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CHICAGO - More than 70,000 children and teens in the United States go to the emergency room each year for injuries and complications from medical devices, and contact lenses are the leading culprit, the first detailed national estimate suggests. About one-fourth of the problems were things like infections and eye abrasions in contact lens wearers. These are sometimes preventable and can result from...
July 26, 2010
July 23 - Health officials are on the lookout for a new fungus taking root in the Northwest that in the past several years has sickened five dozen people, some fatally. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday published in a weekly report with public health information about Cryptococcus gattii, a fungus with tropical origins that can cause respiratory illnesses if its spores...
July 22, 2010
July 23 - Summer in Jackson County means hot weather, family get-togethers and the county fair. Jackson County Health Department issued a reminder this week to residents of the importance of standing on guard against germs and bacteria. That means people should wash their hands, especially when coming into contact with masses of people and the animals being exhibited at the fair and elsewhere. "People...
July 22, 2010
July 23 - The thing about Alzheimer's disease is that you lose your loved one twice - once when they forget you, and then when they die, says Catherine "Cat" Sweatman of Fort Smith, Ark. The 18-year-old is sharing her story with five campers at a Colcord ranch nestled in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. All are teenage caregivers for a parent or grandparent who has the disease. Sweatman earned...
July 22, 2010
July 23 - When Nadya Suleman, an unemployed and unmarried California woman who came to be known as "Octomom," delivered eight premature babies after in vitro fertilization (IVF) with multiple embryos, ethicists, doctors and taxpayers howled. Possibly they were thinking about the medical costs of caring for preemies, which at the neonatal intensive-care unit at Seattle Children's hospital can go up...
July 22, 2010
Salt is evil, right? That's the new nutrition mantra. But wait: What about people who need iodized salt to prevent iodine deficiency? Take our quiz on sources of this micronutrient. 1. Why does the body need iodine? a) To stimulate the pituitary glands and enhance growth b) To produce a thyroid hormone that keeps the gland functioning c) To raise the heart rate of those with abnormally low blood pressure...
July 22, 2010
July 23 - "Would you still describe your pain as a 10?" a Texas A&M University nursing student asked a wreck victim lying on a hospital bed, hooked up to an IV. Hundreds of officials passed by the exam room, many popping their heads in to observe the man's progress, along with the techniques used by the student. Both were under the microscope Thursday. Not exactly your typical ER experience. The man...
July 22, 2010
July 23 - It's at best a cosmetic disability; at worst a skin ailment that can make a person suffer in sunlight. Some 30-50 million people in India live with vitiligo, white patches on the skin that are badly understood as a disease and unfairly treated as a social stigma. In a step that not only throws light on the underlying biology of the disease but marks the initial logical step towards its treatment,...
July 22, 2010
July 23 - So far it's been a summer of heat advisories with temperatures near or in the 90s that feel even hotter with the high humidity. To raise awareness of sun safety, Schneck Medical Center and its Cancer Center are recognizing July as UV Safety Month. Heat-related illnesses can range from a headache to heatstroke, and Lynda Richey, a registered nurse for the Cancer Center, said the emergency...
July 22, 2010
A new study finds that African ancestry is linked to a more aggressive type of cancer that is more deadly. Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center in Ann Arbor found that, among women with breast cancer, 82 percent of African women had the breast cancer called "triple negative," 26 percent of African-Americans had the variety, and 16 percent of white Americans had it....
July 22, 2010
July 23 - EL PASO - For another two weeks, the doctors at the El Paso Orthopaedic Surgery Group can catch their breath and brace for the storm ahead. Since 1984 the local group of surgeons has provided care for UTEP athletics, and when the athletes in those programs begin reporting Aug. 4, the EPOSG will conduct physicals. And almost on cue, a day later when practice begins, they will start seeing...
July 22, 2010
Two global health agencies joined forces here on Thursday in a campaign aimed at averting 200,000 deaths each year by co-infection from TB and the AIDS virus. "Every three minutes a person living with HIV has his or her life cut off prematurely by TB," said Jorge Sampaio, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's special envoy on stopping tuberculosis. "This is completely unacceptable. TB is a preventable...
