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Dec. 02 - NEW DELHI - Sushruta Trauma Centre (STC), the hospital that refused admission to the accident victim causing his death on Tuesday, is on a verge of a shut down. Located on Outer Ring Road near Kashmere Gate Inter-State Bus Terminal - the only Delhi government trauma care hospital - might be converted into a maternity and child care centre, if the health department has its way. "Though we...
December 1, 2010
Dec. 01 - DALLAS - Charlise Grisham is the proud mother of three boys - with number four due in February. All four boys - including Phoenix - will have something in common - their mom wasn't able to produce enough milk. Charlise said she felt like she let her other boys down. "I kind of feel like a failure as a mom that you know, I have to give him supplemental, artificial food and not be able to feed...
December 1, 2010
Dec. 02 - BEIRUT - Health Minister Mohammad Jawad Khalifeh said Wednesday that tests for detecting Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) were being undertaken throughout Lebanon and that the best medications were being offered to patients, while adding that raising awareness was the most important means of combatting the disease. "The [Health] Ministry offers the best medications and treatment...
December 1, 2010
Dishing up fish and shellfish more often at meals could help some older adults protect their eyesight longer. Eating more seafood rich in omega-3 fatty acids - such as oysters, crabs and tuna - appears to slow advanced macular degeneration, a common cause of age-related blindness, according to new research published in this month's Ophthalmology. The findings are consistent with previous research suggesting...
December 1, 2010
HALIFAX - A unique study in Nova Scotia shows that families with children who have diabetes may not be able to provide enough safe, nutritious food, largely because of the high cost of medical supplies associated with the disease. The research by a doctor at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax shows that 22 per cent of the families surveyed in Nova Scotia were deemed to be what researchers call food-insecure...
December 1, 2010
Vitamin D - one of the most talked about nutrients of the past few years - is back in the spotlight. The first formal recommendations for daily intakes of calcium and vitamin D for bone health were released this week in a report from the Institute of Medicine. Many Americans are getting enough of these nutrients, except for adolescent girls who may not consume enough calcium and some elderly folks...
December 1, 2010
Dec. 02 - ISTANBUL - For more than four years, Abdulhalim Demir, a Turk who resides in Istanbul, sandblasted jeans to give them a faded, worn or bleached look. Jeans wearers in Europe may have been pleased with his work, but the dust that Demir inhaled on the job badly scarred his lungs. "They paid us a bit more than the minimum wage. But we also got free places to sleep," he said. "I moved to Istanbul...
December 1, 2010
Dec. 02 - A CLINIC for anonymous Aids testing will soon be set up at the Naim Health Centre, it was revealed yesterday. The initiative is spearheaded by the National Aids Prevention Committee, in co-operation with the Health Ministry and the Bahrain Red Crescent Society. "We are starting a special clinic which will be for anonymous testing, no names will be taken," committee head Dr Somaya Al Jowder...
December 1, 2010
Dec. 02 - When Thomas Seitz sought out a hospital for treatment of his liver disease, the perks were nearly as important as the quality of care. The 58-year-old retired commercial fisherman from Ocean City wanted a private room - free from the noises of another patient - with some additional amenities that reminded him of home. He wound up going to Franklin Square Hospital Center in Rosedale. There,...
December 1, 2010
The holiday season is upon us, and along with the festive lights and music, we often encounter the not-so-welcome sounds of coughing and sneezing. Unfortunately, winter colds and flu can be part of the holiday happenings. Health officials advise the two most important things you can do to ward off winter ills are to wash your hands and to try to steer clear of folks who have a cold. But what you eat...
December 1, 2010
Dec. 01 - When a neighbor and fellow mother found out that Shana Cozad had AIDS, Cozad's daughters suddenly had one fewer friend to play with. The stigma of an HIV/AIDS diagnosis has often made life difficult for Cozad and her family, none of whom share the disease with her, and they are far from alone. More than 4,600 people in Oklahoma are known to be living with HIV/AIDS, but the true number is...
December 1, 2010
A new study may help explain why medication errors - and accidental overdoses - are surprisingly common among children. Almost all of the over-the-counter medications tested have confusing instructions or other problems that increase the risk that caregivers will give kids the wrong dose, according to a study of 200 children's liquid medicines in today's Journal of the American Medical Association....
