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Obese and overweight patients are just as likely to get recommended preventive medical care as normal-weight patients, and in some cases, treatment of the heavyset is more likely to meet standard guidelines for care, a new study shows. Previous research has shown that some physicians find it awkward to work with obese patients and have low expectations for success. And heavy patients have reported...
April 6, 2010
Four years ago, Qiang Qiang was a healthy boy. Now, he is epileptic and has trouble keeping up at school - problems that emerged after a vaccination against Japanese encephalitis. The seven-year-old is one of dozens of youngsters in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi whose parents believe their children may have suffered serious side effects from vaccines in the country's latest public health...
April 6, 2010
Apr. 6 - DAVIDSON COUNTY - A N.C. representative who wants the statewide smoking ban repealed may have an uphill battle ahead. State Rep. Jerry Dockham, R-Davidson, said during a candidate forum on Tuesday that he will fight to get the ban repealed. The legislation, which took effect this year and requires almost all indoor areas of restaurants and bars in the state smoke-free, was spearheaded by Rep....
April 6, 2010
Eating lots of fruit and vegetables has only a small effect on warding off cancer, a study published on Wednesday says, although its authors insist that tucking into the recommended "five-a-day" is still good for general health. Doctors led by Paolo Boffetta at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, pored over eight years of data from a major European investigation into the relationship between...
April 6, 2010
Now that the health care bill has passed and the smoke has cleared from the acrimonious debate - if only for a little while - it seems appropriate to reflect on what has happened and how this significant legislation will impact our health care system. We don't know of anyone who would oppose, on moral grounds, insuring everyone, and that includes us at the Physicians Foundation (PF). Some have argued,...
April 6, 2010
VANCOUVER, B.C. Nurses at a youth clinic in Vancouver say there's a troubling imbalance in just who is walking through their doors to seek sexual-health information and treatment: almost all of them are female. In fact, only six per cent of the clientele at the Evergreen Youth Clinic are boys or young men, a statistic that prompted the facility's nurses to team up with researchers at the University...
April 6, 2010
Apr. 6 - WANDA BARNETT, 47, Sinking Spring, said she never suffered an epileptic seizure in her life until the birth of her fourth child more than 20 years ago. Diagnosed with a chemical imbalance that led to the seizures, Barnett was prescribed medications to treat her condition, but the drugs didn't always work and came with debilitating side eff ects. She often experienced headaches and nausea....
April 6, 2010
Apr. 6 - LIMA - When someone excels at a certain skill, it is said that it comes to them "as naturally as breathing." However, for people suffering with asthma, that expression does not always ring true. For them, breathing is not always so natural. "Asthma has two main components: airway inflammation and airway constriction," said Steve Wiseman, a respiratory therapist and the clinical manager for...
April 5, 2010
A new study offers hope for binge eaters - people who frequently eat an unusually large amount of food in a short amount of time and feel their eating is out of control. Research shows binge eating is the most common eating disorder in the country, afflicting millions. "Some people are very distressed by their bingeing cycles and don't realize it's a treatable condition," says Lynn DeBar, one of the...
April 5, 2010
Apr. 6 - Federal agents have raided Beehive Botanicals Inc., a western Wisconsin manufacturer of various consumer health products, saying the company marketed the items with unfounded medical claims. In a raid last week, U.S. marshals confiscated creams, capsules, tablets, gum, throat spray and shampoos from the Hayward, Wis., company, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Monday. In a complaint...
April 5, 2010
Apr. 6 - Health care may be a costly and confusing topic, but the ninth annual Women's Health 101 fair at CentraCare Health Plaza on Saturday aims to provide free and accurate information for all. The St. Cloud event includes free health screenings, presentations, information booths and pharmacist consults. At last year's event, there were 450 registered attendees, according to organizers. "Women are...
April 5, 2010
Apr. 6 - A study tracking Portland-area sudden cardiac arrests has revealed a gene variant that may protect against the unpredictable and deadly problem. Since 2002, researchers leading the Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study have gathered every relevant detail they can find on every case of sudden cardiac arrest that occurs in Multnomah County. In a new analysis, the researchers sequenced the genes...
April 5, 2010
Greifswald, Germany (dpa) - Men with a lower-than-average level of the male sex hormone testosterone die earlier, a German study has found, but scientists said Tuesday they were not sure why. The study tracked 1,954 German men aged 20 to 79 for seven years, after which 195 had died, said endocrinologist Henri Wallaschofski. The Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP) is managed by the Institute for Clinical...
