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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...
August 19, 2010
Aug. 20 - Boca Raton Community Hospital is becoming Boca Raton Regional Hospital. The name change is meant to reflect the medical facility's growth and top-rated cardiac, stroke, oncology, women's health and emergency care programs, according to hospital spokesman Thomas Chakurda. Friday's switch from Community to Regional also coincides with the 80th birthday of Gloria Drummond. She was the driving...
August 19, 2010
Doug Casa, who survived heatstroke as a teen runner and now studies it, was relieved to have heard of no heat fatalities this month as football players from the pee wees to the pros drill in August heat. "Thank God there are no fatalities in the football level so far. But in the northern part of the country, now is when high school practices start," said Casa, a researcher who directs the Korey Stringer...
August 19, 2010
Aug. 20 - DURHAM - Here are some comments that participants in and planners of the Healthy Food-A-Thon made about trying to go 30 days without fast food and soda: Trevor Hamlett, 15, Jordan High School rising sophomore, on family support: "My whole family did it with me, and that was such a great big help, because then if you get your family to do it, then you don't have to worry about somebody eating...
August 19, 2010
Aug. 20 - It isn't a record year for mosquitoes - despite how it seems when stepping outside - but the prolonged wet weather has made for an unusually extended onslaught this season, experts said. Phil Pellitteri and Dave Geske have never seen the constant mosquito hatchings that this summer's near-record rainfall has produced in many parts of Wisconsin. "It's a nasty mosquito season, but not the worst,"...
August 19, 2010
Aug. 20 - The crossed legs. The reflexive cringe. That was my doctor. I was in for a physical. We'd been talking about this and that, and were getting to the end. Of the visit, I mean, but that end, too. It was the last thing, when a euphemism just won't do: The doctor needed to check my prostate, which involves his finger in my - But before I finish that sentence, I have to admit a certain cowardice...
August 19, 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...
August 19, 2010
Aug. 20 - Polk County coach Derrick Davis does not have the luxury of being able to hire a doctor to roam the sideline at Friday night football games this season. With the TSSAA passing a new concussion rule, whether that will become a problem remains to be seen. The rule states that if a player has any concussion-like symptoms, a referee has the authority to send the player out of the game. The player...
August 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2010
The helicopter air ambulance industry is opposing several key safety upgrades sought by federal accident investigators even as a recent surge in crashes has killed 19 people since September. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is calling on regulators to require new lifesaving technologies on many air ambulances, including night-vision goggles, terrain avoidance computers and autopilot...
August 18, 2010
Tai chi, an ancient Chinese practice of exercise and meditation, may relieve symptoms of a painful chronic condition called fibromyalgia, a small new study shows. Tai chi involves gentle, flowing movements in which students shift their weight and breathe deeply, cycling through a series of stances with poetic names, such as "white crane spreads its wings." The philosophy of tai chi involves moving...
August 18, 2010
A national salmonella outbreak that could have sickened thousands has led to the recall of 380 million eggs and renewed questions about whether it's feasible to keep the microbe - the most common bacterial source of food-borne illness in the nation - out of the henhouse. The answer from experiences in Denmark and Sweden seems to be a qualified yes. It can be done, but at what cost? The eggs being recalled...
August 18, 2010
Aug. 19 - MUMBAI - Full-time doctors who work with state government-run hospitals and teach in their colleges will not be allowed to do private practice anymore. The state has taken this decision as doctors "were not concentrating on their jobs". The directive, issued by the state government on Wednesday, will affect approximately 1,200 doctors in Mumbai who are employed with the four state-run hospitals:...
August 18, 2010
Doctors have long known that providing palliative care - a comprehensive service that aims to relieve suffering in people with serious illnesses - can improve patients' quality of life and overall medical care. A new study shows palliative care also can help cancer patients live longer. In a study of 151 patients with advanced lung cancer, those given early palliative care survived 11.6 months, nearly...
August 18, 2010
Aug. 18 - Forsyth Medical Center ranked third in North Carolina in the number of people who had to wait at least 48 hours to be admitted for treatment of mental-health issues. The Wake County chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness released a breakdown yesterday of people waiting in private hospitals for an available bed at a state hospital. Forsyth had 83 people waiting at least two days,...
August 18, 2010
Aug. 18 - HARRIMAN, Tenn. A health study of 214 residents in 112 households near the Kingston ash spill site is getting a cautious thumbs up from community members. "I am glad to see that at this time there was no adverse health effects for the ash spill," said Randy Ellis, a member of the ash spill community action group and newly elected Roane County commissioner. "I would like to request that TVA...
August 17, 2010
Aug. 17 - WAPAKONETA - Ali Wayman, a soon to be fifth-grader, just wants you to see her as a normal kid. Diagnosed four years ago at the age of 6 with systemic lupus, she was given only three years to live. "She's like a walking miracle," said her mother, Cheryl Wayman, a physician assistant at Lincoln Family Practice. Systemic lupus is an autoimmune disease where antibodies attack the healthy cells,...
August 17, 2010
One by one, Ali Kassim pulls out the weeds that have grown in his rice paddy. It's surprisingly rare in Africa, but he is cultivating African rice - once close to extinction after it was pushed aside centuries ago for a higher-yield imported Asian variety. Researchers hope to see more and more farmers like Kassim, who is 32 and among about 100 people in Togo's central Atakpamey region to take part...
August 17, 2010
Aug. 18 - TEMPERANCE - A trip to the doctor's office will be on some back-to-school lists. Rule changes enacted by the Michigan Legislature now require that incoming kindergarten students, sixth graders, and students changing school districts get inoculated with selected vaccines. Roxann Satkowski, a district nurse with Bedford Public Schools, said letters informing parents about the changes were sent...
August 17, 2010
Aug. 18 - Most parents know they should vaccinate their children against a host of childhood diseases. But they may not realize that adults also need vaccinations updated for one disease that's become an epidemic in some states - whooping cough. Whooping cough, the more common name for the illness pertussis, is among the childhood diseases routinely included in the booster shots given to young children....
August 17, 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 17, 2010
Aug. 18 - SULPHUR SPRINGS - A "body slam" was the snack of choice for about 20 elementary school students after listening to professional wrestler Titus O'Neill talk about healthy eating. "You eat wrong, you'll get bigger and bigger and out of shape," said O'Neill. "All those dreams of being a professional athlete are not going to work." Students made sandwiches by filling leaf lettuce with turkey,...
August 17, 2010
Aug. 18 - Some eggs sold under Safeway's Lucerne brand and at Albertsons stores have been recalled by Wright County Egg of Galt, Iowa, over fears of possible contamination with salmonella. The food-borne bacteria can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened immune systems. The eggs included in the voluntary recall were distributed...
August 17, 2010
Aug. 18 - If you start getting a little itchy in the middle of the night, you might want to turn on the lights and closely check the sheets and bedposts. Bedbugs, tiny parasites that had all but disappeared in the nation, are back and hungrier than ever. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warn that bedbugs are appearing with an increasing...
August 17, 2010
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