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FRANKFORT, Ky. Each year, Wendy Fletcher says, she and two partners see more than 5,000 patients at their practice in Morehead, Ky. They are not doctors, but rather registered nurse practitioners who say they are able to increase access to health care and make it more affordable. "None of us are trying to play doctor," she said. "If we'd wanted to be doctors, we would have gone to medical school,"...
March 12, 2010
Michelle Obama's launch last month of the Let's Move campaign, aimed at slimming down the nation's obese children, is admirable in its ambition. How can it fail with the creation of the first-ever task force on childhood obesity? Or establishing partner initiatives to provide healthier options in school cafeterias? Or working to earmark federal money to build grocery stores in urban areas? Yet, if...
March 12, 2010
LONDON - People with occasional spikes in their blood pressure could be at higher risk of having a stroke than those with regularly high blood pressure, new studies said Friday. In four articles published in the medical journals Lancet and Lancet Neurology, European researchers suggest current guidelines for treating people with high blood pressure need to be revised. In one of the studies, Peter Rothwell...
March 12, 2010
Mar. 11 - Nine years ago a mail bomb exploded in her hands. Doctors said the blast should have killed retired Air Force Master Sgt. Janet McWilliams, who was then 50 years old. Her right eye was damaged, as were her lungs, torso and right hand. Her left hand was blown off. Only after years of rehabilitation and a slew of surgeries did the Texas woman realize doctors might be able to give her a new...
March 12, 2010
TORONTO - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a pair of food recalls because of concerns about Listeria monocytogenes and salmonella. The agency and Siena Foods Ltd. say a brand of Prosciutto Cotto Cooked Ham may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The product was sold to food stores in large packages for further slicing bearing "best before" dates of March 8 and March 22, 2010....
March 11, 2010
The recall of products containing a potentially salmonella-tainted flavoring ingredient ballooned this week with the addition of 1.7 million pounds of ready-to-eat beef taquito and chicken quesadilla products from a Houston firm. Ruiz Foods of Denison, Texas, also recalled 115,700 pounds of Tornados Ranchero Beef & Cheese roll-ups. All the recalled products contained hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP)....
March 11, 2010
A popular group of drugs used to slow bone loss may be putting some patients at an increased risk of hip fractures if taken for more than five years. Two studies reported at this week's conference of American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons show the bones of some postmenopausal women who take bisphosphonates (Actonel, Boniva, Fosamax, Reclast) to ward off osteoporosis can stop rejuvenating and become...
March 11, 2010
Mar. 10 - More and more research is showing that sublingual drops could be a common alternative to allergy shots. A recent multi-center study that included the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health has shown that allergy drops delivered under the tongue could be a safe and effective alternative to controlling ragweed pollen allergies. Dr. Robert Bush, an emeritus professor of...
March 9, 2010
Mar. 10 - When Sheri Caldwell cooks meals for her family, her goal is to make something they'll like to eat. But she also wants to keep costs down and nutrition up. With four children, that's not easy. Fortunately, as a dietician with Hy-Vee, she has learned some ways to do that. And one is by using the incredible edible egg. "They call them incredible because eggs are so high in nutritional value,"...
March 9, 2010
CHICAGO - After an imaging test revealed a small nodule in Dr. Len Lichtenfeld's lung, his doctor ordered a series of CT scans. But Lichtenfeld turned them down. As deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, Lichtenfeld knew the tiny nodule probably wasn't dangerous and that new research has documented an increased risk of cancer from CT scans. "The reality is, I thought the radiation...
March 9, 2010
Mar. 10 - SCHENECTADY - Schenectady on Tuesday became the second county in the Capital Region to require chain restaurants to post calorie information for menu dishes in its stores. The Schenectady County Legislature passed the measure 12-2 with one member absent. The vote means any food establishment operating 15 or more restaurants nationally must provide calorie totals for food sold at the point...
March 9, 2010
As far as Dr. Joseph Mercola is concerned, Vitamin D is the magic bullet we've all been looking for. A lack of this wonder nutrient, the controversial natural health advocate says, can set the stage for no fewer than 33 disorders, including autism, cancer, diabetes and infertility. "Vitamin D appears to reduce your risk of dying from virtually ANY disease," he wrote on his popular Web site. His recommendation?...
