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PITTSBURGH, Dec 15, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. holiday and weekend eating differs significantly from weekday food consumption, U.S. researchers found. J. Jeffrey Inman of the University of Pittsburgh has suggested the U.S. Department of Agriculture incorporate guidelines for holiday and weekend eating into its food pyramid of optimal nutrition guidelines for each food category. Inman and Adwait Karee...
December 23, 2009
Americans have slipped into a "nutrition recession," said registered dietitian Mary Martin Nordness of Huntsville, and she recommends a Nutrition Stimulus Plan to repair the dietary damage. "We are eating foods that are high in fat and calories and costing more, but providing limited nutritional value," she said. Save your government economic stimulus money for another use, because moving to a healthier...
December 22, 2009
Nov. 11 - Single mother Monique Rocha, 23, has a 2-year-old son with a stomach condition. So it's especially important for his diet to be packed with healthy foods. The recently expanded California Women, Infants and Children program is helping Rocha get nutritious foods for her son. A cooking demonstration held Tuesday at the East Bakersfield Community Health Center showed off foods new to the program...
December 19, 2009
DENVER - Any slacker living over his parents' garage can make pot brownies. Gourmet chefs are taking the art of cooking with marijuana to a higher level. In Denver, a new medical-marijuana shop called Ganja Gourmet serves cannabis-infused specialties such as pizza, hummus and lasagna. Across town in the Mile-High City, a Caribbean restaurant plans to offer classes on how to make multi-course meals...
December 18, 2009
Federal health officials reported Monday that cases of flu-like illness in the USA have declined for four weeks in a row, though hospitalization rates remain high, especially for children younger than 4. The steady decline in the USA and elsewhere prompted the World Health Organization to propose Friday that swine flu may have peaked in North America, the Caribbean and parts of Europe, though the "winter...
December 17, 2009
WASHINGTON, Dec 16, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted to recommend the cholesterol lowering drug Crestor be approved for those with inflammation. If the FDA follows the panel's recommendation - which came on a vote of 12-4 - rosuvastatin, or Crestor, would be approved for patients with no history of heart disease but who had elevated levels of the inflammatory...
December 17, 2009
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...
December 16, 2009
WASHINGTON - About one in four soldiers admit abusing prescription drugs, most of them pain relievers, in a one-year period, according to a Pentagon health survey released Wednesday. The study, which surveyed more than 28,500 U.S. troops last year, showed that about 20% of Marines had also abused prescription drugs, mostly painkillers, in that same period. The findings show the continued toll on the...
December 16, 2009
Dec. 17 - Arizona is one of the country's seven worst states in emergency health preparedness, a new report says. The seventh annual "Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Diseases Disasters and Bioterrorism" report released this week gave Arizona a score of five out of 10 key indicators of public health emergency preparedness. Among other things, the report says Arizona has purchased less...
December 16, 2009
A South Korean infant infected with swine flu has died of pneumonia and respiratory failure after showing no response to the anti-viral drug Tamiflu, officials said Thursday. The one-year-old girl died on December 1 in hospital, the health ministry said, adding that health officials discovered a strain of the (A)H1N1 virus resistant to Tamiflu in her body. "It marked the first such fatality at home,...
December 16, 2009
Dec. 17 - For uninsured patients, lab tests don't need to bleed them of all their money. The Summit County Medical Society recently struck a deal with a Web-based lab ordering site to provide low-cost blood and other lab tests for patients without health insurance. To access the discount program, patients anywhere may visit the medical society's Web site, http://www.scmsoc.org, and select "Uninsured...
December 16, 2009
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 16, 2009
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...
December 16, 2009
CLEVELAND, Dec 17, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. pediatrician advises veering away from videos when giving gifts to small children. Dr. Michael Macknin, a pediatrician at Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, says a study found infants 8-16 months old who watched popular baby education videos for more than one hour a day scored 17 points lower on verbal tests than peers. Cartoon watchers, he says,...
December 16, 2009
Dec. 16 - SACRAMENTO - Advocates of breast cancer prevention on Tuesday assailed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for his administration's decision to radically curtail a program that currently provides mammograms for low-income women over 40. "We are appalled that Every Woman Counts is closing its doors to uninsured women," said Donna Sanderson, Sacramento director for the international advocacy group Susan...
December 15, 2009
Warning letters went out to thousands of doctors today alerting them that Sanofi Aventis is recalling 800,000 doses of pediatric swine flu vaccine in prefilled syringes because routine tests disclosed that its potency has diminished, officials say. Despite the recall, the vaccine is safe and effective; parents need not worry about unusual side effects or having their children re-vaccinated, says Anne...
December 15, 2009
BETHESDA, Md., Dec 16, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - About half of U.S. children and teens with some mental disorders receive professional services, researchers say. The survey for the National Institute of Mental Health used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The survey, conducted from 2001-2004, had 3,042 participants ages 8-15. Dr. Thomas R. Insel, director of the National...
December 15, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C., Dec 16, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Some programs the U.S. government says will be in deficit may actually have a surplus because people are living healthier and longer, U.S. researchers say. Study co-author Dr. Al Headen, associate professor of economics at North Carolina State University, and colleagues at Duke University, Brigham Young University and the National Council of Spinal Cord...
December 15, 2009
BOSTON, Dec 16, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Men with colorectal cancer were more likely to survive if they exercised regularly, U.S. researchers found. Researchers from Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute studied 668 men with colorectal cancer and found those engaged in moderate physical activity were 53 percent more likely to be alive and free of the disease than those who were less physically active....
December 15, 2009
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Dec 16, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Dental therapists, who perform preventive and basic dental services, could provide care to millions of underserved Americans, a foundation says. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation report said dental therapists are similar to nurse practitioners or physician assistant in the medical field. "Training and placing new dental therapists under the general supervision...
December 15, 2009
LANGEN, Germany, Dec 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A severe influenza pandemic could quickly lead to a deficit of up to 96,000 red blood cell transfusion units in Germany alone, medical researchers said. "The pandemic model showed that after five to six weeks of a severe pandemic, there would be 220,000 fewer units than the normal supply, a reduction of 40 percent to 50 percent," lead researcher Dr....
December 15, 2009
Dec. 15 - Cases of H1N1 flu have fallen sharply. Seasonal flu has not yet surfaced. Vaccinations for each are available across town. After a fall marked by doom-and-gloom flu news, El Paso County health officials indicated Monday that things are looking up. They are quick to point out, though, that the quiet may not last. Dr. Bernadette Albanese, medical director for the El Paso County Department of...
December 14, 2009
WASHINGTON, Dec 15, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Unemployed U.S. workers are experiencing a range of mental health issues and other negative life consequences, a New York Times/CBS News poll indicates. The Times said the poll, released Tuesday, sheds a light on the depth of the trauma being endured by millions of Americans who have been laid off from their jobs, such as findings that more than half have...
December 14, 2009
When the Spanish flu crushed New York City in 1918, killing more than 12,300 people in a single November week, Diane Dobbins' grandparents lived in an apartment in Brooklyn and made their living in the garment industry. Like swine flu, the virus was mild when it emerged in the spring of 1918, with illnesses lasting only a few days. But in the fall, it exploded into a pandemic. Mailmen wore doctor's...
December 14, 2009
A global "patent pool" for AIDS drugs will be launched next year in a bid to slash billions off the cost of producing generic medecines for the developing world, the UNITAID drug purchase fund said. UNITAID head Philippe Douste-Blazy told AFP the mechanism was given the green light at a board meeting in Geneva Monday and aims to supply latest-generation anti-retroviral drugs to AIDS sufferers in low-...
December 14, 2009
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