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Nearly half of breast cancer survivors suffer from persistent pain, even two to three years after surgery, a study shows. Almost 60% of the 3,253 women surveyed experience other symptoms of nerve damage, such as numbness or tenderness, according to a study of all Danish women treated for breast cancer in 2005 and 2006. Women under 40 and those who have more extensive surgery, such as a mastectomy,...
November 11, 2009
Now that it has been about five weeks since H1N1 vaccine began trickling out, parents of some children, those lucky enough to have received their first dose, are wondering how they're going to get the second dose needed to fully protect their kids. Last week, the Park Nicollet Clinic, a large medical practice based in St. Louis Park, Minn., began telling parents that boosters would have to be postponed...
November 11, 2009
Ten more people have died from swine flu in Turkey, taking the toll from the disease to 40, the health ministry said Wednesday. An initial statement from the ministry said six people, among them two nine-year-old children and a baby less than a year of age, had lost their lives while being treated for the A(H1N1) virus. A second statement a few hours later said the disease had claimed four more lives,...
November 11, 2009
British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline has announced that US regulators have approved its swine flu vaccine for adults in the United States. "The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a... license application for its unadjuvanted influenza A (H1N1) pandemic vaccine," GSK said in a statement received on Wednesday. "The United States Department of Health and Human Services has placed an order...
November 11, 2009
Sarah Fischer of Niskayuna was patiently waiting in an Annie Schaffer Senior Center conference room for her kids to get the H1N1 vaccine at a public clinic Tuesday. There was no pushing, no raised voices, no long lines. Parents had appointments, and quietly rolled in about four at a time all afternoon. The eagerness to get their kids under 5 years old inoculated against the rapidly spreading strain...
November 11, 2009
The world may be on pins and needles about a shortage of H1N1 flu vaccine, but the children at Bluffton Elementary School on Tuesday narrowed the concern to one thing: the needles. About 600 of the school's 900 students rolled up red, blue, yellow or white uniform sleeves and took an H1N1 flu shot square in the shoulder. The closest we came to a Norman Rockwell moment was when the 4-year-olds filed...
November 10, 2009
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Who would have thought a Playboy centerfold would be the poster girl for the mentally ill victims of irresponsible doctors? Not me. But two years after her death, Anna Nicole Smith could change the way doctors prescribe psychiatric drugs in the United States. How? A judge in Los Angeles ruled Oct. 30 that two doctors charged with illegally prescribing drugs to Smith should stand...
November 10, 2009
With the holidays on the way, anyone hoping to lose - or even maintain - weight is faced with big challenges. Mary Ann Brody, the chef adviser for the Weighty Matters blog, can help: her guidelines for using Splenda in place of sugar. Here's what she has to say: "Splenda measures just like sugar. So if your recipe calls for 1 cup of sugar, you will use 1 cup of Splenda. It is the only sugar substitute...
November 10, 2009
The city's first mass H1N1 vaccination clinic wil be held for infants and pregnant women Thursday at the Government Center. The clinic, which will be from 5 to 8 p.m. in the center's lobby, is only open to pregnant women and children from 6 to 35 months, said Anne Fountain, the city's emergency management coordinator. No appointments are necessary. People will be treated on a first-come, first-serve...
November 10, 2009
Google on Tuesday launched an online tool for tracking down where to get vaccinations against H1N1 and seasonal influenza in the United States. The flu-shot finder service went live online at google.com/flushot and will soon be available at flu.gov and websites of the American Lung Association, according to the California-based Internet giant. "This project is just beginning and we have not yet received...
November 10, 2009
The news that basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's all-time leading scorer, has a rare but treatable form of leukemia hit fellow UCLA alum Bill Walton hard. "When the story came over the wire in the middle of the night, I could not sleep at all," said Walton, who followed in Abdul-Jabbar's footsteps as a center for the storied UCLA basketball program. "He was my first phone call...
November 10, 2009
TORONTO, Nov. 9, 2009 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) - After a successful inaugural year, the world's first breast cancer film festival is back and bigger than ever. Along with a new selection of inspiring films that cover the emotional spectrum of the breast cancer journey, Rethink Breast Cancer's 2009 Breast Fest Film Festival is unveiling a new three-day program to include additional workshops to...
