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Mar. 24 - The state Health Department has lifted a temporary limit on the amount of a mercury preservative that can be used in the H1N1 swine-flu vaccine because there's an ample supply of the vaccine for anyone who wants to get it. Washington state law limits the amount of preservative that can be added to vaccines for pregnant women and children under 3. The secretary of health can suspend the law...
March 24, 2010
Few people would want to be guinea pigs for aspiring dentists but Japan has found an always-willing patient - a robot. Doctors and robotics researchers on Thursday unveiled a humanoid that happily goes under the drill for orthodontics students and can also express pain, roll her eyes and even drool like a real patient. "Hello," female-looking "Hanako" said cheerfully as an aspiring dentist closed in...
March 24, 2010
Mar. 24 - Use of a genetic test could significantly reduce hospital stays as well as health care costs for about 2 million U.S. patients who start taking a top blood thinning drug at any given time. That's what a recent study by Mayo Clinic and Medco Health Solutions, Inc. found when looking at the efficiency of genotyping patients starting to take the drug warfarin, commercially called Coumadin and...
March 24, 2010
China now has a diabetes "epidemic" as obesity rates rise, a study warned Thursday, with one in 10 adults in the rapidly developing nation suffering from a disease already rampant in the West. The study in the New England Journal of Medicine estimated that more than 92 million men and women are living with diabetes in China, or almost 10 percent of adults in the world's largest population of 1.3 billion...
March 24, 2010
TORONTO - The pandemic H1N1 virus more closely resembles the 1918 Spanish flu virus than more modern cousins in the same flu family, new research shows - a finding which helps explain the age pattern of H1N1 infections. Like the Spanish flu virus, the pandemic H1N1 lacks two sugar coats seen on contemporary viruses from the same family, the work reveals. The two studies, released Wednesday, confirm...
March 24, 2010
BARCELONA, Spain - Up to a third of breast cancer cases in Western countries could be avoided if women ate less and exercised more, researchers at a conference on breast cancer said Thursday. While better treatments, early diagnosis and mammogram screenings have dramatically slowed the disease, experts said the focus should now shift to changing behaviours like diet and physical activity. "What can...
March 24, 2010
WASHINGTON - President Obama's restructuring of the nation's health care system will make it easier for poor and sick Americans to get and keep insurance. What's less clear is whether it will reduce health care costs for most Americans, as the White House says it will. Medical costs are rising fast - up 5.7% last year, while the economy declined 1.1%, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
March 24, 2010
Mar. 24 - Today marks the 128th anniversary of the discovery of the cause of tuberculosis, and cases of the disease are falling in the U.S. but they have not disappeared entirely. New York has the third-highest rate of TB in the nation behind California and Texas. In 2009, the rate in New York was 5.3 cases per 100,000 residents versus 3.8 cases per 100,000 nationally. "Tuberculosis is no longer the...
March 24, 2010
Australian scientists said Wednesday they had discovered a drug which could cure tuberculosis at its non-infectious stage and could be the first major breakthrough on the disease in 50 years. Bacteriologist Nick West said researchers at Sydney's Centenary Institute had developed a drug which could essentially combat the disease before it takes hold, potentially saving millions of lives around the world....
March 24, 2010
State and local reporting of foodborne illnesses is the first line of defense against national outbreaks. Yet a study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest finds that almost half of states do a poor job of tracking outbreaks - and suggests passing legislation to reform the Food and Drug Administration will help. A vital piece of the nation's food safety system is broken, says Caroline Smith...
March 23, 2010
A popular aquarium fish with a stunning ability to regenerate damaged cardiac muscle may one day lead to new cures for heart disease, scientists hope. The piscatorial marvel is the zebrafish (Danio rerio), a small, stripey denizen of tropical rivers and aquaria which is also a prized lab tool for investigating tissue growth, according to a study to be published on Thursday. One of the first animals...
March 23, 2010
Mar. 24 - World TB Day isn't exactly a time for the Brownsville community to celebrate. The rate of tuberculosis here is about three times as pervasive as the national average, and the threat of multi-drug resistant TB looms large. That means, whereas 4.2 new cases per 100,000 are averaged nationwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 12 new cases per 100,000 occur...
March 23, 2010
Mar. 24 - Many seniors and doctors who treat Medicare patients have been shaken up by news that health care reform efforts are largely funded by about $455 billion worth of projected savings in the government health insurance program for the elderly. Enrollees fear that the changes, to be implemented over 10 years, could chip away at their benefits and worry that lower payments will force providers...
