Diseases/Conditions News

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Infants who have been given the common pain reliever paracetamol may have a higher risk of developing asthma and eczema by the time they are 6 or 7, a large study covering children in 31 countries has found.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hypnosis can help reduce hot flashes among breast cancer survivors, new research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology shows.

CLEARWATER, Florida (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday rejected opponent John McCain's call to postpone the first U.S. presidential debate to work on legislation dealing with the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression.

FRIDAY, Sept. 26 (HealthDay News) -- As the number of countries reporting intravenous drug use has increased over the last decade, a new study suggests that as many as 3 million of these addicts may be HIV-positive.

THURSDAY, Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Increasing use of folic acid and other dietary supplements by women may be one reason why the prevalence of asthma has nearly doubled in the past 25 years, U.S. researchers are suggesting.

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Large doses of vitamin C could reduce the effectiveness of anticancer drugs, according to a new study that focused on laboratory cancer cells and mice.

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson aren't saying it will be a return to the Great Depression if the government doesn't pass a $700 billion bailout bill, but their views are decidedly on the gloomy side. However, private economists don't all share that assessment.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - AIDS activists on Friday celebrated the removal of South Africa's health minister, accused of causing countless unnecessary deaths by promoting nutritional supplements instead of conventional medicine for people with HIV.

PARIS (AFP) - A chronic runny nose, taking paracetamol in infancy, and wheezing as a child are all conditions linked to the onset of adulthood asthma, a trio of studies reported Friday.

TUESDAY, Sept. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have uncovered a genetic link between obesity and the risk for colon cancer. The discovery could lead to greater accuracy in predicting who is at risk for the disease, experts say.

BEIJING (AFP) - Knowledge and awareness of AIDS and HIV transmission in China is still low, even in big cities like Shanghai, according to a survey released Friday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among children who have a parent with allergies or asthma, delivery cesarean section appears to increase the odds that they will develop allergic rhinitis and atopy -- but not asthma -- US researchers report.

NEW YORK - A computer is as good as a second pair of eyes for helping a radiologist spot breast cancer on a mammogram, one of the largest and most rigorous tests of computer-aided detection found.

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Barack Obama proposed reforms on Monday to rein in practices that led to the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Depression, while White House rival John McCain touted his own remedies and accused Obama of failing to provide leadership.

PARIS (AFP) - Around 16 million people around the world inject illegal drugs, and nearly one in five of them may have the AIDS virus, according to an estimate published online Wednesday by The Lancet.

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Children who attended a daycare center as infants are 35 percent less likely than their peers to have asthma symptoms by age 5, according to new research.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Vitamin C supplements may significantly reduce the effectiveness of several anti-cancer drugs, according to a new study published Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States may be suffering its worst financial crisis since the Depression, but former President Bill Clinton hopes companies arrive in a generous mood for his fourth annual philanthropic summit.

LONDON (Reuters) - The rate of HIV infection among people who inject themselves with drugs appears to be rising, according to a study published on Wednesday.

TUESDAY, Sept. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Responding to concerns that food labels aren't doing enough to alert consumers to the presence of allergens, or that the labels are just plain confusing, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is hosting a public hearing Tuesday on what it can do to improve things.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A gene related to a hormone secreted by the body's fat cells may lower the risk of colon cancer, a discovery that could reassure people with a family history of the disease, researchers said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Senator Hillary Clinton said the federal government should establish a special entity that would buy mortgages from Americans and later sell them just as it did during the Great Depression.

WASHINGTON - Experts at an early August international AIDS conference in Mexico City were full of praise for the United States for having reversed a 15-year-old law banning HIV-positive people from entering the country.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who attend daycare may have a lower risk of developing asthma later on, particularly if they start daycare between the ages of 6 and 12 months, a new study suggests.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A simple screen of proteins in human saliva was able to accurately detect a common type of oral cancer, a finding that may lead to a painless new diagnostic test, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged Congress Sunday to swiftly pass an unprecedented 700-billion-dollar financial rescue plan, deflecting calls from Democrats for measures to help at-risk homeowners.

BEIJING (AFP) - China should compensate thousands of people infected with the HIV virus through government-backed blood trading and be given access to the latest anti-AIDS drugs, a top UN official said Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with inadequately treated asthma during pregnancy are at increased risk for premature delivery, according to a new study.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vitamin C supplements may undercut the effectiveness of cancer drugs including Novartis' Gleevec, a U.S. study published on Wednesday showed.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Treasury late Saturday unveiled details of the government's unprecedented 700-billion-dollar bailout plan for the US financial sector in the worst market crisis since the Great Depression.