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Apr. 12 - EL PASO - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to collect millions of unused H1N1 flu vaccine doses before they are dumped. El Paso County is among the communities nationwide that have leftover doses of the once highly sought vaccine. The federal government had allocated 8.4 million H1N1 flu vaccine doses for Texas, and the state in turn earmarked 270,774 doses for El Paso...
April 11, 2010
Apr. 12 - It's counterintuitive advice to most parents - don't control what your children eat. Don't label foods as "bad." Don't restrict a robust child's healthy appetite. Sure, it's debatable. But it's a philosophy with a following. Children should eat when they are hungry and stop when they are satisfied, says Tucson registered dietitian Jude Trautlein, who works with parents and children. While...
April 11, 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 11, 2010
Pediatricians need to work hard to discourage children and teens from drinking alcohol because it damages their developing brains, increases their risk of addiction and can cause accidents that lead to early death, a new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics says. The minimum drinking age in the USA is 21, but alcohol use is common among teens and young adults, especially college...
April 11, 2010
ATLANTA - Some of the same regions of the country that experienced unusually cold temperatures this past winter are now in the middle of one of the worst pollen seasons in several years. The problem has been particularly bad in the Southeast, where allergy sufferers and clean-car lovers are dealing with a constant yellow blanket of near-record pollen. In normal seasons, a pollen count of 120 is considered...
April 11, 2010
GENEVA - The head of the World Health Organization says she wants a "frank and critical" review of its handling of the swine flu pandemic. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan says she hopes the 29 experts at a three-day meeting starting Monday in Geneva can help the global body learn lessons for future global outbreaks. Some critics say WHO's decisions after last year's outbreak were unduly influenced...
April 11, 2010
Apr. 8 - Oregon offers promising programs to support the social and emotional health of infants and toddlers in the critical first years of life, but those efforts reach only a fraction of the kids who need them, a child advocacy group reported today. By not investing more in "upstream" prevention programs for infants and toddlers, "Oregon will continue to flood its downstream mental health treatment...
April 10, 2010
Apr. 8 - Unusually hot weather this week has been a blessing for sun worshippers and a curse for allergy sufferers. Near-record high temperatures - such as 93 at Richmond International Airport yesterday - help trigger pollen clouds that are coating cars and sending people to their allergists. The amount of tree pollen in the Richmond region was 3,780 particles per cubic meter yesterday, the highest...
April 7, 2010
Apr. 8 - A House legislative committee approved a bill Wednesday that would legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes, but the bill's sponsor said a vote by the full Alabama Legislature is unlikely this session. The bill would legalize marijuana for use in easing symptoms of such diseases and disabilities as cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia and chronic pain. The bill is called the Michael...
April 7, 2010
Years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, a large number of New York rescue workers continue to suffer from lung damage due to exposure to World Trade Center dust, a study said Wednesday. The seven-year study of nearly 13,000 rescue workers from the New York Fire Department (FDNY), which included almost 62,000 individual measurements, is the largest ever longitudinal study of occupational impact...
April 7, 2010
Apr. 8 - It's good and bad news: Parents matter when it comes to helping their diabetic teens stay healthy. A University of Utah study found when parents become less involved in their teens' care of type 1 diabetes and when their relationship quality drops, teens are less likely to manage the disease. Without proper management, diabetes can lead to blindness, kidney failure and heart disease. But the...
April 7, 2010
Scientists using a genetic-based approach have found a method for identifying cigarette smokers with the highest risk of developing lung cancer, according to a study released Wednesday. Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine and the University of Utah said they used "a genomic approach to prevent lung cancer in these individuals and to personalize cancer chemoprophylaxis and therapy."...
April 7, 2010
A three-year-old boy revived by doctors after being clinically dead for more than three hours says he saw his great-grandmother in Heaven, the Bild daily reported on Thursday. The boy, named only as Paul, was airlifted to hospital after falling into a lake at the end of his grandparents' garden in the town of Lychen, north of Berlin, and doctors were about to abandon resuscitation efforts. But after...
