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Feb. 1 - Other than Thanksgiving, Super Bowl Sunday could be the biggest food day of the year. Living rooms and dens are converted into all-you-can-eat game-day buffets, with plates of potato chips, pizza, chicken wings and subs covering every table in sight. One leading health magazine recently estimated that Americans will consume 156 billion calories on Feb. 7, when New Orleans plays Indianapolis...
January 31, 2010
Concerned that Americans may be accumulating too much lifetime radiation exposure from medical tests, doctors at the National Institutes of Health will begin recording how much radiation patients receive from CT scans and other procedures in their electronic medical records. A study in the Archives of Internal Medicine in December estimated that radiation from such procedures, whose use has grown dramatically...
January 31, 2010
Jim Stone, 53, an engineer in Madison, Ala., has sobering reasons for both his weight gain and loss. He put on 50 pounds about 20 years ago while going through chemotherapy and radiation treatments for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which is now in remission. He also gained weight when his first wife, Melanie, died of colon cancer a few years ago. He had not made any serious attempts to lose weight. But this...
January 31, 2010
State and local efforts to thwart methamphetamine production by further limiting consumer access to a popular decongestant are pitting law enforcement against pharmacists and patients. New ordinances in some Missouri communities and legislation pending in several states would require consumers to get a prescription to buy cold and allergy pills containing pseudoephedrine, such as Sudafed and Claritin-D....
January 31, 2010
CHICAGO - Paris Woods is hardly a poster child for the obesity epidemic. Lining up dripping wet with kids on her swim team, she is a blend of girlish chunkiness and womanly curves. In street clothes - roomy pink sweats or skimpy tank tops revealing broad, brown swimmers' shoulders - the teen blends in with her friends, a fresh-faced, robust-looking All-American girl. That is the problem. Like nearly...
January 31, 2010
The World Health Organisation on Wednesday called for more protection for non-smokers, after new data showed that just five percent of the world's population benefitted from public smoking bans. Some 154 million more people lived in areas covered by smoke free laws in 2008, a WHO report showed. That brought the total proportion of the world's population covered by smoke-free laws to only 5.4 percent,...
January 30, 2010
CHICAGO - Bill and Marcia Stlaske's first pangs of fear coincided with her labor pains. Stlaske, 31, had given birth to two early-but-healthy sons, but their third, Tyler, was on the way nearly a month before his January due date. Doctors tried to stave off delivery but found Stlaske's amniotic fluid too low. "They said they had to take him early," said Stlaske, a second-grade teacher from Crystal...
January 29, 2010
Vienna (dpa) - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is sending eight mobile X-ray machines to Haiti to diagnose thousands who were injured in the earthquake there, the organization said Friday in Vienna. Trauma care for Haiti's estimated 250,000 injured is currently one of the most pressing health issues, according to the Pan American Health Organization. The German-made machines were being...
January 29, 2010
DAVOS, Switzerland - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world's poorest countries, the Microsoft co-founder and his wife said Friday. Calling upon governments and business to also contribute, they said the money will produce higher immunization rates and aims to make sure that 90 per cent of children are...
January 29, 2010
For parents like me, who hoped that a child's 21st birthday meant we could finally put our feet up on the coffee table, this is alarming news: New research shows that our 20-somethings don't want to have a child at this time in their lives, but they aren't doing much to prevent it. And the result is that among unmarried women in their 20s, 7 of 10 pregnancies are unplanned. Seventy percent. These are...
January 28, 2010
Jan. 28 - NISKAYUNA - Researchers at GE Global Research in Niskayuna have been awarded nearly $3.3 million from the federal government to help develop a smaller, and cheaper, MRI machine. The research is expected to allow MRI machines to be installed in more hospitals - especially those in developing countries that don't have the infrastructure to house traditional MRI systems. The National Institutes...
January 28, 2010
As the storm of health care reform rages in Washington, the sand is running out of the hourglass for Medicare, already projected to be insolvent by 2017. The system significantly underpays physicians for necessary services to Medicare beneficiaries. Over the past 20 years, Congress has expanded Medicare benefits and authorized payment for important new technologies at the expense of physician services....
January 27, 2010
Jan. 28 - Utahns are evenly divided on whether schools should be required to teach students about contraception, according to a new Salt Lake Tribune poll. The results come as Sen. Stephen Urquhart, R-St. George, prepares to run a bill that would require school districts to teach students about contraceptives. Urquhart said the poll results don't surprise him, but he hopes that once people understand...
