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Jan. 06 - Donna Elle knows it's hard to stick with a resolution. She also knows that it can be done. She's been doing it for six years. "I started my weight-losing journey in 2003, but it wasn't until 2007 that I buckled down and stuck with it," says Elle, a TV reporter with WRCB-TV Channel 3, deejay and fitness instructor at the YMCA and D1 Chattanooga, a fitness/sports training facility, co-owned...
January 6, 2013
Jan. 05 - The Food and Drug Administration has proposed new food safety rules requiring farmers and food companies to be more vigilant in the wake of deadly outbreaks in peanuts, cantaloupe and leafy greens. While they may be sweeping to other parts of the nation, the rules have been standard operating practices for years for fresh fruit and vegetable growers in the desert Southwest, including Yuma...
January 5, 2013
At Maplewood Community Dental Care outside Minneapolis, dental therapist Megan Meyer regularly fills cavities, extracts primary teeth and puts in crowns and spacers. In most U.S. dental practices, these are the sole responsibility of a dentist. But that's not the case at a handful of clinics in Minnesota, where a new type of practitioner handles these and other basic preventive and restorative services...
January 3, 2013
The Food and Drug Administration approved a treatment, discovered by a Johnson & Johnson unit, that can be used when other tuberculosis drugs fail. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis that can be used as an alternative when other drugs fail. The drug, to be called Sirturo, was discovered by scientists at Janssen, the pharmaceutical...
January 2, 2013
IMAGINE IF a strain of bacteria mutated quickly, swapping genetic material that provided immunity to the most potent medical weapons. Now imagine if we didn't know how to identify precisely that strain or track its spread. You'd have an idea of the threat Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae poses for the patients in America's hospitals and nursing homes. Such so-called "superbugs" are familiar...
January 2, 2013
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The Iowa hens at the heart of a massive recall are still laying eggs that could end up on a table near you. And food safety experts say that's OK. The eggs will first be pasteurized to rid them of any salmonella. Then they can be sold as liquid eggs or added to other products. Officials from the two farms that have recalled more than a half-billion eggs say there's no reason not to...
January 2, 2013
Jan. 01 - Even as epidemiologists worry about a shrinking arsenal of antibiotics to fight potentially deadly drug-resistant bacteria, researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital are betting on another weapon to prevent infections: robots. It sounds more futuristic than it looks: The hospital uses "robot" devices resembling portable air-conditioning units to saturate the air in sealed rooms with hydrogen...
January 1, 2013
Jan. 01 - If you leapt out of bed today bubbling with resolve to greet the new year with a rigorous fitness routine, get ready for a bonus. Research has long established what exercise can do for heart and muscle development. Now, according to an expanding body of research, it could also be growing your brain. The results of several new studies indicate that physical activity may make you better at...
January 1, 2013
This New Year's column celebrates change, or at least acknowledges the quickening pace and the grinding inevitability of it, and that it will come in 2013 in both clever and obvious ways. For me, as the year wound down, I got a clear inkling of something to come because I had a cold that I couldn't shake. Urged by the young people around me - my own doctor was on vacation - I used ZocDoc the other...
December 31, 2012
Dec. 29 - For thousands of Oregonians, the path to a medical marijuana card starts at a clinic in Southeast Portland staffed by Dr. Thomas Orvald, an 80-year-old retired heart surgeon from Yakima. The Oregon Health Authority says a typical doctor is unlikely to see more than 450 medical marijuana patients at a time. In the past year, Orvald has signed off on 4,180. And he is not alone. The health authority...
December 29, 2012
With the presidential election and Supreme Court decision behind us, the federal government is moving forward with the Affordable Care Act. Baby Boomers stand to gain the most. Since the recession, Boomers have been hard hit by unemployment, shrinking nest eggs and rising health care costs. During those years, about 8.6 million Boomers were without health insurance, says a special 2009 report by Commonwealth...
December 28, 2012
When seven people arrived at a Delaware hospital in March with drug-resistant MRSA infections, the similarities were alarming. All of the patients had the same strain of MRSA, all had the infections in joints, and all had gotten injections in those joints at the same orthopedic clinic in a three-day span. State health officials found that the clinic had injected multiple patients with medication from...
