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Oct. 11 - YORK - Teachers noticed the 16-year-old York High School student stumbling around and acting strangely almost as soon as he arrived at school. Noting the teen's slurred, incoherent speech, a teacher called for an administrator. The student - who was also hallucinating - ended up going to the emergency room and was treated for an erratic heartbeat, high blood pressure and other issues. After...
October 11, 2010
Oct. 11 - Put down the Red Bull, pick up the chocolate milk. So say two University of Connecticut researchers, each studying the effects of beverages on young people. In a study funded by the National Dairy Council and the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board, Nancy Rodriguez, who researches the science of endurance sports, says chocolate milk has proved to be an effective post-workout drink...
October 11, 2010
Oct. 07 - BROOKSVILLE - Almeta Baldwin, 59, of Brooksville says she is about at the end of her rope. Forced to quit her job at Taco Bell last year when she developed diabetic neuropathy in her feet, she has been surviving on her $211-a-month disability check. Her husband Richard, 49, works at the eastside Denny's and makes $10 an hour. He averages 30 to 35 hours a week. The money doesn't go far, especially...
October 8, 2010
A new international research project has found high levels of heavy metals in Chinese cigarettes, with some containing three times the level of lead, cadmium and arsenic of Canadian brands. The International Tobacco Control Project, which brings together experts from 20 countries, released a series of 11 research studies that found China was endangering cigarette buyers at home and abroad by failing...
October 8, 2010
You're stuffed up, you're sniffling - but is it an allergy or is it a cold? It's not always easy to tell, even for someone like Dr. Kevin Lunde, an otolaryngologist at Baylor Plano hospital in Texas. "At times, I have performed allergy testing on patients with recurrent nasal and upper respiratory symptoms to help determine if allergies or colds are the cause," Lunde says. It's important to figure...
October 8, 2010
US pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories on Friday said it was pulling its obesity drug Meridia from the US market after European tests found the key ingredient increased the risk of serious heart problems. The withdrawal was being made at the request of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Abbott said in a statement. The FDA requested the withdrawal after reviewing a cardiovascular safety...
October 8, 2010
CHICAGO - Abbott Laboratories said Friday it would withdraw the diet drug Meridia, less than a month after it failed to win over a safety advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirmed the North Chicago-based drug giant's decision, saying Abbott withdrew the drug because of "clinical trial data indicating an increased risk of heart attack and...
October 8, 2010
Oct. 08 - With long eyelashes and a round face, Timothy Michael Carter was his parents' angel. He was born in 2003 and was perfect in every way, says his mother, Angela Carter. "He had kind of an angelic face," she said. Then, when he turned about 6 months old, friends and family began to point out that he was "floppy." As he grew older, he missed developmental milestones. He couldn't crawl and he...
October 8, 2010
The well-documented disparities in cardiac care may begin almost as soon as patients arrive at hospital emergency rooms. In a study published in Academic Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers report that African-American and Hispanic patients assessed for chest pain were less likely than white patients to be categorized as requiring immediate care, despite a lack of significant...
October 8, 2010
Oct. 07 - Mayo Clinic said it is joining the medical network of UnitedHealthcare, making it cheaper for 20 million of the insurers' commercial members around the country to seek care there. This is the first national contract Mayo has signed and is part of a move by Mayo to shed its aura of exclusivity in an era when affordability trumps. UnitedHealth members will now pay in-network prices if they...
October 7, 2010
The Franklin County Master Gardeners Association is joining an increasing number of organizations encouraging consumers to buy locally produced foods. "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" is a U. S. Department of Agriculture campaign to bring food growers and consumers together. According to Chuck Hutto, director of Food Services for Franklin County Schools, local foods are being purchased and served...
October 7, 2010
Oct. 07 - An official with mosquito control says the county flew into action when notified that a case of a mosquito-borne disease had surfaced in the Golden Isles. Ben Brewer, manager of Glynn County Mosquito Control, said his department reacted swiftly to a case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis, a virus that can be transmitted by mosquitoes. It was found in a horse last week in Glynn County and is...
October 7, 2010
Nearly 2,000 cancer survivors and their loved ones gathered together Sunday to celebrate life and freedom from illness against the dramatic backdrop of the Statue of Liberty. The Second Annual Celebrating Life and Liberty event brought together survivors of all types of cancer - many from North Jersey - who have been treated at the John Theurer Cancer Center of Hackensack University Medical Center....
