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NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 15, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - An obesity epidemic has reached the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers in Kenya found. Abdhalah Ziraba, who worked on the study with the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi, Kenya, used data from seven African countries to investigate changes in body mass index from early 1990s and the early 2000s. The study, published...
December 14, 2009
PITTSBURGH, Dec 15, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Craving a cigarette while performing a cognitive task increases the chances of a person's mind wandering, University of Pittsburgh researchers suggest. The study, scheduled to be published in the January issue of Psychological Science, finds evidence that craving a cigarette disrupts one's meta-awareness - the ability periodically to appraise one's own thoughts....
December 14, 2009
OTTAWA, Dec 14, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Canadian mortality rates for sepsis - blood poisoning - patients are three times as high as for heart attack patients, health officials say. Indra Pulcins of the Canadian Institute for Health Information in Ottawa says more than 30 percent of the 30,500 patients hospitalized with sepsis die, compared to 18 percent of about 30,000 stroke patients and 9.1 percent...
December 14, 2009
Dec. 15 - While a nationwide push for vaccination against swine and seasonal flu has led to long lines for shots, another vaccine against a common and deadly flu complication - pneumonia - hasn't gotten to many of the people most at risk. Most babies get the pneumococcal vaccine, but only two-thirds of seniors, who generally are the hardest hit by flu each year, get their recommended dose. And vaccines...
December 14, 2009
CHICAGO, Dec 15, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - An estimated 6 percent of U.S. children may have food allergies but many doctors say they're not sure they can diagnose or treat the allergies, researchers say. Researchers at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago surveyed 400 pediatricians and family physicians nationwide and found significant misconceptions concerning food allergies. The study found doctors...
December 14, 2009
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 14, 2009
ALMERIA, Spain, Dec 15, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Physical education teachers should make students feel capable of doing physical exercise and playing sports throughout their lives, Spanish researchers say. Study author David Gonzalez-Cutre of the University of Almeria in Spain examined the factors that influence students to like sports in physical education classes. The study, published in the Journal...
December 14, 2009
Dec. 14 - BROWNSVILLE - When Antonio Ayala leaves for dialysis at 4:45 a.m., he must first brave a muddy driveway while struggling with his prosthetic leg. "I have to go slow with him," said his daughter, Sylvia Hinojosa. "It takes five to eight minutes. After he stops he has to stay there and then he starts walking again." Hinojosa said she and her father would like to get the driveway paved so that...
December 14, 2009
Trying to lose weight? Here's some dieting advice from the book "How to Lose 9,000 Lbs. (or Less)" (Hundreds of Heads Books, www.hundredsofheads.com, $13.95), straight from people who've done it: "When nuts are included in a recipe, chop them finely and you will only need about half of what the recipe calls for. No one will ever know what's missing. After all, it is the taste you are after, not the...
December 13, 2009
Jennifer Shay cradling four-pound, two-ounce Caden against her chest has to fight her instincts and avoid reacting when an alarm goes off in the neonatal intensive care unit at CHOC Children's at Mission Hospital. Shay has to believe that the NICU nurses her friends and co-workers know what to do and do it fast, even if six-week-old Caden or his two siblings, Michaela and Austin, forget to breathe....
December 13, 2009
Dec. 14 - After peaking in October, the number of swine flu cases in Los Angeles County has plummeted, and school health officials hope Christmas break will nearly halt the spread of the disease. The number of weekly confirmed flu cases at nine sentinel labs throughout the county peaked at 550 in late October, according to statistics from the county's Department of Public Health. By the first week...
December 13, 2009
Singing River Health System's Regional Cancer Center is making strides in its treatment of cancer - expanding facilities, buying top-of-the-line equipment and getting top marks for its patient registry. For the second year in a row it has received gold certification from the Mississippi Cancer Registry for registry work at Singing River and Ocean Springs hospitals. The registry is a system of tracking...
December 13, 2009
Two miscarriages in three months had taken such a heavy toll on Stephanie Nash that when she became pregnant again that summer an old familiar fear crept back in. Twins, the doctor said, on the day of the ultrasound. That's when the tears began to fall, and Nash realized that joy and heartache are sometimes one and the same. "I just thought, 'I don't know if I can go through this again,'" Nash said....
