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The company whose cantaloupes were linked to listeria contamination voluntarily recalled its produce weeks ago, but there's a reason the number of reported cases can keep growing, health experts say. Officials say it can take up to two months before a person who ate listeria-contaminated food comes down with listeriosis, and people may still have the cantaloupe in refrigerators. Even though the cantaloupes...
September 26, 2011
ST. LOUIS - Mike Johnston has no idea what he was thinking when he took up cigarettes at age 15 "I was definitely more impulsive back then than I am now," said Johnston, 39, of Oakville, Mo., as he puffed away on a downtown sidewalk during a work break. "I was young and had no responsibilities. Now I have a wife and two kids." Charlie Condor, 49, of St. John, Mo., was smoking with co-workers when he...
September 26, 2011
When the first edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves was published in 1971, the 193-page text was nothing short of revolutionary. It grew out of what became a radical women's liberation movement that changed society from a world that looked like Mad Men to one that looked like Ms. It not only challenged the medical establishment and its assumptions about women, it also encouraged women to explore their...
September 26, 2011
Sept. 26 - CHEYENNE - A research scholar recently told employees at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center that hospitals should tell patients when workers make mistakes. Nancy Berlinger of The Hastings Center in Garrison, N.Y., also said that medical professionals should apologize to patients and families if harm occurs. They also should figure out ways to prevent it from happening again. The Hastings Center...
September 26, 2011
Aug. 31 - BEIJING - The pressure of modern society is taking a toll on sexual satisfaction, experts say following the release of an online survey. About 34 percent of people polled in the survey said that they are unsatisfied with their sex lives, with 6.5 percent "very unsatisfied". Another 32 percent condemned their sex lives as "just so-so". The survey interviewed more than 3,000 people, aged between...
September 23, 2011
As government officials continue to target Medicare fraud, they've doubled the funding for senior-citizen volunteers who do everything from explaining benefits to sending tips to investigators. One tip led to a piece of this month's record-breaking Medicare fraud takedown. Officials believe that if older Americans - including the growing crop of eligible Baby Boomers - know how to spot errors and fraud,...
September 22, 2011
As government officials continue to target Medicare fraud, they've doubled the funding for senior-citizen volunteers who do everything from explaining benefits to sending tips to investigators. One tip led to a piece of this month's record-breaking Medicare fraud takedown. Officials believe that if older Americans - including the growing crop of eligible Baby Boomers - know how to spot errors and fraud,...
September 22, 2011
ISLESBORO Lyme disease rates have reached an epidemic level on a Maine island, so a local tick disease committee is asking to bring gun hunting to the island to reduce the deer herd. Islesboro voters will decide the issue on Aug. 24. It doesnt seem like a big deal to many people. You get [bitten] by a tick and then a bulls-eye rash no big deal, Sue Bolduc said. This disease can be devastating. Bolduc,...
September 22, 2011
In a paper to be presented at the upcoming HFES 55th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, human factors/ergonomics researchers will describe WISE, a Web-based tool for breast cancer survivors designed to reduce work disabilities and improve employment outcomes (see also Human Factors and Ergonomics Society). Those who have beaten breast cancer comprise the largest population of cancer survivors in...
September 22, 2011
Sept. 22 - BROOKFIELD - In Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, one of the most popular eating spots is called Carnivore. "The only thing they serve is meat," said cardiologist Dr. Robert Jarrett, who has an office here. For when given the chance, Jarrett said, people in Third World countries readily adopt the First World diet - fatty, salty fast food. "People there are no different than they are here,"...
September 22, 2011
Parents should put flu shots on their to-do list now, "a tuning up for winter," says William Schaffner, president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. He and a host of medical officials on Wednesday urged Americans, especially pregnant women and children, to get vaccinated. There's an abundance of flu vaccine available this year, 90 million doses right now and another 80 million to come,...
September 22, 2011
When the Florida Hospital for Children discovered in 2009 that it had some of the most dissatisfied patients in the country, it turned to an unlikely source for help - Mickey Mouse and company. Two years and about $200,000 in consulting fees to The Walt Disney Co. later, work areas are now "back stage" and "front stage" zones. Many staff are "cast members," and new visitors to the 200-bed facility...