November 10, 2009
NEW YORK, Nov 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Substances produced by the human body may one day help prevent paralysis following a spinal cord injury, U.S. researchers said. Dr. Samie Jaffrey, associate professor of pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical College, said permanent nerve damage may be avoided by raising levels of a compound that converts to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide - NADplus - the active...
November 10, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Air pollution is a major health risk for patients in Fresno, Calif., who suffer from chronic lung diseases, U.S. researchers said. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, compared the weekly rates of those admitted to a hospital emergency room with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with air pollution indices for corresponding...
November 10, 2009
PHILADELPHIA, Nov 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers link increased use of carotid arterial stenting to poorer outcomes such as heart attack and stroke. The study, published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery, associated carotid arterial stenting - a procedure treating the narrowed neck artery to increase blood flow to the head - to higher death rates and adverse clinical outcomes, including...
November 9, 2009
Nov. 10 - Marie Kawaguchi spent much of the first four decades of her life going from doctor to doctor, trying to find relief for conditions that included persistent fatigue and weakness, digestive problems, muscle aches and what she calls "brain fog." "I had a couple doctors tell me I had irritable bowel syndrome, and I should get over it," said Kawaguchi, 54 and a West Haven resident. So about a...
November 9, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Nov 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers say they have been able to grow new penile tissue in labs and implant it into rabbits to restore their sexual function. Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina, says the technique could has the potential to be used to treat severe erectile...
November 9, 2009
Six more H1N1 deaths, including two children, were reported in Michigan last week, flu experts said Monday. That brings the total of deaths in Michigan to 28 since Sept. 1. Victims have ranged in age from 3 months to 72. In their weekly flu update Monday, state health officials focused on asthma - one of the chronic conditions that can lead to more serious cases of H1N1 - repeating the need for those...
November 9, 2009
Nov. 9 - The world-wide obesity epidemic has been thoroughly probed and documented in countless news stories, but Dr. Frederic J. Vagnini and co-author Lawrence D. Chilnick redefine the focus between obesity and diabetes and outline a program to combat pre-diabetes and Type 2 diabetes in The Weight Loss Plan for Beating Diabetes:The 5-Step Program That Removes Metabolic Roadblocks, Sheds Pounds Safely,...
November 9, 2009
CHICAGO - For under-the-weather workers, the decision to stay home or push through a day at the office always has been a hand-wringing one. Now, concerns over H1N1 flu, coupled with a lean economy, are putting workers' sick-leave dilemmas under the microscope. "Since the recession started ... it's been a more heated issue of workers really having to protect their jobs and needing to make sure they're...
November 9, 2009
A cook at an Indiana restaurant suffered a job-related back injury, and a workers' compensation board said the employer must pay for a medical procedure. What makes this news? The procedure was weight-loss surgery. Also this summer, the Oregon Supreme Court said an employer must pay for surgery for an employee who suffered a workplace knee injury - not for knee replacement but for a weight-loss procedure....
November 9, 2009
With the nation's unemployment rate above 10 percent, many jobless people are falling prey to bogus health insurance plans. Consumers victimized by such plans can be left with thousands in unpaid medical bills, stolen premiums or a discount card on prescription drugs and medical services, not insurance. "So many people are desperate for affordable health insurance because of being laid off that they...
November 9, 2009
It has been three years since the diagnosis, and, according to the American Cancer Society, three years of survivorship for one Aiken County resident. "You become a survivor the day you are diagnosed," said Michael Brazier, ACS community manager. For survivor Shirley Abney, the keys are attitude and a smile. "I was diagnosed two months after my mother passed, and my birthday present the next year was...
November 9, 2009
Americans who are frustrated with shortages of swine flu vaccine place slightly more blame on drug companies than the federal government, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll showed Monday. With swine flu widespread in 48 states and pediatric deaths mounting - 129 children have died from flu complications since April, federal officials reported Friday - only 5% of respondents have received the vaccine since it...
November 9, 2009
Nov. 10 - In a Louisville, Ky., Holiday Inn, Brown and Williamson researchers brainstormed novel ways to sell tobacco. It was 1992, and the goal was to find "socially acceptable" ways to use it, according to one of the company's internal research and development documents. It needed to be smokeless, spitless, and not produce an odor. It needed to be fire safe, readily available and not subject to federal...
November 9, 2009
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