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First of two parts Dr. Ty Anderson let assistants use his name to prescribe Vicodin and other narcotic painkillers for patients three of whom overdosed and died. Yet Anderson, arrested last year on unrelated cocaine charges, is still practicing in Largo. Dr. Philip Bagenski was arrested too, accused of prescribing Roxicodone, a powerful narcotic, in exchange for cocaine. But he's still practicing in...
September 27, 2010
Sept. 27 - BERLIN - There are plenty of good reasons to power up a personal desktop or laptop computer in the evening - writing emails, chatting on Facebook or making purchases over the internet, for instance. But various studies indicate that people who stare at a PC's bright monitor shortly before going to bed probably sleep less soundly than they would otherwise because the light seriously disrupts...
September 27, 2010
Sept. 27 - Exercising 48 hours before chemotherapy or radiation might undermine the cancer treatment, two researchers say, but other experts disagree with their conclusion. Drs. Ragu Kanagasabai and Govindasamy Ilangovan, researchers at Ohio State University Medical Center, published the results of their three-year study last week. They found that a protein called heat shock factor-1, released when...
September 27, 2010
The United States is the fattest nation among 33 countries with advanced economies, according to a report out today from an international think tank. Two-thirds of people in this country are overweight or obese; about a third of adults - more than 72 million - are obese, which is roughly 30 pounds over a healthy weight. Obesity rates have skyrocketed since the 1980s in almost all the countries where...
September 24, 2010
Climbing the stairs or to the top of a mountain really can age you, but don't worry you can set the clock back by taking a quick trip in the car, a new study said Friday. Scientists in Boulder, Colorado say they have proved what every schoolchild learns in the classroom about Einstein's theory of relativity - that time flies at altitude but paradoxically slows down when people speed up. Decades ago,...
September 24, 2010
Sept. 24 - KANNAPOLIS, N.C. Research studies conducted at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis can help improve the overall health of the public in many different ways. Dr. David C. Nieman, the director of the Human Performance Lab at the research campus and a professor at Appalachian State University, is using his research to find a safe and effective way to reduce inflammation in the...
September 24, 2010
GlaxoSmithKline's controversial diabetes drug Avandia will remain on the U.S. market, but its use will be tightly restricted, the Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday. The FDA's European Union counterpart, the European Medicines Agency, said it was suspending Avandia sales but not revoking its license, leaving the door open for its return. Steven Nissen, cardiovascular medicine chair at...
September 24, 2010
Sept. 24 - More than half of the sexually active gay and bisexual men in Chicago who have HIV don't realize they are infected, creating a substantial risk of spreading the virus, according to a study released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Chicago, 18 percent of men who have sex with men are infected with HIV, on par with the national average of 19 percent, the...
September 24, 2010
Sept. 24 - Unlike last flu season, people will need just one shot to protect themselves against seasonal and H1N1 flu this time around, health officials say. That's because the three strains of the flu that this season's vaccine will protect against include the H1N1 virus that caused widespread illness last season, as well as an H3N2 virus and an influenza B virus, according to the federal Centers...
September 24, 2010
Fixing a diseased aortic heart valve with an implant set in place using a method much like angioplasty sharply improved survival in patients too sick for surgery, a new study shows. Doctors say the approach represents another step toward a new era of non-surgical valve replacement for patients unlikely to survive surgery, which is now the most effective treatment. "The new approach led to a 20% reduction...
September 23, 2010
Sept. 23 - Ohio health officials are renewing a push against unintentional drug overdoses, which have reached epidemic proportions in some parts of the state. Drug overdoses have been the leading cause of accidental death in Ohio since 2007, growing by 350 percent from 1999 to 2008. The Prescription for Prevention initiative backed by the Ohio Department of Health will focus on areas with particularly...
September 23, 2010
Sept. 23 - PARIS - Obesity is becoming the most prevalent public health problem in industrialized nations, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said Thursday, and called on governments to take comprehensive action to tackle it. Since 1980, when fewer than one in 10 people in OECD member nations were obese, rates have doubled and even tripled in many countries, the OECD said...
September 23, 2010
Sept. 23 - As key provisions of the federal health overhaul take effect today, lawmakers and health care advocates are expressing outrage over a plan by some insurers to stop selling child-only policies. "I don't want to look like I'm gloating, but this is exactly what some of the concerns were before the bill passed," said U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire of McCandless, a Democrat and former UPMC executive...