September 22, 2011
Sarah Gardner wants her company's employees to be savvy medical shoppers. So this year, she rolled out a plan that sets limits on how much the company will pay toward a range of tests and procedures, from MRIs to hysterectomies. Workers at Buffalo-based Prodigy Health now know to call their employee insurance plan to find a list of local doctors and facilities that meet the price. Or they can choose...
September 22, 2011
With cold and flu season right around the corner, keeping children healthy is on the top of every parent's mind. According to 2010 figures from the National Center for Health Statistics, 43% of children ages 5-17 missed three or more school days in the past year because of illness or injury; 6% missed 11 days or more. An estimated 22 million school days are lost annually because of colds alone. "There...
September 22, 2011
The number of severe wounds that have resulted in loss of limbs to U.S. servicemembers has been rising this year because of increased foot patrols in areas mined with buried explosives, and is on a pace to exceed any year since the Afghanistan War began, according to the latest casualty data. "Nobody has ever seen this degree of injury before," says Lt. Col. John Oh, the director of trauma care at...
September 21, 2011
Warsaw (dpa) - Polish women living in Britain gave birth to twice as many children last year as those living in Poland, the daily Gazeta Prawna reported Wednesday. Polish women gave birth to nearly 20,000 children in England in 2010, according to British Department of Health statistics - twice as many as their counterparts living in Poland, the daily said. Polish women in Britain have an average of...
September 21, 2011
As government officials continue to target Medicare fraud, they've doubled the funding for senior-citizen volunteers who do everything from explaining benefits to sending tips to investigators. One tip led to a piece of this month's record-breaking Medicare fraud takedown. Officials believe that if older Americans - including the growing crop of eligible Baby Boomers - know how to spot errors and fraud,...
September 21, 2011
At 9 a.m. on the first Sunday of the NFL's regular season, Dominic Giammarinaro, a San Diego Chargers tailgating fan (who is a marketing manager during the week) was setting up his portable grill in the parking lot of Qualcomm Stadium. Dozens of bratwursts were still steeping in a beer/soy sauce/brown sugar marinade, and onions and peppers were already sliced and ready for the flames. Pretty soon,...
September 21, 2011
By Judy Newman, The Wisconsin State Journal (MCT) Sept. 21 - The nation's new patent law is going to help major corporations at the expense of the little guys, said Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director of the UW-Madison's Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. "This, basically, is a big-business patent bill," Gulbrandsen said. "It doesn't benefit small business and individual inventors. And we're in...
September 21, 2011
Sept. 21 - Mayo Clinic researchers involved in a years-long, often frustrating search for a genetic mutation say they have discovered new information about the cellular roots of two diseases - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. Mayo Clinic released the findings today in connection with publication of their research report in the online edition of Neuron. "It's a very important...
September 21, 2011
The Army is eager to know whether omega-3 fatty acids are not only good for the heart, but also might deter soldiers from killing themselves. "I'm all over it, because I'm looking for something to help," says Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army's vice chief of staff, who has been working for years to reduce the service's record number of suicides. Research published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry...
September 21, 2011
Hong Kong (dpa) - Advanced breast cancer in Hong Kong is four times more prevalent among poorer patients of the disease, possible due to lower screening rates, a report published Tuesday has found. In women from areas where the average monthly income was less than 14,000 Hong Kong dollars (1,700 US dollars), the rate of advanced stage cancer was between 15 and 17.8 per cent, the Hong Kong Breast Cancer...
September 19, 2011
Belgrade (dpa) - Serbian authorities late Monday arrested a former high-ranking health official on suspicion of corruption in the procurement of swine flu vaccines in 2009, the B92 news portal said. Svetlana Vukajlovic, the former head of the state health insurance institute, allegedly harmed the state by 1.6 million euros (2.1 million dollars) in the purchase of 857,000 vaccine units, the reports...
September 19, 2011
New Delhi (dpa) - Indian authorities Tuesday confirmed an outbreak of avian influenza in the eastern state of West Bengal. The government said local agencies had been notified about the outbreak in the affected area located in the central district of Nadia. The government also ordered culling, the Ministry of Agriculture said. The ministry said poultry samples collected from two villages in the district...
September 19, 2011
The number of severe wounds that have resulted in loss of limbs to U.S. servicemembers has been rising this year because of increased foot patrols in areas mined with buried explosives, and is on a pace to exceed any year since the Afghanistan War began, according to the latest casualty data. "Nobody has ever seen this degree of injury before," says Lt. Col. John Oh, the director of trauma care at...
September 19, 2011
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