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Jan. 27 - THONOTOSASSA - As an award-winning athlete, Dexter Jackson credits his physical well-being to routine exercise and proper nutrition. It is that passion that has sent the former Tampa Bay Buccaneer, named most valuable player of Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003, on a mission of teaching children the importance of both. "Many children today are either unaware or unenthused, but I am committed to bringing...
January 26, 2010
Television shows such as House promote the idea that, to be great, a doctor simply needs to be brilliant. But surgeon Atul Gawande, who teaches at Harvard Medical School, says medicine today is so complex that even the sharpest doctors can no longer keep everything they need to know in their heads. As a result, patients don't always get the care they need. Only about half of heart attack patients,...
January 26, 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...
January 26, 2010
Two leading medical centers on Monday launched the largest effort to date to find all of the genetic mutations that cause childhood cancer. Doctors at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis say the three-year, $65 million project could help them develop new treatments for pediatric cancer, which strikes more 10,000 American children...
January 26, 2010
Parents who choose fast-food meals from a menu that also lists calories tend to order food with fewer calories, a new study indicates. The study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics involved 99 parents of three-to six-year-olds who sometimes eat in fast-food restaurants with their children. The parents, all from a pediatric practice in Seattle, were presented with sample McDonald's menus and...
January 26, 2010
WASHINGTON - If the cardiologist's warnings don't scare you, consider this: Controlling blood pressure just might be the best protection yet known against dementia. In a flurry of new research, scientists scanned people's brains to show hypertension fuels a kind of scarring linked to later development of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Those scars can start building up in middle age, decades...
January 25, 2010
Jan. 26 - CHARLESTON, W.Va. Nicotine patches, prescription medications and other quit-smoking aids are out of reach for many West Virginia Medicaid recipients, health advocates said Monday. The American Lung Association and other groups want the state's Medicaid program to pay for comprehensive smoking-cessation coverage. Advocates held a Capitol news conference to call on Gov. Joe Manchin, legislators...
January 25, 2010
TORONTO - We're not talking about bulking up like a champion weightlifter, but research shows resistance training can be good for seniors, slowing cognitive decline while improving their strength and mobility. Previous research has found that aerobic exercise such as walking and swimming can help keep people mentally sharp as they age, yet few have looked at the effects on brain health of weight training...
January 25, 2010
Even in the chaos left by the January 12 earthquake, Resena and her one-year-old baby made their monthly visit to Port-au-Prince's Ghiesko clinic for AIDS treatment, preserving an unbroken lifeline that has sustained them for two years. Located in the center of the city, Ghiesko (Haitian Group for Studies in Karposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections) is one of the first AIDS clinics in the world...
January 25, 2010
Jan. 26 - Pat White of Maize weighed more than 300 pounds and Jerome Biggars of Wichita was nearing 500 when they decided they'd had enough. The two are shadows of their former selves these days, White having lost about 80 pounds and Biggars more than 260. They took similar approaches to weight loss - both opted for low-carb, "real food" eating. But the real key to success, both say, was deciding that...
January 25, 2010
The teen pregnancy rate in the USA rose 3% in 2006, the first increase in more than a decade, according to data out today. The data also show higher rates of births and abortions among girls 15-19. The numbers, calculated by the Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit group that studies reproductive and sexual health, show a clear reversal from the downward trend that began in the 1990s. About 7% of teen...
January 25, 2010
Jan. 20 - It's easy to build a better soup - just be choosy about your materials. "I think with any soup, you really need a good foundation, and the foundation is the stock of the soup," says Grace Zeleznock, 50, a registered and licensed dietitian. An economical and flavorful stock can be made from scratch using poultry or beef bones, she explains. Season it by adding garlic, onion, celery and carrots,...
January 25, 2010
Jan. 20 - The medical community in the Rio Grande Valley is joining forces to establish an impromptu hospital next week in Haiti. An initial group will leave next week and set up a hospital in a school in the city of Cap-Haitien on the country's north coast, said Dr. Miguel Cintron, a physician from Harlingen who is preparing for the trip. The doctors, nurses, and medical technicians will work with...
