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May 3 - ive miles into a brisk run in 90-plus-degree heat, Rachel Thomas was not winded in the least. She was breezing downhill, on a sidewalk along Northside Drive in north Macon, striding back toward the gym where, six days a week, she exercises for four hours. A sport utility vehicle motored past and the woman driving it, a friend from the gym, yelled out the window, "Run, Rachel, run!" Thomas smiled,...
May 2, 2010
May 3 - A three-story building in midtown dispenses what might be the best health care for Sacramento's uninsured. The Center for AIDS Research, Education & Services, or CARES, offers a comprehensive set of in-house services, including primary care, dentistry and mental health. The services are free for the uninsured; there might be a small co-payment for the insured. The catch is, it is only available...
May 2, 2010
Berlin (dpa) - Many foods are quickly branded unhealthy because they are high in fat, sugar or salt. But it is often consumers' eating habits that are unhealthy, not the foods they eat. For one thing, harming one's health depends on the amounts consumed. And some products that are supposedly beneficial, such as vitamin pills, can sometimes carry risks. Many people take expensive vitamin pills and dietary...
May 2, 2010
May 3 - On Feb. 2, Sheila Turner felt like she had everything in the world going for her. She was working nearly 80 hours a week between her two jobs - one through Aramark at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility, the other at Kwik Shop. A normal workday started at 4 p.m. and didn't end until 10:30 a.m., and the 46-year-old Hutchinson resident couldn't be happier about it. "I was enjoying it," she said....
May 2, 2010
Berlin (dpa) - Combining alcohol with prescription drugs can have harmful effects on the body. If you are prescribed a medicine consult your doctor and ask if drinking alcohol is allowed in combination with your therapy. That rule applies in particular to elderly people, according to Erika Fink, president of the German Chamber of Pharmacists. Sleeping tablets and sedatives as wells as drugs for treating...
May 2, 2010
When internist Richard Baron was invited to give a talk about what's happening in primary care, he had an idea: Why not count up exactly how many patient visits, phone calls and e-mails he and his four associates handle in a year? Thanks to the electronic health record system his practice uses to store, retrieve and manage patient information, the task was not as herculean as it would have been in...
April 29, 2010
Apr. 29 - Prescription drugs are still killing more Utahns than car accidents on state highways. While traffic deaths decreased last year, drug deaths increased, the Utah Department of Health said Wednesday. The state found 310 people who died of a prescription drug overdose in 2009, up from 277 people in 2008. The Utah Highway Patrol recorded 245 traffic fatalities in 2009. The Health Department had...
April 28, 2010
Apr. 29 - A Eureka pharmacy robbed twice in a week for the powerful narcotic OxyContin® won't be carrying the drug anymore. Cloney's Prescription Pharmacy on Harrison Avenue, and its sister business Cloney's Red Cross Pharmacy on Fifth Street, has decided it's not worth the risk to employees to carry the highly addictive pain killer. "We're not willing to risk our lives over this drug," said Rich...
April 28, 2010
Apr. 29 - A 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL - turned away from four hospitals in a desperate bid for lifesaving cancer treatment - found a miracle waiting in a Brigham and Women's operating room, where doctors removed a deadly tumor and used groundbreaking technology to grow a new trachea from her own cells. But Brianna Ranzino's newfound hope stems not from modern medicine, the Boston medical team says, but from...
April 28, 2010
Apr. 29 - RIVERTON - Two days before Andrew Felsted's fifth birthday, he fell down, hit his head on the floor and began to cry inconsolably. Doctors initially found nothing wrong. But a scan eventually revealed a mass the size of a golf ball in his brain. By then, it was late on a Saturday night at Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City. Surgeons removed the cancerous tumor at noon the...
April 28, 2010
Apr. 29 - Debi Bobka doesn't meet the medical criteria to be included on the organ transplant list, but is convinced it's only a matter of time before her diseased liver fails. So she is seeking a live donor - even if it means appealing to strangers for help. Bobka, 53, of Schaumburg, posted a message on livingdonorsonline.org that begins: "In need of a liver to save my life." She acknowledges feeling...
April 28, 2010
Apr. 29 - Americans can't seem to shake the salt habit. But that's not always because they're going heavy on the shaker. The latest studies pin most of the blame on food manufacturers and restaurants that supply an estimated 77 percent of the salt in our diets. That's why the Institute of Medicine urged the Food and Drug Administration last week to crack down on industry with regulations that would...
