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All Substitutes Are Not Equal
Lundi 05 Mai 2008 - 21:00 - 8 mois depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) Mary Poppins knew this secret: We are born with an innate preference for sweetness. As she liked to sing: "A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down." |
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Share Your Medical Mystery
Lundi 05 Mai 2008 - 08:10 - 8 mois, 1 semaine depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) The Washington Post's Sandra G. Boodman is looking for challenging medical cases -- ones that have been resolved but in which the patient's symptoms were puzzling to doctors or suggested an immediate diagnosis that would have been wrong. Patients must have medical records documenting their care, ... |
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Meat That May Contain Fatal Germ Is Recalled
Samedi 03 Mai 2008 - 21:00 - 8 mois, 1 semaine depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) Gourmet Boutique recalled about 286,320 pounds of fresh and frozen meat and poultry after regulators found it might be contaminated with potentially fatal listeria germs, according to the Food Safety and Inspection Service, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. |
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Surgery Shows Promise For Treatment of Diabetes
Samedi 03 Mai 2008 - 21:00 - 8 mois, 1 semaine depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) Rocco Turso was injecting himself with insulin three times a day, swallowing pills twice daily and restricting his diet. But his diabetes was still out of control, blurring his vision, making his feet numb and sapping his energy. So he decided to try an experimental operation. Within days, his blood... |
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Sharing the Gift of Life
Samedi 03 Mai 2008 - 21:00 - 8 mois, 1 semaine depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) On the day that Jamie Robyn Thompson was to share her 14th birthday celebration with family and the woman who gave birth to her, a movie spoofing surrogate mothers as trashy opportunists opened, and the news was rife with stories of infertile women "outsourcing" childbirth to poor women in India. |
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Doctors to reassess antibiotics for 'chronic Lyme' disease
Vendredi 02 Mai 2008 - 21:13 - 8 mois, 1 semaine depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) HARTFORD, Conn. -- Patients who believe they suffer long-term problems from Lyme disease are claiming victory over a national doctors group. The Infectious Diseases Society of America has agreed to review its guidelines, which say there's no evidence long-term antibiotics can cure "chronic Lyme"... |
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Speeding Up Safety
Vendredi 02 Mai 2008 - 21:00 - 8 mois, 1 semaine depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) After a government panel said there was "some concern" that the chemical bisphenol A could be harmful to infants and small children, it took less than a week for Wal-Mart and Toys R Us to announce that they would stop selling baby bottles that were made with it. |
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Speakers Express Division on Bill To Mandate Health-Care Coverage
Vendredi 02 Mai 2008 - 21:00 - 8 mois, 1 semaine depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) District residents with chronic illnesses, representatives of HMOs and convenience store owners testified yesterday at a D.C. Council hearing on far-reaching legislation that would mandate health-care coverage for all residents. |
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CDC Cites Largest U.S. Resurgence of Measles Since 2001
Jeudi 01 Mai 2008 - 21:00 - 8 mois, 1 semaine depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) At least four outbreaks of measles are underway around the United States, the largest resurgence in years of the once-common childhood disease, federal health officials reported yesterday. |
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Md. Insurance Law Draws Praise From Young Adults
Jeudi 01 Mai 2008 - 21:00 - 8 mois, 1 semaine depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) University of Maryland sophomore Laura Calabrese is not certain what she wants to do when she graduates in two years. But she is thankful that because of recent changes in state law, she'll be able to stay on her parents' health insurance until she is 25, allowing her to consider a volunteer or... |
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