December 27, 2012
A drug shortage led to cancer relapses in children and young adults in 2010, a consequence of the problem of drugs in short supply in the USA, a hospital analysis showed for the first time on Wednesday. The finding suggests that substitutes for drugs in short supply can pose unsuspected health risks for patients with cancer. In this case, the generic drug mechlorethamine is part of a three-month chemotherapy...
December 27, 2012
The latest study to look at pop star deaths suggests the odds were stacked against Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson and Amy Winehouse. But Keith Richards has statistics on his side. The study reconfirms that music celebrities really are more likely than the rest of us to die young, but it shows that solo artists (such as Presley, Jackson and Winehouse) may face some extra risks, and those who had rough...
December 20, 2012
As states increasingly adopt laws allowing medical marijuana, fewer teens see occasional marijuana use as harmful, the largest national survey of youth drug use has found. Nearly 80% of high school seniors don't consider occasional marijuana use harmful - the highest rate since 1983 - and one in 15 smoke nearly every day, according to the annual survey of eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders made public...
December 20, 2012
The nation's most elite fighting forces - celebrated this year in film and best-selling books - are under more emotional strain after a decade of war than commanders realized, according to the senior non-commissioned officer for special operations. A tragic part of that is record suicides this year, says Command Sgt. Maj. Chris Faris. According to Pentagon data, there were 17 confirmed or suspected...
December 20, 2012
For the few of you who still do not know, I'm here to tell you the world is ending on Friday. Good thing, too. Because of this news, I have done no Christmas shopping. I figured, wisely I hope, that if the world is ending this weekend - because of some Mayan calendar that says 12-21-12 does not bode well for the future - why shop? Why should I go through the hassle of fighting the mall crowds, spend...
December 19, 2012
Financial scams abound around the holidays, and it has long been known that the elderly are more vulnerable. Research published this month suggested that age-related changes in the brain make it harder to detect suspicious body language and other warning signs that people may be untrustworthy. But age alone is not a key factor in predicting decision-making ability, another study suggested Tuesday....
December 19, 2012
John Hardin reflects on the 525-mile scenic bike ride he took with Tracie Seimon and her husband in October. They rode eight hours a day for eight straight days, from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Not exactly what he pictured when Hardin met Seimon two years ago. She was 37 and turned to Hardin, a prominent New York rheumatologist, for help when others couldn't diagnose the cause behind a crippling...
December 19, 2012
Things were looking anything but up at Jawbone last December, when the company pulled the Up fitness tracker bracelet off the market only a month after the product launched. Up's reason for being wasn't the problem. Through a corresponding app on the iPhone, the bracelet could track your sleep and the number of steps you took, and let you log meals, all to foster a healthier lifestyle. But Up got off...
December 19, 2012
An online confession from the overwhelmed mother of a mentally troubled teenager - titled "I Am Adam Lanza's Mother" - has become an instant Internet sensation, spurring discussion about the needs of families of mentally ill patients. But the blog post, which spread virally to hundreds of thousands of readers, also has sparked stinging criticism of its author, Liza Long, for exposing her 13-year-old...
December 18, 2012
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Friday, Dec. 14: - Who needs a flu shot? With rare exceptions, everyone older than six months should be vaccinated, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It's especially important for people who are at risk for serious complications. They include infants, the elderly, pregnant women and those with chronic health...
December 17, 2012
Mannheim, Germany (dpa) - Sweetened muesli for breakfast, an ice cream at mid-morning, biscuits with coffee as a matter of course - sweet snacks are part of many people's daily routine. In some cases, the appetite for high-calorie items appears to be insatiable. But does this qualify as addiction? An article in the Huffington Post last year by Frank Lipman - who describes himself as an integrative...
December 17, 2012
Dec. 17 - The holidays should be a happy time with get-togethers, gift giving, food and fellowship, but for some people, those very things trigger a different response, such as stress, sorrow or depression. "There's the stress of the season with unrealistic expectations, like feeling you have to fix a grand meal, go to all the parties, shopping," said Amy Scott, a licensed clinical social worker with...
December 17, 2012
Dec. 17 - At 61, Les Finke has recently returned to work as executive director of Sacramento's Albert Einstein Center senior residence community after open heart surgery and a six-way bypass early in October. "It blew everyone's mind that I was going in for open heart surgery," Finke said. "It created a sense of anxiety here. But the experience really put me in touch with these residents." He likes...
December 17, 2012
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