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It started with one cup of coffee. Dan Dewey's dad, Edgar Dewey, sat in a chair with tubes pumping chemotherapy into his veins in the cancer treatment center of St. Joseph Mercy Oakland hospital here. But one Thursday morning in 2007, he told his son he'd like a cup of coffee. Before Dan Dewey left for a Starbucks down the street, they asked other patients in the room whether they'd like a cup, too....
November 29, 2011
R&B is Carey Gordon's pick-me-up music. When he's feeling stressed, annoyed or sorry for himself, he turns on the radio or pops in headphones, and the music "just hits that nail right on the head for me." Gordon can't afford to get stressed or angry; strong emotions might trigger dangerous seizures. But music is his antidote, as he discovered in 2004, soon after several major surgeries to correct the...
November 29, 2011
Better, prolonged therapy for smokers helps them kick the habit, even smokers who have no desire to quit, according to studies released Monday. "What we found is if you treat smoking like other health conditions and diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes, you're more likely to be successful," says lead author Anne Joseph, a physician and director of the University of Minnesota's applied clinical...
November 29, 2011
Weight control is a family affair, say several childhood obesity experts. They are responding to news that a Cleveland third-grader who weighs more than 200 pounds was taken from his family and placed into foster care. Social workers took action recently because they said the 8-year-old boy's mother wasn't doing enough about his weight. "This is an unfortunate problem with an unfortunate outcome that...
November 29, 2011
Nov. 29 - You won't find the word "nagging" in the study. But scientists at the University of Minnesota have found that smokers are more likely to kick the habit if a counselor calls them every month for a year with helpful tips and nicotine patches. Typically, stop-smoking programs only last about eight weeks. But Dr. Anne Joseph, a professor of medicine, and her colleagues found that they could boost...
November 29, 2011
Nov. 29 - Nancy Young did everything right when it came to her health, or so she thought. Three years ago, she was diagnosed with lung cancer. "It blew me away," said the trim, 53-year-old Frederick woman. Young never smoked and only briefly ever lived with people who smoked. Young has Stage 4 lung cancer, which means the cancer has spread to her lymph nodes. Her voice is scratchy, a result of the...
November 29, 2011
What if it were possible to almost entirely do away with E. coli in ground beef and it would cost only about a penny a burger? Food-safety experts say it's entirely feasible with new technologies that have become available. One is a vaccine, the other a feed additive, which, given early enough, could bring down potential E. coli contamination to negligible levels. The problem, experts in beef safety...
November 29, 2011
Mr. Tidbit really enjoyed learning last week that there are 35 kinds of V8 juice, so this week he has turned the blinding glare of his Pointless Product Proliferation Spotlight on Dannon's Activia, the yogurt infused with "the exclusive probiotic culture Bifidus Regularis (Bifidobacterium lactis DN-173 010)" to "help naturally regulate your digestive system." (On this day when we consider how much...
November 28, 2011
Nov. 28 - It is a trend Andrea Mantione and her staff at the Edward R. Leahy Center Clinic see more and more often these days - people who skip doses of prescription medication to save a little cash. A study released this fall shows that the number of people who reported skipping prescription medication doses, doctors appointments and medical tests among the ways they try to save on health care costs...
November 28, 2011
CLEVELAND - An 8-year-old elementary school student who weighs more than 200 pounds (90 kilograms) has been taken from his family and placed into foster care after county social workers said his mother wasn't doing enough to control his weight. The Plain Dealer newspaper reports that the Cleveland 8-year-old is considered severely obese and at risk for such diseases as diabetes and hypertension. The...
November 28, 2011
Nov. 28 - TUPELO - A Tupelo neurosurgeon is getting national attention for a minimally invasive approach to spine surgery. Dr. Walter Eckman, who presented at a national conference in Las Vegas last month, is getting questions not just about the technique, but also about how his patients are able to go home in a few hours. "Not many people are doing spinal fusions and having people go home the same...
November 28, 2011
Nov. 28 - Carol Ann Surles-Law, 9, pays rapt attention as Riverside dietitian Crystal Witte explains the fine points of good nutrition. Surles-Law is a student at Hampton Roads International Montessori School in Newport News, where "Practical Life" is part of the everyday curriculum. "The activities include many of the tasks carried out at home, such as food preparation, washing dishes, polishing,...
November 28, 2011
A home birth carries a higher risk for the babies of first-time mothers, according to a new study. The research, published in the British Medical Journal, also showed that despite the risk, the chance of harm to the baby is still less than one per cent. A team of experts studied almost 65,000 births in England to come to their conclusion, which also revealed that with a second birth there is no difference...
