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Researchers in Britain revealed Friday they are exploring whether the nightclubbers' drug ecstasy could be effective in treating blood cancers. Scientists at the University of Birmingham in central England said modified forms of the drug boosted its ability to destroy cancerous cells by 100 times. Six years ago, researchers found that cancers affecting white blood cells appeared to respond to certain...
September 7, 2011
Sept. 07 - Immunizations aren't just for kids. Adults need them, too. "It's a misconception, I hope to help dispel," said Dr. Sandy Adamson Fryhofer. Fryhofer, a professor of medicine at Emory School of Medicine, will speak about adult immunizations at the 18th Annual Immunize Georgia Conference on Sept. 15 in Macon. The conference aims to provide the latest information about immunizations to health...
September 6, 2011
Researchers in the United States said Sunday they had developed a vaccine for tuberculosis that offered unprecedented protection in mice against the deadly disease. Tuberculosis kills some 1.7 million people each year, with one in three people around the globe infected, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The only vaccine currently in use is notoriously inconsistent. Researchers led by...
September 6, 2011
Fewer American adults are smoking, and those who still do are lighting up less, suggests a nationwide survey from the US Centers for Disease Control released on Tuesday. Using data from 2005 to 2010, researchers with the US government agency reckoned that 19.3 percent of American adults - or 45.3 million people over the age of 18 - are smoking cigarettes, down from 20.9 percent in 2005. The proportion...
September 6, 2011
Sept. 07 - POMEROY - Another study of the health impact from exposure to a chemical used by DuPont at its Washington Works plant in Wood County, W.Va. shows it may affect kidney health. West Virginia University's C8 Health Project has released yet another study, Perfluoroalkyl Chemicals and Chronic Kidney Disease in U.S. Adults, and it was published recently in the American Journal of Epidemiology....
September 6, 2011
Sept. 07 - Prison inmate Jason C. Smallwood, back in the hospital for what could be the third implant of a heart pump, has been turned down for a medical pardon. However, Smallwood, a 27-year-old drug offender who has had several open-heart surgeries since going to prison in 2007, still has a conditional pardon request pending before Gov. Bob McDonnell. His mother, Janice Vaughan of Portsmouth, was...
September 6, 2011
Sept. 07 - "If your minivan smells like French fries perpetually, it's time to slow down." So says Toni Garcia Carpenter, a mom and the author of "Domestic Commando, A Stay-at-Home (R)evolution." Her message is pretty simple: If you and your family eat most of your meals on the fly and rarely sit down together, you're missing out on opportunities to improve your family dynamic, your health and financial...
September 6, 2011
Addis Ababa (dpa) - Roos Ament took her vacation days and traveled to Ethiopia, but studiously avoided spending her time lazily enjoying the country's natural beauty and instead headed for Dollo Ado, a sprawling refugee camp on the Somali border. The 51-year-old Dutch midwife says she felt the need to help other women, as they struggled to receive health care following arduous journeys from war-torn...
September 6, 2011
A fungus that has become a major threat to hospital patients may have a hidden weakness, according to research published on Monday that highlights the bug's ability to bind to human tissue. Candida albicans is widespread among humans, but normally does not affect health other than as vaginal or oral yeast infections, also called thrush. But in medical settings, C. albans is a peril for sick people...
September 6, 2011
Sept. 07 - Dr. Dan Fulton and his wife, Lois, talk about stress quite a bit. He's a third-year medical resident; she's a physical therapist. In addition to raising two daughters, 3 years and 9 months, the couple is chipping away at about $173,000 in student debt from medical school. "We have an agreement that I can't log in from home," said Fulton, 30, a resident in internal medicine at Hennepin County...
September 6, 2011
Sept. 07 - BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ANN) - Stress, long hours and an unhealthy lifestyle can have serious, even terminal, consequences. Liu Zhihua reports. Shi Wenxiong, a 41-year-old from Beijing, says he only survived a heart attack three years ago because he was lucky. One morning in September 2008, Shi, a manager at Shunyi Gardening Service Center of Beijing, went to work as usual but when he arrived,...
September 6, 2011
Sept. 06 - An unbuckled 2-year-old boy's survival from a rollover crash Saturday has prompted school officials and state troopers this month to ramp up efforts to remind the public of the life-saving effects of properly used child restraints in vehicles. Preliminary findings from a traffic investigation suggest Angelina Vazquez, of Kinston, had her infant son secured in the passenger seat of her 2000...