January 25, 2010
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A 30-year study of 54,000 men and women in Norway found smoking had a tremendous impact on mortality and cardiovascular disease. Haakon Meyer of the University of Oslo and Norwegian Institute of Public Health said the follow-up study began in 1974 with an invitation to every middle-age man and woman - ages 35-49 - living in three counties of Norway...
January 19, 2010
Dec. 17 - The H1N1 vaccine is now available for anyone in the state who wants it. Health care providers in Connecticut have received more than 900,000 doses of the vaccine, enough that it can now be administered to anyone, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced Wednesday. The vaccine initially was available only to certain groups considered at high risk. Swine flu activity has been declining in Connecticut since...
January 15, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO, May 13, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Media campaigns that portray the tobacco industry in a negative light may be a powerful intervention to decrease young adult smoking, U.S. researchers said. To determine attitudes, the researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, asked respondents how strongly they agreed or disagreed with three statements: Taking a stand against smoking...
January 14, 2010
Tiny magnetic discs just a millionth of a metre in diameter could be used to used to kill cancer cells, according to a study published on Sunday. Laboratory tests found the so-called "nanodiscs", around 60 billionths of a metre thick, could be used to disrupt the membranes of cancer cells, causing them to self-destruct. The discs are made from an iron-nickel alloy, which move when subjected to a magnetic...
January 11, 2010
Tiny magnetic discs just a millionth of a metre in diameter could be used to used to kill cancer cells, according to a study published on Sunday. Laboratory tests found the so-called "nanodiscs", around 60 billionths of a metre thick, could be used to disrupt the membranes of cancer cells, causing them to self-destruct. The discs are made from an iron-nickel alloy, which move when subjected to a magnetic...
January 11, 2010
NEW YORK, Dec 17, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Tap water may be legally safe but in reality could pose serious health risks because the 35-year-old federal law regulating it is out of date, scientists say. Ninety-one contaminants are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act, but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimated more than 60,000 chemicals are used within the United States, some of which...
January 10, 2010
MIAMI - Hotel chains like to tout their large, comfortable beds as a selling point, but those 125-pound mattresses are likely causing greater injury to female, Hispanic and Asian hotel workers, according to a study to be published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine in January. The union Unite Here provided data on 2,865 injuries at 50 hotels from the nation's five largest chains: Hilton...
January 3, 2010
MIAMI - Hotel chains like to tout their large, comfortable beds as a selling point, but those 125-pound mattresses are likely causing greater injury to female, Hispanic and Asian hotel workers, according to a study to be published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine in January. The union Unite Here provided data on 2,865 injuries at 50 hotels from the nation's five largest chains: Hilton...
January 3, 2010
Chicago Tribune (MCT) CHICAGO - For more than four months, Juan Xique has been struggling to get his life back in order after becoming homeless. He splits his time between staying with a friend in Cicero, Ill., and hanging out in Humboldt Park while trying to get back disability benefits to support himself. One issue that hasn't been a priority for him is getting an H1N1 flu shot. Xique, 50, gets most...
January 1, 2010
Chicago Tribune (MCT) CHICAGO - For more than four months, Juan Xique has been struggling to get his life back in order after becoming homeless. He splits his time between staying with a friend in Cicero, Ill., and hanging out in Humboldt Park while trying to get back disability benefits to support himself. One issue that hasn't been a priority for him is getting an H1N1 flu shot. Xique, 50, gets most...
January 1, 2010
Senior World Health Organisation official Keiji Fukuda said Thursday that it was too early to declare the swine flu pandemic over, as it continues at "high levels" in parts of Europe and central Asia. Although the A(H1N1) flu virus is peaking in parts of the northern hemisphere and is hardly present in the south, Fukuda said there was an unproven possibility that there could be another wave later in...
December 29, 2009
If you're considering an eyelift or tummy tuck, you might want to have it done before next year. Last week, the Senate began debate on an $848 billion health care reform bill that includes a 5% excise tax on elective cosmetic surgery, beginning Jan. 1, 2010. The provision would raise an estimated $5.8 billion in the next decade. The cosmetic surgery industry has mounted a vigorous effort to convince...
December 25, 2009
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