January 27, 2010
Jan. 27 - When Ray Wiman started adhering to a gluten-free diet five years ago after being diagnosed with celiac disease, he learned wheat is in just about everything. Many store-bought french fries are off-limits to the Twin Falls man, as many companies dust the potatoes with flour to keep them from sticking together. Canned tomato soup often uses flour as a thickener, and dehydrated mashed potatoes...
January 27, 2010
Overweight septuagenarians are less likely to die within 10 years than people of "normal" weight in the same age group, an Australian study said Thursday. The study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society followed 4,677 men and 4,563 women aged 70 to 75 for a ten-year period from 1996. In addition to their "body mass index," or BMI, which estimates a person's body fat, the researchers also...
January 27, 2010
Rising health-care costs have led many Americans to put off going to the doctor. But a new study confirms what many have suspected: Postponing care means greater costs in the long run, particularly for seniors. The study, appearing today in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that many seniors avoided important outpatient care after their Medicare copayments increased. The result: more hospital...
January 27, 2010
One in five of the nation's 15,700 nursing homes have consistently received poor ratings for overall quality, a USA TODAY analysis of new government data finds. More than a quarter-million patients live in homes given another set of low scores within the past year, according to data released today by Medicare, which first released the star ratings of the nation's nursing homes in late 2008. The ratings...
January 27, 2010
Raise your hand if you've ever left a physician's office without fully understanding what the doctor just told you. According to The New England Journal of Medicine, half of patients admit to not understanding what their doctor told them during an office visit. As a primary care physician, being unable to clearly communicate with patients is frustrating. The typical, 15-minute office visit often is...
January 26, 2010
Jan. 27 - MANKATO - St. Louis Rams free safety Craig Dahl began his physically active lifestyle on the streets of Mankato, competing with older neighborhood boys and a brother 14 months older than him. Dahl thrived on competition that motivated him to participate in high school sports and eventually professional football. But you don't need to exercise 150 minutes a day and lift weights for 45 minutes...
January 26, 2010
Jan. 27 - The number of new HIV infections in Minnesota rose 13 percent in 2009, the biggest increase in 17 years, signaling the return of a health scourge that public health experts had hoped was under control. After holding steady for several years, the number of new HIV cases in the state rose from 326 in 2008 to 368 last year. The largest cluster of new cases was among gay and bisexual men aged...
January 26, 2010
Jan. 27 - Cases of H1N1 influenza have dipped in the state in recent weeks, but state and local health officials still urge residents to get vaccinated against the illness, if they haven't done so already. Connecticut Department of Health spokeswoman Diana Lejardi said the H1N1 pandemic is technically still in its second wave, which started Aug. 30. Since then, there have been 3,386 laboratory-confirmed...
January 26, 2010
Rich nations' cash pledges to combat climate change must not come at the cost of healthcare spending, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned in an interview published Tuesday. The entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist told the Times of India that money promised at last month's Copenhagen summit to enable developing countries to tackle climate change could cut into healthcare aid budgets. "I am concerned...
January 26, 2010
Ever been out to dinner with a dietitian? I must confess, sometimes it can be a lesson in best practices for becoming a high maintenance customer - reminiscent of the deli scene in the 1980s hit movie "When Harry Met Sally..." when the character Sally was very particular about her order for pie a la mode: "I'd like the pie heated, and I don't want the ice cream on top. I want it on the side. And I'd...
January 26, 2010
Jan. 27 - RALEIGH - Salima Mabry watched over her son Tuesday as he slept awkwardly in the chair where he had spent eight days waiting for a bed in a state mental hospital. Joshua Stewart, 13, is severely autistic and has an IQ of 36. He can only speak in short, single words, such as "Ma" or "hurt." He first arrived at Wake County's Crisis and Assessment unit for people with mental illness in the back...
January 26, 2010
Jan. 27 - Sitting at his desk at attention, with pencil in hand, Ryan Corwin of Modesto looked like he was ready to learn. But his teachers could see it in his eyes. The first-grader soon lost focus and his mind drifted away, not paying attention to the lesson. Educators and doctors suspected he had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism or perhaps a brain tumor. When his father brought him...
January 26, 2010
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