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Even though the oil pipe seems to be plugged up in the Gulf, the environmental and health issues are nowhere close to being sealed. Do yourself and all of us a favor by keeping the oil spill on your radar. The Centers for Disease Control has put together a handy guide for pregnant women who live in or are visiting coastal areas and are concerned about the potential effects on their unborn children....
July 19, 2010
July 18 - LINCOLN, Maine - When people hear they have diabetes, they think that the only thing they have to worry about is avoiding sugar. The problem with that is basically, "everything you eat converts to glucose," said Jaynie Higgins, a Type 1 diabetic and author of "The Ultimate Diabetes Meal Planner." That means hamburgers, potato chips and even sugar-free foods are converted to glucose, or sugar,...
July 18, 2010
The UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday issued the first overhaul of its guidelines on HIV drugs in four years, saying the therapy now saving more than five million lives should be initiated at an earlier stage of infection. A phonebook-sized volume issued at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna confirmed and amplified a key recommendation made by the UN agency last year about earlier...
July 18, 2010
July 18 - In what would be a boon for needle-phobes of all ages, researchers have developed a skin patch that vaccinates against the flu and could be available in five years. The patch, which is lined with microscopic needles that dissolve into the skin, could provide a painless alternative to hypodermic needles and make visits to the doctor's office or clinic for a traditional flu shot a thing of...
July 18, 2010
Sony has issued a warning that 3-D gaming could pose health risks, going as far as to recommend parents take gamers who are 6 years or younger to a doctor to make sure it is safe for them to even play video games on a 3-D TV or gaming system. Apparently children and older adults may be vulnerable to suffering eye strain, eye fatigue or nausea when overdoing it with 3-D games. A possible remedy, suggests...
July 18, 2010
July 19 - The evening's menu featured grass-fed, antibiotic-free beef over pasta, fresh seasonal vegetables and fresh organic peaches - items right at home in the city's finest restaurants. Instead, the dishes were prepared for visitors, staff and bed-bound patients at Swedish Covenant Hospital. The Northwest Side hospital is one of 300 across the nation that have pledged to improve the quality and...
July 18, 2010
It's been a long time since Annette Cottrell regularly saw the inside of a grocery store. Her yard is an explosion of produce and herbs, with almond trees and honeybees and hops for making beer. The pantry teems with garden riches - roasted peppers, pickled beets - and there's homemade bread and caramel syrup in the fridge made with grains she ground and goats she milked. She makes her own cheese,...
July 18, 2010
July 19 - CHARLESTON, W.Va. At 77, Sally K. Richardson looks back with wonder on her journey to the pinnacle of health-care policymaking in Washington, D.C. A Huntington native, she graduated from prestigious Vassar College with no viable credentials for employment. After a stint in secretarial school, she landed a job in Washington, never dreaming she would return years later at the behest of President...
July 18, 2010
VIENNA - The number of people taking crucial AIDS drugs climbed by a record 1.2 million last year to 5.2 million overall, the World Health Organization said Monday ????? but Bill Clinton says that's still not nearly enough. Between 2003 and 2010, the number of patients receiving lifesaving antiretroviral treatment increased twelve-fold, according to the Geneva-based body. "We are very encouraged by...
July 18, 2010
TORONTO - With at least one million people dying each year from malaria ????? most of them children in sub-Saharan Africa ?????researchers are scrambling to find a way to stop the mosquito-borne parasitic disease by any means. Now U.S. researchers believe they may have found one possible solution: a mosquito whose genes have been altered to render it malaria-proof. "We basically genetically engineered...
July 16, 2010
TORONTO - With at least one million people dying each year from malaria ????? most of them children in sub-Saharan Africa ?????researchers are scrambling to find a way to stop the mosquito-borne parasitic disease by any means. Now U.S. researchers believe they may have found one possible solution: a mosquito whose genes have been altered to render it malaria-proof. "We basically genetically engineered...
July 16, 2010
TORONTO - With at least one million people dying each year from malaria ????? most of them children in sub-Saharan Africa ?????researchers are scrambling to find a way to stop the mosquito-borne parasitic disease by any means. Now U.S. researchers believe they may have found one possible solution: a mosquito whose genes have been altered to render it malaria-proof. "We basically genetically engineered...
July 15, 2010
Parents have been advised to use syringes to administer childrens medicines instead of traditional household teaspoons. A new study has warned that the use of metal spoons can lead to under, as well as over, doses of medicines. U.S. and Greek researchers looked at teaspoons in 25 households and found that the largest was three times the size of the smallest. They also found that when asked to use 5ml...