April 28, 2010
"Who knows what this is?" Jamie Oliver asks a class of first-graders while holding up a batch of tomatoes on the premiere of the reality show, "Food Revolution." One 6-year-old guesses potatoes. The other students admit they don't know. The show was filmed in Huntington, W.Va., and if you think these responses would be different in your town, think again. I received similar responses from my students...
April 28, 2010
Apr. 29 - A Harvard doctor who co-founded a nationwide group of physicians that supports universal health coverage is scheduled to speak in Tucson today about what he sees as problems with the new national health-care law. Dr. David U. Himmelstein is scheduled to speak from 4 to 5 p.m. in Room A114 of Drachman Hall at the University of Arizona's Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, 1295...
April 28, 2010
Apr. 29 - There's no doubt that child obesity is linked to the area's high poverty rate, says a Pueblo professional who works with families. Lois Illick, Colorado State University Extension agent for family and consumer sciences, says there are several reasons why low-income families may have overweight children: the cost of healthy food; the education to understand that some foods can be made healthier...
April 28, 2010
Apr. 29 - THE A-J IS focusing on homelessness on the South Plains. Look for stories throughout the year. Lubbock's roughly 750 homeless residents have plenty of struggles. Illness without health care. The elements without shelter. Proper clothes without money. But there's another need many might overlook when they think of helping the city's disenfranchised - nutrition. Feeding the homeless is one...
April 28, 2010
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government has recalled thousands of Simplicity and Graco cribs Thursday, warning that babies could suffocate or strangle in them. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the Simplicity recall was linked to at least one death and involved thousands of cribs, possibly hundreds of thousands, though many had previously been recalled for other defects. It is unclear whether Canada...
April 28, 2010
Got milk? The National Milk Producers Federation says you don't, not if what you grab from the dairy case today is soy, rice or almond milk. For the second time in 10 years, the federation has written to the Food and Drug Administration asking that the term "milk" be reserved for cow's milk, although it's OK with also using the word for goat, sheep or water buffalo milk - any of the various "mammalian...
April 28, 2010
After author Bruce Feiler was diagnosed with cancer in July 2008, he decided he needed to write a letter to six of his closest friends. He asked them to be there for his then-3-year-old twin daughters, Eden and Tybee, if he died. Each man represented a different era of Feiler's life and a different aspect of Feiler's personality that he wanted passed on to his girls. He asked them to join what he called...
April 28, 2010
LOS ANGELES - They began arriving before dawn on a cold, misty morning, people of all ages lining up by the hundreds, some in wheelchairs, others hobbling on crutches, many of them missing teeth, all of them seeking the same thing: free medical care. It was a scene that could have been playing out in a Third World country or perhaps some place like post-hurricane New Orleans, except that it wasn't....
April 27, 2010
A killer quartet of unhealthy behaviors - smoking, drinking, poor diet and inactivity - can slash average life span by 12 years, but lifestyle changes can help stem the damage, researchers have discovered. Individuals who engaged in all four high-risk behaviors suffered three times the death rate for cancer and heart disease, and four times the death rate from other causes, as people who engaged in...
April 26, 2010
When salt, an essential nutrient, is significantly reduced, the population's response is mixed. About 30% experience a minor drop in blood pressure, about 20% experience a slight increase and the rest experience no change at all. So any policy that treats the population as a homogeneous mass is discriminatory because we all react differently. On top of that, women around the world consume 800-1,500...
April 26, 2010
TORONTO - New Canadian research suggests that the brain fires differently when dealing with people of a different race and ethnicity. Previous research has shown that people are less likely to feel connected to people outside their own ethnic groups, so scientists at the University of Toronto Scarborough set out to find out why. Jennifer Gutsell, a doctorate student and co-author of the study, says...
April 26, 2010
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea formally launched a medical videoconference network Tuesday aimed at giving smaller, rural hospitals access to specialists in the capital Pyongyang with the help of the World Health Organization. WHO has been providing cameras, computers and other equipment to North Korea to help the reclusive, impoverished country connect a main hospital in Pyongyang with medical facilities...
April 26, 2010
Passengers may be suspicious of the low-level radiation doses coming from full-body scanners being deployed at airports, but a far greater threat comes from the radiation that creeps into airliners while in flight. The phenomenon has been well known in scientific circles for years but has never gained much mainstream attention. That may change as the Earth enters an uptick of solar storms that are...
April 25, 2010
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