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Many Americans avoid dairy products, an important source of calcium, vitamin D and other nutrients, because they mistakenly think they're lactose intolerant, a panel of experts concluded Wednesday at a National Institutes of Health conference. Solid estimates of the prevalence of lactose intolerance are lacking, because medical studies have different interpretations of the condition, the experts write...
February 26, 2010
Many Americans avoid dairy products, an important source of calcium, vitamin D and other nutrients, because they mistakenly think they're lactose intolerant, a panel of experts concluded Wednesday at a National Institutes of Health conference. Solid estimates of the prevalence of lactose intolerance are lacking, because medical studies have different interpretations of the condition, the experts write...
February 24, 2010
OTTAWA - About 1,200 drop-side cribs sold in Canada between 2001 and 2004 are being recalled after reports of three infant suffocation deaths south of the border. Health Canada announced Wednesday that the recall involves model numbers 592081, 592681 and 597431 for drop-side cribs made by Generation 2 Worldwide in the United States and China. The recalled cribs carry the name "Generation 2 Worldwide"...
February 24, 2010
Teenage boys and young men may talk a lot about sex, but often the only ones listening are their peers. Now, an online survey of 1,200 guys ages 15 to 22 gives them a clear voice. And the girls are listening. "Everybody thinks they just want to have sex - that it's all about getting it on," says Ann Shoket, editor in chief of Seventeen magazine, which commissioned the survey in partnership with the...
February 24, 2010
Should people be paid to donate bone marrow? About 20,000 bone marrow transplants are performed annually in the USA to treat blood disorders such as leukemia and anemia, and in up to 30% of cases, the donor is a relative, usually a sibling. The remaining transplants use marrow from volunteer donors, who are strangers to the recipients. Worldwide, 14 million potential donors have signed up with bone...
February 24, 2010
Feb. 24 - Though influenza activity in the area may have lulled following peak activity in October, an area health official said cases of flu have become more frequent within the last few days. The peak of the H1N1 flu, otherwise known as swine flu, occurred in late October, said Sherry Adams, regional pandemic flu coordinator for Southwestern District Health Unit. "It did lull right after that big...
February 24, 2010
Q: My niece's 3-year-old twin son suffers from abdominal migraines. His twin sister does not get them. There doesn't seem to be a pattern as to when he'll get sick. My niece says my mother suffered from migraines when she was living. Can you tell me more about these migraines? Are they hereditary? - J.N., Kennesaw A: Most of my readers would be surprised to learn that there's a type of migraine generally...
February 24, 2010
Feb. 24 - Dr. Carolyn Ross knows what it takes to lose weight. And she's willing to share her expertise with the Weighty Matters blog. Ross is a former Tucsonan who worked in integrative medicine with Dr. Andrew Weil. Now, she's practicing medicine and writing books in Denver, though she still feels an affinity for the Old Pueblo - she's even kept her 520 phone number. Ross' book, "The Binge Eating...
February 24, 2010
Feb. 24 - This story originally appeared in the Sunday, Feb. 21 print edition of The News-Times. Click here to subscribe. DANBURY - Dr. Nimesh Nagarsheth, a gynecologic oncologist in Manhattan, spends his days saving lives. And when he leaves the hospital, he creates music to raise awareness and funding for women's cancers. Just like the pink ribbon has become the symbol for breast cancer, the 38-year-old...
February 23, 2010
Feb. 23 - DECATUR - Excluding skin cancers, colorectal cancers are the third leading cause of cancer in both men and women in the United States, according to American Cancer Society data. Through regular screenings, advanced stages of the disease and even deaths are preventable, local physicians said. The society estimated that in 2009, more than 106,000 new cases of colon cancer were diagnosed in...
February 23, 2010
Feb. 24 - Three days after her daughter got a pediatrician's clean bill of health in January, Kristie Bowlds noticed a sizable lump under Emmalee's right arm. At first, Kristie Bowlds, a health care professional, thought maybe she'd dislocated the then-4-month-old's shoulder during the child's nightly bath. If only that were the case, how uncomplicated life would've been for the Bowlds family of Utica....
February 23, 2010
Feb. 24 - LOGAN - Tyler Newbold didn't know what was wrong with him. Neither did his mother, Lynette. Neither did his father, Kelly. All Newbold knew was that he was always thirsty. He was losing weight at an alarming pace, and he was always urinating. The fact that this was happening to his body was scary enough. The fact that he was 12 at the time made it even worse. "I couldn't even go a car ride...
