News You Can Use! Index (H-Z)
Updated 11 May 1997

1. Managed care, under scrutiny (5/28/97)
2. We're leading longer, not healthier lives (5/11/97)
3. Government denies payments to Christian Science caregivers (2/2/97)
4. Trends in health care (2/2/97)
5. Should women begin mammograms at age 40? (2/2/97)
6. Taking human error out of prescriptions (2/2/97)
7. Article says U.S. government still performs some tests on unwitting subjects (12/31/96)
8. Brisk walking lowers the risk of heart disease for women (11/26/96)
9. Massachusetts makes doctors' background records available to public (11/26/96)
10. Beware of health care discrimination due to genetic tests (11/13/96)
11. Medicare, Medigap costs up (11/13/96)
12. Poor and elderly patients with chronic conditions fare badly in managed care (10/6/96)
13. Study finds heart monitoring technique harmful and costly (9/28/96)
14. Fewer workers get their health insurance at work (9/14/96)
15. The effects of managed care (9/7/96)
16. Small businesses aren't big on drug treatment programs (8/17/96)
17. Making nursing home workers safer (8/9/96)
18. Too many prescriptions? (6/20/96)
19. Ratings for HMO's nationwide now available on-line (6/20/96)
20. Quick intervention in health care not as beneficial as assumed (5/31/96)
21. Study comparing the American and Canadian health care systems (5/31/96)
22. Wanted: more geriatric doctors (5/16/96)

1. Stress linked to fatal heart disease in "socially dominant" men (3/12/97)
2. Grumpy old men have high heart risk (11/26/96)
3. Study finds heart monitoring technique harmful and costly (9/28/96)
4. Small, light & cheap defibrillator; plus, a quicker test for heart attacks (9/14/96)
5. Having some control over your job lowers heart disease risk (8/24/96)
6. Cardiac patients shouldn't worry so much about classic heart attack triggers (7/18/96)
7. Tai Chi exercises may be good for heart attack victims (7/3/96)
8. Folic acid cuts heart disease risk in both men and women (6/26/96)
9. Mental stress more likely cause of heart attacks than physical stress (6/6/96)
10. Call for worldwide ban on leaded gasoline; linked to heart disease (5/25/96)
11. High salt intake linked to heart disease (5/25/96)
12. Low heart rate may be warning sign (5/25/96)
13. Stress a heart disease risk factor for women (5/16/96)

1. Household dust may contain toxic lead in older homes (6/12/96)
2. World Bank calls for getting the lead out of the world's gas (5/25/96)
3. Does lead poisoning cause Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? (5/16/96)

1. Survival tips for the summer (5/28/97)
2. When the Army experiments on you (5/28/97)
3. The art of napping, the danger of apnea (5/28/97)
4. Was research suppressed for profit? (5/11/97)
5. Pet iguanas carry dangerous salmonella (3/12/97)
6. The simple act of washing your hands halts spread of disease (3/12/97)
7. FDA publicizes correct doses of birth control pills to use "morning after" (3/2/97)
8. U.S. government launches prenatal care hotline (3/2/97)
9. Looking for a cure for insomnia?: a tip to help you sleep better (3/2/97)
10. Were zinc lozenges subjected to on-line smear campaign? (2/2/97)
11. Dieters may not benefit from exercise (1/19/97)
12. Breakthroughs and new treatments for stroke, MS (12/31/96)
13. Changing priorities for donor livers (11/26/96)
14. Depression may weaken bones (11/13/96)
15. Will FDA approve home drug tests? (9/28/96)
16. Saving premature infants by filling their lungs with oxygen-rich liquid (9/14/96)
17. FDA approves incontinence device for women (8/24/96)
18. Brain structure thought to be source of "women's intuition," isn't (8/17/96)
19. Carpools are running out of gas (8/17/96)
20. This is from the "Now I've Heard Everything" file (8/9/96)
21. Company creates fabric that kill germs on contact (8/2/96)
22. Maker of Whisper XL hearing aids forced to set up recall, refund program (8/2/96)
23. Human organs with Gore-Tex lining grown to fight rare disorder (8/2/96)
24. Moderate exercise still a big help (7/18/96)
25. Night camp: for kids who avoid sun (7/18/96)
26. More firms must reveal how they're polluting (7/11/96)
27. Making the menopause decision easier (7/3/96)
28. More warnings about Net addiction (7/3/96)
29. Popular drug at parties can cause brain damage (7/3/96)
30. A car's fuel efficiency is a low priority (6/20/96)
31. Internet Addiction Disorder (6/20/96)
32. Is your medicine making you fat? (6/12/96)
33. A tip to help desk-bound workers (6/6/96)
34. Drug-resistant acne (5/31/96)
35. A germ-killing highchair (5/25/96)
36. A cure for hiccups! (5/16/96)