April 5, 2010
Apr. 6 - Ola Phipps is already getting more calls about bug problems than she did last year. The main reason? All the recent rain. "Lots of ants, silverfish (small, gray insects), like water," said the owner of Lady Bug Extermination Co. "You will find them in the bathroom, kitchen (and) basement." Pests need three basic things to survive: food, water and a place to live, said Greg Baumann, vice president...
April 5, 2010
Picture this: As your eyes alight for the first time on a skyscraper in a foreign cityscape, a disembodied voice whispers in your ear the phone number of a posh bar on the top floor. Or this: You have been spotted on the street by an old friend whose name suddenly eludes you. But even before there is time to shake hands, a glance at your smartphone reveals her identity and the date of your last encounter....
April 5, 2010
McLEAN, Va. Bob Blackwell and his wife, Carol, settle comfortably in for tea and cookies at a Barnes & Noble cafe. They're the kind of couple you'd like to have as your grandparents: kind, caring and generous. But on this mid-March afternoon, they're a bit weary, too. They've just come off a busy week in Washington, D.C., advocating for Alzheimer's disease, a memory-destroying condition that Bob was...
April 5, 2010
Apr. 5 - With 10 offices and surgery centers in the Richmond region, it made sense for Virginia Urology to invest in electronic health records. "Patients would show up in a different office because they found other offices more convenient," said Dr. James Ratliff, a physician with the practice. Faxing or hand-delivering charts wasn't very efficient or convenient, he said. The practice went to electronic...
April 4, 2010
Chocolate lovers, this is just what you need to justify snacking on one of those Cadbury eggs at Easter time. A study in the European Heart Journal says people who eat small amounts of chocolate had lower blood pressure. And they were at a 39 percent lower risk of heart attacks and strokes, according to the study, published in the March edition. The key word is "small," the journal reports. Though...
April 4, 2010
Normal-weight women who want to prevent weight gain as they age need to do an hour a day of moderate-intensity physical activity such as brisk walking, a study shows. Over the years, some experts have suggested it takes that much to control weight, but this is one of the first large-scale studies to examine the question. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston...
April 4, 2010
A 39-year study of women taking the contraceptive pill found that they had a have a lower risk of dying from any cause compared with women who had never taken it, researchers said. "Oral contraception was not associated with an increased long term risk of death in the large UK cohort, indeed a net benefit was apparent," said the study published in the British Medical Journal. Over 46,000 women were...
April 2, 2010
British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is bringing his crusade against unhealthy fare across the Atlantic with the debut of his US reality television show "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution." A pop icon of modern cooking, Oliver lands in Huntington, West Virginia - a town he has designated the unhealthiest town in America because of rampant obesity - promising to revolutionize how they eat. Oliver preaches...
April 1, 2010
Apr. 1 - MORE than 1,200 people with severe diseases of the digestive system are treated annually at Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC), Health Minister Dr Faisal Al Hamer has said. Speaking at the First International Conference on Digestive and Liver Diseases at the Bahrain Medical Society, Juffair, he said these diseases come second in a list of illnesses that threaten lives the most. "Cardiac diseases...
March 31, 2010
US President Barack Obama signed an executive order Wednesday barring taxpayer dollars from being used to pay for abortions, keeping to a pledge he made to help push his health care reform through Congress. The White House issued a photograph of Obama signing the measure in the Oval Office, surrounded by pro-life Democrats led by Representative Bart Stupak, whose votes were crucial in the 216-212 passage...
March 31, 2010
An hour a day of moderate exercise helps slim women maintain their weight, but overweight women have to cut back on what they eat as well as exercise to keep the pounds off, according to a study. Out of some 34,000 middle-aged women, those who were not overweight and got the equivalent of at least an hour a day of exercise were the only ones who maintained their weight during the 13-year study conducted...
March 31, 2010
Chocolate lovers, this is just what you need to justify snacking on one of those Cadbury eggs at Easter time. A study in the European Heart Journal says people who eat small amounts of chocolate had lower blood pressure. And they were at a 39 percent lower risk of heart attacks and strokes, according to the study, published in the March edition. The key word is "small," the journal reports. Though...
March 31, 2010
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