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Hold the fries and pass the carrot sticks. Beginning today, kids will find some cool new choices on their restaurant menus choices that will make their parents happy, too. More than 15,000 restaurants in the USA representing 19 chains, including Burger King, Cracker Barrel, Chili's, Denny's and IHOP, are participating in a voluntary new initiative called Kids LiveWell. It's being unveiled today by...
July 13, 2011
Nearly all U.S. counties stricken with both high rates of HIV infection and poverty are in Southern states, according to a USA TODAY analysis of data from 43 states. The study, which drew on data made available from Emory University's AIDSVu project, offers the clearest picture yet of the close kinship of low income and HIV/AIDS. "This tells a story about heavily impacted regions across the South,"...
July 11, 2011
In its annual account of the nation's obesity epidemic, the nonprofit Trust for America's Health found obesity increased in 16 states, and did not go down in any. The "F as in Fat" report uses data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is produced in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Mississippi was named the most-obese state with a rate of 34.4 percent and Colorado...
July 11, 2011
Until his death in March, bluesman "Big" Jack Johnson of Clarksdale, Miss., crisscrossed the troubled terrain of the Mississippi Delta, singing of broken homes and broken hearts. His songs touched on all the timeless blues themes of poverty, abuse, abandonment and longing. Johnson also took on a newer heartache HIV/AIDS that is sweeping through the Delta and much of the rest of the South. And he confronted...
July 11, 2011
July 08 - Texas is one of the nation's fattest states and we've nearly doubled our obesity rate in the past 15 years, according to a new report. In 1995, fewer than 20 percent of adults were obese in each state and the District of Columbia. That year, Texas was the 16th plumpest with 16 percent of adults considered obese. Now, all but one state (Colorado) tips over the 20 percent obesity rate and 38...
July 10, 2011
July 08 - Texas is one of the nation's fattest states and we've nearly doubled our obesity rate in the past 15 years, according to a new report. In 1995, fewer than 20 percent of adults were obese in each state and the District of Columbia. That year, Texas was the 16th plumpest with 16 percent of adults considered obese. Now, all but one state (Colorado) tips over the 20 percent obesity rate and 38...
July 10, 2011
July 08 - Fatal prescription drug overdoses jumped by 61 percent in Florida from 2003 to 2009 and claimed 16,650 lives, federal health officials said in a new analysis Thursday. The report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention documents a trend that state officials have noted for years. It led to new laws over the past three years, most recently July 1, to control excessive prescriptions...
July 9, 2011
People may still be tightening their belts because of the economy, but too many continue to let them out because of weight gain. The percentage of obese adults increased in 16 states over past year and didn't decline in any state, a report says. In addition, the number of adults who say they don't do any physical activity increased in 14 states this past year. "The bad news is the obesity rates are...
July 8, 2011
A patient will be discharged from a hospital in Sweden today after his cancerous windpipe was removed and replaced by the world's first artificial trachea, made of his own stem cells grown on a man-made plastic matrix. "This is the first permanent artificial organ ever," says Paolo Macchiarini, professor of regenerative surgery at the Karolinksa Institute in Stockholm, who led the international research...
July 8, 2011
July 08 - Fatal prescription drug overdoses jumped by 61 percent in Florida from 2003 to 2009 and claimed 16,650 lives, federal health officials said in a new analysis Thursday. The report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention documents a trend that state officials have noted for years. It led to new laws over the past three years, most recently July 1, to control excessive prescriptions...
July 8, 2011
Ginger is an herb with a complex chemical structure and proven efficacy in treating certain medical conditions. So why don't we know more about it and use it more often? Actually, many parts of the world have been using this herb for more than 2,000 years - it is a common additive and medicinal herb in Chinese and Indian cultures. Over the last 20 years, numerous studies have shown the efficacy of...
July 8, 2011
July 08 - A six-year-long breast cancer study by doctors at PD Hinduja Hospital, Mahim, has found that breast cancer can be detected without a lump in the breast. Conducted with 56 patients, the study found that nipple discharge could be an early warning of the disease. Breast cancer was detected in 32% of the 56 patients having nipple discharge with the help of breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI),...
