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Feb. 9 - Milwaukee urban farmer Will Allen will share a podium with first lady Michelle Obama at the White House on Tuesday. The Growing Power founder and CEO is to be one of three featured speakers helping Obama officially launch a national initiative to fight childhood obesity. Allen will join Judith Palfrey, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and Willis "Chip" Johnson, mayor of Hernando,...
February 8, 2010
TORONTO - A team of researchers from pediatric institutions across Canada has developed a set of rules to help doctors decide whether a child with a minor head injury should receive a CT scan. The seven clinical signs - dubbed the CATCH rules - are derived from a study of almost 3,900 children aged 16 and under, who were examined at 10 Canadian pediatric teaching hospitals after suffering a minor head...
February 8, 2010
Feb. 9 - Dramatic new evidence that abstinence-only sex education can succeed in public schools ought to be good news for Texas, right? After all, state law requires an emphasis on abstinence, and most school districts stop there. But education experts caution that the program tested is very different from the curriculum offered in many Texas schools. And while elements can be found in some North Texas...
February 8, 2010
Feb. 9 - ALBANY - During the winter months, schools and long-term care facilities tend to experience outbreaks of "stomach flu," also know as gastroenteritis, caused by noroviruses. With clusters of such illness beginning to pop up in Southwest Georgia institutions, the region's top public health official is urging parents, caregivers and the general public to recognize the symptoms, take steps to...
February 8, 2010
Dr. Marc Wallack routinely passed his cardiac exercise stress test with flying colors. He was, after all, a veteran marathon runner with respectable cholesterol and blood pressure numbers. But as many heart disease patients discover, a treadmill analysis often isn't enough. Six months after a "normal" stress test, surgeons cracked open Wallack's chest for quadruple bypass surgery. An artery was 95...
February 8, 2010
WASHINGTON - Her daughters were 6 and 9, and Michelle Obama was like any other working mom - struggling to juggle office hours, school pick-ups and mealtimes. By the end of the day, she was often too tired to make dinner, so she did what was easy: She ordered takeout or went to the drive-through. She thought the girls were eating reasonably well - until her pediatrician in Chicago told her he didn't...
February 8, 2010
A US decision to freeze spending on treatment for HIV in several African countries has prompted concern that some of the gains made against the AIDS epidemic since 2003 could be reversed. President George W. Bush?????s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), launched in 2003, focused largely on treating patients in urgent need of medicine, but the new US administration?????s programme has shifted...
February 8, 2010
A US decision to freeze spending on treatment for HIV in several African countries has prompted concern that some of the gains made against the AIDS epidemic since 2003 could be reversed. President George W. Bush?????s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), launched in 2003, focused largely on treating patients in urgent need of medicine, but the new US administration?????s programme has shifted...
February 8, 2010
Feb. 7 - Is your bowl of soup safe or are you sipping a toxic time bomb? Controversy is spreading about BPA, a chemical used in water bottles and baby bottles. Now studies show a health hazard may lie in products found in most Americans' cabinets - canned foods. "We know that cans are indeed a major source of exposure," said Frederick vom Saal, a nationally recognized researcher of BPA, or bisphenol-A....
February 8, 2010
A US decision to freeze spending on treatment for HIV in several African countries has prompted concern that some of the gains made against the AIDS epidemic since 2003 could be reversed. President George W. Bush?????s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), launched in 2003, focused largely on treating patients in urgent need of medicine, but the new US administration?????s programme has shifted...
February 8, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The battered bodies may be mending, but the minds still struggle. As many as one in five Haiti earthquake victims have suffered trauma so great with the multiple shock of lost homes, jobs and loved ones that they won't be able to cope without professional help, doctors say. In a country where mental health services barely existed before the quake, building the required support...
February 8, 2010
Feb. 8 - More bad news for soda-drinkers: A University of Minnesota study suggests that drinking two or more soft drinks a week nearly doubles the risk of developing pancreatic cancer. Mark Pereira, an associate professor at the School of Public Health, and his research team studied the dietary habits of more than 60,000 adults in Singapore for 14 years. They found that those who drank high amounts...
February 7, 2010
At the height of fears over H1N1 flu this fall, some vaccination foes claimed it was safer to get swine flu than to be inoculated against it. But data from California show that getting the flu was drastically far more dangerous. One in every 10,000 Californians who contracted H1N1 died, statistics from the State Department of Health show. Out of 13 million Californians who were vaccinated for H1N1,...
