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The World Health Organisation on Wednesday unveiled a new "while you wait" test for tuberculosis, that radically cuts down the testing time and detects drug resistant forms of the deadly lung disease. The desktop computer-sized automated test machine produces results in 100 minutes instead of up to six weeks of laboratory testing for the TB bacteria, which infects about one-third of the world's population,...
December 8, 2010
Dec. 08 - Pregnant women - Put down that extra doughnut. Experts are warning that "eating for two" doesn't mean eating twice as much food anymore. As Americans continue to get heavier, health care increasingly is focusing on the effects of obesity and excessive weight gain before, during and after pregnancy. "The No. 1 concern of ob-gyns today in pregnant women is obesity," said Dr. Vivian von Gruenigen,...
December 8, 2010
Dec. 08 - MANILA (PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/ANN) - The Christmas season is a high risk time for holiday weight-gain. Although studies have shown that people on the average gain a pound or two, those who are overweight gain some five pounds. Beyond overeating in parties, the season is also an extended period for alcohol and snacking. Many health-oriented groups are offering last-minute advice on how...
December 8, 2010
Cash register receipts and paper money have been found to contain high levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical linked to cancer, obesity and early puberty, a study published Wednesday says. Researchers from US non-profit groups Safer Chemicals, Safer Families and the Washington Toxics Coalition tested till receipts made from thermal paper which they collected from 22 popular retailers and cafes, and...
December 8, 2010
A common emergency room blood test could be used to detect heart disease in apparently healthy patients, according to a US study published Tuesday. "This test is among the most powerful predictors of death in the general population we've seen so far," said James de Lemos, associate professor of internal medicine at University of Texas Southwestern and lead author of the study. "It appears that the...
December 7, 2010
Dec. 07 - More than 10 years ago, experts in Seattle were faced with the question of how to stop an epidemic of bacterial meningitis that has ravaged across Africa for generations and killed thousands of people at a time. Even if an effective vaccine existed, people in the poorest countries in the world could never afford it. Unless someone reinvented the process for making a vaccine. On Monday, the...
December 7, 2010
Dec. 07 - MUMBAI - Medicinal plants such as tulsi, ashwgandha and shilajit, which have so far been used as home remedies for cough and cold, may hold the key to the treatment of people living with HIV/AIDS. The Department of Virology in Haffkine Institute for Training, Research and Testing in Parel, conducted in-vitro tests (tests done outside living systems) on the herbal extracts of the three plants...
December 7, 2010
Dec. 07 - A vaccine that once was only for girls and young women is beginning to be recommended for boys to prevent genital warts and some rare cancers, according to the state Health Department. The vaccine is for human papillomavirus, a common sexually transmitted infection that can result in cervical or genital cancers. More than half of all sexually active people will have HPV at some point in their...
December 7, 2010
Dec. 07 - Lynn Heinisch says her infant son's life was saved by mothers' milk - other mothers' milk. Heinisch wasn't producing enough breast milk for Liam, and formula made him horribly sick. At 4 months, he weighed a skeletal eight pounds. So Heinisch, who lives in Croydon, turned to friends and the Internet, tapping a trend that proponents see as well-informed wet-nursing in a wired world - and public...
December 7, 2010
Dec. 07 - Ron Carroll prefers to smoke cigars and pipes. But when he can't do that he says he manages to unobtrusively get his nicotine fix by slipping a packet of tobacco, about the size of a teabag, under his upper lip. "I use it all the time - movies, planes," said the Chicagoan, who adds that he likes the fact he can remove the packet as easily as a piece of gum. There's no chewing, spitting or...
December 7, 2010
Dec. 07 - Doctors should use the combination of a detailed medical history, physical examination and medical tests when diagnosing someone with a food allergy, according to new clinical guidelines released Monday by the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The guidelines were developed in response to several concerns: The diagnosis and management of food allergies vary from one clinical...
December 7, 2010
More than half of European adults are now overweight and too many children smoke or are obese, raising the risk of cancer or heart attacks, a European health report showed Tuesday. Just over 15 percent of adults in the European Union are obese, a rate that has more than doubled over the past 20 years in most EU states, the study found. The obesity rate ranges from less than 10 percent in Romania and...
December 7, 2010
Alcohol and caffeine, separately, have long been part of the college way of life. But recently, a combination of the two substances, nicknamed "a blackout in a can," demonstrated the dangers of combining the two by packing the punch of four to five beers and the caffeine buzz of a cup of coffee. The FDA has told manufacturers of products sold under brand names including "Four Loko," "JOOSE," and "808,"...
