Also On Wellness
Health and Wellness News
Back to school also means back to the doctor's office. While most athletes are required to get physical exams to compete on school sports teams, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends checkups annually for everyone up to age 21. "Sometimes parents think their child is healthy and they don't really need to come in," says pediatrician Wendy Sue Swanson of Seattle Children's Hospital and the Everett...
September 3, 2011
Back to school also means back to the doctor's office. While most athletes are required to get physical exams to compete on school sports teams, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends checkups annually for everyone up to age 21. "Sometimes parents think their child is healthy and they don't really need to come in," says pediatrician Wendy Sue Swanson of Seattle Children's Hospital and the Everett...
September 3, 2011
Sept. 02 - Once the water is pumped out of your basement, the clock starts. You've got 24 to 48 hours to dry everything out before the risk for mold growth - and additional problems - sets in. "Remove the water," said Greg Krueger, vice president of operations at Lew Corp. in Mountainside. "If you can dry everything within 48 hours, there's a very minimal chance you're going to get any kind of mold...
September 2, 2011
Before starting our "100 Days of Real Food" pledge you could describe our family's eating habits as fairly average. While I made sure my kids ate at least one fruit or vegetable at every meal - albeit never organic - they also had their fair share of junk food including boxed macaroni and cheese, pretzels made from white flour and "fruit" snacks. Although, at the time, I never realized most of that...
September 2, 2011
Feb. 24 - Three days after her daughter got a pediatrician's clean bill of health in January, Kristie Bowlds noticed a sizable lump under Emmalee's right arm. At first, Kristie Bowlds, a health care professional, thought maybe she'd dislocated the then-4-month-old's shoulder during the child's nightly bath. If only that were the case, how uncomplicated life would've been for the Bowlds family of Utica....
September 2, 2011
Sept. 02 - Torrential rainfall this spring is to blame for a significant increase in the number of mosquitoes testing positive for West Nile virus in York County. York leads the state with 112 positive mosquito tests for West Nile virus, a potentially serious illness spread by the bite of infected mosquitoes, according to statistics provided by the state's Department of Health. So far, that's an increase...
September 2, 2011
Sept. 02 - BLOOMINGTON - Just two years after the H1N1 pandemic, public health officials are concerned that Central Illinoisans will not take influenza seriously because last year's flu season was comparatively mild. So here's their attention-getting message: Get vaccinated while you're still wearing short sleeves. You don't have to wait until October or November to get protection from the common but...
September 2, 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 2, 2011
Sept. 02 - Bob Nease oversees a laboratory where two dozen researchers and analysts pick through computer data from tens of millions of patients and hundreds of millions of prescriptions claims. As chief scientist at Express Scripts, he is steeped in the world of pharmacy benefits - including the hundreds of billions of wasted health care dollars involving patients who do not take their medicine as...
September 2, 2011
ATLANTA - The push to get pediatricians to stop prescribing antibiotics for the wrong illnesses is paying off a bit, a new government report found. Since the early 1990s, there's been a 10 per cent drop in prescription rates for antibiotics for kids 14 and younger, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. Antibiotics are often used ????? but don't work ????? against viral illnesses...
September 2, 2011
Health officials say a novel strain of swine flu has sickened two children in Pennsylvania and Indiana. One had contact with pigs. The other is believed to have been infected by a caregiver who had contact with pigs, suggesting the virus can spread person-to-person. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the new virus contains a gene from the H1N1 swine flu that caused a worldwide scare...
September 2, 2011
Sept. 02 - Wedgewood Family Practice and Psychiatry Associates will stop seeing patients at local hospitals effective Oct. 1 and will instead focus their efforts on inoffice care. Many local doctors' offices have started relying on hospitalists - physicians who work solely in a hospital - to treat their patients when they are admitted, rather than doing rounds at the hospitals themselves. Some doctors...
