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Beijing (dpa) - World Health Organization experts have arrived in China to study the spread of H7N9 avian influenza and possible human transmission of the virus, a WHO official said on Friday. Chinese and international experts suspected human transmission of H7N9 "in very rare caes," Michael O'Leary, WHO's China representative, told reporters. The WHO team would spend a week in China, travelling to...
April 19, 2013
Beijing (dpa) - An eerie silence descended on the streets of China's capital on April 21, 2003 as many of the city's 15 million residents shut themselves indoors to avoid a deadly new virus. The previous day, the government admitted what a growing number of people had suspected: Severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, was spreading via human contact and had already killed dozens of people in Beijing....
April 19, 2013
A bird flu that has never before been a problem for humans has infected more than 80 people in China, killing 17 of them, and is raising concerns among infectious disease experts worldwide. The first human case was identified three weeks ago, and the rapid compilation of human cases since then has public health officials in China and scientists from around the world scrambling to identify the source...
April 19, 2013
The connection between heart disease and red meat consumption has long been established. Saturated fat and cholesterol have taken the blame for the clogged arteries found in those who regularly include red meat in their diets. A research team at the Cleveland Clinic has identified another way red meat may contribute to heart disease. According to their study published April 2013, the compound carnitine,...
April 18, 2013
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at State & Local Health Law Weekly - More than 1 in 5 seniors with Medicare Advantage plans received a prescription for a potentially harmful "high risk medication" in 2009, according to a newly published analysis by Brown University public health researchers. The questionable prescriptions were significantly more common in the Southeast region of the country, as...
April 18, 2013
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 25.8 million adults and children, or roughly 8.3 percent of the population have diabetes. Up to 24 million people suffer from Type 2 diabetes. Despite taking various oral medications, some patients having Type 2 diabetes continue having elevated blood sugars. Increasing physical activity or altering dietary intake may help. If these measures...
April 17, 2013
New York (dpa) - The UN Children's Fund said Monday it has been able to achieve "real progress" against stunting, which affects one in five children around the world. UNICEF said accelerated progress is now possible and necessary to fight stunted growth, which it called the "hidden face of poverty" for estimated 165 million children under age of 5 worldwide. Stunting, which is irreversible, is caused...
April 16, 2013
Beijing (dpa) - The H7N9 strain of bird flu was found in a 4-year-old boy in Beijing displaying none of the flu-like symptoms previously associated with the pathogen, a news report said Monday. The child was tested late Sunday as part of a routine screening of people in contact with fowl in the capital, Xinhua news agency said. At the weekend a 7-year-old girl in Beijing became the first reported case...
April 15, 2013
Hanoi (dpa) - Nearly 5,000 swifts, whose nests are collected for sale as a luxury health food, have died in southern Vietnam after contracting the H5N1 bird flu virus, news report said Friday. The birds, half the population of a facility in Phan Rang Thap Cham City, died between March 28 and April 11, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. The city has many so-called bird houses, where the swifts are encouraged...
April 12, 2013
Beijing (dpa) - China reported its 10th death and five more cases of H7N9 bird flu on Thursday, as state media said scientists were developing a vaccine that would be ready within seven months. The eastern commercial hub of Shanghai, the area worst-hit by the virus, reported three new infections including a 74-year-old man who died on Thursday afternoon. Health authorities in nearby Jiangsu province...
April 11, 2013
Bangkok (dpa) - A new bird flu virus that has killed nine people in China is "worrisome" because it is asymptomatic in poultry, the suspected carrier, UN experts said Thursday. "From the perspective of understanding the transmission, we have a problem because the poultry are secret carriers of the virus," said Subhash Morzaria, regional manager for the Food and Agriculture Organization's emergency...
April 11, 2013
Beijing (dpa) - Nine people have died from a new strain of bird flu in China, a news report said Wednesday. A total of 28 cases of the H7N9 virus in humans had been detected since the strain emerged, the Health Ministry was quoted as saying by state-run television. All cases, including the latest fatality late Tuesday, were reported in and around the eastern coastal city of Shanghai. The World Health...
