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Aug. 10 - TERRE HAUTE - Students in grades 6-12 who do not have three added immunizations now required by the state will have extra time to obtain them, Ray Azar, director of student services with the Vigo County School Corp., said Monday. Because of strong demand for the vaccinations and some expected delays in obtaining them, the school district "does not intend to immediately exclude students from...
August 13, 2010
India has reacted angrily to a medical study linking Indian hospitals to a multi-resistant "superbug," with some politicians claiming a conspiracy against the country's booming medical tourism industry. The study, published in the British medical journal The Lancet, said health tourists flocking to South Asia had carried a new class of antibiotic-resistant superbug to Britain, and warned that it could...
August 13, 2010
Aug. 13 - No other illness makes a parent's heart skip a beat like meningococcal meningitis. This disease can kill in less than 24 hours and gives little warning that death is near. In Rose Kwett's case, she lost her 15-year-old daughter MaryJo within 13 hours after her first symptoms. "If she would have been vaccinated, she would have survived," Kwett said, a registered nurse at Mercy General Hospital....
August 13, 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. An adult 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 Key West - where dengue...
August 12, 2010
Where have all the primary care doctors gone? And more importantly, how can we get more of them? When I was growing up, a single doctor handled most of our family's problems. Sure, he called in a surgeon for gallbladders and maybe a cardiologist for heart failure, but most people figured they'd rather have just one doctor, and they trusted him to know what they needed. But as medical knowledge expanded,...
August 12, 2010
Aug. 13 - A long-used surgical technique to treat cranial nerve disorders proved successful in easing diabetes symptoms in a small group of patients, according to a study published Thursday by a leading neurosurgeon at Allegheny General Hospital. Seven of 10 patients with type 2 diabetes showed significant improvement in their blood sugar levels following surgery to relieve arterial pressure on the...
August 12, 2010
Aug. 13 - SHOW OF HANDS - How many mothers and fathers out there are crying, "My baby is leaving me!" Whether leaving for the first day of kindergarten or college, separation from children can be gut wrenching. I felt the pain when my parents left me in a residence hall full of teen strangers one August day. The moment was perplexing. I was anxious for them to leave so I could fully embrace independence...
August 12, 2010
Aug. 13 - People featured in this column have been selected randomly from the telephone book. GENESEE - For the past 26 years, Susie Carlstrom has literally kept her finger on the pulse of health care in the region. And she's noticed some trends. "I think people are heavier. And I think everybody is on a diet, including me," Susie says. "And the complaints are almost always the same - blood pressure,...
August 12, 2010
Indian doctors warned earlier this year that the country was facing the threat of a new multi-resistant "superbug" - months before a British study that has been condemned for scaremongering by New Delhi. A team of researchers from the private Hinduja hospital in Mumbai studied 24 infection cases between August and November last year and said they found 22 incidences of NDM-1 or "New Delhi metallo-lactamase-1"...
August 12, 2010
MULTAN, Pakistan - Fever, stomach problems and skin diseases are spreading among Pakistani flood victims, officials said Friday, adding another dimension of danger to a crisis that could get even worse, with the U.N. warning that dams in the south may burst. Aid workers warn that waterborne diseases and other illnesses could raise the death toll from more than two weeks of flooding to well past the...
August 12, 2010
BERKELEY, Calif. The University of California, Berkeley, said Thursday it would drop part of its genetic testing program for incoming students to comply with instructions from state health regulators. University officials said they would abide by the California Department of Public Health's finding that the voluntary gene scans must be treated as medical diagnostic tests if students are given access...
August 12, 2010
SHANGHAI - The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says China is improving its oversight of its exporters following a slew of scandals over bogus or substandard drugs and foods ranging from vaccines and infant formula to dog chow. FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said Friday that Chinese officials she spoke with during her first visit to China since she was appointed were pursuing a "common...
August 12, 2010
Aug. 13 - RICHMOND, Va. Donna Arpe has pretty much given up trying to pick berries from the bushes in her Henrico County backyard. The mosquitoes have taken over. "They've been really bad," she said. Yesterday morning, Arpe was out just a few minutes with her dog. Six or seven mosquito bites later, she'd had enough. "They were chewing me up," Arpe said. The weeks of hot weather may have kept the mosquito...
August 12, 2010
SAN DIEGO Those twinges of forgetfulness that appear to be getting more pronounced may worry you. After all, the statistics are scary: Every 70 seconds, someone in the USA develops Alzheimer's. But every lapse isn't a signal that your memory is kaput. Cheryl Edwards-Cannon, 57, says she relies on Post-it notes and spiral notebooks to help her remember, since she's multitasking "the majority of the...