September 2, 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 2, 2011
New York (dpa) - US firefighters who first reached the World Trade Center, which was attacked by terrorists a decade ago, are 19 per cent more likely to have cancer than those not exposed to cancer-causing materials at the site, the medical journal The Lancet reported Friday. The Lancet's special issue on the September 11, 2001 attacks showed that a higher proportion of male firefighters at Ground...
September 2, 2011
Sept. 01 - Hospital emergency departments may see a continued increase in the number of uninsured people they treat, now that a federal stimulus-funded benefit that helped underwrite health care coverage for the unemployed ended Wednesday. Deficit-conscious members of Congress last year decided to let the subsidy expire, leaving unemployed people who had been getting COBRA coverage the option of paying...
September 1, 2011
Firefighters exposed to the World Trade Center attacks are more likely to get cancer, while 9/11 rescue workers still suffer high illness rates generally, according to studies published Wednesday. In a 10th anniversary edition of medical journal The Lancet, scientists said however that death rates among emergency staff and civilians who survived the disaster were lower than those of the wider New York...
September 1, 2011
What you know about birth control: Nearly half of all U.S. pregnancies are unintended; abstinence is the only sure-fire way to prevent pregnancy (and protect you from STDs); smoking while on the Pill may increase your risk of heart attack or stroke; as long as you are still getting a period, you can get pregnant during menopause. But here's something you may not know: We think IUDs work best. They're...
September 1, 2011
Aug. 23 - DENTON - Has meat met its match at Mean Greens, the new University of North Texas vegan dining hall? The 100 percent vegan eatery opened Monday - a day after students began moving back to the Denton campus. Organizers of Mean Greens aimed to create a vegan menu so colorful and mouth-watering that omnivorous students might even forget hamburger. Vegan food isn't just about carrots and peas,...
August 31, 2011
Aug. 31 - Mosquito season is in full swing in Merced County, and this month's numbers are up from last year - a concern since West Nile virus cases are picking up in the region. The spike in mosquito populations comes after a decrease in July that had district officials hopeful for a less pestilent year. Last month's populations were down 28 percent compared with July last year, according to a Merced...
August 31, 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...
August 31, 2011
Aug. 31 - MANILA - The Philippines' Department of Health on Wednesday alerted the public to a new and deadlier strain of bird flu or avian influenza virus which was detected in China and Vietnam. Eric Tayag, director of the National Epidemiology Center, said the new strain of the bird flu virus (H5N1) has a 60-per cent mortality rate. He said that in Cambodia eight people have died due to the infection...
August 31, 2011
Aug. 31 - More Minnesota teens are receiving recommended vaccines during adolescence, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study. Local health officials said they've administered vaccines to a higher number of youths. "We've noticed in our local immunization clinics here at public health over the last few years that we tend to see more teenagers than we ever saw before,"...
August 31, 2011
PHOENIX - An 86-year-old Arizona man had just finished trimming plants in his backyard when he fell face-first into his pruning shears, sending one of the handles through his right eye socket and halfway into his head. Unsure what had happened, Leroy Luetscher reached up and felt the shears jutting from his face. He was covered in blood and in more pain than he'd ever felt in his life. "I didn't know...
August 31, 2011
Aug. 31 - TIFTON - Salmonella has been reported in Tifton, but there has not been an outbreak. A call was made to The Tifton Gazette Monday afternoon in reference to an outbreak of salmonella in the community. Courtney Sheeley, South Health District public information officer, told The Tifton Gazette Tuesday morning that since July, only 10 cases have been reported due to the heat. She noted that this...
August 31, 2011
Anne Anders calls her husband, Dan, the "Miracle Man." But really she means miracles, plural. There was the time the former Air Force gunner was pinned to the ceiling of an AC-130 gunship as it plunged 2,000 feet before the pilot regained control, one of many close calls in the skies over Vietnam. More recently he survived a head-on collision that caused a stroke. His recovery took five years. But...
August 31, 2011
Featured Posts
©2025 Wellness®.com is a registered trademark of Wellness.com, Inc. 