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Sept. 01 - At the county's two new high schools, students have lunch breaks with a twist. Students at Corinth Holders and Cleveland spend half of their lunch hour getting extra help from teachers, playing intramural sports and engaging in clubs. The program, known as Students Maximizing Achievement Through Resources and Time, or SMART, allows kids to get involved without having to stay after school....
September 1, 2010
Sept. 01 - AMMAN - The Ministry of Health is currently studying a proposed payroll system to improve the financial situation of ministry doctors, a top government official said on Tuesday. Minister of Health Nayef Fayez said the ministry, in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Sector Development, is reviewing a payroll system proposed by the Jordan Medical Association (JMA) that is expected to...
September 1, 2010
The physician to Japanese Emperor Akihito and top scientists have slammed homeopathy as an "absurd" medicine, urging health workers to stay clear of the alternative treatment as it grows in popularity. "I cannot help but feel strong bewilderment" over the recent rise in homeopathy's use as a treatment in Japan, said Ichiro Kanazawa, who chairs the prestigious Science Council of Japan. "The reason is...
September 1, 2010
Sept. 01 - ST. MARY-OF-THE-WOODS - "Food Dude" Kevin Roberts extolled the benefits of antioxidants and fiber and warned college students about some foods to avoid: soda, sugar, processed cheese and fast-food french fries and hamburgers. The charismatic Roberts, host of TLC's BBQ PitMasters, presented "How to Survive College by Staying Healthy" on Tuesday in O'Shaughnessy dining room at St. Mary-of-the-Woods...
September 1, 2010
An Australian couple Wednesday spoke of how they believe the skin-to-skin "kangaroo" cuddle they gave their newborn baby saved the infant's life after their doctor had given him up for dead. Speaking to Australian television, Kate and David Ogg said medical staff told them that tiny Jamie - delivered prematurely at just 27 weeks and weighing only one kilogram (2.2 pounds) - could not be saved. They...
September 1, 2010
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (MCT) Congressional leaders have launched an investigation of the two Iowa egg farms that were recently implicated in the nationwide salmonella outbreak. As this case shows, America's food-safety system clearly isn't all it's cracked up to be. But perhaps now that more than 1,300 people have fallen ill from eating tainted eggs (and experts estimate that at...
August 31, 2010
After more than a year, travelers might be able to erase the H1N1 flu from their long list of vacation concerns. The H1N1 flu, or swine flu, swept around the globe twice in the past 14 months, killing an estimated 18,449 people. But within the past few weeks, the World Health Organization announced that the pandemic that scientists believe started around April 2009 appears to be over. The Centers for...
August 30, 2010
After more than a year, travelers might be able to erase the H1N1 flu from their long list of vacation concerns. The H1N1 flu, or swine flu, swept around the globe twice in the past 14 months, killing an estimated 18,449 people. But within the past few weeks, the World Health Organization announced that the pandemic that scientists believe started around April 2009 appears to be over. The Centers for...
August 30, 2010
The physician to Japanese Emperor Akihito and top scientists have slammed homeopathy as an "absurd" medicine, urging health workers to stay clear of the alternative treatment as it grows in popularity. "I cannot help but feel strong bewilderment" over the recent rise in homeopathy's use as a treatment in Japan, said Ichiro Kanazawa, who chairs the prestigious Science Council of Japan. "The reason is...
August 29, 2010
Aug. 30 - Last year at this time, a pandemic featuring a new strain of influenza - H1N1, commonly called swine flu - and a shortage of vaccine to combat the new strain kicked up fears in Alaska and around the globe. This month, the director general of the World Health Organization declared the swine flu pandemic over. While it killed people and made many seriously ill, it did not mutate to a more lethal...
August 29, 2010
Aug. 30 - Melissa Justice was on the operating table. In minutes, surgeons would open her chest to remove her heart. She'd been told she would die without the donor heart that awaited. First, though, the surgical team used ultrasound to look at her failing organ. A matter of procedure, really. Her heart was shot, and they knew it. That was Jan. 11. Almost a year had passed since the 31-year-old woman...
August 29, 2010
Aug. 30 - In an effort to fight the whooping cough epidemic, the Ventura County Public Health Department is offering free pertussis vaccines at its south Oxnard clinic on Wednesday. The California Department of Public Health is partnering with public health departments throughout the state to host these no-cost vaccination clinics in order to stop the outbreak, which is showing no signs of slowing,...
