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Sept. 03 - Mayo Clinic's world-renowned reputation is serving as both an asset and obstacle in efforts to determine the reach of a hepatitis increase tied to a former employee at its Jacksonville location. Mayo administrators invoked the medical provider's lofty reputation often during news conferences, particularly when they sought to distance the organization from the worker's actions. But that eminence...
September 2, 2010
Sept. 03 - MARS HILL, Maine - During a trip to the West Coast later this month, 4-year-old Bobbi Guerrette will wake up from a deep sleep to discover that something she always has wished for has come true. The Mars Hill girl will wake up with two ears - and with earrings in both of them. The daughter of Ryan and Jamie Guerrette, Bobbi was born with bilateral microtia with atresia, a condition that...
September 2, 2010
Sept. 03 - An international team of scientists has reported a new class of drug candidates which, if successful in clinical trials, could potentially replace the current range of anti-malarial drugs and offset worries over increasing reports of resistance to artemisinin, the main ingredient in the fight against the disease. Preliminary clinical trials are expected to begin later this year, researchers...
September 2, 2010
Sept. 03 - OTTUMWA - Kids are eating healthier, but that doesn't mean they're happier. The Ottumwa school district, as well as all Iowa school districts, are now complying with two separate laws, one state, the other federal. The laws regulate what foods can be served during the day and how much of it per meal. "Iowa is one of the states that chose to take the national guidelines and make them more...
September 2, 2010
Israeli researchers have developed a new treatment for HIV that kills human cells infected with the virus and could lead to a breakthrough in treating AIDS, the Haaretz newspaper said on Friday. Whereas current treatments focus on inhibiting the replication of the HIV virus, the new treatment destroys infected cells without damaging healthy ones, the newspaper said. The process makes use of peptides,...
September 2, 2010
Sept. 03 - An elderly Greenwich resident has tested positive for West Nile virus and is hospitalized, becoming the third person in the state reported to have contracted the virus this year, the state Department of Public Health announced Thursday. The Greenwich resident, in her 80s, became ill during the last week of August and is hospitalized with encephalitis, an illness characterized by fever, headache...
September 2, 2010
Perhaps the next prescription from your doctor will be for something a little different: contact with nature. Many studies have looked at the positive impact of nature on emotional and physical health. Some research has suggested that we are genetically hard-wired to seek green surroundings for our health and well-being. What are some health benefits of contact with nature and greenery? Here are surprising...
September 2, 2010
Dear Dr. Bone: I live in the Philippines and am 26 years old. My mother died of breast cancer when I was only 14 years old. Now I have blood coming from my nipple and I was told that this is usually due to terminal cancer. I am really scared. O.P. Dear O.P.: The good news is that having blood come from your nipple is almost always because of a NONcancerous growth called an intraductal papilloma. You...
September 2, 2010
Sept. 01 - State epidemiologist Sharon Alroy-Preis has two words of advice for New Hampshire residents: Get vaccinated. It's not too early to start thinking about flu season, not at all. Several drugstore chains are advertising shots now, including some promotions for "all-in-one" flu vaccines. Alroy-Preis said this year's flu vaccine, as always, includes three strains of flu - H1N1, an influenza B-type...
September 2, 2010
Sept. 02 - TRAVERSE CITY - A local family medicine doctor is marketing a solution to stop shoulder pain. Dr. Michael Carroll, who in 2005 co-founded Creekside Clinic in Traverse City, suffered from a common complaint - shoulder pain caused by problems with his rotator cuff. The doctor had trouble sleeping because of the pain. One sleepless night about six years ago, he took his arm, held it down and...
September 2, 2010
Sept. 02 - CHEYENNE - It's not easy to decide on the medical care you want at the end of your life. But it's a necessary decision and one that should be made early enough so people know your wishes, a nationally known doctor said Wednesday. People should talk with each other about these decisions, Dr. Daniel P. Sulmasy said Wednesday. He spoke about ethical issues in care at the end of life before...
September 2, 2010
Poring over crossword puzzles, reading and listening to tunes may slow or delay brain decline at first, but being mentally active might speed up dementia once it hits, new research suggests. "The person who has had a more mentally stimulating lifestyle may have more signs of disease in his brain, but the brain has been able to compensate for it better," says study author Robert Wilson, professor of...
