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Aug. 05 - Respect the breast. That's the rallying cry from mothers and doctors across the world during Breast Feeding Awareness Week, which runs through Saturday. The campaign is championed by breast-feeding advocates from nearly 200 countries and involves hospitals and neonatal centers offering educational programs and seminars highlighting the health and emotional benefits of breast-feeding. Among...
August 5, 2010
Aug. 05 - The first day of school is looming across West Virginia, and that means all the maladies, like head colds, strep throat and good oldfashioned runny noses, will be coming home from the classroom to the living room. Some illnesses, of course, are far more serious than others, but Lloyd White has a prescription to keep kids healthy all year long. Just make sure their immunizations are current,...
August 5, 2010
Chicago Tribune (MCT) CHICAGO - Ferdousi Dawood was worried. Her daughter's headaches were excruciating, and prescription medicines and natural remedies had failed to make a difference. Now, a doctor at Children's Memorial Hospital was recommending a CT scan to peer inside the 10-year-old's brain. Dawood was concerned about the radiation and what it might mean to the girl's development. "As a mom,...
August 5, 2010
Aug. 04 - CARLSBAD - Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Wednesday it has successfully completed the fourth and last needed late-stage test of its flagship cholesterol-lowering drug, mipomersen. However, shares of Isis fell 5.6 percent Wednesday after the announcement, apparently because of continuing indications of liver toxicity. Shares closed at $9.43, down 56 cents for the day. Isis and its marketing...
August 5, 2010
A recent study performed at Texas A&M University revealed that peaches and plums may present an even sweeter, juicier treat in their ability to fight breast cancer. According to research scientists Dr. Luis Cisneros-Zevallos and Dr. David Byrne from AgriLife Research at Texas A&M, extracts found in commercial varieties of peaches and plums have been shown to kill breast cancer cells while not harming...
August 5, 2010
Women who gain a lot of weight during pregnancy are more likely to have high-birth-weight babies, which may increase the children's risk of becoming obese later in life, a new study suggests. The findings add to growing evidence of the importance of appropriate weight gain during pregnancy. For several decades, researchers have observed that a high birth weight increases the risk that a child will...
August 5, 2010
Aug. 04 - Rifqa Bary will not be forced to undergo chemotherapy for uterine cancer, which her doctors say is no longer detectable in her body. Her parents had filed a motion to compel Rifqa, who will turn 18 on Tuesday, to follow a doctor-recommended 45-week course of chemotherapy. However, her doctors also have told her that she is "disease-free" according to "available imaging techniques," her attorney,...
August 4, 2010
Aug. 04 - STAMFORD - Toting strollers, diaper bags and babies in arms, a group of Fairfield County moms set a state record Tuesday for simultaneous breastfeeding. A total of 25 children nursed in the event, conducted in Kosciuszko Park at precisely noon. The organizers, La Leche League of Greenwich-Stamford, said the action was to raise awareness about the benefits of breastfeeding during World Breastfeeding...
August 4, 2010
Aug. 04 - KANNAPOLIS - Cabarrus Health Alliance is reminding parents about the proper immunizations needed before the school year begins. According to Betty Braxton, human resources director for CHA, there have been several cases of pertussis, also known as whopping cough, in Cabarrus County this summer. "The Cabarrus Health Alliance investigated five lab-confirmed cases of pertussis in Cabarrus County...
August 4, 2010
Aug. 03 - One year after she contracted West Nile virus, Jacquelyn Dudek of Lockport is lucky to be alive to talk about it. "It's the most frightening time of my life," she said. Dudek, who lives off of Sunset Drive, said it was Labor Day weekend at her son's wedding when she realized something was wrong. "I was there physically, but not mentally," Dudek said. "I was just out of it and couldn't even...
August 4, 2010
About a third of people in nine states were obese in 2009, a dramatic increase from 2007, when only three states had obesity rates that high, a new survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. People are obese if they are roughly 30 or more pounds over a healthy weight. Obesity raises the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, many cancers and other diseases. "Obesity is common,...
August 4, 2010
Aug. 04 - When it was Catherine Todorov's turn to speak Tuesday, she said nursing her 1-week-old son, Elijah, has been going OK. "I've had to supplement a few times," she told Tricia Pace, a nutritionist and lactation consultant. Pace nodded encouragingly, adding breast-feeding mothers on the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) nutritional program don't receive coupons for baby formula in the first month...
August 4, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO - Take note, kids. What you do to your body today really could hurt you a few decades from now. A new study that followed more than 3,000 young adults into middle age found that people who had high cholesterol in their 20s were much more likely to show early signs of atherosclerosis in their 40s than those who had "optimal" cholesterol levels. That may seem kind of obvious - after all,...
