Wyeth Shares Rise on Promising Study of Alzheimers Drug- June 18, 2008 The drug maker said that an investigational product for treating Alzheimers improved cognitive functioning in patients who did not carry a genetic variation called ApoE4.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/business/18drug.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Scientist at Work Norman T. Uphoff: Food Revolution That Starts With Rice- June 17, 2008 Norman T. Uphoff is leading an inconspicuous revolution centered on solving the global food crisis.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/science/17rice.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Well: An Opera Singers Fat Relocation Project- June 17, 2008 A look at an opera singers effort to lose weight.http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/an-opera-singers-fat-relocation-project/index.htm... Diagnosis: Strange Spells- June 17, 2008 It looked like a stroke, it felt like a stroke, but the tests said it wasnt a stroke.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/magazine/15diagnosis-t.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss National Briefing Science and Health: Antipsychotics and the Elderly- June 17, 2008 The Food and Drug Administration warned doctors that prescribing a group of antipsychotic drugs to older people suffering from dementia could increase their risk of death.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/health/17brfs-ANTIPSYCHOTI_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&e... Salmonella Cases in 5 More States- June 17, 2008 The new cases raise the number of states affected to 28 and the number of people sickened to 277, which is 49 more than last weeks reported number.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/health/policy/17cdc.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Personal Health: Cancer as a Disease, Not a Death Sentence- June 17, 2008 For a small but growing number of patients, once-fatal cancer has become a chronic disease.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/health/17brody.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Vital Signs: Exercise: Link Is Seen Between Crime and Fitness- June 17, 2008 A new study that looked at the physical characteristics of about 5,000 Arkansas inmates found that most were athletically fit when they entered prison.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/health/nutrition/17exer.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Vital Signs: Aging: Cue the Lights and Help Dementia- June 17, 2008 Researchers who put brighter lights into nursing homes have found that residents with dementia appear to suffer fewer symptoms.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/health/research/17agin.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Fed Chief Addresses Health Care and Its Costs- June 17, 2008 Ben S. Bernanke told Congress that health spending would rise relentlessly unless lawmakers overhauled the health care system.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/health/policy/17health.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss |