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South Korean doctors will be allowed to remove life support from terminally ill patients after confirming their wish to die, under new medical guidelines on mercy killing, officials said Wednesday. The guidelines were drawn up by a committee of 18 representatives from parliament, civic groups and the judicial, religious and medical communities, the health ministry said. They agreed that doctors could...
July 13, 2010
TORONTO - A person in Canada suffered lip necrosis ????? tissue death ????? and gangrene after being injected with a dermal filler, an adverse drug reaction newsletter from Health Canada reported Tuesday. The case was among 32 adverse reaction reports Health Canada was alerted to by people who had used hyaluronic acid dermal fillers. The products, sometimes called injectables, are used to fill in facial...
July 13, 2010
When the PSA test was developed at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, it was heralded as a major advance in the early detection of prostate cancer, one of the most common cancers among men. Advocates of the test say it has saved many men's lives. But, increasingly, critics assail the test as unreliable, useless, even a profit-driven public health disaster. Those are tough words for T. Ming Chu. Chu is...
July 13, 2010
By Jeff Hampton The Virginian-Pilot In Currituck County, death rates from heart disease, stroke and diabetes are below state averages, but the rate of childhood obesity is higher, an indicator that future health trends could worsen. Another survey, shows Currituck ranking poorly in health behaviors such as smoking, binge drinking and lack of exercise. In the rural county dotted with farm markets, 40...
July 13, 2010
Greater levels of vitamin D have been linked to a lower risk of Parkinson's disease in a study in Finland where low sunlight leads to a chronic lack of the nutrient, researchers said Monday. Scientists from the National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, first hypothesized that Parkinson's "may be caused by a continuously inadequate vitamin D status leading to a chronic loss of dopaminergic...
July 12, 2010
ATLANTA - Alas, here's more proof that most people have habits that aren't very sanitary ????? and sometimes can be plain disgusting. For a study, medical students secretly watched hundreds of people cough or sneeze at a train station, a shopping mall and a hospital in New Zealand. What they saw wasn't pretty, with most people failing to properly prevent an airborne explosion of infectious germs. The...
July 12, 2010
The widely used cancer drug Avastin could save the eyesight of tens of thousands of people with age-related macular degeneration of the wet form, British researchers said Friday. The drug provides an inexpensive alternative to the only drug currently licensed for treating the disorder, they found, and should be used immediately in countries with limited health care budgets, the researchers reported...
July 12, 2010
ATLANTA - Alas, here's more proof that most people have habits that aren't very sanitary ????? and sometimes can be plain disgusting. For a study, medical students secretly watched hundreds of people cough or sneeze at a train station, a shopping mall and a hospital in New Zealand. What they saw wasn't pretty, with most people failing to properly prevent an airborne explosion of infectious germs. The...
July 12, 2010
Scientists are reporting advances in detecting and predicting Alzheimer's disease at a conference in Honolulu this week, plus more proof that getting enough exercise and vitamin D may lower your risk. There are better brain scans to spot Alzheimer's disease. More genes that affect risk. Blood and spinal fluid tests that may help tell who will develop the mind-robbing illness and when. But what is needed...
July 12, 2010
Knees can be repaired and even replaced. Ankles, elbows and shoulders will heal. But as veteran Hersey athletic trainer Hal Hilmer put it, "You only have one brain and you have to take care of it." So Township High School District 214, which includes Hersey, Prospect, Buffalo Grove, Rolling Meadows, Elk Grove and Wheeling, has taken a giant step in making sure thats the case with its athletes and students....
July 12, 2010
TORONTO - A decade after scientists completed the once unthinkable task of charting the genetic codes of humans, a simple low-tech tool may be more, not less, important for staying healthy. Gathering a detailed family medical history is still crucial to a range of medical decisions, whether it's having another child, diagnosing a tricky ailment or making key choices about how to treat certain types...
July 12, 2010
ATLANTA - Federal health officials warn that salsa and guacamole are increasingly important causes of food-borne disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says nearly one out of every 25 restaurant-associated outbreaks with identified food sources between 1998 and 2008 were traced to contaminated salsa or guacamole. The reason, the experts say, is that those dips often contain diced raw...
July 12, 2010
Marilyn Blum is like a lot of wives with a retired husband around the house. She loves the man she has been married to for 33 years but says, "It's just not normal to be together 24/7." Blum's comment is more poignant when she explains that her husband, Steve, 65, has had Alzheimer's disease for five years and needs help dressing, grooming, eating and using the toilet. "I wish I had gotten paid help...