1. Heart disorder often misdiagnosed as panic attack (3/12/97)
2. Questionnaire may identify who is prone to panic attacks (12/6/96)
3. FDA approves Paxil to treat panic attacks (5/16/96)

1. Workers in pain cost American businesses $3 billion (7/3/96)
2. The healing powers of chili peppers (5/25/96)

1. Clinton signs Food Quality Protection Act (8/9/96)
2. Pesticide registry measure passed in New York State (6/26/96)
3. Increase in testicular cancer may be linked to pollutants (6/20/96)
4. Study indicates pesticides are more harmful when mixed (6/12/96)
5. Jury awards $4 million to eyeless boy in suit against DuPont (6/12/96)
6. Unreleased government data shows record pesticide use (6/6/96)
7. New York State will try to document link between pesticide use and breast cancer (5/9/96)

1. Asthma steroid inhalers: a huge study, and the risk of glaucoma (5/2/97)
2. Photocopier toner linked to lung disease in isolated case (9/7/96)
3. Ozone, smog aggravates respiratory problems such as asthma, emphysema (6/26/96)

1. Dangerous cloth-towel dispensers (5/28/97)
2. Air bag debate continues (1/19/97)
3. Dangers of anti-lock brakes and air bags discussed (12/31/96)
4. Air bag tragedy jolts carmakers to offer new options, new technology (12/6/96)

1. New nicotine inhaler being developed (5/11/97)
2. Smoking linked to aging, wrinkles (1/19/97)
3. Surprise! Nicotine may inhibit Alzheimer's disease (11/13/96)
4. Smoking is hazardous to the health of your spouse (8/17/96)
5. New nicotine patch system, with three strengths, gets FDA approval (8/9/96)
6. Smoking strongly linked to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (8/2/96)
7. Exercise even helps smokers' health (7/18/96)
8. Cigarette smoking on the rise (7/18/96)

1. Stress is deadly for men with heart disease (5/2/97)
2. Reducing stress to help schizophrenics (5/2/97)
3. Stress hormones shorten the lives of "socially dominant" men (3/12/97)
4. Stress actually can cause women to go bald (3/12/97)
5. Stress makes it easier for you to catch a cold, and harder for you to shake it (3/2/97)
6. Stress and depression in the workplace (11/26/96)
7. A brain chemical associated with stress reduces appetite (9/14/96)
8. Stress may actually shrink the brain (8/31/96)
9. Is stress simply part of the job? (8/9/96)
10. So-called "terrible twos" traced to amount of stress that parents have (8/2/96)
11. Stressful lifestyle linked to heartburn (7/11/96)
12. How do men deal with stress? (7/3/96)
13. Otherwise healthy women list fatigue, stress as their major concerns (6/26/96)
14. The "family values" debate is putting extra stress on two-career families (6/12/96)
15. Stressed girls become shorter women? (6/12/96)
16. Mental stress more likely cause of heart attacks than physical stress (6/6/96)
17. Stress a heart disease risk factor for women (5/16/96)

1. Encouraging the use of an effective drug, and treating the stroke faster (12/31/96)
2. A heart attack drug should be used for treating strokes (6/12/96)
3. High salt intake linked to strokes (5/25/96)
4. Milk may lower stroke risk (5/9/96)

1. Vitamin D may help prevent arthritis (8/31/96)
2. Zinc gluconate lozenges shorten duration of common colds (7/11/96)
3. Vitamin C injections may heal smokers' arteries (7/3/96)
4. Folic acid cuts heart disease risk in women as well as men (6/26/96)
5. Vitamin B-6 doesn't help, and may harm carpal tunnel sufferers (6/26/96)
6. Does Vitamin E slow down the effects of aging? (5/31/96)

1. Safe Drinking Water Act signed into law (8/9/96)
2. Ocean swimming no day at the beach (7/18/96)
3. Annual beach cleanup reveals more trash on America's waterways (6/26/96)
4. Urban runoff from yard pesticides, chemicals, and oil cause ocean pollution (5/25/96)
5. Clean water is good for the tourism and recreation industry (5/25/96)
6. Where does bottled water come from? (5/16/96)