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Haiti's cholera death toll has risen to 2,901 with official figures Thursday showing a record high for the daily number of fatalities since the outbreak erupted in mid-October. The number of confirmed cholera deaths on December 19, the second most recent day on record, was just under 100, the data from the Haitian health ministry showed, far higher than previous peaks around 80 in mid-November. As...
December 30, 2010
Dec. 30 - Anchorage was the ninth drunkest city in the U.S. in 2009, according to a first annual compilation by The Daily Beast, a news and commentary website that ranked 40 cities based on several different data sets. The data included statistics from more than 200 metropolitan areas on the average number of alcoholic drinks consumed by residents in a month. They also used information on heavy and...
December 30, 2010
Dec. 30 - Depressed patients who have poorly controlled diabetes or heart disease - or both - often are some of the most unhappy and expensive patients around. But when their depression and physical problems are monitored and treated by a team of primary-care providers, these patients not only feel better, their physical condition improves significantly, researchers from the University of Washington...
December 30, 2010
Dec. 30 - Dr. Ed Greeno says it hasn't happened yet. But the cancer specialist at the University of Minnesota said he lives in fear of having to tell a patient: "We can't get the best drug, so we have to settle for something that's not as good." On Wednesday, Greeno joined Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., at a news conference to voice concern about a growing shortage of prescription drugs, including morphine...
December 30, 2010
Dec. 29 - Bringing home a newborn from the hospital is a major event. Along with learning a new routine for the baby's care, new mothers need to take care of themselves so they can be better mothers to their little bundles of joy. Dr. Darrin Strickland, a Brunswick-based obstetrician-gynecologist, says that preparation begins even before the baby comes home. New parents need to make sure that the nursery...
December 29, 2010
Dec. 29 - DECATUR - Earlier this month, the Macon County Health Department reported an increase in pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough. According to a recent news release, three laboratory-confirmed cases and two probable cases were identified in early December, a trend that holds true in Illinois and other states. As of the beginning of December, 813 cases of pertussis had been reported in...
December 29, 2010
Haiti's cholera death toll has risen to 2,761 and the water-borne epidemic appears to be strengthening its grip on the quake-hit Caribbean nation, official figures showed Wednesday. At least 60 people were shown to have died on four of the previous five days recorded by the health ministry, between December 14 and December 17. This level has not been seen since deaths peaked in mid-November. The number...
December 29, 2010
Dec. 29 - HEIDELBERG, Germany - Obesity will soon outscore smoking as the principal risk factor in Germany for cancer, the head of the country's main cancer-research laboratory said Wednesday. The reason was the growth in Germany's obesity rate. Overweight people are at greater risk of oesophageal, bowel, kidney, pancreatic and breast cancer, although the precise mechanisms involved have still not...
December 29, 2010
Dec. 29 - KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ANN) - A sniper's bullet that tears through the chest, and a massive heart attack, have two things in common - searing pain and the possibility of death. If that is overly dramatic, let us review today what is slowly cooking us to death. The three assassins that are stealthily killing us day by day are sugar, oxygen, and inflammation, like a sweet on fire! Arguably,...
December 29, 2010
French health watchdogs said on Wednesday the country was officially in the grip of a flu epidemic after 176,000 people had fallen sick, two of whom have died. To be classified as an epidemic, new cases of influenza recorded by doctors have to number more than 174 per 100,000 people per week. This threshold was breached last week, when there were 280 cases per 100,000 people. Three viral strains are...
December 29, 2010
Kimberly Dzielski worries she doesn't play enough with her 5-year-old daughter. "I read to her. We play games. We play make-believe," Dzielski says. "I even try to make housework into a fun thing." But she worries it's not enough. Except when she's worrying that it's too much. "I worry if she's just by herself she'll be lonely, and I don't want her to just be in front of the TV," says Dzielski, who...
December 29, 2010
Apr. 29 - A Harvard doctor who co-founded a nationwide group of physicians that supports universal health coverage is scheduled to speak in Tucson today about what he sees as problems with the new national health-care law. Dr. David U. Himmelstein is scheduled to speak from 4 to 5 p.m. in Room A114 of Drachman Hall at the University of Arizona's Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, 1295...