December 1, 2010
CHICAGO - The best method for finding narcotics that smugglers, or drug "mules," hide within their bodies is the same CT medical imaging more commonly used to spot cancer, a small study by Swiss researchers suggests. CT scans were far more accurate at detecting smuggled drugs than X-rays. But CT scanning machines and the image processing are expensive, too costly to regularly use to catch smugglers,...
December 1, 2010
CHICAGO - Football players with memory and behaviour problems have no way of knowing for sure if getting hit too many times caused brain damage. The only test to diagnose their condition is done after death in an autopsy. But now, researchers are experimenting with an imaging technique to detect a debilitating condition caused by repeated concussions. And a study in Boston of five retired athletes...
December 1, 2010
Dec. 01 - Being diagnosed with and going through treatment for breast cancer has left a lot of uncertainties for Stephanie Duncan and her son, Brantley. Duncan was diagnosed with breast cancer last June and underwent a double mastectomy. She started chemotherapy the week of Thanksgiving last year and finished in March. Then, after starting the breast reconstruction process, she developed an infection...
December 1, 2010
Bruce Holloway was turning into his driveway in Mount Juliet, Tenn., in April 2009, when he was struck and killed by Brian Duffey. Duffey was driving 80 mph with alcohol and painkillers in his system, according to police and court records. "He was already home," said Holloway's fiancee, Mary Loving. "It's so unfair." Duffey pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide and was sentenced to 22 years....
December 1, 2010
Dec. 01 - Patients who had knee-replacement surgery at Highline Medical Center got infections more than 11 times as often as those who underwent the same surgery at Swedish Medical Center on First Hill. On the other hand, women undergoing abdominal hysterectomies at Swedish got infections almost three times as often as similar patients at Northwest Hospital & Medical Center. For the first time, infection...
December 1, 2010
The company at the center of the salmonella outbreak that sickened more than 1,820 people during the summer and led to the recall of 550 million eggs has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration to begin selling eggs for the table again. On Tuesday the FDA notified Wright County Egg LLC of Galt, Iowa, that it could begin shipping shell eggs from two of its 73 henhouses. The company has six...
December 1, 2010
A million people are now receiving anti-AIDS drugs in South Africa, a country with the world's heaviest HIV infections, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Wednesday. "More than 200 000 new patients have been initiated on ARV's since April this year, bringing a total number to one million," Motlanthe told a public gathering to mark World AIDS Day in the eastern province of Mpumalanga. Motlanthe...
December 1, 2010
Nov. 30 - While Texas regulatory officials are adding their own pressure to three federal agencies' crackdown on cans of caffeinated alcohol, Houston doctors are still worried about the unconstrained mixing of the two drinks at clubs and bars. The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission this month asked vendors to cease distributing the products and remove them from store shelves. The request followed...
November 30, 2010
Nov. 30 - It's not surprising that 18-year-old Kaylee Ann Disterdick is a ballerina. Her slender 5-foot-8 frame, sparkly brown eyes, red hair and effervescent smile exude natural grace and poise. But five years ago, the healthy dancer's body started working against her. Her stomach always seemed to be upset, and she'd make frequent, long trips to the bathroom. She began losing weight and, by the summer...
November 30, 2010
DAYTON, Ohio - Men and women tend to approach diet and exercise from different perspectives. Expert observations with regard to differences in training styles between men and women reveal: Different goals: Although men care about what they weigh, they are more likely to create a challenging goal to get there, such as doing 10 more squats or lifting 20 more pounds. Women, on the other hand, are more...
November 30, 2010
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The Senate on Tuesday passed the biggest expansion of food-safety laws in decades in a 73-25 vote. The bill gives the Food and Drug Administration more money and expanded authority to inspect the U.S. food supply, order recalls and require better record keeping from producers. It also puts greater burden on food producers to prevent food contamination in the first place....
November 30, 2010
OTTAWA - Cancer and heart disease caused more than half of Canada's 235,217 deaths in 2007. They are far and away the two leading causes of death among Canadians. Statistics Canada reports cancer accounted for 30 per cent of deaths and heart disease 22 per cent. The third-most common cause of death, stroke, accounted for six per cent. The agency says the proportion of deaths from cancer was up slightly...
November 30, 2010
New York (dpa) - People infected with HIV need better support in protecting their rights not only to medicine but also to jobs, the United Nations said ahead of World AIDS Day on Wednesday. The World Health Organization said health, the AIDS-HIV and human rights are inextricably linked and programmes to treat people affected by the disease could be more effective if their human rights were respected....
November 30, 2010
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