July 15, 2010
TORONTO - U.S. scientists are reporting they've made progress in the search for what's called the Holy Grail of influenza research ????? a universal flu vaccine. In a report in the journal Science, they show that a two-step vaccine they developed protected mice, ferrets and monkeys against a broad range of flu viruses. The first part of the vaccine targets a portion of flu viruses that remains fairly...
July 15, 2010
July 16 - DURHAM - To donate the stem cell-rich umbilical cord blood produced during the birth of her daughter, Jaime Feaster of Lake Charles, La., would have had to drive more than two hours to the nearest hospital equipped to collect it. That's a long way to go when you're in labor. Instead, Feaster turned to a fledgling Duke University Medical Center program that provides collection kits to mothers...
July 15, 2010
Researchers said Thursday they have identified gene variants that help explain high rates of renal disease among African-Americans, who have a four times greater risk of kidney problems than whites. According to the study published in the journal Science, variants in the APOL1 gene are the culprits, and likely evolved as a survival mechanism against lethal parasites in Africa. Investigators at Beth...
July 15, 2010
A Chinese hospital refused to treat a migrant worker seriously injured in a wage dispute after doctors found out the woman was HIV-positive, her co-worker said Friday. Li Na, 37, was beaten up Monday when she and fellow workers at a construction site in the Inner Mongolia region asked their company for their unpaid wages, and was sent to hospital, Wu Jibiao told AFP. "She was badly hit five to six...
July 15, 2010
WASHINGTON - A Danish company has delivered the first 1 million doses of a next-generation smallpox vaccine to the U.S. national stockpile, a vaccine reserved for people with weakened immune systems. The U.S. government has ordered 20 million doses of Bavarian Nordic's Imvamune, a vaccine developed in part with U.S. research money as part of the nation's preparations in case of a bioterrorist attack....
July 13, 2010
July 14 - LUCKNOW - It's official now. Homoeopathy can help eradicate Japanese Encephalitis - the disease that has killed over 500 children in Uttar Pradesh in the past one year. A clinical study has proved Homoeopathic medicine Belladonna, when given to Chorioallantoic Membrane (CAM) chick embryo infected with JE, significantly reduced the infection. The study was jointly done by the School of Tropical...
July 13, 2010
The word of the day should be rubbed on your arms, smeared on your legs, massaged into your scalp and shoulders. It should be dabbed across the bridge of your nose, sloshed onto your hands and feet, tickled onto your ears. In so doing, it becomes not merely a word, but a lifesaver: Sunscreen. "Sunscreen is a major technological revolution," says Dr. Clay Cockerell, clinical professor of dermatology...
July 13, 2010
July 14 - People believe that our children are our future, but how can it be if the children are unhealthy or lacking in nutrition? The Philippine statistics show that about eight million Filipino children are malnourished that is why Kraft Cheez Whiz in partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd) has come up with Palamantasan - the first interschool competition among grade school students...
July 13, 2010
Arthritis, tendinitis, bursitis, periodontitis, prostatitis, allergies, inflammatory bowel disease most of us are afflicted by inflammation at one time or another, some of us on a daily basis. We may feel that we're out of options when medications aren't the answer, but nothing could be further from the truth. Julie Daniluk, a registered holistic nutritionist, author of "Meals That Heal Inflammation:...
July 13, 2010
CHICAGO - Your doctor could be drunk, addicted to drugs or outright incompetent, but other physicians may not blow the whistle. A new survey finds that many American physicians fail to report troubled colleagues to authorities, believing that someone else will take care of it, that nothing will happen if they act or that they could be targeted for retribution. A surprising 17 per cent of the doctors...
July 13, 2010
Q. I take Zoloft (sertraline) for depression, but I had a frightening experience recently. I am in excellent physical health. To relieve a cold, I took one dose of a cold formula that contains dextromethorphan. The box warned about MAOI class antidepressants. It said nothing about Zoloft. About an hour later, I began to experience chest pain, shortness of breath, shaking and tingling. Paramedics were...
July 13, 2010
Who knew that tightening our belts could help whittle our waistlines? Turns out a positive effect of the economic downturn is an uptick in interest in more healthful habits when dining out. Tim Zagat notes that nearly 20 percent of diners responding to his company's 2010 Zagat survey said they're skipping the extras to save money. "We know that people are more price- sensitive today and they're cutting...
July 13, 2010
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