July 8, 2011
July 08 - Texas is one of the nation's fattest states and we've nearly doubled our obesity rate in the past 15 years, according to a new report. In 1995, fewer than 20 percent of adults were obese in each state and the District of Columbia. That year, Texas was the 16th plumpest with 16 percent of adults considered obese. Now, all but one state (Colorado) tips over the 20 percent obesity rate and 38...
July 8, 2011
The number of children with developmental disabilities has increased by 17% in 12 years, driven largely by big jumps in diagnoses for autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, research shows. More than 15% of school-age kids about 10 million children had a developmental disability in 2006-08, according to a study released Monday in the journal Pediatrics. That's up from 12.8% in 1997-99....
July 7, 2011
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) WASHINGTON - The question for doctors was simple: "When a patient comes in and asks for Viagra, will you first screen for low T?" meaning testosterone. The pitch by Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc. was part of its effort to make its testosterone replacement drug AndroGel "ride (the) coat tails of Viagra." But unlike Viagra, AndroGel wasn't approved by the Food and Drug Administration...
July 7, 2011
Use of vitamin D supplements during pregnancy has long been a matter of concern but now researchers writing in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research report that even a high supplementation amount in healthy pregnant women was safe and effective in raising circulating vitamin D to a level thought by some to be optimal. The study also found no adverse effects of vitamin D supplementation, even at...
July 7, 2011
OAK BROOK, Ill. Breast cancer screening with mammography results in a significant reduction in breast cancer mortality, according to long-term follow-up results of a large-scale Swedish trial. The results are published online in the journal Radiology (see also Breast Cancer). "Mammographic screening confers a substantial relative and absolute reduction in breast cancer mortality risk in the long-term,"...
July 7, 2011
HOUSTON - Forty-five percent of women with advanced breast cancer in the U.S. did not receive postmastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT) despite the publication of evidence-based guidelines outlining PMRT as a potentially lifesaving treatment, according to new research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (see also Breast Cancer). The study, published in the July issue of Cancer, found...
July 7, 2011
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who use inhaled corticosteroids to improve breathing for more than six months have a 27 percent increased risk of bone fractures, new Johns Hopkins-led research suggests (see also Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). Because the research subjects were mostly men age 60 and older, the findings raise perhaps more troubling questions about...
July 7, 2011
UT Southwestern Medical Center maternal-fetal specialists have confirmed a potential new protocol to protect pregnant women who are at risk for hepatitis B, a health problem that affects 2 billion people worldwide (see also Vaccines). An accelerated hepatitis B vaccination schedule for high-risk pregnant women was found effective and well-tolerated. The findings appear in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology....
July 7, 2011
July 05 - A new study led by a Johns Hopkins researcher says the popular anti-smoking drug Chantix significantly increases the risk for a heart attack or other serious heart problem in healthy, middle-aged smokers. Dr. Sonal Singh, the study's lead author, is calling for warnings on the drug to be stronger than those currently required by the Food and Drug Administration. "People want to quit smoking...
July 6, 2011
July 05 - A new study led by a Johns Hopkins researcher says the popular anti-smoking drug Chantix significantly increases the risk for a heart attack or other serious heart problem in healthy, middle-aged smokers. Dr. Sonal Singh, the study's lead author, is calling for warnings on the drug to be stronger than those currently required by the Food and Drug Administration. "People want to quit smoking...
July 6, 2011
The Pentagon is falsely claiming its research shows that airborne dust in Iraq and Afghanistan poses no health risk to U.S. troops, say three scientists whose review of that research found it riddled with mistakes. Military officials then falsely said the review of their research backed their conclusion that the dust in the two war zones is no different from that in California, scientists Philip Hopke,...
July 6, 2011
Colon cancer screening is up and new cases and deaths from the country's No. 2 cancer killer are down, a new study shows. "It's good news today. Colon cancer deaths are down significantly, and even more progress is possible," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Thomas Frieden said. According to the CDC report, new cases decreased by 66,000 from 2003 to 2007, and deaths dropped...
July 6, 2011
Kids flocked to two redesigned New York City playgrounds last year to check out the shiny, stainless-steel climbing domes. But they reacted with more than squeals of delight. On sunny days, the climbing domes quickly got hotter than a frying pan. Children scalded their hands, which prompted park officials to install a tent over the dome in Union Square and to remove the domes in Brooklyn Bridge Park....
July 5, 2011
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