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Approximately 60,000 pregnant women are hospitalized each year due to hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), an extreme form of nausea and vomiting that endangers their lives and often forces them to reluctantly terminate their pregnancies. And for women with sisters, mothers and grandmothers on either side of the family who have experienced extreme morning sickness during pregnancy, the risk of HG may be heightened,...
November 18, 2010
Can virtual friends give you asthma? The question is put in an unusual case study reported on Friday by the medical journal The Lancet. Italian doctors describe how a 18-year-old man with a history of asthma suddenly experienced bouts of breathlessness during the summer months, when he was normally free from these symptoms. The teen's worried mother learned that he was depressed after breaking up with...
November 18, 2010
Nov. 17 - Chicagoans with advanced cancer perish more often in hospitals, enroll in hospice care less frequently and receive more aggressive treatments of questionable value than patients elsewhere in the U.S., according a report published Tuesday. The findings suggest medical providers often ignore or discount cancer patients' preferences, said Dr. David Goodman, lead author of the Dartmouth Atlas...
November 17, 2010
Nov. 17 - CHICAGO - An experimental drug dramatically raised good HDL cholesterol, but before it gets on the market researchers first must be sure that doing so saves lives rather than takes them, as a similar drug did several years ago. The long-awaited clinical trial results presented Wednesday are a crucial advance in what doctors say may be the next big breakthrough in treating and preventing heart...
November 17, 2010
Nov. 17 - Most people say that in their last two weeks of life they wouldn't want to undergo chemotherapy. They wouldn't want to be tethered to machines in an intensive-care unit or get other aggressive care - in fact, most say they'd rather die at home and not be in the hospital at all. But what happens to dying cancer patients depends in large part on where they are - what region and what hospital...
November 17, 2010
1. Yogurt Probiotics, or the "live active cultures" found in yogurt, are healthy bacteria that keep the gut and intestinal tract free of disease-causing germs. Although they're available in supplement form, a study from the University of Vienna in Austria found that a daily 7-ounce dose of yogurt was just as effective in boosting immunity as popping pills. In an 80-day Swedish study of 181 factory...
November 17, 2010
Nov. 17 - It's getting to be the time of year when everyone seems to have a runny nose. Sometimes it's a cold or allergies. And sometimes it's sinusitis, or inflamed linings in the sinus cavities. The cavities become blocked and infected. Dr. Alan Oshinsky, an otolaryngologist at Mercy Medical Center, says it's not always easy to self-diagnose sinusitis, but there are treatments that can help. Question:...
November 17, 2010
Health experts are scrambling to teach Haitians how to ward off cholera as cases of the deadly disease mount in the quake-hit nation, the head of the US Centers for Disease Control told AFP. Violence has erupted in recent days as Haitians protested over the outbreak which has killed 1,100 people and spread into seven of the Caribbean nation's 10 departments, with one new case in the neighboring Dominican...
November 17, 2010
An estimated 15,000 Medicare patients die each month in part because of care they receive in the hospital, says a government study released today. The study is the first of its kind aimed at understanding "adverse events" in hospitals - essentially, any medical care that causes harm to a patient, according to the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General. Patients in the...
November 16, 2010
Nov. 16 - CHICAGO - A new anti-clotting drug proved to be as effective as warfarin in preventing strokes in people with a common type of irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation. If approved by the FDA, rivaroxaban would give doctors another alternative to warfarin, which has been used for more than 50 years but is difficult to administer and can cause major bleeding. Last month the FDA approved...
November 16, 2010
Nov. 16 - PORTSMOUTH - What if you got sick and there was no cure? That's the weighty question pondered by local health professionals at Portsmouth Regional Hospital and Appledore Medical Group, which employ a large number of the doctors in the city. They've signed on to the Get Smart program sponsored by the national Centers for Disease Control, which aims to fight back against the overuse of antibiotics...
November 16, 2010
More than 1,000 people have died from cholera in Haiti and 16,800 have been hospitalized, health officials said Tuesday, as the outbreak spreads among earthquake survivors in the capital's tent cities. The health ministry death toll of 1,034 - accurate up to Sunday - is 117 higher than the last official toll announced at the weekend, nearly a month after the disease surfaced in the desperately poor...