August 4, 2010
Cambodia has banned imports of live pigs owing to fears they may be infected with blue-ear pig disease, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday. "The so-called blue-ear pig disease is spreading, and is now present in Cambodia," Hun Sen told a university graduation ceremony, noting there had been outbreaks of the disease in neighbouring Thailand, Vietnam and Laos. According to local media, blue ear -...
August 4, 2010
Aug. 04 - SOMERSET - The Lake Cumberland District Health Depart-ment is urging parents to consider allowing their preteens and teenagers to receive vaccines which fight meningitis. LCDHD Medical Dir-ector Dr. Christine Wey-man says two cases of bacterial meningitis have been confirmed in Pulaski County this summer. Bacterial meningitis is a more severe strain of the meningococcal meningitis illness...
August 4, 2010
Aug. 04 - A mother's love knows no bounds. Regardless of age, when her child is sick, a mother's heart naturally aches. That's what Lisa Hawkins has experienced every day. It began when her daughter Cherry Lane, 26, started showing signs of illness recently. "She started feeling bad during the first part of May. First it was just an ear infection. She got antibiotics and went home," Hawkins said. "But...
August 4, 2010
Aug. 04 - With whooping cough on the rise in Ventura County and on pace for a 50-year high across California, public health officials are ratcheting up efforts to protect the newborns who are most at danger. As of Monday, 58 cases of the illness officially known as pertussis had been reported this year to the Ventura County Department of Public Health. That's the same number as in all of 2009 when...
August 4, 2010
Aug. 04 - Local hospitals have been hit by a double blow. They are seeing dips in the number of people seeking the most profitable types of care. Meanwhile, when hospitals do take in more patients for overnight visits, a growing number can't pay their bills. These two trends, which are unfolding at hospitals across the country, are among the forces behind Vancouver-based Southwest Washington Medical...
August 4, 2010
July 28 - Until three years ago, Kenneth Maxwell enjoyed Banquet chicken and turkey pot pies so much he ate them three or four times a week. They were easy to prepare, and Maxwell could eat one for lunch and quickly return to work as an electrician. When cases of salmonella poisoning led the pies' manufacturer, ConAgra Foods, to issue a product recall in the fall of 2007, Maxwell did not hear about...
July 29, 2010
Hospitals in El Salvador have been overwhelmed by an unexpected rise in respiratory diseases including pneumonia and dengue fever, health authorities said Wednesday. "We've got our hospital network and neighborhood health clinics working at full capacity... with a huge increase these past few weeks in patients with respiratory ailments and possible dengue," Deputy Health Minister Eduardo Espinoza told...
July 29, 2010
July 28 - Breast-feeding Nazis. Granola. They nurse their children until they are in kindergarten. Cathleen Gotsch was aware of all the notions out there about the breast-feeding support group La Leche League. She wasn't sure what to expect when she went to her first meeting while pregnant to learn more about nursing her newborn. "I knew I would be going to back to work and would be pumping and was...
July 28, 2010
The 24,000 New York City restaurants began showing their grades Wednesday - A, B, or C - under a new system of ranking sanitary conditions by the city's health department. The new system is aimed at increasing public awareness of health in food preparation and encouraging better practices in food establishments. "Whether it's a neighborhood deli or a pricey dinner house, any food establishment can...
July 28, 2010
July 29 - Nominators have only two more days to pay tribute to someone whose efforts have helped improve Oklahoma's health. Nominations for the 2010 Champions of Health awards are being accepted through Friday. They may be submitted online at tulsaworld.com/champions. The website provides information about the Champions of Health partner organizations, sponsorship opportunities, previous winners and...
July 28, 2010
July 28 - JEDDAH - A large number of Saudis attribute mental illness to the effects of jinns or the evil eye, said Dr. Suleiman Al-Zaydi, a psychiatrist and director of public relations and information at Al-Amal Hospital in Jeddah. "About 80 to 90 percent of our society does not believe in the existence of mental illnesses. They do not accept the fact that sick people are psychologically ill and attribute...
July 28, 2010
You do it. Your co-workers do it. Heck, even Russ Pate does it. And he runs marathons. "You send an e-mail to someone two doors down at the office," Pate said. "Before the Internet took over you would walk down there and talk to them." A short stroll down the hall won't cure sedentary habits or obesity. But it's a start, said Pate, who is an exercise science professor at the University of South Carolina's...
July 28, 2010
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