April 7, 2010
Apr. 8 - Oregon offers promising programs to support the social and emotional health of infants and toddlers in the critical first years of life, but those efforts reach only a fraction of the kids who need them, a child advocacy group reported today. By not investing more in "upstream" prevention programs for infants and toddlers, "Oregon will continue to flood its downstream mental health treatment...
April 7, 2010
Apr. 8 - Trish Martin didn't need help the first time, but breast-feeding her second baby was a little trickier. Her 3-month-old girl wanted to nurse all the time and never seemed satisfied, said Martin, 31. So Martin called Mama's Latte and within hours, TJ Marsh arrived at Martin's home. Martin learned her baby wasn't latching on properly to nurse, and so the infant wasn't filling up during her feedings....
April 7, 2010
More than half of U.S. homes could soon be affected by a little-known federal rule to reduce lead exposure. On April 22, the Environmental Protection Agency will begin requiring that contractors who work on pre-1978 homes be certified in lead-safe practices or face daily fines of up to $37,500. "We want people to take it seriously," the EPA's Wendy Hamnett says about the new rule to reduce lead-caused...
April 7, 2010
For most 11-year-old boys, playing on a computer is just another hobby. But after Cameron Cohen had surgery for a benign tumor on his leg, he turned his passion for computers into creating an iPhone app, called iSketch, that lets people draw on a computer screen. And he brightened the picture for other young people by donating much of the profits to Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA so the hospital can...
April 7, 2010
A government-sponsored study of more than 10,000 women failed to find that large doses of vitamins C and E cut the risk of complications from pregnancy-induced high blood pressure, scientists report today. Pre-eclampsia, a condition characterized by high blood pressure and protein in the urine, occurs in up to 8% of pregnancies, says Catherine Spong, a co-author of the study in The New England Journal...
April 7, 2010
Apr. 7 - The story of the Minnetonka Hospital - a modest 15-bed operation set up in a large Wayzata home in 1928 - stirs memories of a simpler time. "It was harder in some ways but it was simpler in some ways," said Joanie Holst, vice president of the Wayzata Historical Society. On Thursday, the Historical Society will host a presentation on the history of the hospital, which was torn down in 1964....
April 7, 2010
The UN health agency on Wednesday launched a global '1,000 cities' drive to counter a triple threat to health in fast growing urban areas that are now home to over half the world's population. The World Health Organisation predicted that most population growth in coming decades will take place in overcrowded, polluted, and often impoverished cities that house a concentrated array of health problems...
April 6, 2010
Apr. 7 - Prostate cancer screening in the La Crosse area hasn't changed much in the month since the American Cancer Society further discouraged routine screening. Patients and physicians still are paying attention to the PSA blood test despite the fact that the cancer society warned of its limitations. Area doctors say they already knew the test's limitations. The recommendations probably will lead...
April 6, 2010
If we had sent Marines into Marja without adequate artillery and air support, do you think they would have been successful? Thankfully, we didn't make that mistake. But we're doing something similar in school cafeterias. We're asking food service directors to improve school lunches without giving adequate funding, equipment or healthful options. It may seem like a stretch to compare national security...
April 6, 2010
Prescription drug traffickers in Georgia may run into some new roadblocks. The Cobb County government and all of its cities either have adopted or are considering measures to prevent new pain clinics from opening for up to a year. The moratoriums are a pre-emptive strike against "pill mills" - clinics that are not affiliated with local hospitals, drug treatment centers or hospices, and that move in...
April 6, 2010
Japanese have an easy time digesting sushi and other seaweed-wrapped delicacies thanks in part to an intestinal bacterium that hijacked genes from a marine germ, scientists report on Wednesday. The surprising discovery has shed light on the trillions of friendly germs that inhabit our gut, living in mutual self-interest with us. By breaking down starchy plant fibres, these bacteria get their share...
April 6, 2010
Trying to lose weight raises a person's stress levels, even if the dieter doesn't realize it. The stress comes not only from trying to avoid the refrigerator or fighting the bathroom scales. A new study shows there also may be a physical reason for greater stress while dieting. The study found that people who restrict calories have an increased level of the stress hormone cortisol, says lead author...
April 6, 2010
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