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2013-01-29-Updated-immunization-schedule-for-kids-and-teens_ST_U.xml ^$^An updated schedule of recommended vaccinations, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, aims to clarify and simplify the list of shots that kids need to stay healthy and avoid preventable diseases. The 2013 schedule has been approved by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of...
January 29, 2013
If Eric Finzi is right, we should all take the expression "put on a happy face" more seriously. Finzi, a dermatologist in Chevy Chase, Md., believes that people with tense frown muscles - the ones between the eyebrows - are more likely to be depressed. When he treats depressed people with Botox shots in that area, the muscles unclench, the people stop frowning, and, he says, their emotional cloud lifts....
January 29, 2013
Jonathan Wong, a Wayne State University medical student, moved the blood pressure cuff from one of Thomas Wise's arms to the other aiming to get a better reading. Then another medical student tested the 45-year-old's cranial nerve response - could he puff his cheeks? Could he move his tongue? The students were at St. John Congregational Church in Detroit earlier this month, treating some of the men...
January 29, 2013
Rachel Figueroa-Levin, 26, doesn't work outside her home in New York, and yet she's worried that the nasty flu circulating in the city's workplaces is going to make it through her doors, to her 2-year-old daughter, via her office-worker husband. If it does, she's going to be angry. "If my husband comes home from work sick, I'm going to try to figure out which co-worker infected him and think nasty...
January 28, 2013
2013-01-28-Flu-waning-in-East-South-still-gaining-in-NW-SW_ST_U.xml ^$^Western states are getting hit with the flu outbreak that slammed the rest of the country this month. Although the flu appears to be leveling off in the East, South and Midwest, numbers are rising in the Southwest and Northwest, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. The flu is widespread in Washington state, said...
January 28, 2013
The 2.3 million elderly or disabled people living in nursing homes or assisted-living centers might not know it, but they've got an advocate, someone who's supposed to look out for their health, safety and rights. But some of those watchdogs face threats to their independence. In 2011, state long-term care ombudsmen - assisted by hundreds of local ombudsmen programs and thousands of volunteers - responded...
January 28, 2013
2013-01-25-Fertility-rate-drops-in-Afghanistan-but-will-it-continue-_ST_U.xml ^$^Afghanistan's fertility rate, one of the world's highest before the fall of the Taliban, is plummeting - a concrete accomplishment of a decade-long U.S. campaign to improve the well-being of Afghan women. The average number of children Afghan women can expect to have in their lifetime fell from eight in the 1990s to 6.3...
January 25, 2013
2013-01-24-Abusive-partners-can-sabotage-contraception-docs-say_ST_U.xml ^$^When a husband hides a wife's birth control pills or a boyfriend takes off a condom in the middle of sex in hopes of getting an unwilling girlfriend pregnant, that's a form of abuse called reproductive coercion. Though researchers don't know exactly how common such coercion is, it's common enough - especially among women who...
January 24, 2013
2013-01-24-Report-New-vets-showing-Gulf-War-illness-symptoms_ST_U.xml ^$^Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may be suffering from a 20-year-old set of symptoms known as Gulf War illness, according to a report released Wednesday by the federal Institute of Medicine. "Preliminary data suggest that (chronic multisymptom illness) is occurring in veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as well,"...
January 24, 2013
Wayne Clark, an NFL backup quarterback in the 1970s, says he had one concussion in college and two in the pros. He says the most severe one was in 1972 when he was holding on a field goal try for the San Diego Chargers. The kick was blocked. He was hit. "I really didn't, quote, wake up until the plane trip home. Somewhere over New Mexico or Arizona I finally started regaining awareness of where I was...
January 23, 2013
2013-01-23-Patients-may-suffer-from-posthospital-syndrome_ST_U.xml ^$^For some elderly patients, a hospital stay may actually cause new health problems, making them sick enough to be readmitted within days or week of discharge, new research shows. Nearly one in five hospitalized Medicare patients return to the hospital within 30 days. Yet most of these patients return not because their previous illness...
January 23, 2013
2013-01-23-Grapefruit-not-only-food-that-may-affect-medication_ST_U.xml ^$^Many people have seen prescription warning labels saying "Do not eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice while taking this medication." But other foods can interfere with medications, too. Milk and other calcium products, for example, can block absorption of some antibiotics. Eating lots of chocolate with some antidepressants...
