A new category of bugs becomes more resistant to treatment, and their toll -- which already includes a Brazilian beauty queen -- is expected to rise. When Ruth Burns had surgery to relieve a pinched nerve in her back, the operation was supposed to be an "in-and-out thing," recalled her daughter, Kacia Warren.
Few Youths Need Cholesterol Drugs, Study Finds
The American Academy of Pediatrics issued new guidelines last July that some worried would lead to millions of kids being prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs. A new study indicates just a tiny number of kids would need the drugs.
Downtown Raleigh amphitheater update
As of today, the proposed new downtown Raleigh amphitheater remains nothing more than that, a proposal.
Flu outbreak in Md. is on upswing
Worst of epidemic is expected in three to four weeks Dr. David del Rosario takes a throat culture swab from patient Melissa Cyr, 16, of Columbia. Dr. del Rosario is seeing an increase of flu cases at the Patient First clinic in Glen Burnie. Public health and hospital officials say seasonal influenza, with its aches, fevers and assorted other agonies, is indeed on the rise in Maryland this month, with a peak due in the next three or four weeks.
HEALTH-UGANDA: Pads From Papyrus
KAMPALA, Feb 17 (IPS)The average income in the Kyenjojo district in western Uganda is less than a dollar a day. Spending twice that on a single sanitary pad is an unaffordable luxury for most women.
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