August 29, 2010
Berlin (dpa) - All that glitters is not gold - as everyone knows who gets a rash from cheap jewellery - and now German scientists have proven that there is such a thing as being allergic to costume jewellery. Nobody owns "pure gold" jewellery - unless your name happens to be Tutankhamun. All modern-day "solid gold" jewellery is in fact an alloy of gold mixed with baser metals such as copper and nickel....
August 29, 2010
No more sunny side up. No more eggs Benedict. No more almost-set scrambled eggs. After of one of the largest egg recalls on record, critics say the egg industry is resorting to the worst tactic of all: blaming the victim. More than 1,400 illnesses now appear to be tied to an outbreak of salmonella enteritidis definitively linked to eggs produced on two Iowa farms. "Consumers that were sickened reportedly...
August 29, 2010
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (MCT) Congressional leaders have launched an investigation of the two Iowa egg farms that were recently implicated in the nationwide salmonella outbreak. As this case shows, America's food-safety system clearly isn't all it's cracked up to be. But perhaps now that more than 1,300 people have fallen ill from eating tainted eggs (and experts estimate that at...
August 29, 2010
Aug. 29 - When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2002 approved a product many thought would revolutionize back surgery, the agency did so despite concerns the product might cause serious side effects. Six years later the FDA warned doctors that this remarkable product, known as bone morphogenetic protein-2, was causing life-threatening complications. What caused the product to go from revolutionary...
August 29, 2010
Aug. 30 - The old saying about hospital food making you sick was no laughing matter for people with celiac disease. That's the disease in which people's intolerance to gluten - a protein in wheat, rye and barley - damages their small intestines and leads to a host of problems, including diarrhea, swelling, constipation, seizures and bone pain. Imagine patients who have a knee replaced, then eat a prepackaged...
August 29, 2010
After more than a year, travelers might be able to erase the H1N1 flu from their long list of vacation concerns. The H1N1 flu, or swine flu, swept around the globe twice in the past 14 months, killing an estimated 18,449 people. But within the past few weeks, the World Health Organization announced that the pandemic that scientists believe started around April 2009 appears to be over. The Centers for...
August 29, 2010
Aug. 24 - ATLANTA - After the pandemic flu of last season, this year's flu season will look completely different, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The CDC held a briefing Monday on the outlook for the upcoming influenza season. From April 2009 to April of this year, the CDC estimates that 61 million people were sickened by the pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus, with 274,000...
August 27, 2010
Aug. 24 - Summer may be winding down, but a new season is winding up - the sneezin' season - courtesy of ragweed. "It usually starts around the 15th of August," said Dr. Jackie Eghrari-Sabet, an allergist at Family Allergy and Asthma Care with offices in Frederick and Gaithersburg. There are other allergy-triggering weeds all summer, but as fall goes on the culprits become ragweed and molds. "There...
August 27, 2010
Aug. 27 - FORT LAUDERDALE - Lester Jones, head barber at the Neighborhood Unisex Salon on Sistrunk Boulevard, thinks the barbershop is a perfect place for black men and women to discuss their health. "It's better than the golf course," Jones said. "You can only get two in a cart. This is a relaxed place, an open place, to talk about it." U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D- Miramar, wants to take that idea...
August 27, 2010
Aug. 27 - Virginia could get a dozen new federally supported community health-center sites next year as federal officials, preparing for millions of newly insured Americans, plan to fund up to 350 more sites. As part of health-care reform, $250 million is being made available in 2011 for the new health-center sites. Operators of the Daily Planet and Vernon J. Harris health centers are among those planning...
August 27, 2010
Aug. 27 - 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...
August 27, 2010
Cholesterol is that waxy, fatlike substance that occurs naturally in all parts of your body. You need some cholesterol for things to work properly, but too much sticks to the walls of your arteries. That's called plaque, and too much plaque can kill you. Cholesterol levels tend to rise as we get older. There are usually no signs or symptoms. It takes a blood test to detect high cholesterol. And while...
August 26, 2010
Aug. 26 - El Paso County residents will get to vote in November whether medical marijuana dispensaries, grow operations and manufacturers of marijuana-infused products should be banned in unincorporated areas. After a lengthy discussion and more public testimony, the commissioners voted 4-1 Thursday to place the question to the ballot. "This is an issue that goes to the heart of legalized marijuana...
August 26, 2010
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