pregnancy may put their children at risk for mild growth delays and other health problems later in life, new research suggests.

Brain drain might help Alzheimer's patients
Dec. 27, 2002
A brain fluid “oil change” may help Alzheimer’s patients, neurosurgeons report. In the latest issue of Neurology, researchers describe early success using a shunt device, which when implanted in the brain constantly drains off small amounts of the fluid the brain produces.

Knowing stroke facts can aid in prevention
Dec. 27, 2002
Facts about strokes: * Stroke is the nation’s third-leading cause of death, behind heart disease and cancer. * Every 53 seconds, on average, someone in the United States suffers a stroke.

Author offers plain talk on postpartum problems
Nov. 23, 2002
Depression. Incontinence. Guilt. Stretch marks on your breasts. Mama never said there would days like these — nor worries like these — after giving birth.

Stroke teaches contractor life lessons
Oct. 25, 2002
Steve Coyle was doing exactly what he loves most that February day in 2001. “I was redoing a sunroom, putting ceramic tile in,” recalls the 57-year-old building contractor. But Coyle, of Fort Wayne, Ind., sensed something still wasn’t right and asked a co-worker to take him home. He went to bed — a decision that would affect the rest of his life.

Ignoring the risks of STDS can be costly
Oct. 25, 2002
Fisk University freshman James Braxton says it’s not that college students don’t take sexually transmitted diseases seriously. “They just don’t think it can happen to them,” he says.

New technology takes aim at osteoporosis
Oct. 25, 2002
Tanned, trim and smiling, Marty Baze looked the picture of health as she awaited her first bone density scan for osteoporosis at the Aston Ambulatory Care Center in Dallas.

Use strategies to address tobacco use among youth
Sept. 30, 2002
Although most kids don’t smoke, an alarming number of children and adolescents do smoke cigarettes or use smokeless tobacco. In 1994, the surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service identified smoking as a pediatric epidemic.

Study: Exhaust fumes pose risk
Sept. 30, 2002
Car and truck exhaust fumes — specifically the particles spewing from millions of tailpipes — pose a serious risk to people with heart disease, a new study says. The preliminary study is the first to link highway pollution with exercise-induced oxygen starvation, which can bring on a heart attack in people with heart disease.

Study: Tonsillectomies justified if infections meet strict standards
Sept. 30, 2002
Tonsil and adenoid removal has long been used to treat children with a history of recurrent throat infections. Removal may not be justified, however, if those infections don’t meet strict standards for frequency and severity, according to a recent study.

Genetic testing predicts likelihood of developing breast cancer
Sept. 30, 2002
It can be both terrifying and empowering for a woman to learn that her genes have all but doomed her to breast cancer. It’s long been known that cancer runs in families. But since the mid-1990s, widely available genetic testing has been able to predict, with grim certainty, which women are far more likely than most to get the disease.

Research may explain physical roots of depression
Aug. 26, 2002
Using PET scans to explore the trail of damage in the brains of patients who have lost their zest for life as a result of stroke or head trauma, Dr. Robert G. Robinson believes he has discovered the dark lair where depression resides.

New studies prompt change in approach to placebo effect
Aug. 26, 2002
When Daniel Moerman’s back begins hurting, he reaches for a bottle of Advil, but he pauses a moment to look respectfully at the pills and talk to them before swallowing them. “You are the best pills in the world,” the University of Michigan-Dearborn anthropologist tells them. “This pain is going to go, and I’m only going to need two, not three.”

Early heart screening advised
Aug. 26, 2002
Doctors should start screening patients for their risk of developing heart disease or strokes as early as age 20, says the American Heart Association. In updated guidelines published recently in the journal Circulation, an expert panel says that people 40 and older, or anyone who has two or more risk factors, should know their chances of developing heart disease over the next decade.

Prepare for changes during child's shift to middle school
Aug. 26, 2002
Many school-age children and adolescents will be attending new school environments this fall, due to a family move to a new area or the move from elementary to middle school or to high school.

New study of dogs' genes may aid human research
Aug. 26, 2002
It’s a rare scientist who would name a research project after the family pet, but for Dr. Gordon Lark, it seemed the natural thing to do. That’s because the geneticist’s work would have been dramatically different if not for Georgie, the Lark family dog — and a disease that plagues his breed.

Ask before taking breast cancer drug
August 26, 2002
Women who are considering taking medication to reduce their high risk of breast cancer need to talk with their doctor about whether such a move is likely to cause more harm than good, according to recommendations out today from an independent, government-sponsored panel.

Infections after Lasik surgery raise concerns
August 26, 2002
Three outbreaks of infection following a popular eye surgery have smudged the operation’s spotless public image.

How to spot body-image disorders and where to go for help
Dec. 3, 2001
Serious body-image problems and eating disorders are best treated when diagnosed in the early stages. Here’s what to look for in men and boys. FULL STORY

Innovative procedure could help millions with heart disease
Nov. 16, 2001
With her failing heart pumping at only 20 percent of normal capacity, a 78-year-old woman in the Netherlands became the first person in the world to get a new treatment designed to rejuvenate damaged heart muscle. FULL STORY

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