March 9, 2010
Couples who use acupuncture and Chinese medicine to try and increase their chances of having a baby were warned there was no evidence it worked by British fertility experts Wednesday. The British Fertility Society (BFS), which represents fertility clinics, issued the guidelines after collecting information from 14 studies involving 2,670 patients. Adam Balen, who chairs its policy and practice committee,...
March 9, 2010
Food director Jackie Anderson didn't get word last month until it was too late - after students in the Arlington (Texas) Independent School District already had eaten tacos filled with beef that should have been destroyed. None of them got sick, but the meat was among 5.8 million pounds of beef recalled since January by Huntington Meat Packing. Federal inspectors found that the Montebello, Calif.,...
March 9, 2010
Feb. 24 - Michael Cronin was behind the wheel several years ago and knew then he would either drive his car into a tree to end his life or get help. Cronin got help. At 3 a.m., he checked himself into a hospital. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder (or manic-depressive disorder), which is marked by periods of excitability (mania) alternating with periods of depression. According to the National...
March 9, 2010
Feb. 24 - Michael Cronin was behind the wheel several years ago and knew then he would either drive his car into a tree to end his life or get help. Cronin got help. At 3 a.m., he checked himself into a hospital. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder (or manic-depressive disorder), which is marked by periods of excitability (mania) alternating with periods of depression. According to the National...
March 9, 2010
French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis and US group Merck announced on Tuesday they would join forces to create the world's biggest animal health company. The companies will own an equal share in the joint venture, which will combine Sanofi-Aventis's Merial unit with Merck's Intervet/Schering-Plough, they said in a statement. The combined business would hold 29 percent of the market with sales...
March 9, 2010
Mar. 9 - Behind a glass-walled lab at Florida Hospital, a set of two-ton magnets moves a soft, metal-tipped catheter about the circumference of cooked spaghetti into Bill Martin's beating heart. Seated in front of a bank of flat-panel screens, Dr. George Monir uses a joystick to gently navigate the catheter through the delicate organ and zap scars in Martin's heart tissue to correct life-threatening...
March 8, 2010
New York leaders are pressing for a so-called fat tax on the soft drinks industry, saying that sweet beverages are responsible for an upsurge of obesity across the United States. State Health Commissioner Richard Daines took up the issue Monday, speaking of a "golden opportunity" to create the tax. "The dramatic underpricing of sugar-sweetened beverages, their widespread availability, and the ceaseless...
March 8, 2010
Mar. 9 - Hospitals have called off a ban on visitors younger than 18. Since mid-October, local hospitals have prohibited visitors younger than 18 as a precaution to help prevent the spread of H1N1 influenza. Hospitals announced they're reinstating normal visiting policies, effective today. The latest update from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that most states are reporting...
March 8, 2010
Ken Norling is a self-employed computer programmer. He's also one of thousands of Georgians without health insurance. Georgia ranks 11th nationally in the percentage of population lacking coverage, according to a 2008 report from Georgia State University's Health Policy Center and the Center for Health Services Research. The August census report showed that about one in four Georgians ages 18 to 64...
March 8, 2010
Men are more than twice as likely as women to be sexually active in old age but good health is the key for both to feeling naughty, says a study published Wednesday by the British Medical Journal. Doctors looked over two big probes into the health of the American population. One survey covered 3,000 people aged 25-74 who filled in questionnaires in the mid-1990s as part of an investigation into midlife....
March 8, 2010
Mar. 9 - LADIES - it might be time to stop worrying that the Wednesday night glass of wine is just empty calories. A new study tracking 20,000 American women through middle age found those who had two or more drinks a day gained less weight than their non-drinking counterparts. The study is published in the March 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital...
March 8, 2010
This may call for a toast. Healthy-weight women who drink a light to moderate amount of alcohol - no more than two servings a day of red wine, white wine, beer or liquor - tend to gain less weight over time than non-drinkers, says a study in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston studied the alcohol consumption of more than 19,000 women, who started...
March 8, 2010
As deaths from heart disease and many types of cancers have dipped, living longer is putting more people at risk for Alzheimer's disease, the brain-wasting condition that a new report shows African-Americans and Hispanics are particularly vulnerable to as they grow older. According to the Alzheimer's Association's report released today, "2010 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures," 5.3 million people...
March 8, 2010
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