July 22, 2010
The country's main professional group of obstetricians published "less restrictive" guidelines Wednesday that could lead to more vaginal births after C-sections, or VBACs. "What the guidelines emphasize is that a trial of labor is a reasonable and appropriate alternative for many women with a prior cesarean delivery," says Jeffrey Ecker, a Harvard associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology who...
July 22, 2010
ATLANTA - U.S. health officials say a fungus usually found in the tropics has taken root in the Pacific Northwest and has been blamed for at least 60 illnesses and 15 deaths. The fungal illness is still considered rare. But an increasing number of people who have breathed it in have become sick or died. Symptoms include a persistent cough, headache and fever. The fungus seems to grow on or around trees....
July 22, 2010
Instead of using insecticides, a village in Poland has bet on "bat boxes" to attract the insect-consuming flying mammals in a bid to wage war on swarms of mosquitoes driving local residents batty. Authorities in the southern Polish village of Lelow have distributed about 50 wooden "bat boxes" to residents for the symbolic fee of five zlotys (1.21 euros, 1.5 dollars) each, village head Jerzy Szydlowski...
July 22, 2010
NEW YORK, N.Y. Former Run DMC member Darryl McDaniels is lending his voice to a public awareness campaign about safe child care. The hip hop artist is voicing radio ads as part of a campaign by Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration. The ads urge New Yorkers to think carefully about the caregivers they get for their children. The city is starting the campaign amid an alarming spike of child deaths...
July 22, 2010
July 20 - Leaving a child alone in a car for any period of time is too long, and doing so can have potentially fatal consequences. "As far as leaving them in the car, do not do it, not even for a minute," said Kinston Police Department public information officer Woody Spencer. "There is no excuse for it; a child's body can not handle heat stress like an adult can. The temperature in a car is like an...
July 20, 2010
July 20 - A towel used to sop up juice from raw hamburger meat also is used to wipe down counters. That may not sound that horrifying, unless you are Phyllis Fenn and know some of the frightening health risks it can cause. Counters wiped down with bloody towels is something she has seen while inspecting restaurants throughout the state. And Fenn, a standardization officer with the Alabama Department...
July 19, 2010
July 20 - A vaginal gel reduced HIV infection in South African women by more than half, the first hint of success in the long hunt for protection women can use against the virus, according to a study released Monday in Science Express magazine. "I think it's a landmark paper," said Dave O'Connor, an HIV researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, who was...
July 19, 2010
July 20 - In the long run, diagnosing Alzheimer's before symptoms appear could improve treatment. "The earlier we can make it, the more effective our treatments can potentially be," said Dr. Kaycee Sink, an associate professor at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and the director of the center's memory assessment clinic. ONLINE POLL: Would you want to be tested for Alzheimer's disease before...
July 19, 2010
July 20 - One of the keys to these nurses' weight loss is that the process has taken them a year or more. It all starts with simply cutting 500 calories a day from their daily food intake. Asking them to decrease any more could set them up for failure, Shaw said. "There is biochemistry behind it. The body fights to gain the weight back," she said. She points to studies of cows, which have very low...
July 19, 2010
July 20 - The elderly man was emaciated, so hospital physicians were running a series of tests for cancer, a common cause of weight loss in older patients. Dr. Saul Weiner suspected something else might be going on. "Where are you living?" he remembers inquiring. "I move around a lot," the haggard man responded. Weiner then asked if his patient was eating regularly. Sometimes, but not every day, the...
July 19, 2010
In the grand scheme of treating diabetes, it might not matter much whether the Food and Drug Administration halts sales of the drug Avandia. An FDA committee of outside experts met last week to provide advice on whether any regulatory action - from stronger warnings to removal - is needed. The FDA has the final say on the committee's recommendations and could decide within weeks. But doctors already...
July 19, 2010
July 20 - A survey of Massachusetts women has found a potential link between the use of household cleaners and air fresheners and breast cancer. The study included interviews with 787 women who had breast cancer and 721 who did not. Researchers asked all the women about pesticide use but found little association. But when about 400 women in each group were asked about cleaning products, researchers...
July 19, 2010
MONTREAL - A study conducted at the Montreal Heart Institute has yielded a surprising result _ living with children is linked to a reduction in physical activity. Concordia University professor Doctor Simon L. Bacon led the study which included 756 participants. The study assessed the impact of social networks on exercise, revealing that people with heart disease who live with children exercise less...
July 19, 2010
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