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Reuters Health News: 02-21-2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The circumference of your waist correlates more closely with several known risk factors for heart disease than does your body mass index (BMI) -- the measure of weight in relation to height -- according to a report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Previous reports have found that although women are less likely to experience a heart attack than men, they are more likely to die afterward. Now, Scottish researchers suggest that this may be because women receive inferior care.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Environmental changes wrought by population movement, destruction of habitats and other factors may be behind a resurgence of infectious diseases, a United Nations study says.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with epilepsy, especially those who don't respond to anti-seizure medication, may one day be helped with a kind of brain pacemaker.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If every woman aged between 50 and 79 got a mammogram every year, it would reduce deaths from breast cancer by 37 percent, according to a new statistical tool described on Sunday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children with asthma who are prescribed daily medication frequently miss scheduled doses, investigators report in the Journal of Pediatrics. Authors of a second paper believe that this is because families often have difficulty incorporating daily medication into their normal routines.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany will issue guidelines in the next few days to significantly restrict the use of so-called COX-2 inhibitors to ease pain, the country's drug regulator said on Monday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men and women who are fit enough to return to work within a year after a heart attack may experience ongoing psychologic distress, new study findings suggest. In comparison to other workers, these heart attack survivors have more symptoms of depression and anxiety.
SEME, Nigeria (Reuters) - Three West African countries at the center of a polio epidemic launched an immunization drive on Sunday to help stop the spread of the crippling disease by the end of this year.
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (Reuters) - Merck & Co. Inc.'s MRK.N withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx is safe enough to rejoin Pfizer's rival pain relievers Celebrex and Bextra on the U.S. market, an advisory panel said after concluding that all three medicines posed some level of heart risk.
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