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Aug. 27 - The Salvation Army helped supply hundreds of poor kids with a new outfits for school. More than 300 students received the outfits Thursday for the school year that starts Wednesday. "It's always nice to have something new that first day," said Monique McCoy, a La Crosse School District parent. "She's excited to have something new for school. ... I'm able to get a few things but can't afford...
August 26, 2010
DALLAS -The first thing you notice about the baby is her eyes. Bright and sparkling, they stare at you from every wall in Jenny Scott's office. But the most captivating picture of Allie Scott is tucked inside a silver charm around her mother's neck The charm arrived in Scott's mailbox five years ago, wrapped in plain brown paper. The sender: unknown. Scott received many gifts from strangers after Allie...
August 26, 2010
Aug. 27 - MILLBURY, Ohio - Thursday morning, 13-year-old Byron Swartz grabbed his backpack, got in the car with his dad, and made the trip to Lake Middle School in Millbury for his first day of eighth grade. He met his new teachers, chatted with friends, and walked the familiar corridors of his hometown school. It felt good to be back. "It's nice getting back into a routine," Byron said. "I thought...
August 26, 2010
The U.S. coal industry is bracing for tighter and more costly regulation of its waste. Environmental groups say that it's about time. The Environmental Protection Agency next week is set to begin a month of hearings on whether coal-ash waste - what's left after coal is burned to make electricity - should be effectively treated as hazardous waste subject to tighter safeguards. Environmental groups say...
August 26, 2010
HAZELWOOD, Mo. Hunkered down in a trailer loaded with microbiological gadgetry, Dr. Michael Dunne Jr. decried what he described as health industry hype about drug-resistant germs and infectious diseases. One easy target is the 83-foot trailer itself. Plastered on the outside with giant, cartoon-like insects and the slogan, "Join the Battle to Defeat Super Bugs!" That's certainly an attention-grabber....
August 26, 2010
Lois Schuyler is the picture of health. Nearly two years after completing treatment for ovarian cancer, her hair has grown back and her strength returned. At age 70, she is lean, vibrant - and confident that many healthy years lie ahead. Few ovarian cancer patients can lay claim to such optimism. More than half its victims die within five years of diagnosis, including three-quarters of those whose...
August 26, 2010
Aug. 25 - Q: The mosquitoes are driving me to distraction this year. Please define the oft-repeated term "mosquito season." I need to know it will end. A: Sadly, mosquitoes don't follow a regular calendar - they're rebels that way. The end of mosquito season fluctuates, largely depending on air temperature, said Jamee Hubbard, a biology professor at UW-Stevens Point. The number of mosquitoes will not...
August 25, 2010
By Sarah Bruyn Jones The Roanoke Times ROANOKE When class begins at 8 a.m. Monday, the relationship between Virginia Tech and Roanoke will enter a new phase as 42 students start medical school. The newly minted Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine marks a significant undertaking for Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic, which formed the public-private partnership as a way to boost their individual...
August 25, 2010
Bangkok (dpa) - Bangkok city officials on Thursday deployed a heavy-lift crane to move a woman weighing 300 kilograms down from her apartment, two storeys up, to get to hospital. Amnuayporn Thongprapai, 40, agreed to the dramatic departure in order to receive treatment for sores that covered her legs, believed to be a symptom of diabetes, Thai television reported. She had not budged from her Bangkok...
August 25, 2010
Aug. 25 - MOORE - Jackie Richard's 20 year class reunion is set to take place in two years at Lawton Eisenhower. She hadn't given much thought to going. She had a bright future for herself in Mobile, Ala., and looking back into the past was not on her radar. However, over the past year and a half, Richard's world has altered dramatically and painfully. But somehow the 35-year-old Oklahoma native found...
August 25, 2010
Aug. 26 - Yes, it's State Fair time, and by the end of today (or any of the 11 following days), many of us will have to pay for the extra baggage that comes with the fair (and we're not talking about free literature and shopping bags). You know what I mean. That roasted ear of corn with butter that dribbles down your arm comes at a cost. So do the French fries dangling from your fingers. As for the...
August 25, 2010
Aug. 26 - MILTON, W.Va. Nancy Fisher bustled around the tiny kitchen of Milton Woman's Club this week, taking the lid off a Crock-Pot and stirring the gravy-covered meatloaf balls inside. Rita Searles periodically grabbed samplings of other dishes and took them to an adjacent meeting room, where dozens of people were waiting to see the next cooking demonstration. Both women, as part of a statewide...
August 25, 2010
Aug. 26 - During many a staff meeting of those who prepare the pages for the Herald & Review Life sections, we've talked about the fruits and vegetables which are common now that we had little knowledge of at younger ages. And that's at least one reason we're talking in Cook's Choice today about the jicama (HE-ka-ma) as well as including a couple of recipes using it. I'd already begun searching for...