February 23, 2010
Feb. 24 - NEW HAVEN - Mechelle Craddock-Spence has a way of connecting with people, an asset that got her invited into the homes of hundreds of residents, as she walked some of the city's poorer neighborhoods in search of health data. What she found in her walkabout this fall for the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement, a collaboration between the city and Yale University, shocked her. She...
February 23, 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...
February 23, 2010
WASHINGTON - Lights. Camera. Traction. That's what President Obama will be seeking Thursday at a televised summit with Republicans and Democrats on his stalled effort to revamp America's health care system. The session, however, carries much broader implications. Whether or not Obama ultimately gets a health care bill through Congress, the effort could have practical and political consequences for...
February 23, 2010
WASHINGTON - New federal rules that define what makes milk and meat organic have natural food advocates optimistic that the government is committed to ensuring the label means something. U.S. consumers bought $24 billion worth of organic products in 2008. But for many, the purchases came with uncertainty about what they were getting for their money. "During the Clinton and the Bush administrations...
February 23, 2010
LONDON - When Stinne Holm Bergholdt of Denmark was diagnosed with bone cancer at age 27, she was afraid she wouldn't be able to have children. So she asked her doctors if they could remove an ovary before her treatment and transplant it back afterward to preserve her fertility. More than six years later, Bergholdt and her husband now have two daughters, making her the first woman in the world to give...
February 23, 2010
The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that for now, patients should not stop taking the diabetes drug Avandia, subject of a two-year Senate Finance Committee investigation whose findings were revealed Saturday. A May 2007 study in The New England Journal of Medicine raised concerns that Avandia increased users' heart attack risk. In July 2007, an outside panel of experts convened by the FDA...
February 23, 2010
Feb. 23 - Farm and legislative leaders on Monday touted America's safe, affordable food, while highlighting agriculture's importance to the state's economy. "Few Americans know what it's like to go hungry. And few people in the world spend as little as Americans do on food and fiber," said Rep. Kerry Gibson, R-Ogden, a sixth-generation Utah farmer, who was among many to celebrate Ag Day at the Legislature....
February 23, 2010
Dear Mr. Dad: I have a 2-week-old baby boy, and I'm crazy about him. But I've suddenly started feeling really anxious, stressed, irritable, and sometimes even angry. My girlfriend says I could be suffering from male postpartum depression. I've never heard of guys getting postpartum depression, is it possible? If so, what can I do about it? A: Your girlfriend is absolutely right. Most of us have heard...
February 23, 2010
Feb. 23 - Free health screening tests for cancer, diabetes and heart disease are available for qualified women through the Community Health Center. The "use it or lose it" testing is available through the health centers in Ashland, Medford and White City, said Amber Wagner, health educator for the center. "We have to use the appointments by the end of June or lose them," she said. While there are 200...
February 23, 2010
A new pioneering procedure has allowed a woman in Britain to get a new kidney from her sister - even though the organ would have normally been rejected. Maxine Bath had no matching kidney donors in her family, but doctors in Coventry, England used a technique on her called cryofiltration which allowed them to remove the immune molecules that cause the usual rejection. The breakthrough has raised hopes...
February 23, 2010
BEIJING - More than one in 10 Chinese children sickened by contaminated milk showed signs of kidney damage six months afterward, researchers have found, raising concerns about the long-term effects of the country's massive food safety scandal. At least six children died and nearly 300,000 children fell ill two years ago after consuming infant formula deliberately contaminated with the industrial chemical...
February 23, 2010
The World Health Organisation's emergency committee of scientists was due to meet on Tuesday to decide whether the swine flu pandemic has passed its peak. The step would mark the first formal recognition that the worst is over since the UN health agency declared a global pandemic last June and emergency precautions swung into action worldwide. The confidential teleconference headed by Australian infectious...
February 23, 2010
Feb. 23 - Mountain View High School students in Introduction to Health and Medical Sciences will receive an unorthodox lesson today. JoAnna Cassidy-Farrell, who runs Keep It Green Herbal Consultations in Stafford County, said she'll talk with students about natural methods to "guide the person into healing." That includes iridology - inspecting a person's iris to determine health problems - and aromatherapy....
February 22, 2010
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