USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education)

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Articles in Feb 2005 issue of USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education)

• "Memory and other cognitive functions do not show significant decline in all elderly," contends Beth Ober, professor of human development at the University of California, Davis
• Interacting with and petting animals
• Women prone to upper body maladies
• African-Americans fatter, less fit than Caucasians
• Home testing for rare disease
• Oral exposure boosting infection
• Counseling improves immune system
• Cellular inflammation precursor to heart disease
• Don't be haunted by a toothless grin
• The proportion of admissions to substance treatment programs for abuse of narcotic prescription medications, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine has increased in the past 10 years, while those for cocaine abuse declined
• Librarians give pointers for online searches
• Sufferers prefer home remedies
• "Permanent" injuries may have a cure
• Easing discomfort of swollen feet
• Mail order drugs tainted by heat
• Cure-all drug remains risky
• Exhibition explores images of quacks and quackery
• Disease gene linked to evolution
• The ABCs of the flu
• Is smoking finally out of style?
• Sleep researchers from the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, and colleagues report sleep loss and fatigue affect medical residents in several ways, including learning, job performance, and personal relationships
• Many tests and surgeries simply are a waste
• Retailers reduce sales of cigarettes to kids
• Groups considered at high risk for the flu should consider getting a pneumonia vaccine as well
• Children living on pig farms
• Can saliva samples replace blood work?
• Many short kids happy as is
• Knee flare-ups can be controlled
• Infant neglect surfaces in mid life
• Why do pharmacies sell tobacco?
• Blood tests to determine the amount of cholesterol and the lipid triglyceride in the bloodstream, which are primary risk factors for heart disease, are nearly always conducted after a 12-hour fast
• Increased mortality following discharge
• Parasympathetic nervous system at risk
• Memory loss but not Alzheimer's
• Contributing gene finally found
• Statins sustain cardiac victims
• Black girls most likely to be obese
• Doctors now writing "info" prescriptions
• Doctors appear willing to use intensive measures to lessen otherwise untreatable pain and severe symptoms in dying patients even if the treatment at least in theory, risks hastening the dying process
• Kids curious about genetic dads
• Disease may be family affair
• Hormones make all the difference
• Minimizing damage after a heart attack
• An apple a day may keep dementia away
• Former smokers survive longer