Small Town Monthly

September 30, 2009

• Pregnant smoking 'psychosis link'
• Daily sweets 'linked to violence'
• Cooling 'cuts baby brain damage'
• Keep faith with cancer jab plea
• Many more receiving HIV therapy
• The short one
• Warning on muscle and joint pain
• Scrubbing up

September 29, 2009

• Social isolation 'worsens cancer'
• First autopsy on Egyptian Mummy got 'wrong' cause of death
• 'A real shock'
• Virtual cancer model developed

September 28, 2009

• School stars 'enjoy good health'
• Working mothers' children unfit
• Music player noise limit planned

September 27, 2009

• Parents ignore trampoline safety
• C. diff rise due to 'gene switch'
• Trailblazing?

September 26, 2009

• Spain unveils abortion law change
• Walk in and out
• Gut worms protect against allergy
• Embryo mix-up woman gives birth

September 25, 2009

• Cancer drug manslaughter
• Sensitivity to aspartame probed
• UK swine flu vaccine 'approved'
• Heart surgeon does pioneering op

September 24, 2009

• Anti-depressants pregnancy 'risk'
• Prostate screening under scrutiny
• Long battle
• HIV vaccine 'reduces infection'

September 23, 2009

• 'Tweeting' medics expose patients
• Africa leaders unite on malaria
• Doctors' orders
• Assisted suicide law 'clarified'
• Hope over new skin cancer therapy
• Fat? Me?
• War torn

September 22, 2009

• By Debbie's side
• Killer prostate cancer test hope
• 'Deaths rise' with junior doctors
• Great Ormond Street birth is first in hospital's 157-year history
• Autism rates back MMR jab safety
• Torturing 'does not get truth'

September 21, 2009

• 'Booze therapy' for brain injury
• Money problems 'signal dementia'
• Smoking bans 'cut heart attacks'
• One-quarter of Japanese women are aged 65 or over
• Australian dies after court win

September 20, 2009

• Spinal advance gets rats running
• Dementia burden underestimated
• Over-55s 'less aware on cancer'
• Vegetative patients 'still learn'

September 19, 2009

• Health heroes
• Delinquents 'misinterpret anger'

September 18, 2009

• 'Viagra cream' could prove safer
• Lab results
• Canada anger at 'flu body bags'
• Who's the daddy?
• Binge drinking ups infection risk

September 17, 2009

• Call to get tough on eating sites
• Unhealthy men 'may lose 10 years'
• The pros and cons of becoming the world's tallest man
• UK swine flu rise 'suggests upturn'
• Men queuing up for 'moob' surgery
• Egypt closes schools to curb flu

September 16, 2009

• 'Safe' lead levels harm children
• 'Gene cure' for colour blindness
• India state in rural medics drive
• Swine flu victim speaks of ordeal

September 15, 2009

• Doctors warn on climate failure
• Group exercise 'boosts happiness'
• New drug 'can treat more cancers'
• Complication risk for older mums
• Beijing birth defects rise again
• Champion mums
• Run, Izzard, run
• In pictures

September 14, 2009

• Mecca pilgrims must have flu jab
• Bed bug infestations 'increasing'
• Gene find 'may curb lung mucus'
• Taking showers 'can make you ill'
• Genes blamed for early first sex
• Why trying to quit smoking can be an itchy problem
• Illegal alcohol kills 30 in India
• Depression 'cuts cancer survival'

September 13, 2009

• Key gene 'controls disease fight'

September 12, 2009

• Painful reminders
• Antibiotic resistance clue found
• Protests over Obama health reform

September 11, 2009

• The hip detectives
• Young people 'coming out earlier'
• SA threatens 'war' over Semenya
• Defining sex
• Saving sight

September 10, 2009

• Users 'mix wider range of drugs'
• Low self-esteem leads to obesity
• No change in health gap from 1900
• Call for fewer hysterectomy ops
• Child mortality drop 'too slow'
• Tall people lead 'better lives'
• Obama demands healthcare action

September 9, 2009

• Who wants what?
• Stem cell link to prostate cancer
• Road noise link to blood pressure
• New malaria 'poses human threat'
• Robot revolution
• Sharing a bed 'is bad for your health'
• Scrubbing Up

September 8, 2009

• Obama vows action on healthcare
• ADHD chemistry clue found
• Women's 999 delay 'risks lives'
• Swine flu spread in China 'grim'
• Infection-allergy link questioned
• Ultra champion

September 7, 2009

• Infections 'speed memory loss'
• Virus linked to prostate tumours
• Women judge, but do they convict?
• Seaweed suspected in French death
• Brain train
• Women risk feet 'for fashion'
• Audio slideshow

September 6, 2009

• Mass brain training study begins
• Charities criticise Aids-awareness ad featuring Hitler lookalike
• Alzheimer's genes link uncovered
• Soldiers' stress

September 5, 2009

• Cigarette branding 'misleading'
• Off the game

September 4, 2009

• Contraception myths 'widespread'
• How greens may protect the heart
• Doctors or dealers
• Pain drugs addiction warning
• Eating late at night adds weight

September 3, 2009

• India baby row
• Large thighs 'may protect heart'
• Antibodies 'may aid HIV jab hunt'
• Safety call over stem cell trips
• Embracing voices
• NHS 'failed' over cannibal killer
• China approves swine flu vaccine

September 2, 2009

• Gel hope for brain injury repair
• Stroke cures man's failing sight
• Pregnancy timeline
• We're all mutants, say scientists
• Depression looms as global crisis

September 1, 2009

• First birth after new IVF test
• Experts urge wider folic acid use
• Spared chemo
• 'Bubble' children treatment hope
• ADHD 'queue jumpers' row
• Indian swine flu deaths top 100
• Birth drugs 'cut breastfeeding'