December 28, 2010
Dec. 28 - The figures tell a story that's only getting worse: As of Monday, 16 people have died from a heroin overdose this year, double the number in 2009. Overdoses caused by the drug also have increased - from 61 in 2009 to 86 this year. But what's even more alarming, officials say, is the increase in "drugged driving" cases in which heroin users shoot up immediately after getting the drug and then...
December 28, 2010
Dec. 28 - Research published in this month's issue of Archives of Dermatology shows that 18.1 percent of women and 6.3 percent of men use indoor tanning, despite the skin cancer risk. The women were more likely to live in the Midwest or South and also use spray tanning products. The association between spray tanning product use and indoor tanning was also strong among men, suggesting that instead of...
December 28, 2010
Dec. 28 - LONGMONT - During her last year of medical school in 2006 at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Longmont Clinic dermatologist Dr. Sarah Bair participated in a bone density study for the money. "I did it because I was a poor college student, but it helped me figure out that I had low bone density and a vitamin D deficiency," said Bair, 32. She is hardly alone. About half of the population...
December 28, 2010
Dec. 28 - Hepatologists at the University of Florida have begun a new clinical trial in search of a better way to treat patients who have advanced, inoperable primary liver cancer but have trouble tolerating standard doses of the only drug available to help them. Funded through a $650,000 grant from Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc., the makers and marketers of Sorafenib...
December 28, 2010
San Francisco - A large, ever-growing body of evidence suggests that moderate drinking - a glass or two of wine a day, a beer (or even a martini) after work a few times a week - may help people live longer and healthier. That's probably good news to folks who booze it up a bit over the holidays, assuming they don't overdo it on the eggnog or Champagne. But the evidence isn't quite strong enough, and...
December 27, 2010
Dec. 27 - BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ANN) - Beijing is working on making all public spaces - including work sites and transportation options - tobacco-free by the end of 2015, the Health Bureau revealed. The bureau is also aiming to reduce the smoking rate among men in the capital from 4.6 to 4 per cent during the next five years. Specifics from the plan have not yet been released. And the results of a survey...
December 27, 2010
Dec. 27 - Tennessee has been ranked first in the nation for having the highest rate of immunization for selected vaccines for children ages 19 months to 35 months, according to a new report. "We set a goal to better protect the health of young children in our state by improving our immunization rates to prevent them from getting these very serious and potentially deadly diseases," said Tennessee Health...
December 27, 2010
A total of 24 people have died of swine flu in Britain since October with children among the dead, authorities said Thursday. Data from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) showed 27 people have died with confirmed flu, including 24 with swine flu and three with another strain. Nine children and 18 adults have died, although the data does not indicate which of the victims did not die from swine flu....
December 23, 2010
San Antonio, Tex. A drug that shows promise for preventing breast cancer in postmenopausal women with an increased risk of developing the disease, appears to reduce mammographic breast density in the same group of women. Having dense breast tissue on mammogram is believed to be one of the strongest predictors of breast cancer. The preliminary analysis from the small, phase II study was presented today...
December 23, 2010
Dec. 23 - For years, Dr. Seiichi Noda has carefully watched patients walk from the waiting room into the examining room and asked himself a specific set of questions: - How fast is their gait? - Is their grip strong when they shake hands? - Can they climb onto the exam table without assistance? - Are they able to hold a conversation longer than five minutes without getting winded? Making note of such...
December 23, 2010
US health authorities have approved a vaccine intended to prevent anal cancer and pre-cancerous lesions in young people aged nine to 26 years old. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the green light Wednesday to the makers of the vaccine Gardasil, which is already used to treat women with cervical, vulvar, and vaginal cancer, and associated lesions caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) types...
December 23, 2010
SAN ANTONIO - Do not delay treatment of breast cancer just because a woman is pregnant, said lead researcher Sibylle Loibl, Dr. med, of the German Breast Group (see also Breast Cancer). This suggestion is based on study results detailing the effects of different treatment options on the infant. Loibl presented this data at the 33rd Annual CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 8-12,...
December 22, 2010
In a new report that bucks the concerns raised by the Food and Drug Administration, a Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) (sph.bu.edu) researcher concludes that electronic cigarettes are much safer than real cigarettes and show promise in the fight against tobacco-related diseases and death. The review, which will be published online ahead of print this month in the Journal of Public...
December 22, 2010
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