November 16, 2010
Nov. 16 - Blind people will see with near-normal vision and the paralyzed walk in an "exoskeleton" controlled by their thoughts, said researchers speaking at the Society for Neuroscience's annual convention in San Diego. More sophisticated two-way communication with the brain is making these achievements possible, first in animals and later in humans, after the devices have been tested for safety,...
November 16, 2010
Nov. 16 - In a study suggesting that many heart patients are not getting the care they need, University of Minnesota researchers have found that only about 10 percent of first-time heart attack patients at a Minneapolis hospital had received commonly recommended preventive treatments. Dr. Jay Cohn, a university cardiologist who led the study, said that up to 90 percent of those heart attacks could...
November 16, 2010
Nov. 16 - Writing down everything you eat in a food journal may not seem very helpful to you. But what if the food journal talked back? - For about one week, we tried MealLogger, a mobile phone and web service that helps registered dietitians, nurses, nutritionists and personal trainers provide personalized feedback and advice to their clients. Rene Norman is a registered and licensed dietitian with...
November 15, 2010
Nov. 15 - BEIJING - China has the highest number of diabetics in the world with an estimated 92.4 million sufferers, 61 percent of whom have yet to be diagnosed, experts warned. People who go without being properly diagnosed are more likely to have blood glucose that is poorly controlled, which leaves them open to the risk of developing complications that affect their eyesight and kidneys, having a...
November 15, 2010
Nov. 15 - CHICAGO - Smokers in Milwaukee and Madison who quit gained about 10 pounds over a year but had a beneficial increase in their HDL cholesterol (the good kind) that likely reduced their risk of having a heart attack or stroke, according to a University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health study. The research, released Sunday, was one of several new studies on smoking presented...
November 15, 2010
MINNEAPOLIS - Up to 90 percent of first-time heart attacks might be prevented if people were screened in advance and took the proper medications, according to the lead author of a new study at the University of Minnesota. The researchers, who studied 815 patients at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, found that only about 10 percent were taking "proper preventative treatment" before they...
November 15, 2010
Nov. 13 - Choosing healthier products in the grocery store might get easier for consumers when food-makers start putting nutrition labels on the front of packages. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is creating voluntary guidelines for food-makers and retailers interested in putting easier-to-read labels on the front of food packages and beverages. The Grocery Manufacturers Association and the Food...
November 15, 2010
After cajoling employees to get a flu shot for years - with festive kick-off campaigns and convenient "flu carts" - hospitals statewide are getting tough on employees this year, with controversial policies that require some workers to mask their face for months if they skip a flu shot. The polices are an effort to combat the chronically low flu-shot rate of health-care workers. Nationally, only about...
November 15, 2010
Nov. 15 - "Got spice?" That was the big, clever marketing message on a banner displayed by a Spokane-area convenience store when Sarah Denis drove by. Denis, a chemical dependency counselor at Daybreak Youth Services, a Vancouver residential drug-treatment facility for teen boys, wondered if the store owner knows what she's been learning recently: Spice and its chemical cousins may still be legal -...
November 15, 2010
Nov. 12 - A local program sought to combat SIDS in October by passing out baby pajamas and spreading knowledge. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the sudden death of an infant under 1 year of age which remains unexplained after a thorough case investigation, according to Linda Tantawai, executive director of the CJ Foundation for SIDS. "Despite many years of research, we have no definitive cause...
November 14, 2010
Heavy teens are often destined for skyrocketing weight gain in their 20s, a new study shows. About half of obese teen girls and a third of boys become severely obese by the time they are 30 - meaning they are 80 to 100 pounds over a healthy weight, the research says. "We see a tremendous amount of weight gain during those years," says researcher Penny Gordon-Larsen, associate professor of nutrition...
November 12, 2010
Heavy teens are often destined for skyrocketing weight gain in their 20s, a new study shows. About half of obese teen girls and a third of boys become severely obese by the time they are 30 - meaning they are 80 to 100 pounds over a healthy weight, the research says. "We see a tremendous amount of weight gain during those years," says researcher Penny Gordon-Larsen, associate professor of nutrition...
November 12, 2010
Aid workers Friday launched a mass vaccination campaign against polio in the Republic of Congo, where more than 100 people have died since October, a Red Cross official said. "The vaccination campaign indeed began today at Pointe-Noire and in the (neighbouring) Kouilou" region, said the official, who asked not to be named but is a member of the crisis committee based in Pointe-Noire, the economic capital...
November 12, 2010
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