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Aug. 18 - As its pipeline of new drugs continues to sputter, Eli Lilly and Co. is pushing hard to squeeze more uses out of its existing products. The latest example is Cymbalta, an antidepressant that Lilly hopes to market for chronic pain. On Thursday, the Indianapolis drug maker will make its case before a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee that the drug is a safe, effective treatment...
August 17, 2010
Aug. 17 - Nearly every day, family medicine specialist Dr. Chip Harris sees patients who delay recommended preventive care because of money. Usually it's the "big-ticket items" such as colonoscopies that get put off, said the Erlanger South Family Medicine Practice doctor. Those colon cancer screenings cost about $1,000, so a 20 percent co-payment would cost a privately insured patient $200 out of...
August 17, 2010
Aug. 17 - Davis County lawmaker Paul Ray will expand his effort to curb the use of nicotine by attempting to ban all flavored tobacco in Utah. Ray plans to introduce his latest anti-tobacco bill Wednesday at an interim session of the state Legislature. "Everything they are trying to throw out to try and get kids on tobacco, I'm going to get rid of," Ray said. The bill also would increase to 19 the...
August 17, 2010
Aug. 17 - In a world where the speed of your Internet can only be matched by the speed with which your former partner "moves on", there are close to a million people wanting to take things slow. Slow food started as a gastronomic movement celebrating diversity and today, 24 years and 132 countries later, it stands for all things ethical, healthy and - not to mention - cool. Slow food is the antithesis...
August 17, 2010
Aug. 17 - SILER CITY - The Chatham County Public Health Department urges people who ate at the Burger King at 1712 E. 11th St. (U.S. 64) in Siler City on Aug. 2 or Aug. 3 from 6 p.m. to closing to be immunized for hepatitis A by today. Patrons who were exposed may obtain free immunizations through the Chatham County Public Health Department, 1000 S. 10th Ave. in Siler City at a walk-in clinic from...
August 17, 2010
Aug. 17 - Life has changed dramatically over the past few weeks for Beaufort City Councilman Mike Sutton and his wife, Nan, who now are full-time caregivers to an 80-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease. Mike said he first realized something was wrong with his father, Bob, when he visited him in Georgia about five years ago and his cable was turned off. When he asked his father about the cable, he...
August 17, 2010
Greece's health ministry said Tuesday it was stepping up the fight against West Nile virus which has killed three people since the beginning of the month. Some 47 people were diagnosed with the virus on Monday including 11 new cases discovered over the weekend, according to a statement from the Centre for the Control and Prevention of Diseases (KEELPNO). Of this total, 45 patients have been diagnosed...
August 16, 2010
Nearly 1 million children may have been misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, not because they have real behavior problems, but because they're the youngest kids in their kindergarten class, researchers say. Kids who are the youngest in their grades are 60% more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than the oldest children, according to a study out today from Michigan State...
August 16, 2010
Aug. 17 - Davis County lawmaker Paul Ray will expand his effort to curb the use of nicotine by attempting to ban all flavored tobacco in Utah. Ray plans to introduce his latest anti-tobacco bill Wednesday at an interim session of the state Legislature. "Everything they are trying to throw out to try and get kids on tobacco, I'm going to get rid of," Ray said. The bill also would increase to 19 the...
August 16, 2010
The head of the World Health Organization in China said Tuesday widespread smoking in the Asian nation should be given the same attention as an outbreak of the deadly SARS disease. Timed to coincide with the release of new data on adult tobacco use in China by the country's centre for disease control, Michael O'Leary said the Asian nation's widespread tobacco addiction was a worry. "China's longstanding...
August 16, 2010
Aug. 17 - In October 2006, Dr. Hannan Chaugle had completed a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery and was eager to put his training into practice. He accepted an offer from Valley Heart Associates and started treating patients with heart disease in Modesto. But he was soon clashing with the nursing staff at Doctors Medical Center over patient care issues and complaining to administrators. After 18...
August 16, 2010
Aug. 16 - Going back to school is an exciting time for children and parents alike, but back to school also means back to a germ-filled environment. Vaccinations, or getting a shot to prevent a disease ahead of time, are a big - and required - part of every child's back to school routine. "Vaccinations are important public health measures that prevent the spread of deadly infectious diseases like meningitis,...