September 23, 2010
Sept. 22 - Temperatures drop, gold- and red-colored leaves appear and, for those with fall allergies, noses run. If you're one of the sniffling, you might want to stock up on antihistamines. With the rainy and cool mornings, allergens are in full swing in Northwest Missouri, and there are lot of allergy-prone people out there. The American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) estimates...
September 22, 2010
Sept. 21 - A new drug used in a clinical trial at cancer centers including the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center appears so promising in prolonging the life of melanoma patients that it has been granted a priority review by the Food and Drug Administration. Under this fast-track process, the FDA will make a decision on whether to approve ipilimumab, by Bristol-Myers...
September 22, 2010
Sept. 22 - Ever since his mother, Frances, moved in with them four years ago, Ted and Linda Holt, of Thomson, have seen the true impact of Alzheimer's disease. "It's the uncertainty," Linda Holt said. "You never know from minute to minute how things will change. It's a roller coaster." The disease also has a true cost for them. "I've drained my savings," Ted Holt said. The estimated global cost is...
September 22, 2010
Sept. 21 - It started as a cough. A dry, irritating cough that later evolved into spells that lasted a full minute. The episodes got so bad in less than a week that Dr. William John Cochran found himself lying on the floor. "I couldn't catch my breath," he said. "The cough was so severe that I'd pass out." Cochran, 56, who suffers from asthma, thought that the repair work he was doing while renovating...
September 21, 2010
Wouldn't it be great if there were a magic pill - available to everyone, with no co-pays and no deductibles - that prevents obesity and reduces its associated risks of diabetes, heart disease and depression? In fact there is such a remedy. The magical medicine is physical activity. As Gov. Sonny Perdue visits Shiloh Elementary School in Gwinnett County this week to launch the Georgia SHAPE Partnership,...
September 21, 2010
ESPN commentator and former tennis star Mary Joe Fernandez remembers the day she learned her son had asthma. "It was like a wake-up call that threw me into action," Fernandez said. She realized she would need to become ultra-organized to keep up travel for her broadcasting job, find the best asthma treatments and manage her son's medical needs. "I came up with an action plan that I leave behind with...
September 21, 2010
Sept. 20 - The emergence of any drug-resistant bacteria is the kind of news infectious-disease experts loathe hearing. The discovery that the new bacteria NDM-1 has infected at least three U.S. residents - all of whom had medical care in India - has them concerned but not panicked. Drug-resistant infections can be deadly, and the tools to fight them are limited. This is just one more reason that doctors...
September 20, 2010
DENVER - Asthma sufferers worried by research that beta-agonist drugs used to control their condition might pose a risk of death could have an alternative, according to a study published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The drug tiotropium has been used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and now research at Denver's National Jewish Health and other hospitals across the country...
September 20, 2010
CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago company is touting its mix of vitamins, minerals and omega-3 fatty acids as a "pharmaceutical grade" product that can help children with speech problems, even though the capsules are only a dietary supplement whose effectiveness has not been rigorously tested. NourishLife, based in Lake Forest, Ill., says on its Web site that some children with verbal apraxia, a disorder...
September 20, 2010
Polynesians exposed to fallout from France's atmospheric nuclear tests in the South Pacific face only a low risk of developing thyroid cancer, researchers said on Monday. France carried out 41 atmospheric tests in French Polynesia between 1966 and 1975 before conducting all further blasts underground, a practice that finally stopped in 1996. The investigation, led by Florent de Vathaire of the Institut...
September 20, 2010
Excess amounts of manganese - a hard, brittle metal found in some drinking water around the world - may have adverse effects on children's smarts, Canadian scientists said Monday. A team of researchers at the University of Quebec in Montreal discovered that children exposed to high concentrations of manganese in drinking water performed worse on tests of intellectual functioning than children with...
September 20, 2010
Sept. 20 - Terry Lentsch decided he'd had enough of chemotherapy. Three rounds of the stuff in 18 months wore him out, and his stage IV lung cancer was no better. In fact, it seemed to have spread to his left lung, his spine and lymph nodes. It was time to quit. "I told myself, 'I'm not going through the harshness of chemo anymore if it's not doing any good,'" said Lentsch, a 59-year-old nonsmoker....
September 20, 2010
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