January 23, 2013
2013-01-23-Maybe-life-is-just - a-basketball-game-Cheer-on_ST_U.xml ^$^My friend Helen is over 100. No need to say how far over. At this point, what's the point? OK, she's 103. She is still living in her own home and alert enough to send a note reminding me that I had missed both her birthday and Christmas, which I had. "Sorry," she wrote, "but I'm still here." I finally sent her a response last week....
January 23, 2013
Gov. Phil Bryant and Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney have known each other for 30 years and call themselves friends. Now, a wedge has come between the two elected Republicans: President Obama's health care law. Bryant is trying to stop Chaney from creating a critical element of the Affordable Care Act - an online health insurance marketplace. Starting in October, it will allow an estimated 250,000...
January 23, 2013
Health plans resembling the HMOs of old may be poised to make a comeback in online insurance markets slated to open this fall under the health law. Such plans, which sharply limit a consumer's choice of doctors or hospitals, fell into disfavor in the 1980s and 1990s because of their restrictions. But the plans - which have already reappeared among employers looking to slow rising premiums - are expected...
January 23, 2013
Jan. 22 - PLATTSBURGH - Shoppers looking for healthy choices on their grocery lists can gather tips from a new program being offered by the Clinton County Health Department. Nutritionists from the Health Department will meet with small groups of shoppers for scheduled tours of grocery stores, where they can identify healthy-food products and avoid those not-so-healthy options. "It's something we've...
January 22, 2013
Jan. 22 - RALEIGH - Eating right, exercising and getting plenty of sleep aren't high on the to-do list for most college students. That's why a new program at N.C. State University aims to ease students into healthier lifestyles one habit at a time. "Each week we'll try to get people to make one behavior change, and over six weeks, we hope to introduce at least one new habit that they can continue to...
January 22, 2013
Jan. 22 - As winter enters its final phase, here is a quick look at the food combinations that help you stay cozy. In the north, sesame seed or til is available freely, and til ladoos, til rewari, etc., are a staple. These sweet snacks usually use jaggery, or sometimes honey, instead of refined sugar. Til is a great source of calcium and iron, and in combination with jaggery, provides large amounts...
January 22, 2013
Obese people face a much higher risk - of up to 80 percent - of dying in a car collision compared with people of normal weight, researchers reported Monday in a specialist journal. The cause could be that safety in cars is engineered for people of normal weight, not for the obese, they said. Transport safety scientists Thomas Rice of the University of California at Berkeley and Motao Zhu of the University...
January 22, 2013
When Matthew Foutz helped co-found the Human Tribe Project, a crowdfunding website that helps people raise money for medical or other crises, he never thought he'd end up using it for his own family. But two years ago, when his daughter Mia was 5, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She had surgery, then months of chemotherapy and radiation treatment, which left Mia, now 7, with permanent memory,...
January 21, 2013
Dieting is down but not out. On average, about 20% of people said they were on a diet during any given week in 2012, down from a high of 31% in 1991, according to new data from the NPD Group, a market research firm. Women showed the biggest decline: 23% report being on a diet in 2012, compared with 36% in 1991. That drop may partly explain this finding: About 23% of people in 2012 said that people...
January 21, 2013
Jan. 21 - When Gatorade fan Sarah Kavanagh learned that her favorite drink contains an emulsifier banned in other countries over health concerns, she was taken aback. "I was shocked that they'd put their consumers at risk like that and that the FDA would allow something like that to be put in products," said the Mississippi 15-year-old, who launched a petition in November asking Gatorade to remove...
January 21, 2013
Jan. 20 - BARTOW - If you're sick with symptoms that could be flu, visiting someone in the hospital is a bad idea. Hospitals encourage potential visitors to stay home if they're sick. But, recognizing that won't always happen, often the facilities post signs warning people how to behave. The warnings are particularly timely, with federal health officials saying the flu is worse than usual and that...
January 20, 2013
Hotels are rushing to prepare to accommodate guests who arrive or come down with the potentially deadly flu that's sweeping the nation. "We hear the flu reports every day, and we want to be prepared (for sick guests)," says Andy Labetti, general manager of the Omni Berkshire Place in Midtown Manhattan. Preparations include having chicken soup to serve to sick guests stuck in their rooms, stocking up...
January 18, 2013
Doctors have searched for years for a way to save the lives of patients infected with C. difficile, a treacherous bacteria that often stalks the halls of hospitals and nursing homes, attacking the weak and the elderly. The infection can cause severe diarrhea and life-threatening bowel inflammation, especially in patients treated extensively with antibiotics, which can kill off many "good" bacteria...
January 17, 2013
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