USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education)

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

• Common complication following surgery
• The revised guidelines for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension caution against the use of calcium channel blockers—used to combat high blood pressure—in unstable patients
• Stressed-out victims of Katrina
• Admissions up on all drug fronts
• Head lice hit most school districts
• Exercise alleviates anorexia and bulimia
• Plastic surgeons on front lines in Iraq
• Asthma and allergies may reduce risk
• The art of medicine in Ancient Egypt
• Man and beast both at risk
• New "spearing" rule for college football
• New MRI aids early detection
• Predictors different among sexes, races
• Why people want plastic surgery
• Less invasive biopsy for large tumors
• Childhood poverty indicator for women
• Deformities handicap mentally disabled kids
• Implants not implicated in cancer recurrence
• Bottom line bolstered by branding
• New target found to fight Parkinson's
• Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• Are workouts best remedy?
• Obesity drives up the cost of health care by increasing the incidence of diabetes, hypertension, and a wide variety of expensive chronic health conditions, many of which are significant risk factors for other serious diseases, say researchers at Emory Uni
• Shame, not guilt linked to addiction
• Diseases that are transmitted human to human are more of a concern for health officials in New Orleans than those spread by insects and other animals, maintains an epidemiologist at the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine, West Lafayette, Ind
• Redheads remain more susceptible
• Disease linked to amino acid deficiency
• Ways to avoid foot problems
• A nine percent decline in illicit drug use among American youth between the ages of 12-17 from 2002-04 has been announced by the Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C
• Nanotubes help broken bones mend
• During dental or surgical procedures, bacteria that reside in the mouth or upper respiratory tract can travel to an in-office computer keyboard and survive as long as 24 hours
• Emotional factors can worsen symptoms
• Does chlorination lead to miscarriage?
• Doctors' neckties can make patients sick
• Up to 98,000 individuals die as a result of medical errors each year
• Can new drug stop infant infections?
• Injuries higher among the obese
• Therapists at highest risk for asthma
• Doctors are not following the recommended asthma guidelines and are underprescribing controller medications while overprescribing rescue drugs for patients who visit the emergency room, suggests a nationwide study by the American College of Chest Physicia
• Smooth muscle cells may hold key
• Recovering users mourn "lost love"
• Essential fats may prevent bone loss