AP - Poor air and water quality, and environmental changes blamed on global warming, have cut Europeans'life expectancy by nearly a year, Europe's environmental agency warned Wednesday.
AP - Heavy children who lost weight kept the pounds off better through weight maintenance follow-up, but even that wasn't terribly successful over two years, researchers reported.
AP - A migraine pill seems to help alcoholics taper off their drinking without detox treatment, researchers report, offering a potential option for a hard-to-treat problem. The drug, Topamax, works in a different way than three other medications already approved for treating alcoholism.
AP - Cutting dietary fat may also cut the risk of ovarian cancer, says a study of almost 40,000 older women that found the first hard evidence that menu changes protect against this particularly lethal cancer.
AP - More than 30 states have laws barring doctors from heeding a call by U.S. health officials to routinely test Americans for the AIDS virus, researchers report. And states don't seem to be in any rush to change that.
AFP - Ageing baby boomers risk seeing their sex lives end with a whimper not a bang if they are not prepared to speak about problems associated with growing older, a conference in Australia heard Tuesday.
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Oct. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Maintenance treatmentprograms might help children who've lost weight keep it off, new researchsuggests.
HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 8 (HealthDay News) -- A 2003 overhaul of Medicare thatchanged the way oncologists are reimbursed for their services did notalter cancer patients' perceptions of their quality of care, a new surveyfound.
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Oct. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Three genes that appear to worktogether are associated with 20 percent of lung cancers, and these samegenes are linked to fetal lung development, researchers report.