February 7, 2010
By now, cold and flu season is well under way, meaning most Americans are probably well-stocked with medicines aimed at alleviating some of the worst symptoms. For parents, it can be a frustrating time: Recent years have brought changes in recommendations for the use of cough and cold products in young children. This happened after a large number of accidental overdoses of cough and cold products among...
February 7, 2010
Feb. 8 - VIRGINIA BEACH - Seven girls with rounded bellies clustered in the front corner of the school auditorium to hear a talk on infant behavior. Weekly seminars, such as this one by the school psychologist, are nearly all that remains of the city's only academic program for pregnant or parenting teens. Previously called the Princess Anne Center for Pregnant Teens, the program had its own nurse,...
February 7, 2010
Emory University graduate student Meredith Philyaw plans to put up a clothesline in the middle of campus. Next, she'll hand out pieces of paper for students to jot down their fears and pressures. Then she'll hang those confessions on the line for the world to see. It's all part of an exercise meant to point out just how much stress and anxiety are a part of the college life experience. "I want college...
February 7, 2010
Kaiser Health News (MCT) In the congressional debate over the CLASS Act - the proposed national long-term care insurance program - critics and supporters have been arguing over whether a benefit of $50 - or even $75 a day - is worthwhile. Some in the insurance industry, for instance, assert that given the high cost of care in nursing facilities and even at home, a $75 benefit is hardly worth the premium...
February 7, 2010
Janet McCutcheon, 35, of Plymouth, Minn., knew that if she just put her mind to it, she could slim down. And that's what she did. Over the past four months she has dropped 16 pounds and now weighs 150, down from a high of 166. She's 5-foot-8. "The first week was hard, but once I started seeing results, I became more motivated and it got easier," says McCutcheon, director of sales for Hilton Garden...
February 7, 2010
The right novel can inspire weight loss in adolescent girls, a new study shows. Pediatrician Sarah Armstrong, director of the Healthy Lifestyles Program at Duke University, and colleagues tracked obese girls ages 9 to 13 who were participating in the program, a comprehensive intervention for overweight children and teens. The researchers had 31 of the girls read Lake Rescue, in the Beacon Street Girls...
February 7, 2010
The dead of winter may not be the time when most people's thoughts turn toward the allure of a hamburger on the grill. But from a food safety standpoint, it's probably the safest time there is to eat ground beef. "The theory is that animals are carrying higher levels of E. coli during the summer months, and sometimes they may overwhelm the systems in place to control pathogen contamination in (processing)...
February 7, 2010
GENEVA - Aid groups say they are launching an emergency vaccination campaign for 140,000 people in Haiti to protect them against measles and other diseases. The campaign is being conducted by the international Red Cross federation, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Haitian Health Ministry. A Red Cross statement says the campaign will focus on the capital Port-au-Prince because the disease...
February 7, 2010
Feb. 3 - Sunday's big game doesn't have to be your big meal of the day too. You can put your Super Bowl menu on a diet just by substituting low-fat and fat-free for many of your high-calorie options. "The typical Super Bowl partygoer consumes between 1,500 and 2,500 calories during the game," said Amanda Varnell, who teaches "CookingLive" classes at Brainerd Crossroads, Earth Fare and Chattanooga Market....
February 5, 2010
Investigators said on Wednesday they had made important lab discoveries in mosquitoes and the parasite which causes malaria, opening up new paths for attacking a disease that claims nearly a million lives per year. In one of two studies published in the British journal Nature, Yale University researchers said they had found more than two dozen smell receptors in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae that...
February 4, 2010
"Infection with specific pathogens may lead to increased adiposity. The human adenovirus 36 (Ad36) is a relatively new factor in promoting adipogenesis," researchers in Catania, Italy report (see also Alcoholism). "It seems to improve the metabolic profile, expanding adipose tissue and enhancing insulin sensitivity in animal models. The aim of this study was to investigate whether any association or...
February 3, 2010
Feb. 4 - Visits to emergency departments and urgent-care centers for flu-like illness remain low in most of Virginia, with only a few health districts in the state reporting elevated flu activity. Experts are divided on whether there will be a third wave of H1N1 swine-flu outbreaks. The flu season so far has turned out to be milder than predicted, prompting some to ask whether the World Health Organization...
February 3, 2010
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