December 13, 2009
WASHINGTON, Dec 14, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. Senate backers say a long-term healthcare plan for people with disabilities should be included in health insurance reform legislation. Advocates say the program, included in the House version of the bill, would cover the long-term healthcare needs of people with severe disabilities who want to live in the community. Costs would be met through premiums...
December 13, 2009
WASHINGTON - Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors have just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants to patients who too often never qualify. "A whole new doorway of hope opened," says Tom Otten, a suburban St. Louis police officer who travelled halfway across the country to Georgetown University Hospital...
December 13, 2009
SAINT-EUSTACHE, Que. Steps away from the handoff, Greg Shulkin stopped his motorized scooter, unfurled the Olympic torch from its holster and, with a little help, slowly began to walk the final few paces of the relay. He earned boisterous applause from his parents, brothers, nieces, nephews, friends and a few hundred flag-waving supporters who gathered last week to watch the flame pass through the...
December 13, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Dec 7, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers found the percentage of stroke survivors taking blood thinners stayed steady over seven years. Dr. Eric Cheng of the University of California-Los Angeles and colleagues found that in each year of the seven-year study, about 20 percent of survivors were not taking medications to prevent further stroke - a figure that did not decrease during...
December 12, 2009
Dec. 12 - Jason Mitchell sides with his customers who prefer the aesthetics of a live Christmas tree to the imitation, boxed variety. "A lot of people like the fragrance," said Mitchell of Oakland Nurseries in Delaware. "I would say that's the biggest thing for me." But Mitchell stopped buying evergreens for several years after his youngest son had an asthma-like reaction when the family set up a live...
December 12, 2009
MILWAUKEE - The head of the primary federal agency studying the safety of bisphenol A said Friday that people should avoid ingesting the chemical - especially pregnant women, infants and children. "There are plenty of reasonable alternatives," said Linda Birnbaum, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program, in an interview with the Milwaukee...
December 12, 2009
Science and technology produced tremendous advances in health care over the past half century, but there's been a tendency in some quarters to lose touch with the human emotions of patients and medical providers alike. Teaching hospitals are encouraging medical students to understand the patient as a person by using books and films to expand the concept of illness. "They're trying to use (the arts)...
December 11, 2009
SAN ANTONIO - New results from a landmark women's health study raise the exciting possibility that bone-building drugs such as Fosamax and Actonel may help prevent breast cancer. Women who already were using these medicines when the study began were about one-third less likely to develop invasive breast cancer over the next seven years than women not taking such pills, doctors reported Thursday. The...
December 11, 2009
WASHINGTON, Dec 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Moderate Democrats in the U.S. Senate, concerned about a proposed expansion of Medicare, say they won't commit their votes until they get more information. The Medicare proposal - seen as possibly bridging the healthcare divide between liberals who want a public option and moderates who don't - would allow people ages 55-64 to buy Medicare coverage. Currently,...
December 11, 2009
ALBANY, N.Y., Dec 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The governor of New York said Thursday healthcare providers statewide should make the H1N1 flu vaccine available to all without restriction. "Since early October, when the H1N1 flu vaccine first became available, we have focused on providing vaccine to those New Yorkers considered at highest risk of serious illness from the flu," Gov. David A. Paterson...
December 11, 2009
ATLANTA, Dec 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - In a study involving 12 states, American Indians/Alaska Natives were at increased risk of death due to H1N1 influenza, U.S. health officials say. The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released Thursday says an investigation of influenza-related deaths occurring in 12 states between April 15-Nov. 13 found American...
December 11, 2009
TORONTO, Dec 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A former chief medical officer of health for Ontario says the Canadian government overreacted in ordering H1N1 flu vaccines and now has a surplus. Dr. Richard Schabas, medical officer of health for Hastings and Prince Edward Counties east of Toronto, told the Toronto Star the vaccine came out too late and the outbreak originally called swine flu has peaked....
December 11, 2009
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