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A pandemic flu virus from 1918 is markedly similar to last year's H1N1 strain, according to a study published Wednesday, which scientists said could help in the creation of new vaccines. The research was published in the online journal Science Translational Medicine said. "This study defines an unexpected similarity between two pandemic-causing strains of influenza," said Anthony Fauci, the director...
March 31, 2010
The broader your smile and the deeper the creases around your eyes when you grin, the longer you are likely to live, according to a study published in Psychological Science this week. Researchers led by Ernest Abel of Wayne State University in Michigan studied 230 photographs of US major league baseball players who started playing before 1950 and grouped them according to their smiles. The players...
March 31, 2010
Apr. 1 - A national study today confirms what is already known in the La Crosse area: advance directives work. That's the conclusion of one of the largest studies on the effectiveness of documents specifying what medical treatments patients want at the end of life. Further, Americans are increasingly making use of the tool. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, is among the first...
March 31, 2010
Apr. 1 - WILLMAR - It was dark when Dr. Kevin Unger and the rest of the delegation of medical volunteers arrived at Hopital Bon Samaritain in the town of Limbe, in northern Haiti. Their plane had landed a few hours earlier at Cap Haitien, where they boarded a van for the trip along mountain roads to their destination. Outside the clinic, a woman who was 28 weeks pregnant was going into seizures from...
March 31, 2010
Fitness experts Jill Ross and Lindsey Emery weigh in on popular exercise dance DVDs. If you want to get in shape this spring, consider hitting the dance floor - or at least the floor in your living room. The latest twist in exercise DVDs: workouts that feature swing, jive, cha-cha, samba, hip-hop and other dance moves, capitalizing on the popularity of ABC's Dancing With the Stars, Fox's So You Think...
March 31, 2010
WASHINGTON - Four years ago, a law intended to extend prescription-drug coverage to millions of seniors temporarily had a reverse impact: Hundreds of thousands with government coverage couldn't get medicines or were overcharged because of computer glitches and confusion. With the ink barely dry on this year's comprehensive health care law, the Obama administration and consumer and industry groups are...
March 31, 2010
WASHINGTON - The Department of Veterans Affairs has no way of determining long-range health care costs for the veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a federal study on the wars' impact released Wednesday shows. Conducted by the federal Institute of Medicine, the study says costs for the nearly 2 million veterans of the two wars will expand over the next 30 years before tapering off. The VA's...
March 31, 2010
The medical community may define autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder, a spectrum of developmental disabilities that affect learning, communication and interactions with others. But for John O'Neil, it meant watching his 2-year-old son, James (now 14), change from a cheerful toddler into a child who had trouble speaking and playing. It was, he said, as if James were "falling down the well." O'Neil,...
March 30, 2010
Paying people for living kidney donations would increase the supply of the organs and would not result in a disproportionate number of poor donors, a study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center concludes. The study, published this month in the Annals of Internal Medicine, asked 342 participants whether they would donate a kidney with...
March 30, 2010
"God resides in cow dung," says Kesari Gumat, as he walks through his laboratory where researchers mix bovine excreta with medicinal herbs and monitor beakers of simmering cow urine. The lab in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad is one of a growing number of research centres which have embraced the sacred status of cows in India and sought to push it to a new level. Promoting the practical alongside...
March 29, 2010
Despite huge strides in treatment over the past four decades, cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the United States, claiming the lives of 560,000 people last year, a report said Tuesday. The report in a special edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) said the work of doctors and scientists has slashed the US death rate by nearly 16 percent. But cancer still...
March 29, 2010
Some of the nation's most familiar casual-dining chains are suddenly thinking smaller. They're rolling out tapas-like small plates of shareable items that typically are cheaper than appetizers by a buck or two - or even three. With business still in the tank - and customers hard to lure out of the I-can-eat-cheaper-at-home mentality - a cadre of casual-dining icons, including Houlihan's, Cheesecake...
March 29, 2010
HONG KONG - This glamorous Asian city is known for its mouth-watering dim sum. Its high fashion. And its 100-pound-and-under women. Agatha Yau, a marketing executive, is one of these women. She has done many things over the years to stay trim: taken diet pills, eaten meals of boiled vegetables and practiced delaying gratification. "Sometimes, I'll look at the food and just smell it," Yau, 22, says...