November 28, 2011
Nov. 28 - For Jacqui DuBois in Benicia, it all began with nibbling some Halloween candy. Then, the cravings for sweets and other fattening food hit her hard. But before the holiday season - a veritable six-week eating binge - began in earnest, she decided to slam her refrigerator door to sweets and other fattening food. After losing 50 pounds, DuBois, the manager of the Curves fitness center in Benicia,...
November 28, 2011
DAYTON, Ohio - Scientists know that a healthy diet and regular exercise are vital to maximize brain functioning. Regular aerobic exercise has been shown to improve reaction time, speed of processing information, memory and attention. Aerobic exercise has even been shown to reduce the symptoms of depression. Recommended levels of physical activity include at minimum three weekly sessions of 20 minutes...
November 24, 2011
DAYTON, Ohio - Scientists know that a healthy diet and regular exercise are vital to maximize brain functioning. Regular aerobic exercise has been shown to improve reaction time, speed of processing information, memory and attention. Aerobic exercise has even been shown to reduce the symptoms of depression. Recommended levels of physical activity include at minimum three weekly sessions of 20 minutes...
November 24, 2011
Steve Pavlina began adulthood as an extreme night owl: up until dawn and asleep past noon. By his early 30s, he was more of an 8 a.m. guy. But he noticed he got more done on days he got up earlier. So he set out to become a real morning lark, happily up at 5 a.m. He failed. "I struggled with it for years," says the personal development speaker and blogger from Las Vegas. But then he succeeded, using...
November 22, 2011
Steve Pavlina began adulthood as an extreme night owl: up until dawn and asleep past noon. By his early 30s, he was more of an 8 a.m. guy. But he noticed he got more done on days he got up earlier. So he set out to become a real morning lark, happily up at 5 a.m. He failed. "I struggled with it for years," says the personal development speaker and blogger from Las Vegas. But then he succeeded, using...
November 22, 2011
Public health officials are turning to a surprisingly effective tool in their efforts to track down bouts of salmonella and other food-borne illness outbreaks: the shopper loyalty card. The widely used cards, introduced in 1987, allow epidemiologists to scan food purchases as they try to trace culprits in food illness episodes that seem to have no obvious links. They "provide an accurate picture of...
November 22, 2011
The over-the-river-and-through-the-woods trip to grandmother's house also is prime time to assess Mom and Dad's health before a crisis occurs, aging experts say. Counseling experts already are witnessing a 66% growth in calls this year from adult children seeking advice on complex medical, legal and financial quesions involving aging parents, according to a report Wednesday by the ComPsych Corp. ,...
November 22, 2011
Steve Pavlina began adulthood as an extreme night owl: up until dawn and asleep past noon. By his early 30s, he was more of an 8 a.m. guy. But he noticed he got more done on days he got up earlier. So he set out to become a real morning lark, happily up at 5 a.m. He failed. "I struggled with it for years," says the personal development speaker and blogger from Las Vegas. But then he succeeded, using...
November 22, 2011
While the bounty of fresh, cheap produce found at grocery stores and farmers' markets in fall may be dwindling by the time the holidays roll around, there are still great deals on healthy food to be had. Hearty beans, antioxidant-rich pumpkin, and nutrient-packed cold-hardy greens top our list of the cheapest healthy foods for the holidays. Basing a week's meals around these ingredients ensures you'll...
November 20, 2011
Girls exposed before birth to high levels of the estrogen-like chemical BPA are more likely to be anxious, depressed and hyperactive at age 3, according to a study in today's Pediatrics. Boys' behavior was unaffected by BPA, the study says. Scientists in recent years have linked BPA, or bisphenol A, to a wide variety of health problems, from breast cancer to diabetes. BPA is found in countless consumer...
November 19, 2011
Girls exposed before birth to high levels of the estrogen-like chemical BPA are more likely to be anxious, depressed and hyperactive at age 3, according to a study in today's Pediatrics. Boys' behavior was unaffected by BPA, the study says. Scientists in recent years have linked BPA, or bisphenol A, to a wide variety of health problems, from breast cancer to diabetes. BPA is found in countless consumer...
November 19, 2011
For 24 years, patients have had a way to lower their "bad cholesterol" with medications. But doctors are still struggling to find a drug that safely raises "good cholesterol," which carries bad cholesterol out of the blood. A preliminary study, presented Tuesday at the American Heart Association meeting in Orlando, shows preliminary evidence that a new class of drugs might help. The drug evacetrapib,...
November 17, 2011
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