July 12, 2010
Russia could more than halve its rates of new HIV infections by ending criminalisation of intravenous drug users, experts said in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on Wednesday. In an analysis published ahead of the International AIDS Conference, the experts said Russia's strict laws on drug use had helped fan its HIV/AIDS epidemic. Research shows that the risk of HIV infection can be slashed by substituting...
July 12, 2010
If the sun burned out and all the cows died, pretty soon we'd all be walking around with rickets. Happily, the sun is still shining - that's pretty much a given in this heat - and the pastures are still populated with grazing bovines. But rickets is still making a slight comeback, particularly among infants and young children. The journal Pediatrics estimates 70 percent of American children are D-ficient....
July 10, 2010
July 09 - Nearly 70,000 Ohio children received meals last summer through the state's Summer Nutrition Program, a 13 percent jump from 2008, according to a recent report. Advocates say the recession and prolonged unemployment have driven up need. Despite the increase, thousands more children who qualify for meals are not being served, they say. While eligibility guidelines are the same, only one of...
July 9, 2010
July 09 - TAMPA - This summer could be one of the worst in years for mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile virus and Eastern equine encephalitis. Monitoring for the presence of disease-carrying mosquitoes in Hillsborough County has yielded two to three times more positive tests for the viruses than in the past three or four years, said Jose Fernandes, manager of the county's mosquito control. And...
July 8, 2010
July 09 - NANTUCKET - Don't expect a blood test to distinguish between a summer flu and a newly incubated case of Lyme disease, a Johns Hopkins researcher said yesterday during a conference at Nantucket High School. The patient takes time to develop antibodies to infection, so physicians must use their clinical judgment in deciding whether to prescribe antibiotics for Lyme disease, said Dr. John Aucott,...
July 8, 2010
July 09 - Four confirmed whooping cough cases in Pierce County in the past two weeks have local health authorities worried about a possible epidemic. Whooping cough, known in medical circles as pertussis, is highly contagious and one of the most commonly occurring vaccine-preventable diseases in the United States. In a health advisory issued Thursday, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department announced...
July 8, 2010
Georgia public schools have outlawed the practice of placing students in solitary confinement, six years after a Hall County boy's schoolhouse hanging. The state Board of Education voted Thursday to ban the use of solitary confinement and limit the use of restraints against unruly students. For the first time, the state will require schools to notify parents when their children have been restrained....
July 8, 2010
If the sun burned out and all the cows died, pretty soon we'd all be walking around with rickets. Happily, the sun is still shining - that's pretty much a given in this heat - and the pastures are still populated with grazing bovines. But rickets is still making a slight comeback, particularly among infants and young children. The journal Pediatrics estimates 70 percent of American children are D-ficient....
July 8, 2010
In June, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that the federal government will spend $250 million to increase the number of primary care providers. This is welcome news for Morehouse School of Medicine and the other medical schools that focus on training students for practice in primary care, often in vulnerable communities. But it's also great news for patients and taxpayers....
July 8, 2010
Summer delays sting of federal tanning tax: After a week, salons say business hasn't been hurt - yet
July 09 - The new 10 percent tax on indoor tanning has salon operators worried that the added cost will result in sticker shock for customers who turn to tanning beds once summer ends. "How am I going to survive as a small-business owner?" said Cyndi Colley, owner of No Tan Lines, near Ohio State's campus. "I already eliminated one person. This won't help me create any jobs," said Colley, who's been...
July 8, 2010
Clearly, vitamin K needs a new agent. It simply doesn't garner the attention of those media-absorbing nutrients, vitamins C, D and E. Today, we help rectify that by devoting our quiz to all things K. 1. From which German word does the "K" in vitamin K come? a) Kerngesund b) Koagulation c) Krapfen 2. In addition to promoting blood clotting, vitamin K (according to recent studies) helps protect against...
July 8, 2010
July 09 - APTOS - For those wondering about the cost of federal health care reform, a big part of the answer is looking at what Americans are eating. "Prevention is how we get a grip on the high cost of health care - that's nutrition," said Rep. Sam Farr, D-Carmel, addressing more than 60 people at a forum Thursday at Cabrillo College co-sponsored by local Democrats and Health Care for All California....
July 8, 2010
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