September 2, 2010
A company-sponsored study found that the weight-loss drug Meridia raised heart attack and stroke risk in patients with pre-existing heart disease, according to a report out today. The publication comes just two weeks before the Food and Drug Administration is to convene an advisory panel of outside experts to discuss the fate of Meridia, which the agency approved in 1997. "It is difficult to discern...
September 2, 2010
Sept. 02 - ALBANY - A $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will enable Breonics Inc., a biomedical research firm based at Harriman Business Incubator in Albany, to further develop technology that would preserve kidneys and other critical organs, increasing the supply available for transplants. The award was announced at a news conference Wednesday. Breonics, which moved to Harriman...
September 2, 2010
Sept. 02 - Every time Robert Rak walks through a security scanner at an airport, he sets off the alarm. Rak isn't packing heat, but rather three tiny copper transponders in his prostate gland that may have helped cure him of cancer. Rak, 71, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in late 2009. But his cancer is now in remission after several treatments using the Calypso System. The state-of-the-art radiation...
September 2, 2010
Health care spending this year has grown at its slowest rate in a half-century, a sign that people are forgoing medical care during the recession, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds. Spending on doctors, hospitals, drugs and other medical care climbed at a 2.7% annual rate per person in the first half of 2010, the smallest increase since the Bureau of Economic Analysis began tracking medical...
September 2, 2010
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Football fans understand when a player is forced to the sidelines with torn knee ligaments. They grasp the severity of groin injuries, sports hernias and ruptured Achilles tendons. Clinical depression? Offensive lineman Shawn Andrews, a Pro Bowl performer for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2006 and 2007 who is making a comeback with the New York Giants, learned that many fans in the...
September 2, 2010
Your abusive boss isn't the only vermin in the office. Defying their reputation as a scourge of households, blood-sucking bedbugs are creeping into a growing number of cubicles, break rooms and filing cabinets. Nearly one in five exterminators have found bedbugs in office buildings in the U.S., according to a recent survey of extermination firms by the National Pest Management Association and the University...
September 1, 2010
Your abusive boss isn't the only vermin in the office. Defying their reputation as a scourge of households, blood-sucking bedbugs are creeping into a growing number of cubicles, break rooms and filing cabinets. Nearly one in five exterminators have found bedbugs in office buildings in the U.S., according to a recent survey of extermination firms by the National Pest Management Association and the University...
September 1, 2010
Sept. 01 - Sue Rys, a school psychologist for the East Greenbush Central School District, can have an agenda for the day that includes testing, meetings and sessions with students all laid out. But it's often subject to change as she meets the needs of kids who come to her in crisis. "The school's primary focus is to help the student be successful in school, so if it's a big mental health problem,...
September 1, 2010
Sept. 01 - With the first day of school comes supplies to buy and car pools to coordinate. Also on the to-do list: Vaccinations, the immunizations to prevent such diseases as measles, varicella (chickenpox) and pertussis (whooping cough). If not immunized by mid-February, students won't be allowed into classrooms until they get their shots. But while our minds are on schools now, here are the top things...
September 1, 2010
Sept. 01 - If it's true that we look like the community we live in, Mercedians are fat. A study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found 34.3 percent of Merced County residents are obese. The county has the second-highest rate of obesity in the state, topped only by Imperial County. The study, by lead author Dr. Allison Diamant, also found a high rate of diabetes in the county. Diabetes...
September 1, 2010
A South Korean firm said Wednesday it plans to develop a healthier, low-salt version of the country's signature dish kimchi in line with global trends. Kimchi, a fiercely spiced mixture of pickled cabbage, radish and cucumbers, is prized for its healthy ingredients - apart from the salt. Daesang FNF said it would reduce the salinity rate to 1.6 grammes of salt for every 100 grammes of kimchi next year,...
September 1, 2010
Sept. 01 - Dawne Simpson wears a couple of hats. She's an eighth-grade math teacher at Jane Macon Middle School and a mother of three. "My oldest is Andy, who is a junior at Brunswick High this year. He is 16. Carleigh is my middle child and only girl. She is 11 and is in the sixth grade at Jane Macon Middle," she said. "Clay is the youngest. He is 8 and is in third grade at C.B. Greer." At the beginning...
September 1, 2010
Hiccups, nosebleeds and the occasional twitch or shiver - they're annoying, embarrassing, all too common and rarely serious enough to warrant a trip to the doctor. Every now and then, they can indicate something serious, though. How can you tell the difference? Before you go to the doctor, what home remedies are safe to try? For advice we consulted several experts on staff at Baylor Regional Medical...
September 1, 2010
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