September 5, 2011
LOS ANGELES - Dr. Mehmet Oz - better known as Dr. Oz - appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and launched his own syndicated show in 2009 as a way of spreading useful medical information to millions of people. He never realized that an economic collapse would make his show a primary diagnostic source for many of his viewers. "We did a free clinic last year in Houston and 90 percent of the people in...
September 5, 2011
Nearly too weak to cry, Masteha Jama Mohamed's three-month-old daughter is barely the length of her forearm, as the severely malnourished baby struggles for survival in famine-hit Somalia. Mohamed is herself just a teenager: the 16-year-old mother says her baby has been sick ever since she was two weeks old, and now at 2.5 kilogrammes, is still only the weight of a newborn. But even after reaching...
September 5, 2011
Sept. 06 - Pueblo appears to have been spared so far, but the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has reported a sharp increase in the number of Listeria monocytogenes infections reported to public health agencies. Officials said nine cases were reported during August, seven of them since Aug. 29. In the past 10 years, an average of two cases were reported during August and Colorado...
September 5, 2011
Sept. 06 - They are seen by many as cultivators of old-fashioned virtues: punctuality, responsibility and that all-American ideal of stick-to-itiveness. Yet Erie County's top public health doctor describes school "Perfect Attendance" awards with another name. Germ-spreaders. As the new school year gets under way, Anthony J. Billittier IV is taking a stand on awards for perfect attendance in the region's...
September 5, 2011
Sept. 06 - In the late 1950s, a couple of doctors in Bloomer agreed the city needed its own hospital and began working with the community to build a medical facility the city could call its own. Construction began in 1960, and the Bloomer Community Memorial Hospital opened in 1961. Now known as Mayo Clinic Health System-Chippewa Valley in Bloomer, the hospital will celebrate its 50th anniversary Oct....
September 5, 2011
Harare (dpa) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has accused male government officials of "running from one woman to another" and spreading HIV, state media reported on Tuesday. "Our men are not satisfied with one woman even if they know that they are HIV-positive," the 87-year-old president told a national HIV/AIDS conference in Harare, according to the Herald newspaper. "I know of cases of men who...
September 5, 2011
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Wednesday, Sept. 1: - Better access to supermarkets - long touted as a way to curb obesity in low-income neighborhoods - doesn't improve people's diets, according to new research. The study, which tracked thousands of people in several large cities for 15 years, found that people didn't eat more fruits and vegetables when they had supermarkets...
September 5, 2011
Sept. 06 - YORK, Pa. A few residents already have come down with the flu, but an outbreak hasn't happened yet. Flu season usually starts to build in the fall and peaks in January or February, so now is a good time to get the flu shot, said Craig Smith, pharmacy manager at the Walgreens in Springettsbury Township. "(The shot) is good for a year," Smith said of the vaccine. "Why not get it now?" The...
September 5, 2011
Medical student Chris Jacob will soon learn to place his hands on patients and subtly manipulate bone and muscle in hope of relieving pain and hastening their recovery. He's among 15 Canadians learning osteopathy ????? manual manipulation of the body to promote healing ????? as part of a pilot project at the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Michigan State University. "This practice treats the patient...
September 5, 2011
Johannesburg (dpa) - The United Nations on Friday warned of rising rates of malnutrition among Somalis in refugee camps in neighbouring Ethiopia, as they escape drought, famine and conflict. In the Dollo Ado refugee complex, screenings of new arrivals revealed severe acute malnutrition in 19 per cent of children. The UN considers a rate of more than 1 per cent to be "alarming." UNHCR, the UN agency...
September 4, 2011
The Men's Health magazine-inspired "Eat This, Not That" franchise of books is the gift that keeps on giving for people who like to eat out but not bulk up. The 2011 edition was recently released. Take our quiz based on the book. 1. When you go to Ben & Jerry's, the calorie damage is going to be considerable. To mitigate it, which of these three scoops do the authors recommend? a) Peanut Butter Cup...
September 4, 2011
The Men's Health magazine-inspired "Eat This, Not That" franchise of books is the gift that keeps on giving for people who like to eat out but not bulk up. The 2011 edition was recently released. Take our quiz based on the book. 1. When you go to Ben & Jerry's, the calorie damage is going to be considerable. To mitigate it, which of these three scoops do the authors recommend? a) Peanut Butter Cup...
September 4, 2011
Johannesburg (dpa) - The United Nations on Friday warned of rising rates of malnutrition among Somalis in refugee camps in neighbouring Ethiopia, as they escape drought, famine and conflict. In the Dollo Ado refugee complex, screenings of new arrivals revealed severe acute malnutrition in 19 per cent of children. The UN considers a rate of more than 1 per cent to be "alarming." UNHCR, the UN agency...
September 3, 2011
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