March 29, 2010
Mar. 29 - Taxpayers are expected to pay thousands of dollars because the state failed to meet a deadline for picking a new insurance administrator for an HIV drug program. This comes as the state faces an estimated $8 billion shortfall in its next budget. Missing the deadline means the state must pick up the total cost to keep medically and financially fragile residents on life-preserving drugs, rather...
March 28, 2010
The World Health Organisation said Monday it would go ahead next month with an independent review of the response to the swine flu pandemic, after criticism of its role in declaring a global alert. The international response will be scrutinised by a committee of 29 independent health experts and scientists which is being formed by the UN health agency, Special Advisor on Pandemic Influenza Keiji Fukuda...
March 28, 2010
Researchers are beginning to understand the ways in which being overweight or obese contributes to a downward spiral of inflammation that can trigger heart disease, diabetes and other ailments. Two recent papers help explain the connection. In one, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers at the University of California-San Francisco and the Gladstone Institute found that specialized...
March 28, 2010
Mar. 29 - Sheila McDonough kept a secret as she worked as a nurse in the Stanislaus County Jail, hoping no one would notice the slight limp in her right leg. When she told her boss she has multiple sclerosis, surprise registered on her manager's face and then acceptance. "I was afraid," McDonough says. "You think your job is in jeopardy if they think you can't perform at the top of your ability. ......
March 28, 2010
Mar. 29 - Allergy forecasts can help prepare those who suffer from a reaction to airborne pollen - including asthmatics - better prepare for the days ahead. But what about weather forecasts for arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, heart conditions and migraines? MediClim is a Web site developed by a physician and meteorologist that links chronic health problems to weather conditions, and it issues free...
March 28, 2010
Mar. 29 - Even among families that stand to benefit from last week's passage of the health care law, opinions are split. Like many Democrats, some Dallas-area families see the overhaul as a historic achievement that will lead to better health care for millions of Americans. Like many Republicans, other local families fear government intrusion and stratospheric costs. Last September, The Dallas Morning...
March 28, 2010
Mar. 29 - NAPOLEON - Heidi Bialorucki and Amy Boyer have a bond they find hard to explain. Their "sisterhood," as Ms. Boyer calls it, was sealed yesterday when the two women finally met. Both 36, both the mother of two young children, both saw their lives change - and nearly end - this winter when they became desperately ill with the H1N1 virus. As they fought the illness in the intensive care unit...
March 28, 2010
Mar. 29 - Wanda Crotts doesn't remember being gripped by poliomyelitis. Only 14 months old, she doesn't recall the high fever, massive doses of antibiotics or isolation from her parents. It was August 1953. Americans were paralyzed with fear as an epidemic swept the country. Wanda Crotts, from Belwood, was only a baby when she contracted the virus. Swimming pools were closed, people stopped going to...
March 28, 2010
Mar. 29 - CHARLESTON, W.Va. The national health care reform may provide millions of Americans with insurance, but that doesn't mean there will be enough doctors to see them. In West Virginia alone, about 200,000 currently uninsured residents are supposed to obtain insurance by 2019. But their newfound ability to afford a trip to the doctor is likely to exacerbate the state's doctor shortage. Currently,...
March 28, 2010
Growing concerns about the dangers of indoor tanning beds are leading to new taxes - and possibly new restrictions - designed to curb the practice among young people. A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended Thursday that the agency consider actions such as requiring that teenagers get parental consent before using a tanning bed or even banning the use of tanning beds among teens....
March 28, 2010
Two years ago this past October, Tawana Sample-Harris was like any other pregnant woman at nine months: ready to deliver. But when her water broke, she unexpectedly went into cardiac arrest and lost consciousness. "I was actually dead for 43 minutes. They told me my tongue was hanging out of my mouth, my body started swelling, my organs started shutting down," says Sample-Harris, 34, from her home...
March 28, 2010
NEW YORK, Dec 1, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Hollywood star Teri Garr adds her voice to more than 30 others who write about their journey with multiple sclerosis in a new book. Garr, an Oscar-nominated actress best known for her movies "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Mr. Mom" and "Tootsie," revealed in 2002 that she has multiple sclerosis. Like many with MS, it took a long time to diagnose, Garr...
March 27, 2010
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