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March 04 - A pioneering research team from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Johns Hopkins Children's Center and the University of Mississippi Medical Center said they have made a breakthrough in the search for a cure for HIV-infected infants, after a dramatic treatment and recovery case. Researchers said beginning a combination anti-retroviral treatment of an HIV-infected baby in Mississippi...
March 4, 2013
March 04 - How young is too young to have a heart attack? According to the American Heart Association, the average age when suffering a first heart attack is 64.5 years for men and 70.3 years for women. Younger people have heart attacks, too. Andrea Woie, a 33-year-old Richmond-area woman, had a heart attack at age 32. She shared her story recently at a program on women and heart disease. Out of her...
March 4, 2013
March 04 - For the fourth consecutive legislative session, a Democratic state senator from San Antonio is trying to raise the legal age for buying or possessing cigarettes and other tobacco products. Despite falling short in his previous attempts to boost the legal age from 18 to 19, Sen. Carlos Uresti is upping the ante this time with a bill outlawing tobacco products for Texans under 21 years old....
March 4, 2013
March 03 - Robots don't enter operating rooms quietly. When a hospital buys a robotic surgical tool, its marketing executives enthusiastically share the news, promoting precise, less-invasive operations and a quick recovery. The cost doesn't usually come up. A recent study is drawing more attention to the balance between the expense and benefit of robots, particularly when it comes to one of the more-common...
March 3, 2013
More American children are getting asthma and allergies, and more seniors are suffering heat strokes. Food and utility prices are rising. Flooding is overrunning bridges, swamping subways and closing airport runways. People are losing jobs in drought-related factory closings. Cataclysmic storms are wiping out sprawling neighborhoods. Towns are sinking. This isn't a science-fiction, end-of-the-world...
March 1, 2013
Don't judge a pet by its fur. "Pets can look healthy but can carry germs," says Ian Williams of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC said recently that a rare form of salmonella has been linked to pet hedgehogs, with 20 infections reported in eight states, including one death. Forty-five percent of cases were in kids 10 or younger. Hedgehogs make good pets, but owners must wash hands...
February 28, 2013
A medical society is wrestling with renaming its foremost prize, named after a pioneering government physician who, according to recent revelations, approved unethical medical experiments. Thomas Parran, surgeon general from 1936 to 1948, brought about frank discussion and treatment of sexually transmitted disease nationwide, as well as in the military services during World War II. But experiments...
February 27, 2013
A growing number of men are joining the ranks of nursing, says a study that takes the pulse of a predominantly female profession. The percentage of male registered nurses jumped from 2.7% in 1970 to 9.6% in 2011, the national study finds. Men's representation among licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses rose from 3.9% in 1970 to 8.1% in 2011. LPNs work under the direction of doctors and...
February 27, 2013
At a time when the USA is making progress overall against cancer, a new study suggests a worrisome rise in the number of young women diagnosed with advanced, incurable breast cancer. The number of American women ages 25 to 39 diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer - which has already spread to other organs by the time it's found - rose about 3.6% a year from 2000 to 2009, according to a study in today's...
February 27, 2013
Q: How do you account for the popularity of this series? A: This is a book about the body and treating it right and respecting it, and about body development. It doesn't feel the need to go ahead into more mature topics like sex and sexuality. It really stays focused. That allows docs to say to parents of younger girls, 8 and 9, "Here's a great book for your child that gives lots of great information...
February 25, 2013
Feb. 25 - Bill Enger waited patiently Thursday afternoon to see his doctor. Instead of sitting in a waiting room at an office park somewhere in Boise, though, Enger relaxed on his couch with his pug, Molly, by his side. The 73-year-old retiree's physician visits him in his retirement community, as part of a new operation called House Calls. "It's such a relief to know he is going to be here every two...
February 25, 2013
Feb. 25 - The days of wading through stacks of paperwork to log and chart medical records are fading as the health care industry finds its place in the digital world. On May 11, Franciscan Physicians Hospital in Munster will be the last of the Franciscan Alliance hospitals in the Northern Indiana Region to "go live" with Epic Systems, a widely used electronic medical records software, said Marie Anaya-Santiago,...