August 25, 2010
Aug. 25 - Dan Kuehnel was swaddled in a large sling, hanging a foot or two above his wheelchair at St. Anthony's Medical Center. He looked like a super-sized infant in the grip of a mechanical stork. A nurse carefully rolled the ARJO Maxi Move that he was suspended from toward a hospital bed. Then, using a remote control, she lowered Kuehnel, 53, of Caseyville, gently onto his mattress. "Me and Dan...
August 25, 2010
Aug. 26 - It's not cruise ship cuisine - but area kids may be impressed with the food choices and creativity they find along the lunch line this year. "The days of the old lady slinging food on a tray and telling kids to move along - those days are gone," said Mike Gasper, director of nutrition services for the Holmen School District. Nowadays lunch ladies (and gentlemen) at area schools pile fresh,...
August 25, 2010
Aug. 18 - Top scientists gathered this week at an annual conference to discuss therapies for traumatic brain injuries and lifesaving medical tools to deploy to the battlefield. The annual Advanced Technology Applications for Combat Casualty Care Conference, which is being held this week in St. Pete Beach, Fla., includes presentations on topics ranging from regenerative medicine to pain control to more...
August 25, 2010
Aug. 25 - DURING A light practice, a Wilson High School football player began showing signs of seizure. He was rushed to a hospital where he underwent immediate brain surgery. "We felt he may have had some concussions but had been hiding the symptoms," recalled John "Doc" Moyer, Wilson's head athletic trainer. "He may have been hit on a Friday night and, then Monday, this happened. He had a brain aneurysm."...
August 25, 2010
Aug. 25 - A state grant from United Healthcare of Upstate is open to Niagara County schools and organizations willing to promote healthier youth lifestyles. Amie Lopus, who works in public relations for the program, said the grant, called United Health HEROES, supports local programs from schools to nonprofit organizations and local churches that are proactive in the fight against childhood obesity....
August 24, 2010
Aug. 25 - Tanya Wenman Steel gets the whole feeding-children-is-a-challenge thing. The eat-this-no-I-won't power plays. The nose wrinkling and pouting that create dinner table havoc. She's mom to 12-year-old twin boys, co-authored the tip-packed "Real Food for Healthy Kids" cookbook with Tracey Seaman and is editor-in-chief of epicurious.com. As good-food guru at the Web site, she's traveling this...
August 24, 2010
DES MOINES, Iowa - Low-cost vaccines that may help prevent the kind of salmonella outbreak that has led to the recall of more than a half-billion eggs haven't been given to nearly half the U.S.'s egg-laying hens. The vaccines aren't required in the U.S., although in Great Britain, officials say vaccinations have given them the safest egg supply in Europe. A survey conducted by the European food safety...
August 24, 2010
Aug. 25 - Preliminary analysis of the vaccine against last season's pandemic influenza A H1N1 vaccine found it was generally as effective and as safe as the seasonal flu vaccine. Although one vaccine monitoring system did turn up "weak" evidence of an association with a temporary facial paralysis called Bell's palsy, that association has yet to be proved on further analysis, an official cautioned....
August 24, 2010
Aug. 25 - CHAPEL HILL - HIV-infected blood and semen hold different versions of the virus that causes AIDS, a finding that could help researchers working to find an effective vaccine, according to a new study by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill. The study compared the genetic makeup of the virus in blood and the one in semen collected from a group of infected men in Malawi and analyzed the gene coding...
August 24, 2010
Aug. 25 - Through an Oklahoma State University program, Theresa Skinner and her 14-year-old daughter, Kiera, have learned that it takes the whole family to help a child lose weight. "It's a family thing," Skinner said. "We can't have her eating low-calorie food and we have Krispy Kremes." The single mother and her 17-year-old twins, who don't have weight issues, are all exercising and eating healthier...
August 24, 2010
Aug. 25 - Underage alcohol use reported by Roanoke County middle and high school students is decreasing but the use of marijuana and prescription drugs is on the rise, according to students' responses to a survey. The Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which was given to more than 8,000 county students in February, is a tool used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to monitor health-risk behaviors....
August 24, 2010
Aug. 25 - For Andrew Faust, the "Freshman 15" was actually more like 10. Nonetheless, the phenomenon of freshmen gaining weight during their first year of college - the so-called "Freshman 15" - definitely applied to Faust, now a junior at High Point University. "I was away from home, so I wasn't eating with my family - I wasn't eating prepared meals - and I could just eat whatever I wanted," he recalls....
August 24, 2010
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