AP - Researchers have encouraging news for women who find themselves in a very frightening situation: having cancer while pregnant. Studies suggest that these women can be treated almost the same as other cancer patients are, with minimal risk to the fetus.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) --
The cancer drug bexarotene quickly eliminates Alzheimer's
disease-associated amyloid beta from the brain and reverses memory
problems in mice, a new study finds.
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | According to the newly revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, you are probably suffering from a mental illness. Millions of normal, healthy people would be wrongly labeled mentally ill if the new international diagnostic manual's checklists are followed.
Reuters - including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes - may be wrongly labeled mentally ill by a new international diagnostic manual, specialists said on Thursday.
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 10 (HealthDay News) --
There's little evidence linking disease severity or antiretroviral
treatment with the degree of psychiatric symptoms in HIV-positive children
and teens infected around the time of birth, according to a new study.
Reuters - A Food and Drug Administration panel of outside experts on Thursday ruled against using a pain-relief product derived from chili peppers to treat the pain that afflicts many HIV patients suffer in their extremities.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- When Jane Able's 4-year-old
daughter, Ellie, was diagnosed with a severe peanut allergy, the New
Albany, Ohio, mother got trained in using an epinephrine pen and never
leaves home without it.
Reuters - Men who have the allergic skin condition eczema may have a higher risk of erectile dysfunction than other men, according to a Taiwanese study.
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) --
Drinking a lot of soft drinks may increase the risk for asthma and/or
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a new study suggests.
Reuters - Merck & Co's recently approved Victrelis treatment for hepatitis C considerably lessens the effectiveness of some widely used medicines against the virus that causes AIDS, Merck and U.S. regulators said in separate reports.
Reuters - People enrolled in early stage trials for possible cancer treatments may underestimate the risks involved and overestimate the potential benefits, suggests a new study.
LiveScience.com - A new finding in brain science reveals that the voices in a schizophrenia patient's head can drown out voices in the real world — and provides hope that people with the disorder can learn to ignore hallucinatory talk.
AP - Roy Hallums was enduring his 311th day of captivity, blindfolded, his hands and feet bound, stuffed into a hole under the floor of a farm building outside Baghdad. He heard a commotion upstairs and managed to get the blindfold off. Delta Force troops broke open the hatch. An American soldier jumped down.
ContributorNetwork - A study published by the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine reverses some earlier thinking that breastfeeding by mothers with asthma might increase the child's risk for the disease. The study found breastfeeding strengthens children's lungs, even if the mother has asthma. Here are details about breastfeeding and lung health in children.
Reuters - About two-thirds of women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer want to take part in making decisions about their treatment, according to a new survey of patients from five different countries.
Reuters - In women with a history of mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, getting an abortion does not increase their chances of landing in a psychiatric facility again, suggests a new study from Denmark.
AP - A federal appeals court on Wednesday granted a new hearing to a 40-year-old man who claimed the Atlanta Police Department rejected his job application because he has HIV.
