Yahoo! News: Health News
                  -----------------------------------
                  as of Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:03:44 GMT

    US hosts meeting to discuss bird flu response (Reuters)

Reuters - Health experts and other officials from around the world begin
 meeting in Washington on Thursday to discuss a coordinated response to
 the bird flu epidemic, the U.S. State Department said.

    Climate change linked to cruise ship illness outbreaks (Reuters)

Reuters - Warming ocean waters may have tainted Alaskan oysters with a
 bacteria that triggered four outbreaks of illness on a cruise ship
 among people who ate the shellfish raw, researchers reported on
 Wednesday.

    School meals just as healthy as home food - doctors (Reuters)

Reuters - Children who eat school meals are just as healthy, if not
 healthier, than those who bring packed lunches, British doctors said on
 Thursday.

    Toll from Toronto mystery illness climbs to 16 (Reuters)

Reuters - Sixteen people have now died from a mystery viral outbreak at
 a Toronto nursing home and 38 are in hospital, health officials said on
 Wednesday, as testing continued to uncover the cause of the illness.

    Drug helps combat teen heroin addiction (Reuters)

Reuters - As an add-on to counseling in treating opioid addiction in
 adolescents, the drug buprenorphine is more effective than a standard
 addiction treatment, according to a new report.

    Study Ties Kids' Weight Gain, Produce Cost (AP)

AP - A new study suggests the price of fresh fruits and vegetables has a
 stronger connection to weight gain among children than whether they
 live near fast-food outlets.

    Drug Helps Teens Kick Opiate Abuse (HealthDay)

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 5 (HealthDay News) -- The drug buprenorphine
 appears effective in treating teens addicted to heroin and other
 opiates, researchers report.

    Many Kids' Asthma Hospitalizations Preventable (HealthDay)

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 5 (HealthDay News) --  Almost 200,000
 American children are hospitalized yearly because of asthma attacks,
 but up to half of those hospitalizations are preventable, according to
 a new study.

    Toronto Mystery Illness Deaths Reach 16 (AP)

AP - A mysterious respiratory illness at a Toronto nursing home claimed
 six more lives Wednesday, raised the death toll to 16, officials said.

    Test Shows Vaccine Prevents Cervical Cancer (AP)

AP - The first major study of an experimental vaccine to prevent
 cervical cancer found it was 100 percent effective, in the short term,
 at blocking the disease and lesions likely to turn cancerous, drug
 maker Merck & Co said.

* Aged 1 of 11 ( 5th at 07:33 +/- 6h )
=-=-=-= RSS2Txt v1.5a
Channel = http://news.yahoo.com/i/751
--- Platinum Xpress/Wildcat! v1.4c