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SEPT-ILES, Que. Twenty doctors have quit their practice in a remote Quebec town because of plans to build a uranium mine. The doctors are based in Sept-Iles and have written Health Minister Yves Bolduc to outline their fears if the mine is built. Some are going to leave the area, while others may even leave the province. They say there will likely be other resignations. Sept-Iles is about 900 kilometres...
December 4, 2009
TORONTO - The Public Health Agency of Canada says there have been 48 cases of a severe allergic reaction reported in people who have had H1N1 shots. The agency says that was as of the week of Nov. 20, when nearly 12.3 million doses of vaccine had been distributed across the country. The rate of anaphylactic reactions is 0.39 per 100,000 doses, which the agency says doesn't exceed the normal rate seen...
December 4, 2009
TORONTO, Nov 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Preparing more food than usual at Thanksgiving can increase the risk of food poisoning, food experts in Canada warn. Turkey and all the fixings can be a tall order for the home cook and food experts at Ryerson University in Toronto advise always to wash hands after handling raw turkey and clean any surfaces that have come in contact with the turkey or its juices...
December 3, 2009
WASHINGTON, Dec 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has approved a drug called Kalbitor to treat people suffering from hereditary angioedema. The FDA said the rare genetic disease causes a sudden and potentially life-threatening fluid buildup due to a defect in a blood protein that helps regulate how certain immune system and blood clotting pathways function. Doctors...
December 3, 2009
Dec. 3 - Do 3M-made chemicals in water cause high cholesterol? Or is the opposite true - that high cholesterol causes the chemicals to accumulate? Three new studies link cholesterol with 3M-manufactured chemicals found in drinking water, without saying whether one might cause the other. State experts on pollution say the studies have not changed their minds about acceptable levels of the chemicals...
December 3, 2009
Dec. 3 - A Tucson doctor and researcher has received nearly $1 million to advance what could be groundbreaking work in predicting and preventing asthma - a disease with a rising incidence in the U.S. The $958,544 grant to Dr. Donata Vercelli from the National Institutes of Health is part of the federal stimulus package. Scientists cannot currently pinpoint what makes someone asthmatic. But it is a...
December 3, 2009
Dec. 3 - A study released Wednesday which found that nine of 10 babies tested were born with bisphenol A in their systems has renewed calls for the chemical to be banned. In the study commissioned by the Environmental Working Group, scientists found the chemical in nine of 10 randomly selected samples of umbilical cord blood. Previous studies have found BPA in the urine of 93% of Americans tested....
December 2, 2009
Put down the cheesecake and step away from the spiked eggnog. You don't want your heart to look like that atherosclerotic lump of flesh on display at Bodies, an exhibition of sliced-and-diced cadavers at the West End Marketplace. Premier Exhibitions Inc., the Atlanta-based promoter, bills the show as enlightening, empowering, fascinating and inspiring. It's also scary, especially during a holiday season...
December 2, 2009
Heart screenings offered to sixth-graders at a Houston middle school revealed seven with undiagnosed heart conditions - two of which required surgery - and the results shocked researchers who want to see such tests offered at every campus. Those 94 students at Key Middle School were the first tested in a study led by Houston cardiologist Dr. John Higgins. On Wednesday, his group began screening 150...
December 2, 2009
DALLAS, Dec 2, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. scientists say they've found a protein that normally suppresses the growth of cancer can also cause aggressive cancer growth after prolonged exposure. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center researchers said the protein - transforming growth factor beta1 - can cause cancer cells to become even more aggressive and likely to spread. The mechanism...
December 2, 2009
Breast-feeding may offer mothers long-term protection against a condition linked to diabetes and heart disease, researchers report today. The longer women breast-fed, the lower their chance of developing metabolic syndrome, a cluster of risk factors such as high blood pressure and high triglycerides associated with obesity, the scientists found. "Pregnancy may have some adverse effects on some of these...
December 2, 2009
A national push to avert delays in heart attack treatment has sharply increased the percentage of people who get prompt care, a study shows. Heart attacks occur when a blood clot cuts off the heart's blood supply. Doctors have known for years that a heart deprived of blood soon begins to die. The most effective treatment, angioplasty, involves inflating a narrow balloon in the clogged blood vessel...
