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Kampala (dpa) - Ugandan lawmakers have passed a law criminalizing female genital mutilation with sentences for those found guilty ranging from five years to life imprisonment, a spokesperson for parliament said Friday. "The law was unanimously passed yesterday," parliament spokesperson Hellen Kawesa told the German Press Agency dpa. Women's groups have long condemned the partial or complete removal...
December 11, 2009
Dec 11, 2009 (National Institutes of Health Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) News; National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) http://www.niddk.nih.gov/; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) http:// www.nhlbi.nih.gov/; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
December 11, 2009
Dec. 2 - Antoinette Dickson dropped four cans of corn into her cart, right next to a big bottle of tomato juice. She looked up just in time to stop her youngest son's curious little hands from reaching out of his cart seat and pulling down a spice rack display. "What are doing in there?" she teased 18-month-old Will. She returned her attention to a brochure listing the items available to her through...
December 10, 2009
GRONINGEN, Netherlands, Dec 8, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Asthmatic smokers may be able to reverse some of the damage to their lungs by snuffing out their cigarettes, Dutch researchers say. Lead author Martine Broekema of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and colleagues examined patients with asthma who were assessed for the severity of their asthma and allergy, given questionnaires to determine...
December 9, 2009
Obesity-related health care costs in the United States for one year - 2008 - were an estimated $147 billion, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control study. That's nearly a quarter of what the latest health care reform proposal will cost over the next 10 years. It seems clear that reforming the amount and quality of school-based physical education programs is fundamental to improving America's...
December 9, 2009
Q: I'm 11 years old. Almost every night I go to bed with a headache and I wake with a headache. I've been to the doctors and they have given me medications, but they really don't work. What is causing me to have these headaches? - A: Headaches that last all day nearly every day are often related to stress. We presume that your doctors have already checked your vision, blood pressure and other causes...
December 9, 2009
Lining up to buy train tickets for a pleasant autumn trip to the countryside, Paul Lee turned around to witness a sight that turned his family vacation into a nightmare. He saw his mother, Catherine Chuen, lying unconscious on the floor of bustling Odakyu Shinjuku Station. She was foaming at the mouth and struggling to breathe, having suffered a heart attack. It was about 9 a.m. on Oct. 5 - the fifth...
December 9, 2009
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) WASHINGTON - The advertisement for an athlete's foot drug depicted attacks on a giant fungus alongside the words Crush, Kill and Destroy in bold type. But after looking at clinical studies related to the drug, the Food and Drug Administration in August sent a letter to the distributor, Johnson & Johnson, warning that the ads "greatly overstate" claims that the prescription...
December 9, 2009
SYDNEY, Australia - Australia announced Thursday it will lift a 5-year ban on clinical trials of animal-to-human transplantation, after the government's top health body determined the risk of transmitting animal viruses to people was low. The decision by the National Health and Medical Research Council means Australia will join a slew of other countries - including the United States and New Zealand...
December 9, 2009
WASHINGTON - Hospital and doctor groups that have generally supported the effort to revamp the nation's health care system pushed back Wednesday against a new idea proposed by Democratic leaders to let younger Americans buy into Medicare. The proposal, which would allow people 55 to 64 to enroll in the seniors health program, has emerged as a central part of an agreement struck between centrist and...
December 9, 2009
We used to know what infidelity was: sex with someone other than your mate. But the 21st century seems to have blurred those clear-cut lines. Is having lunch every day with an opposite-sex work friend a breach of marital trust? What about a flirtation online? If there's no sex, is it really cheating? Such questions arise as societal and psychological pressures challenge deep-rooted ideas about the...
December 9, 2009
UNION, Ore., Dec 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The Rock Creek Nut Co. of Union, Ore., says it is recalling Quick Fix-brand trail mix because it contains undeclared milk and soy. The company said the undeclared ingredients pose a health risk for people who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk or soy. The recalled product, sold in Oregon and Washington, is packaged in clear plastic bags in 1/2-pound...
