|
Insurance & Litigation
•
|
Tools & Information
•
•
•
|
|
 Back to Reuters Health News Archives
Reuters Health News: 10-04-2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Higher-income individuals with prostate cancer feel more informed about the disease and more satisfied with their treatment decisions than do their lower-income peers, new survey findings show.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Asia's bird flu epidemic, which experts fear could spawn a human pandemic, has claimed its 31st victim, a nine-year-old Thai girl who had contact with infected chickens at home.
LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A proposal to spend $3 billion in California state funds on stem-cell research is likely to attract scientists and create jobs, but some critics question whether the investment will pay off.
KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Political leaders and health workers launched a drive Saturday to immunise more than 80 million children against polio in 23 African nations and fight back against a resurgence of the crippling disease.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Just one puff of a cigarette could damage a smoker's DNA, the first step to cancer and heart disease, researchers said on Friday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About a quarter of U.S. women who stopped taking hormone replacement therapy after it was found to raise the risk of heart disease and some cancers have gone back on it, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said on Friday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An antibiotic-resistant germ is increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise healthy children and adults.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The discovery that antidepressants may increase suicidal tendencies in children has prompted some lawmakers and physicians to ask if changes are needed to financial incentives given to drug makers for pediatric research.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids who spend less time during their early years around pets and dust don't appear to have a lower risk of developing asthma or respiratory problems, new research reports.
LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of people take them to stay healthy but scientists said on Friday that vitamin supplements do not protect against stomach and other cancers -- and may even make them worse.
|
|
