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Prescription-drug abuse in the USA declined last year year to the lowest rate since 2002 amid federal and state crackdowns on drug-seeking patients and over-prescribing doctors. Young adults drove the drop. The number of people 18 to 25 who regularly abuse prescription drugs fell 14% to 1.7 million, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported Monday. In 2011, 3.6% of young adults abused pain...
September 25, 2012
When Orange Park Medical Center won preliminary state approval in November 2011 to open the first new trauma center in northeast Florida in almost 30 years, its executives said the decision would save lives. But that's not how its competitor 18 miles away saw the move by Orange Park Medical and its parent, HCA Holdings, the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain. "We believe HCA is responding not...
September 25, 2012
LONDON - Global health officials are closely following a new respiratory virus related to SARS that is believed to have killed at least one person in Saudi Arabia and left another person in critical condition in Britain. The germ is a coronavirus, from a family of viruses that cause the common cold as well as SARS, the severe acute respiratory syndrome that killed some 800 people, mostly in Asia, in...
September 24, 2012
NEW YORK, N.Y. Jerry Rice still runs "The Hill." He wouldn't mind having, oh, a million or so youngsters accompanying him on his grueling workouts. The greatest receiver in football history, Rice is helping the NFL and Xbox 360 fight childhood obesity through a program that hopes to encourage 1 million youngsters to become more active. The "60 Million Minutes Challenge" asks kids of all ages to pledge...
September 24, 2012
Sept. 24 - Dee Martin of Marietta leads an active life. At 51, she hits the gym five days a week. She eats organic foods. Her weekend activities include mountain hikes and bike riding. But for some reason, no matter how much she followed the rules, she never seemed to drop the little bit of weight she wanted to lose. After a visit to Dr. Ken Knott for a shoulder injury led to a discussion about hormone...
September 24, 2012
San Francisco - The deadly outbreak of hantavirus in Yosemite National Park has sent disease experts and rodent researchers scrambling for answers as people across the country second-guess their plans to visit California's most famous landscape. The California Department of Public Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are trying to figure out why the mouse-borne virus struck...
September 24, 2012
Three new studies published in the United States this weekend reaffirm a link between sweet soda and fruit drinks to an epidemic of obesity that is sweeping the United States. Consumption of these drinks has more than doubled since the 1970s, and the rate of obesity among Americans during the same period reached 30% of the adult population, said the authors of a study published online by the New England...
September 23, 2012
Sept. 23 - CONCORD - A lawyer seeking a class-action lawsuit against Exeter Hospital in connection with the hepatitis C outbreak said his client list has grown to 169 people, including 11 former Exeter patients who have tested positive for the virus. Attorney Peter McGrath said although most of his clients tested negative for hepatitis C, they still had to endure a gutwrenching period of time fearing...
September 23, 2012
Research has long shown the antioxidant properties and health benefits of tea, but new findings suggest it also may have significant preventative properties against chronic disease. The findings were discussed Wednesday at the Fifth International Scientific Symposium on Tea and Human Health in Washington, D.C. "If there's anything that can confidently be communicated to the public, it's the ability...
September 20, 2012
A coalition of consumer groups is asking the Department of Agriculture to get tuna out of school lunchrooms after tests of canned tuna found highly variable levels of mercury, in some cases higher than federal guidelines. Industry groups countered that canned tuna is safe and wholesome. The real issue is that "we don't eat enough" seafood, says Gavin Gibbons of the National Fisheries Institute. The...
September 20, 2012
Kids with higher levels of the widely used substance BPA in their bodies are more likely to be obese, according to the first large-scale, nationally representative study to link an environmental chemical with obesity in children and teens. Researchers from the NYU School of Medicine acknowledge that their study's design doesn't allow them to definitely conclude that BPA, or bisphenol A, caused the...
September 19, 2012
At first glance, the logic seems simple: To lose weight, you need to eat smaller portions. But is a half-empty dinner plate really the best strategy if it leaves you hungry and more likely to succumb to the midnight munchies? For weight control, it turns out bigger portions - of the right foods - may be the answer. Numerous studies, many at Pennsylvania State University by Barbara Rolls, author of...
September 19, 2012
Consider a glass of milk. Familiar, safe, evoking childhood memories of dunking cookies or cafeteria lunches with school friends. Cool, refreshing and good for you. Maybe. While some consider milk a nutritional powerhouse, others see it as unnecessary for good health and question the rationale behind some government-related programs that try to help the marketing of milk. "When I was growing up, drinking...