December 6, 2010
If the Internet buzz about a pain-free, radiation-free alternative to mammography sounds too good to be true, there's a reason for that. Breast thermography - recently touted as the "best breast test" by Oprah favorite Dr. Christiane Northrup, writing in the Huffington Post - has never been proven effective for routine breast cancer screening in a large-scale, randomized study, experts say. The FDA...
December 6, 2010
Dec. 06 - Since the mid-1990s, John Sammon has been trying to change his lifestyle. Eating healthier food. Exercising more. Seeing a doctor regularly. And in the end, it was those doctor visits that led to a diagnosis of prediabetes, a medical issue that millions of Americans do not even know they have. The 68-year-old Dunmore resident underwent double bypass surgery in 1994 and his doctor, Anthony...
December 6, 2010
Dec. 03 - DOVER - It's possible the nutmeg in the kitchen cabinet is being used for more than just pumpkin pie and eggnog. Some youths are trying to get high off the popular holiday spice. The Not My Kid Foundation, an Arizona-based nonprofit organization dealing with substance abuse and other youth-age issues, was recently featured in news reports bringing the abuse of nutmeg to the attention of parents...
December 3, 2010
Dec. 03 - Health initiatives need to start early - even in grade school - for the state to have enough healthy employees available to work in Iowa, said the director of the state's health work force research center. 'That is a real concern,' said Dr. James Merchant, director of the University of Iowa's Healthier WorkForce Center for Excellence. 'Other states are finding that as well - they can't find...
December 3, 2010
Dec. 03 - Switzerland is known for its mountains, banks and trains - but students from Union Graduate College are there to study the health system. "The Swiss health care system is perceived as very effective and at the same time it provides high-quality care," said Peter Otto, a professor of management at Union. Otto, who is Swiss, is leading 10 students on a tour of his homeland as part of their...
December 3, 2010
Dec. 03 - BELLINGHAM - New data that tracks infections for surgeries performed by hospitals in Washington show that PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center had the highest infection rates in the state for certain kinds of cardiac surgeries. Infection rates for three other surgeries were below state averages. The data, released this week by the Washington State Hospital Association, covered the first...
December 3, 2010
A second phase of vaccinations for polio will begin on Saturday in the Republic of Congo, where the disease has claimed 200 lives since October, the health ministry announced Friday. Health Minister Georges Moyen said on state radio that December 2 and 3 had been set aside to make preparations for a second round of vaccinations to start on Saturday. Moyen confirmed the figure of 200 deaths out of 472...
December 3, 2010
The European Union on Friday banned suspected killer drug mephedrone, a popular ecstasy-like party drug sometimes known as "meow meow" that is sold on the Internet and available in 12 EU nations. Mephedrone, already illegal in 15 EU nations, has been linked to 37 deaths in Britain and Ireland alone and appears to be the sole cause of two deaths in the EU. "It is good to see that EU governments are...
December 3, 2010
U.N. Secretary Ban Ki-moon says that the World Health Organization and the Pan-American Health Organization now estimate that the cholera epidemic in Haiti could affect as many as 650,000 people over the next six months. Reporting to the General Assembly on Friday, Ban also said that U.N. teams believe that the official numbers of 1,800 deaths and nearly 81,000 infected could be double that because...
December 3, 2010
India's top two cigarette makers on Friday said they had stopped production because of a lack of clarity over printing pictorial health warnings on tobacco packs. The government has ruled that all tobacco and cigarette manufacturing firms must carry explicit pictures of the harmful effects of smoking on their products from December 1, as part of efforts to stub out the habit. ITC, India's leading cigarette...
December 3, 2010
Dec. 03 - BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN - Smoking is dangerous to non-smokers. I believe this should be one of the health alerts to be carried on cigarette packaging as it certainly will tell the story of the damage tobacco does not only pose to smokers' health but also to the health of those around them through second-hand smoke. What is second-hand smoke? When a person smokes near you, you breathe second-hand...
December 3, 2010
Dec. 02 - BRIDGEPORT - "I love this routine," said Boston comedian Tom Hayes, the keynote speaker at Wednesday's 11th annual SWIM Across the Sound breakfast for cancer survivors. "Mike, give me your wallet." Mike Bisciglia, vice president of the St. Vincent's Medical Center Foundation, sitting at the head table, handed Hayes his wallet which was immediately dissected. "Let's see what we have here,"...
December 1, 2010
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