August 12, 2010
SAN DIEGO Those twinges of forgetfulness that appear to be getting more pronounced may worry you. After all, the statistics are scary: Every 70 seconds, someone in the USA develops Alzheimer's. But every lapse isn't a signal that your memory is kaput. Cheryl Edwards-Cannon, 57, says she relies on Post-it notes and spiral notebooks to help her remember, since she's multitasking "the majority of the...
August 12, 2010
Aug. 12 - You don't have to tell Rusty Terry of Seymour this past week's weather forecast. The longtime worker of Abraham & Sons General Contractors knows firsthand, especially since the bulk of his work is outside. "This is the hottest one I can remember," he said Wednesday afternoon. "The humidity's been awful, and we keep finding sunny jobs. We can't find any shady jobs." Susie Schnitker, director...
August 12, 2010
Aug. 12 - DOVER - After Ruffy the bear took a fall off the living room rocking chair and hurt his head, five-year-old Emily Foshay knew exactly what Ruffy needed. "A big Band-Aid!" Emily, of Scarborough, Maine, declared Wednesday as she waited to bring Ruffy into the examination room of the Children's Museum's Teddy Bear Clinic for a checkup after his accident. After consultation with a volunteer nurse...
August 12, 2010
A new brain scan that detects autism in adults could mean much more straightforward diagnosis of the condition, according to scientists. Experts at King's College London said the scan, which was tested on 40 people, identified tiny but crucial signs of autism, only detectable by computer. Dr Christine Ecker, the lead researcher, says, "It could help to alleviate the need for the emotional, time consuming...
August 11, 2010
To anyone else, the prospect of putting a small child through a bone-marrow transplant might be terrifying. Theresa Liao, mother of two sons born with a rare and excruciatingly painful skin disease, saw the risky procedure as their only chance for a normal life. Bone-marrow transplants, usually used to treat leukemia, are perhaps the most harrowing of all medical therapies. Doctors first flood patients...
August 11, 2010
Aug. 12 - To me, seltzer water is synonymous with Three Stooges gags. Who knew that the carbonated fizzy water is also the best sodium-free alternative to diet sodas? That nutritional nugget came to light in a conversation with Jamie McDermott, a registered dietitian with Memorial's Diabetes and Nutrition Center, whom I called after a doctor's visit last week. A routine office call for an inner-ear...
August 11, 2010
Aug. 12 - FASTING Muslims were yesterday urged to eat healthy foods during Ramadan and avoid over indulging. Ramadan is primarily about drawing closer to God through fasting, prayer, reading the Quran, going to the mosque and doing good deeds, said Health Ministry Public Health director Dr Khariya Moosa. However, from a nutrition point of view, it is also an opportunity to cleanse the body, lose weight...
August 11, 2010
SAN DIEGO Those twinges of forgetfulness that appear to be getting more pronounced may worry you. After all, the statistics are scary: Every 70 seconds, someone in the USA develops Alzheimer's. But every lapse isn't a signal that your memory is kaput. Cheryl Edwards-Cannon, 57, says she relies on Post-it notes and spiral notebooks to help her remember, since she's multitasking "the majority of the...
August 11, 2010
Manila (dpa) - The Philippine health department on Thursday raised the alarm over the nearly 50-per-cent increase of dengue fever cases in the first seven months of the year. Enrique Ona, secretary of the Department of Health, urged people to maintain cleanliness in their surroundings and get rid of potential breeding sites of mosquitoes carrying the dengue virus. Ona said dengue cases from January...
August 11, 2010
Aug. 12 - FALKVILLE - If your mood is a downer and you could use a dose of laughter, drop by Summerford Nursing Home here on U.S. 31 and say hello to Aunt Ola. Georgia Leeola "Aunt Ola" Smithson celebrates her 101st birthday today. While she's had her share of heartache - she lost two sisters in the 1932 tornadoes that swept Alabama and two of her three sons to cancer - it's evident a cheerful attitude...
August 11, 2010
Aug. 12 - ELK RIVER - Sherburne County Public Health Department will vaccinate eligible adults who are uninsured or underinsured. The vaccines for the program announced Wednesday are being provided to local public health agencies for a limited time through The American Recovery Reinvestment Act, an economic stimulus package enacted by Congress in 2009. "There are stimulus funds that come through the...
August 11, 2010
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