September 18, 2012
As ABC's Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts prepares for a bone marrow transplant this week, the transplant community is praising her efforts to raise awareness about the lifesaving procedure and increase the number of donors. In June, Roberts said that she would undergo a bone marrow transplant to treat a rare blood disorder, myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), which had damaged her marrow. Although...
September 17, 2012
Kids are eating as much salt as adults, and those consuming the highest amounts of sodium have a two or three times greater risk of having high blood pressure as those who consume the least, says a study today. Researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed diets of 6,235 children, ages 8 to 18, based on dietary recall from the kids themselves or with the help of an adult....
September 17, 2012
F ood won't just feed you in 30 years. It will make you feel better and have less junk in it. It will be purchased without having to push a cart up and down the aisles of a supermarket. At home, food will be prepared on a foolproof, fully computerized appliance that will do virtually anything you ask it to do. That's right: You'll speak to your appliances. Oh, and producing food will be easier on the...
September 14, 2012
Perched on an 8-foot ladder, Michelle Lutz reaches into the leafy tops of the pole-bean vines growing toward the glass roof of Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital's new $1 million hydroponic greenhouse. "The first ones!" the resident farmer declares, holding up several young pods. Already she had picked red and green lettuces, heirloom cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, okra, edible nasturtiums and bunches...
September 14, 2012
You'll still get sick, still see a doctor and probably still dread hospital food. But much else in medicine will look different 30 years from now, says Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health. That includes "breathtaking" advances in understanding disease, improvements in technologies and in shifting medicine from treatment to prevention. The fundamental relationship between...
September 14, 2012
This year's outbreak of West Nile virus is the most serious since the virus was discovered in the United States in 1999, but health officials hope the worst is over. "We've turned the corner on the epidemic. West Nile virus outbreaks in the United States tend to peak in late August," said Lyle Petersen, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Vector-Borne Infectious...
September 13, 2012
Taking fish oil pills rich in omega-3 fatty acids doesn't appear to have a significant effect on heart attacks, strokes or death, a study published Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association finds. The news comes even as sales of fish oil supplements are booming. In 2011 Americans spent $1.1 billion on them, up 5.4% from 2010, according to the Nutrition Business Journal. Researchers...
September 12, 2012
TORONTO - With summer in its dying days and flu season looming, public health programs countrywide are gearing up for the push to inject millions of doses of flu vaccine into arms. A new study suggests those arms are more likely to belong to Canadians of a variety of ethnic backgrounds ????? Filipino, Japanese, Chinese and southeast Asian among them ????? than to people who describe themselves as white....
September 10, 2012
Fresh vegetables, ripe fruit, calcium-rich yogurt, whole grains, energizing nuts and seeds - that's a lot to pack into a lunchbox. But it's what you want to pack into your kid (not to mention yourself). Fear not. Back-to-school season offers new lunchbox-ready products promising to ease parents' anxiety while providing maximum kid nourishment. Greens Vegan Original Superfood Crisp ($1.99, 40-gram bar)...
September 10, 2012
Sept. 10 - About 40 people have received an antibiotic against bacterial meningitis in the Pittsburgh and Columbus, Ohio, areas since a Squirrel Hill man died of the illness last week, but none has been diagnosed with the infection, health officials said Sunday. The recipients - about 15 in the Pittsburgh area and 25 in the Columbus area - were given the antibiotic Cipro based on conversations with...
September 10, 2012
Sept. 10 - Instructor Kimberly Kerr reached her right hand above her head and gripped a stainless-steel pole. Christina Aguilera's song "Dirty" blared throughout Kerr's pistachio green studio. Her long, brown hair swayed as the 36-year-old slowly walked around the pole. Dressed in a hot-pink athletic skirt, she wrapped her left leg around the bar before spinning to the ground in a classic move called...
September 10, 2012
Sept. 10 - "The biggest cause for overeating is undereating." So says Stephanie Harris, a dietitian at Hillcrest Hospital South. "Long periods between meals can set off cravings and cause you to over-indulge," Harris explained. Mary Ann O'Dell, a dietitian at Akin's Natural Foods, agrees. "Eating a little bit more consistently is healthier," O'Dell said. "You'll end up making better food choices."...
September 10, 2012
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