December 9, 2009
The day before Halloween, T.J. Berndsen had what his parents believed was a little asthma flare-up. By Halloween night, he felt lousy enough to cut trick-or-treating short. A week later, the 9-year-old was straining to breathe in the emergency room at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center because of complications from an H1N1 influenza infection. "By Sunday, Nov. 8, his cough turned into a...
December 8, 2009
Did you hear the one about the soda giant looking to develop nutritious foods? PepsiCo announced Tuesday that it has opened a research lab at Science Park to focus on development of more healthful foods and beverages, while also underwriting a graduate fellowship at the Yale School of Medicine. Eight full-time PepsiCo scientists will work in leased lab space at 25 Science Park, a building owned by...
December 8, 2009
Dec. 9 - The extra eating that occurs at holiday feasts, parties and celebrations can cause unwanted pounds to accumulate. An extra intake of just 200 to 300 calories a day above what one expends can add several pounds during the season. A pound of body fat is the accumulation of 3,500 to 3,600 extra calories that are not burned. Eating an extra 500 calories a day would equal a pound gained every week....
December 8, 2009
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...
December 8, 2009
Doctors are urging UAE residents to use face masks to prevent allergies resulting from sandstorms and the expected weather changes in the coming days. Respiratory and skin allergies are likely to increase in the coming days as the mercury dips further and strong winds whip up fine sand particles, they say. "It is expected that dust allergies will increase since winter is approaching," said Dr Manisha...
December 8, 2009
BOSTON, Dec 8, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Researchers in Italy, Australia and the United States want to pin down whether tamiflu is effective against pandemic influenza in otherwise healthy adults. Tom Jefferson of the Cochrane Collaboration in Rome, Mark Jones of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, doctoral student Peter Doshi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Chris Del Mar, coordinating...
December 8, 2009
A preventive approach is necessary at any age to maintain good health, but many people are often in the dark about what that involves. Before scheduling another routine visit to the doctor, women and men should know the health risks for their age group and be prepared to talk with their physician about the necessary medical screenings. There are several key areas patients should discuss with their...
December 8, 2009
As the president of a university with more than 21,000 students, and as a physician, the thought of handling the still-worrisome H1N1 virus with a sense of avoidance deeply concerns me. A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll showed that nearly seven out of 10 people ages 18 to 29 do not plan to get vaccinated against the H1N1 virus. The pandemic attributed to this virus has been surprisingly moderate,...
December 8, 2009
Soy foods may be safe, and possibly even beneficial, for breast cancer survivors, a new study says. Many breast cancer doctors have been cautious about recommending soy products - such as soy milk, tofu, edamame or miso soup - because they contain plant estrogens. Most breast cancers are fueled by estrogen, which can make it risky to take additional hormones, such as for menopausal symptoms. Studies...
December 8, 2009
Breast cancer campaigns have helped raise awareness about breast cancer, as well as money for research. But all those pink ribbons have given women an inflated fear of the disease - and unrealistic expectations about the benefits of mammograms, says Lisa Schwartz, a doctor at the Veterans Affairs Outcomes Group in White River Junction, Vt. That mixture of fear and faith has helped fuel the backlash...
December 8, 2009
The rates of new cancer cases and deaths continue to fall modestly each year, evidence that the nation has made progress in reducing tobacco use, preventing cancer, finding cancer early and treating it more effectively, according to the "Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer," released Monday night. The rate of new cancer diagnoses fell by slightly less than 1% a year from 1999 to 2006,...
December 7, 2009
Dec. 8 - The local medical community is expressing grave concerns about state cuts that will deny regular breast cancer screening to thousands of area women. "Every Woman Counts," a program that pays the cost of mammograms for uninsured women not covered by Medi-Cal - or those who have insurance that doesn't cover the cost of screenings - will on Jan. 1 "temporarily cease new breast cancer screening...
December 7, 2009
Many preschool children in Head Start programs are being offered fruits and vegetables and low-fat or non-fat milk daily as directors are increasingly concerned about childhood obesity. The children also have a chance to play each day. That's according to a new survey of directors of 1,583 programs, which serve almost 829,000 children. Head Start, the largest federally funded early-childhood education...
December 7, 2009
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