April 10, 2013
For the first time in her 24 years, Brooke Stone is able to run. She was born with a congenital heart defect that, after surgery in her first weeks of life, was repaired well enough to keep her alive. But it meant she couldn't do anything that might make her heart work too hard. She was told not to play baseball or soccer, join her gym class or even walk too far. Her heart started to fail anyway. The...
April 10, 2013
GALVESTON - Steven Lomax is worried about his chances of finding a hospital to complete his medical training when he graduates from the Temple campus of Texas A&M's medical school. Lomax, 22, who expects to graduate in 2016, joined about 80 students from Texas medical schools who descended on the Capitol last week to urge legislators to increase funding for residencies at Texas hospitals, the last...
April 10, 2013
Beijing (dpa) - Mass testing of birds is essential for tracking the spread of H7N9 avian influenza, which has infected at least 21 people in eastern China, the World Health Organization said on Monday. The lack of obvious symptoms in birds made it difficult to determine where the virus might pose a risk to human health, Michael O'Leary, WHO's China representative, told reporters. "It requires intensive...
April 8, 2013
Potassium in out diets can stave off the risk of strokes. A new report into diet and health by the World Health Organisation claims that eating foods high in the mineral, such as bananas and other fruit and veg, was highly beneficial when it came to cutting the risk of suffering a stroke. Lowering the amount of salt consumed was also advised. The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence...
April 8, 2013
Munich (dpa) - Small children may not yet know how to describe pain and cannot easily tell parents they have a headache. Professor Berthold Koletzko from the Child Health Foundation in Munich explains that children cannot provide even semi-reliable information about their headaches until they are 5 years of age. With smaller children, parents should watch for them putting their hands on their head...
April 7, 2013
Beijing (dpa) - Authorities in Shanghai closed all poultry markets Friday and began culling birds at a major wholesale market, after the death toll from the H7N9 strain of bird flu rose to six, reports said. All birds from the Huhuai wholesale farm product market in the city's Songjiang district were to be killed to prevent the spread of the disease, after the H7N9 virus was found in pigeons at the...
April 5, 2013
RICHMOND, Va. The Food and Drug Administration says smokers that are trying to quit can safely use nicotine gum, patches and lozenges for longer than previously recommended. Current labels suggest consumers stop smoking when they begin using the products and that they should stop using them after 12 weeks.
April 1, 2013
TORONTO - When Michelle Delbaere gave birth to her son Henry seven months ago, she had planned to exclusively breastfeed him because she'd been told that mother's milk is considered best for baby's health. Despite her intentions, she agreed to initially bottle-feed her newborn with formula because it was taking time for her milk to come in. "Once in the hospital. Actually, it was twice in the hospital,"...
April 1, 2013
April 01 - The illnesses that killed our parents and grandparents won't kill as many of us in the future. Deaths from strokes, heart attacks and cancer declined significantly between 2000 and 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while death from Alzheimer's increased significantly. Diseases of older age can take years to finally kill you. You can battle cancer a long time....
April 1, 2013
April 01 - It has been just over three years since President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, and in about 200 days major provisions of the act are slated go into effect. As Jerry Reed once sang in the movie "Smokey and the Bandit," we've got a long way to go and a short time to get there. But we are not taking about beer. We're talking health care insurance...
April 1, 2013
March 31 - Hundreds of former patients of oral surgeon Dr. W. Scott Harrington lined up in occasional rain outside the North Regional Health and Wellness Center on Saturday morning to get tested for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. Health officials said Thursday that Harrington, who has been practicing for 36 years, may have exposed as many as 7,000 patients since 2007, the earliest that patient records...
March 31, 2013
March 30 - Q: Is it true there are foods that are designed to be addictive? JOY D., ANNAPOLIS, MD. A: It's true, some food manufacturers engineer products to contain (from their point of view) the optimal balance of sugar and high fructose corn syrup. Then you feel maximum "crave" and keep eating, drinking and buying more of their products. It's what they call your bliss point. We kid you not; they...
March 30, 2013
March 29 - BOISE - Coeur d'Alene Rep. Luke Malek's bill to make attacking a health care worker a felony - a measure requested in part by Kootenai Medical Center, which says violent attacks there are increasing - was killed in the Senate Thursday after the lieutenant governor broke a rare tie vote. Malek said, "I'm disappointed that it was defeated this year, but confident that once we iron out the...
March 29, 2013
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