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Apr. 26 - DECATUR - While national health care-acquired infection rates are showing an alarming rise, infection prevention professionals at St. Mary's Hospital and Decatur Memorial Hospital have been working hard to buck national trends. The 2009 National Healthcare Quality Report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which cites data from a...
April 25, 2010
Middle-schoolers who are forbidden to watch R-rated movies are less likely to start drinking than peers whose parents are more lenient about such films, new research on 2,406 children shows. Researchers at Dartmouth Medical School found that among those whose parents let them watch R-rated movies "all the time," almost a quarter had tried a drink without their parents' knowledge. That compares with...
April 25, 2010
Jane Fonda is 72. And she's back. She's putting on her workout clothes and getting ready to exercise, and she'd like you to join her. The actress, who was the queen of the aerobics movement in the '80s and '90s, is hosting World Fitness Day, an exercise event Saturday at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. And she just finished two new workout DVDs for Baby Boomers and seniors, scheduled for release in December....
April 25, 2010
Apr. 26 - AUBURN - Despite two surgeries and the loss of a kidney, the description of "cancer survivor" unsettles Kevin Bellefleur. Cancer frightened him, but it never threatened his life. "I know people who have gone through so much more," said Bellefleur, 41. Since his diagnosis three years ago, cancer killed two close friends. "I just want to be as healthy as I can," he said. Bellefleur has undergone...
April 25, 2010
Apr. 26 - Sunday marked the culmination of a Charlottesville Day School project that outdid even "I'm Just a Bill" of Schoolhouse Rock fame. By virtue of House Joint Resolution 198, Sunday was Youth Fitness Day across the commonwealth of Virginia. The push for the special day began with fourth- and fifth-grade students at the school, which is affiliated with the Atlantic Coast Athletic Club. "It was...
April 25, 2010
Apr. 25 - ORANGE - Participants in the Orange County Fitness Challenge have been working hard during the first week and the results are in on the top three winner so far. This week, the leader is the women under the age of 50 category is Bethany Breaux who lost 10 percent of her body fat; she is followed by Junior Leger, who lost 7 percent of his body fat in the men under 50 category. Lola Day lost...
April 25, 2010
Apr. 26 - On Dec. 19, Suzanne Aymeric, administrative assistant, mother and avid runner, sneezed. Shortly thereafter, she went to a Christmas party at her mother's house in Orangevale. Twenty family members chatted in cliques, snacking on chips and dip and hot wings. Her divorced parents' new spouses were there. "You know when you sneeze really hard and you pull a muscle?" Aymeric, 43, complained....
April 25, 2010
CHICAGO - Jim Bina was feeling good. And that made him nervous. The Naperville, Ill., man had struggled with depression for decades, and he had learned to distrust happiness as an illusion that masked an approaching crisis. It might sound like an unusual problem, but when he mentioned it one recent night in a hospital conference room, most of those listening nodded in recognition. Bina, 54, had come...
April 25, 2010
Apr. 20 - Allergy tips Suffering from allergies? Doctors have a few tips on ways to cope: Check pollen counts and exercise indoors when counts are high. Pollen levels are typically highest in the early mornings Take a shower after being outdoors to wash off pollen residue Keep windows and doors closed Invest in an air purifier Change your air conditioning filters each month, especially during heavy...
April 22, 2010
Apr. 22 - MUMBAI - Know more about medications I had sex with my neighbour. Her periods were due last month. We forgot to use a condom. Please help. Missing the regular periods may be the first sign of pregnancy in women. Instead of whiling the time and feeling anxious, rush to your gynaecologist. After a urine pregnancy test and examination, the doctor will be able to confirm pregnancy. If results...
April 21, 2010
Apr. 22 - When Kenneth "Ryan" Irby went to sleep at University Medical Center on May 8, 2007, he thought his surgeon was going to perform a biopsy on his right testicle and remove it only if it was cancerous. When Irby, 23, woke up, he assumed the testicle was cancerous because it was gone. He even shook the doctor's hand and thanked him for saving his life. During a follow-up appointment a week later,...
April 21, 2010
The sudden outbreak of swine flu in Mexico - rather than the feared onslaught of a deadly bird flu from Asia - taught the world's microbe hunters that if anything is as important as having a solid pandemic plan, it's knowing how to improvise. "We have to be nimble," says World Health Organization flu expert Keiji Fukuda. "You have to have room to make decisions that are different from what the plans...