August 16, 2010
Aug. 16 - The air should become a little cleaner at Calhoun Community College today when the campus tobacco ban goes into effect. The ban on smoking and use of all tobacco products anywhere on campus, except in personal vehicles, begins with the staff in-service day that kicks off the 2010-11 school year. The ban's effects should really become noticeable when fall semester begins Aug. 23. Despite several...
August 15, 2010
SAN DIEGO - Growing up in a troubled home can cut your life short or lead to a host of health problems later on, according to studies presented over the weekend at the American Psychological Association meeting. In several major presentations, researchers outlined evidence that weathering difficulties as a child can set your health on the wrong course decades later. "Our latest research shows that...
August 15, 2010
Aug. 16 - There may be a new push for circumcision in Washington, thanks to a review of national guidelines for the procedure. Less than a quarter of all infant boys in Washington are circumcised - one of the lowest rates in the nation. "The evidence is quite convincing that circumcision has significant health benefits in reducing heterosexual transmission of HIV, HPV and herpes," said Matthew Golden,...
August 15, 2010
Phnom Penh (dpa) - The secretary general of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) said on Monday member nations must work more closely to ensure they can best combat the next pandemic. Dr Surin Pitsuwan said a coordinated regional effort in combating pandemics such as SARS and bird flu was vital to ensure the bloc can recover from worst-case scenarios with minimal losses. "If we are not...
August 15, 2010
Tokyo (dpa) - Japanese authorities recently conceded that they have lost track of hundreds of centenarians in a country famously proud of the care and respect it gives its oldest citizens. Doubts first surfaced when officials found the mummified body of Sogen Kato, registered as Tokyo's longest-living man, when they visited his address to congratulate him on his 111th birthday. Kato appeared to have...
August 15, 2010
No one said getting in shape is a cakewalk, but many readers say you can make great strides if you simply put your mind to it. "Whether physical activity is fun rests entirely on your attitude," says Kellie Tayer, 49, of Shaker Heights, Ohio. She is walking a lot more this summer and playing more tennis. "If you think playing tennis in 90-degree heat is fun, then it is." Tayer and her family have been...
August 15, 2010
STAMFORD, Conn. In a church here, Oscar nominees Laura Linney and Gabourey Sidibe are having a confrontation over a lie that student Andrea(Sidibe) has perpetrated on Linney's Cathy Jamison, her summer-school teacher. But Andrea isn't the only one concealing secrets. Cathy has cancer - Stage 4 melanoma - and is keeping it from her family while acting out in Showtime's unlikely comedy The Big C, premiering...
August 15, 2010
Aug. 16 - Kentucky ranks fourth in the national obesity rate, according to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency listed the commonwealth behind Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee in the prevalence of obesity in 2009. The percentage of obese population in Mississippi is 34.4, followed by Louisiana at 33 percent, Tennessee 32.3 and Kentucky 31.5. Officials said...
August 15, 2010
Aug. 16 - There is an invisible club out there, a web of people who have undergone the same transformative experience. We escaped death. Some of us survived a crash or accident; others, criminal violence. Me, I was in a freak hiking mishap. But one way or another, we nearly died - but didn't. On Aug. 6, two young women who survived a Lake Michigan sailboat tragedy joined our numbers. They were rescued...
August 15, 2010
Aug. 16 - This fall, the seven-county Green River Regional Health Council will implement the "We Can" public education program, a short course designed for children ages 8 to 13 to stay at a healthy weight through improved food choices, increased physical activity and reducing "screen" time. The course will show parents, grandparents and caregivers ways to get children to live healthier, according...
August 15, 2010
About 65 million Americans live in communities with a shortage of primary care doctors, physicians trained to meet the majority of patients' health care needs over the course of their lives. How much more difficult will finding a primary care doctor become as a result of the recently passed health care overhaul legislation, which will extend coverage to an estimated 34 million currently uninsured Americans...
August 15, 2010
Alzheimer's disease can be predicted with up to 100 percent accuracy several years before its onset using biomarkers found in spinal fluids, a study published Monday showed. Geert De Meyer of Ghent University in Belgium and colleagues in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) analyzed data from 114 older adults who were cognitively normal, 200 who had mild cognitive impairment and 102...
August 14, 2010
Aug. 13 - The tropical virus dengue fever has spread to Broward County mosquitoes, health officials said Thursday, after tests confirmed the first known case of the disease being contracted here since before World War II. A woman who had not left Broward for weeks came down with the mosquito-borne disease this month, meaning Broward is now the second place in the continental United States - following...
August 13, 2010
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