December 2, 2009
Sep. 7 - CHARLESTON, W.Va. West Virginians could start getting vaccinated against the H1N1 virus by mid-October, the state's health officer says. "It's going to be a flow," Dr. Cathy Slemp said last week. "I think you will see a gradual increase in the availability of the vaccine, and we project that by late October, early November you're seeing more large scale clinics as more vaccine becomes available."...
December 2, 2009
Dec. 2 - The desperation among parents and the sick for H1N1 vaccine appears to have dwindled, along with the flu season itself. That's why Utah's 12 health departments are close to giving the vaccine to anyone, not just those in high-risk groups including children, the chronically ill under age 65 and health care workers. The change could occur by mid-December. Health departments in Davis, Salt Lake...
December 2, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, England, Dec 2, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A British-led group of international scientists says a new drug resistant strain of Salmonella Typhimurium is causing life-threatening disease in Africa. The researchers, part of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and other Wellcome Trust programs - said S. Typhimurium normally causes diarrhea and is rarely fatal. But the new strain, called ST313,...
December 2, 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 1, 2009
HERSHEY, Pa., Dec 1, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Antioxidants in chocolate and cocoa are highly associated with the amount of non-fat, cocoa-derived ingredients in the product, U.S. researchers say. The study, published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, found products with the highest level of flavanol antioxidants were cocoa powders, followed by unsweetened baking chocolate, dark chocolate...
December 1, 2009
WASHINGTON, Dec 2, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Full-scale healthcare rationing is already occurring on Indian reservations in the United States, a U.S. senator says. "We've got the 'first Americans' living in third world conditions," Sen. Byron L. Dorgan, D-N.D., told The New York Times in an article published Wednesday. Improving healthcare for Native Americans was the subject of meetings in Washington...
December 1, 2009
Eighth-grader Faith Maxwell is a pretty happy kid. Considering that she isn't allowed to play soccer or eat school lunches regularly and every visit to the doctor might end with word she needs a kidney transplant. Her family is still reeling from the worst time of their lives, 11 years ago. That's when Faith, then 2, almost died from E. coli O157:H7 she caught from an infected kid who got it from eating...
December 1, 2009
SILVER SPRING, Md., Dec 1, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Some people think a tan gives them a "healthy" glow, but any tan is a sign of skin damage, a U.S. expert on ultraviolet radiation and tanning warns. Sharon Miller, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration scientist, says sunlamps and tanning beds promise consumers a bronzed body year-round, but the ultraviolet radiation from these devices poses serious...
December 1, 2009
Dec. 2 - FARMINGTON - More than a dozen children are slated to get something close to medical door-to-door service Friday when staff from the Carrie Tingley Clinic visit the area. The traveling clinic is part of an outreach effort from the University of New Mexico hospital that brings services to areas that otherwise would lack particular medical care. The goal of the clinic is to bring doctors to...
December 1, 2009
Dec. 2 - SILVER CITY - If the old cliche - "you are what you eat," - is true then I think most of us walking around town are gobblers. You see the holidays are upon us and it's time for the weight gain blues with the start of the Thanksgiving holiday. We will find ourselves eating more, visiting friends and family more and taking in deserts and traditional food that will make our bellies bulge. So...
December 1, 2009
Dec. 2 - Mikey Santini was in junior high when he started taking creatine and protein supplements to build muscle and enhance his athletic abilities. By his junior year at Stevenson High School, he had moved on to nitric oxide "energy igniters" such as N.O.-Xplode and so-called "legal anabolic" products such as Mass FX, which claims to boost strength, aggression and testosterone levels. "You can get...
December 1, 2009
Linemen on football teams may be protecting other players, but many aren't guarding their own health. A study has found that the linemen on a Division I college football team were the only ones who were obese, and they were more likely than the other players to have high blood pressure, pre-diabetes and other weight-related health problems. Obesity increases the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes....
December 1, 2009
When health officials identified an outbreak of salmonella poisonings last summer, they traced the dangerous strain of salmonella to ground beef made at Beef Packers Inc., a major supplier to the National School Lunch Program. At least 39 people reported getting sick in 11 states, and doctors found that the salmonella infections resisted many common antibiotics. By early August, the U.S. Department...
December 1, 2009
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