October 7, 2010
Oct. 07 - NATCHEZ - Losing track of a medical insurance card can be just as risky as misplacing a credit card. Approximately 15 billion Americans have endured the scary hassle of identity theft, and some instances materialize as unexplained medical bills rather than monthly credit-card statements, said Terry Stutzman, a health care data and technology instructor at Copiah-Lincoln Community College....
October 7, 2010
GARFIELD - Residents near Midland Avenue and Grand Street are cautioned not to go into their basements with the discovery of high levels of a cancer-causing chemical in a nearby property, a health advisory issued Thursday night said. Environmental Protection Agency officials refused to identify the property, but said it had 2,500 times the concentration of hexavalent chromium considered hazardous under...
October 7, 2010
Oct. 05 - In the next decade it might become harder to find a family doctor. As a result, some patients are opting to pay extra - call it a retainer - to make sure they have immediate access to quality medical care. They're called concierge doctors. A concierge medical practice once was limited to the rich and famous. For a number of reasons, that is no longer true. Dr. Nader Rahmanian, an internist...
October 4, 2010
Oct. 05 - The number of uninsured hospital admissions in Hamilton County more than doubled between 2004 and 2008, leaving local hospitals with barely three in 10 patients who have private insurance to pay for their care, according to a new report on health in the Chattanooga region. The loss of commercially insured patients, whose insurance payments are significantly higher than those of government-sponsored...
October 4, 2010
Oct. 05 - PORTSMOUTH - Wendy McCoole of Eliot, Maine, has been named one of eight Pink Power Moms - mothers who have survived breast cancer. The program, sponsored by infant brand Bright Starts, recently recognized mothers across the United States and allows them to share their experience with others. McCoole was nominated by her daughter and mother, and is the founder of local nonprofit BreastCancerStories.org....
October 4, 2010
A new experimental vaccine drastically extends the life of patients with the most deadly type of brain tumor, glioblastoma (GBM), according to a small-scale US study published Monday. The vaccine targets a aggressive cancer gene called EGFRvIII that fuels glioblastomas, researchers said, adding that in their study of 18 patients, survival was extended from an expected 15 months to 26 months. The study...
October 4, 2010
Oct. 05 - Maryland, trying to combat one of the highest growth rates of bloodstream infections in the country, is joining the national effort to curb the problem by adopting a prevention program created by a Johns Hopkins doctor. Forty-four Maryland hospitals recently announced they will institute measures developed by Hopkins critical-care doctor Peter Pronovost. His highly recognized approach has...
October 4, 2010
The number of U.S. soldiers who have needed amputations in Afghanistan has increased sharply over last year as more troops move into Taliban territory, according to Army data. Amputations rose from 47 in 2009 to 77 through Sept. 23 of this year, or an increase of more than 60%, the Army reports. The chief cause of the injuries are improvised explosive devices - or IEDs - that are planted in the ground...
October 4, 2010
DIETERS can improve their chances of losing weight by ensuring they get a good night's sleep, according to the findings of research published today. An adequate night's sleep not only increases fat loss for a dieter but can help control feelings of hunger, a study has shown. The University of Chicago research, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, studied ten people aged 35 to 49 years old...
October 4, 2010
Susan Reverby describes three studies as the "trinity" of unholy medical research. Doctors at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in New York City injected patients with live cancer cells. At Willowbrook State School, also in New York, researchers gave mentally disabled children hepatitis. In Tuskegee, Ala., doctors withheld treatment from black subjects to study the course of advanced syphilis. Now...
October 4, 2010
Oct. 05 - NEW LONDON - Even as it touts its new chief surgeon to the community with highway billboards and large newspaper ads, Lawrence & Memorial Hospital finds itself accused of fostering a far less friendly relationship with at least some of its medical staff. Frustrations and resentments some doctors say have been festering for months, and others say are symptomatic of larger stresses on the health...
October 4, 2010
President Alvaro Colom on Monday formed a committee to investigate how US scientists could have deliberately infected hundreds of people here with sexually transmitted diseases from 1946-1948. "The committee's goal is to get to the bottom of the facts. It will try to determine how it was possible for this to happen; who the victims were; as well as the consequences and presumed guilty parties," presidential...
October 4, 2010
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