February 25, 2013
HEALTH roadshow highlighting the need to see a doctor if there is blood in your urine is travelling around County Durham. The County Durham and Darlington Health Improvement services' Talking About Cancer Team is promoting the message in coming weeks. Blood in urine could be a sign of bladder or kidney cancer. It could be something much less serious, but it is important to get it checked. Fiona McQuiston,...
February 23, 2013
If the horsemeat controversy has made you uneasy about eating meat, Lisa Salmon looks at the pros and cons of vegetarian and meat diets, including new research which suggests veggies are a third less likely to suffer heart disease AS the horsemeat scandal rages, many meat eaters will be wondering exactly what they've been consuming. And if you're a vegetarian, recent events will probably leave you...
February 23, 2013
Is a federal brain-mapping project just pie in the sky? The White House will soon unveil a major initiative to map brain cell activity. The effort, led by the National Institutes of Health, could be on the scale of the war on cancer in the 1970s or the Human Genome Project of the '90s, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. "This is not a project yet. It is more like an idea," says Story Landis,...
February 21, 2013
In medical care, sometimes less is more. A coalition of 25 medical societies today releases its latest list of overused tests and procedures to question, if not avoid. Unnecessary tests, surgeries and drugs drive up health care costs and, in some cases, actually harm patients, says Christine Cassel, president and CEO of the ABIM (American Board of Internal Medicine) Foundation. The campaign, called...
February 21, 2013
The Ibarras of San Jose are so busy, it's no wonder that eating well and exercising didn't fit into their schedules. Jose, 46, is a pastor at a local church and has a full-time job as a facilities supervisor for a commercial custodial company. His wife, Doris, 45, is a human resources manager for the same company, and she runs the church's sound booth. Their children, Jocelyn, 20, and Joseph, 16, also...
February 19, 2013
Perched by a computer monitor wedged between shelves of cough drops and the pharmacy in a bustling Walmart, Mohamed Khader taps out answers to questions such as how often he eats vegetables, whether anyone in his family has diabetes and his age. He tests his eyesight, weighs himself and checks his blood pressure as a middle-aged couple watches at the blue-and-white SoloHealth station advertising "free...
February 19, 2013
Want to improve your preschoolers' behavior? Be choosy when it comes to the TV shows they watch - even if you don't reduce the amount of time they spend watching TV. In one of the largest studies yet to examine how TV affects children's development, researchers report that six months after families reduced 3- to 5-year-olds' exposure to aggressive or violent shows and increased enriching and educational...
February 18, 2013
Patients at risk for a stroke are now able to have a minimally invasive procedure that is available at only a select group of hospitals nationwide, including two in North Jersey. Physicians at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center and The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood are fixing a section of the heart in patients with an abnormal heart rhythm, called atrial fibrillation. Patients with this condition...
February 15, 2013
Feb. 15 - The public service announcements are deliberately gross: attractive young people chugging yellowy gobs of fat to make the point that drinking one can of soda a day can add 10 pounds to the body each year. Gov. Neil Abercrombie and the state Department of Health launched a multimedia campaign Thursday to steer teenagers away from soda and other sugary drinks and toward healthier choices such...
February 15, 2013
Feb. 15 - Women who are pregnant or attempting to become pregnant should receive a whooping cough vaccination to protect the baby, according to a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Advisory Council on Immunization Practices voted last year to recommend women get a Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) vaccination between the 27th and 36th week of their pregnancy....
February 15, 2013
Even moderate alcohol use may substantially raise the risk of dying from cancer, according to a study released Thursday offering the first comprehensive update of alcohol-related cancers deaths in decades. "People don't talk about the issue of alcohol and cancer risk," said Dr. David Nelson, director of the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program at the National Cancer Institute and lead author of the...
February 15, 2013
By Stephanie Strom The New York Times Health advocates and public health officials from major cities are asking the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the amount of caloric sweeteners in sodas and other beverages, saying the scientific consensus is that the level of added sugars is unsafe. The group, led by the Center for Science in the Public Interest and including public health departments...
February 14, 2013
As many as 11% of U.S. women ages 15-44 who have ever had sexual intercourse have used a morning-after pill at least once, according to the first federal report on emergency contraception, out today. That's 5.8 million women - and half say they used it because they feared their birth control method may have failed. The rest say they had unprotected sex. The National Center for Health Statistics analysis...
February 14, 2013
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