April 21, 2010
Apr. 22 - North Texas doctors under pressure to start using electronic medical records are about to get some help. Area health care professionals can meet with technology experts, vendors and government officials during the Texas Health Information Technology Summit today through Saturday. The summit, at the Sheraton Dallas North Hotel near Galleria Dallas, aims to answer health providers' questions...
April 21, 2010
Health experts on a WHO probe which began on Monday said the lack of a severity assessment and fears raised by the deadly bird flu hampered the response to the swine flu pandemic over the past year. The issues were raised by several of the 29 experts in their inaugural meeting to examine the controversial response to the first flu pandemic of the 21st century. "We want to know what worked well. We...
April 21, 2010
(MCT) There is a movement afoot across the nation encouraging consumers to think twice before popping open a can of soda. The reason is clear and the medical evidence is in: sugar-sweetened beverages, or SSBs, have been linked to the obesity explosion taking place throughout America. Unlike other foods, SSBs - which include soda, sports drinks, energy drinks, sweetened bottled coffee or tea, and sweetened...
April 21, 2010
When tiny Mexican Edgar Hernandez fell sick one year ago, he became a worldwide sensation. Journalists and researchers flocked to the then five-year-old's sleepy village in eastern Mexico, near an industrial pig farm, seeking clues about the origin of the mysterious new flu. Since raising the A(H1N1) alert on April 23, 2009, Mexico has registered more than 72,000 cases, including almost 1,200 deaths...
April 21, 2010
Apr. 20 - FAIRFIELD - With the revelation Monday that students and staff at Fairfield University may have been exposed to tuberculosis, the extent of that exposure is being investigated by college, local and state health officials. "We got a report from the state Department of Health," Judy Weindling, Fairfield U.'s student health center director, said Monday. But citing confidentiality requirements,...
April 21, 2010
Apr. 21 - Healthy eating at McDonald's is not an oxymoron, says the registered dietitian who oversees nutrition at the company's 14,000 fast-food restaurants in the U.S. Cindy Goody, U.S. director of nutrition for McDonald's, concedes nutrition used to be "a dirty word" at McDonald's, but now the chain is a leader in nutrition in the fast-food industry. Goody told Viterbo University dietetic students...
April 20, 2010
Apr. 21 - A basic medical exam produces some familiar numbers, clues to your overall health - blood pressure readings, cholesterol counts. Now a new number is getting marquee treatment: a vitamin D level. Do you know yours? In the past year, a test that checks vitamin D levels in the blood has surged in popularity among doctors. This summer the Institute of Medicine is expected to revise its recommendation...
April 20, 2010
Sam Sifton, the newish restaurant critic for The New York Times, has been writing and blogging about the massive caloric intake required by his job. He has even gone so far as to track his diet and exercise habits for a week and show the net calorie consumption day by day. Not surprisingly, on one day he had a net intake of more than 4,000 calories. The restaurant critic calorie confidential seems...
April 20, 2010
Apr. 21 - There will likely be a bumper crop of mosquitoes this summer, following the unusually wet March, but that doesn't necessarily mean more cases of West Nile virus, health officials said Tuesday. In fact, the number of human infections nationwide has been dropping steadily since 2003. Last summer was the first in nine years that there were no human cases of West Nile virus in the state, said...
April 20, 2010
SAN JOSE, Calif. Working at the health center on Cisco Systems' sprawling San Jose campus, Dr. Seema Sangwan examines dozens of Cisco employees a week - sometimes as they sit in a room nearly 3,000 miles away. The busy internist sees patients at Cisco's North Carolina campus without leaving California, using a high-end videoconferencing system that Cisco developed for health care use. Standing next...
April 20, 2010
Worried about your cholesterol? You may need to cut back on your sugar intake, a new study suggests. For years, medical experts have said that to reduce your cardiovascular disease risk, you need to watch your consumption of saturated (animal) fat and cholesterol. They also have known that high intake of added sugars is linked to many poor health conditions, including obesity, high blood pressure and...
April 20, 2010
Computer brain games may not offer the big mental boost many were hoping for, suggests new research, but brain scientists and brain-game experts don't all agree on the findings. The study, out this week in Nature, is the largest of its kind, say scientists from England's Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and the Alzheimer's Society U.K. They said in a Tuesday press briefing...
April 20, 2010
Public health groups and nutritionists are applauding an Institute of Medicine report that calls for the government to establish new federal standards that would cut the amount of salt that manufacturers and restaurants add to foods. The report, out Tuesday, urges the Food and Drug Administration to gradually reduce the maximum amount of salt that can be added to foods, beverages and meals. "We applaud...
April 20, 2010
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