March 23, 2010
Mar. 24 - Lines of people eager for dental work are expected to form in the wee hours of the morning Friday. The Mission of Mercy free dental clinic scheduled for Friday and Saturday at the Roanoke Special Events Center at the Roanoke Civic Center is expected to help about 1,100 people who would otherwise not have access to dental care. Organizers have asked that people don't show up until 4 a.m. But...
March 23, 2010
Mar. 24 - On the same day that President Barack Obama signed health care reform into law, two South Pasadena doctors opened their offices for a day of deeply discounted and in some cases free health care. While the president sorted through 20 pens to sign the health care bill, Dr. Gary Seto and Dr. Chai-Yung Tsai checked blood pressure, sore shoulders and gave medical diagnoses to many caught in the...
March 23, 2010
Mar. 24 - SILVER CITY - In this day and age in the sport of fitness, you can't pick up a single magazine without being flooded with ads of supplements. Buy this one. It's the most extreme. Take your body to a new level. There are literally thousands of supplements out there to entice you to buy and try while you hope that it takes your body to a new level. Now, I consider myself a workout guru, and...
March 23, 2010
Health care reform has a 3.8% solution that some worry could have unhealthy side effects on financial markets. The legislation, separate from the bill President Obama signed Tuesday and still awaiting Senate approval, has a 3.8% Medicare tax levied against high-income taxpayers' investment income. The fear is that the stock and bond markets could be disrupted as wealthy investors jockey portfolios...
March 23, 2010
WASHINGTON - More than 1 million baby slings made by Infantino were recalled Wednesday after claims linking them to three infant deaths. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said babies could suffocate in the soft fabric slings. The agency urged parents to immediately stop using the slings for babies under 4 months old. The recall involves 1 million Infantino "SlingRider" and "Wendy Bellissimo"...
March 23, 2010
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A global group funding the battle against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in impoverished nations worldwide is urging donors to keep paying for the fight even as the economic crisis forces budget cuts. The Global Fund is outlining the lifesaving work it can finance in developing countries from 2011-13 if donors pledge $13 billion, $17 billion or $20 billion. Pledges will be...
March 23, 2010
Mar. 23 - ASHLAND - Diabetes is under attack today in the Tri-State. Today is American Diabetes Alert Day, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the Ashland-Boyd County Health Department. The agencies are asking residents to find out if they are at risk for Type 2 diabetes by taking the Diabetes Risk Test, which can be found online at diabetes.org.alert. The health department also...
March 23, 2010
Mar. 23 - For years, we've dutifully obeyed doctors' orders to stay out of the sun. We've lived almost like vampires, venturing outdoors only in the early morning or evening hours to avoid dangerous rays. When sunlight couldn't be avoided, we've slathered our skin with sunscreen - the higher the sun protection factor, the better. Doctors say efforts to reduce our risk of skin cancer are well worth...
March 22, 2010
For centuries, practioners of Ayurvedic medicine have counselled patients to use turmeric, a bright yellow spice popular on the subcontinent, to treat liver and digestion disorders. In a study published on Wednesday, a team of scientists in Europe and the United States give the nod to this piece of advice. In tests on mice genetically engineered to have chronic liver inflammation, curcumin - a naturally...
March 22, 2010
WASHINGTON - Under intense pressure from patients, some U.S. doctors are cautiously testing a provocative theory that abnormal blood drainage from the brain may play a role in multiple sclerosis - and that a surgical vein fix might help. If it pans out, the approach suggested by a researcher in Italy could mark a vast change for MS, a disabling neurological disease long blamed on an immune system gone...
March 22, 2010
Mar. 23 - While most provisions of the health care overhaul package are not slated to take effect for years, families of children with chronic or severe illnesses can expect almost immediate relief from health insurance companies. Under the legislation, insurers will be required to provide health coverage for these children, even those with pre-existing conditions such as Down syndrome or childhood...
March 22, 2010
Jean Nidetch, the founder of Weight Watchers International, was once a housewife who weighed more than 200 pounds. She slimmed down to 142 pounds in 1962 and has never been heavy again. Now, at 86, she lives in a retirement community in Parkland, Fla., and has written her autobiography, The Jean Nidetch Story. She says she never dreamed that her weight-loss experience would lead to a successful international...
March 22, 2010
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