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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 9, 2009
Veterans and artists are raising a new flag at the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Administration Healthcare Center: a Strawberry Flag. Part therapy, part art installation and part fundraiser, the project has created a raised strawberry field in the shape of an American flag. Veterans tend the strawberries, transplanted from abandoned fields, and sell preserves they make from second-harvest fruit. The...
November 9, 2009
Riga (dpa) - A 50-year-old Latvian woman on Monday became the first person in the Baltics to die of the virulent A/H1N1 flu virus, known commonly as swine flu. The unidentified woman died at the P Stradins University Hospital in the capital Riga, the Baltic News Service reported. She had been under observation after become ill on her return from a trip to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, between...
November 9, 2009
My interview with Dr. Mehmet Oz - frequent Oprah guest and star of "The Dr. Oz" show - was longer than most doctor appointments. Which isn't saying much. Dr. Oz: The free-clinic movement to me is very important. Q: Tell me about the one you held in September in Texas. A: We chose to go to Texas because it's the state with the highest percentage of uninsured people, and Houston is the city that can...
November 8, 2009
The best parenting advice I ever heard was from an older co-worker who'd raised three daughters. "Don't try to ban junk food," he said. "It will backfire. They'll sneak it on the sly anyway and wind up eating more." So, in that spirit, except for peanuts there are no forbidden foods in this house. Big Guy's other allergens we allow now, because he's old enough to know not to grab them. Soda, candy,...
November 8, 2009
BOSTON, Nov 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A majority of U.S. adults who tried to get the H1N1 vaccine for themselves or their children have been unable to do so, a poll indicates. Among adults who tried to get it for themselves, 30 percent were able to get the vaccine and 70 percent were unable. Among parents who tried to get the H1N1 vaccine for their children, 34 percent were able to get it and 66 percent...
November 8, 2009
BOSTON, Nov 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Many education officials base decisions on when to close schools for flu on politics or fear rather than data, U.S. and Japanese researchers say. Epidemiologists John Brownstein and Anne Gatewood Hoen of the Children's Hospital Boston Informatics Program in collaboration with Asami Sasaki of the University of Niigata Prefecture used a detailed set of Japanese...
November 8, 2009
San Francisco - As back pain has become an increasingly common ailment in the United States - and for chronic sufferers, one of the most debilitating - desperate patients and their doctors have propelled major advancements in the field. New treatments range from the cheap and easy - yoga and acupuncture, for example - to expensive and invasive procedures like disk replacement surgery or injecting quick-drying...
November 8, 2009
Forget about fall - it's flu season. If you've been on a plane, train, ship or any other form of public transportation recently, there has been someone nearby coughing, sneezing or sniffling. Travel puts people in close proximity to others who very likely are carrying a flu virus. So hygiene awareness is key, whether the concern is H1N1 or seasonal flu. Chicago's O'Hare International and Midway airports,...
November 8, 2009
Although still used in doctors' offices and emergency departments, "rapid influenza diagnostic tests" actually do a fairly poor job of sniffing out H1N1, a growing body of evidence shows. Scientists reported last week in The Journal of the American Medical Association that one-third of California patients hospitalized with H1N1 flu had a negative rapid test, which looks for influenza A virus in a sample...
November 8, 2009
Orville Rogers can make it twice around Coppell High School's track in a little over four minutes. That's a respectable time for many of the teens who attend the Dallas school. For Rogers' peer group, it's remarkable. Rogers, 91, ran at Coppell last summer in the Texas Masters Championships outdoor track meet. The nonagenarian holds the world indoor record in his age group (90 to 94) for the mile (9:56.58)...
November 8, 2009
Four more people have died of swine flu in Turkey, bringing the national toll to 27, the health ministry said on Sunday. The latest victims of the A(H1N1) virus were a two-year-old girl and three men aged 26, 52 and 60. Swine flu deaths in Turkey have risen sharply this week, after the first fatality was reported on October 24. On November 2 hospitals began vaccinating medical workers and people planning...
November 8, 2009
DAVIS, Calif., Oct 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. scientists say they have identified the dominant chemical naturally produced by humans that attracts some mosquitoes to people. University of California-Davis researchers said they discovered the odor naturally produced in humans and birds that attract the blood-feeding Culex mosquitoes, which transmit West Nile virus and other life-threatening diseases....
November 7, 2009
OAKLAND - Tiffany Lee, 16, is the worst-case swine flu scenario every doctor fears. On July 7, she started to cough and feel dizzy. "I thought it was allergies," she says from her hospital bed. Two days later, her parents took her to a local hospital, where doctors first said she was fine and sent her home. When she returned July 9, they said she had pneumonia and sent her in an ambulance straight...
November 7, 2009
The American Medical Association recently unveiled AMAfluhelp.org, a flu health-assessment site that allows patients to assess symptoms quickly and interact with their physician. The program, launched Oct. 22, will first walk patients through a series of questions to determine the severity of their flu symptoms based upon the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines - information...
November 6, 2009
Kelsey Jessup, 26, is a model of healthful living. The Palo Alto native runs five days a week, practices yoga and stays away from red meat. But none of that mattered when Jessup recently applied for health insurance. Because she had knee surgery to repair a high school soccer injury and went to the emergency room after fainting a few years ago, she was denied coverage by multiple insurers. Ronald Sturm,...
November 6, 2009
Nov. 6 - LAKE COUNTY November is National Alzheimer's Awareness Month and National Family Caregivers Month. According to the Alzheimer's Association there are more than five million Americans living with the disease and as many as 10 million family caregivers. Alzheimer's disease is a disorder of the brain that causes damage to brain tissue over a period of time. Alzheimer's accounts for more than...
November 6, 2009
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - A medical aid group says funding for AIDS is threatened, and that could set back "dramatic" progress in decreasing HIV illness and death. Medecins Sans Frontieres officials said at a news conference Thursday that the global recession and calls to commit funds to other health crises has hurt the fight against AIDS. The group, also known as Doctors Without Borders, says money...
November 6, 2009
Nov. 5 - Potential Allergen in H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine May Put Children at Risk- New Test Reveals Both Presence and Severity of the Allergy The World Health Organization recently declared H1N1 swine flu a global pandemic, resulting in the creation of rigorous vaccination programs worldwide and anxiety among parents of children with food allergies. Most H1N1 swine flu vaccines are prepared from virus...
November 6, 2009
Nov. 6 - Colleges in Tennessee and North Georgia are bracing for a second wave of "influenzalike illnesses" just as campuses are recovering from a fall surge in the flu. "We are going to see another upswing," said Chris Smith, a nurse practitioner at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. "We are just trying to keep on top of it." Since Aug. 30, 530 deaths have been attributed to the flu, both...
November 5, 2009
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday slammed drug companies selling swine flu vaccines for allegedly refusing to take legal responsibility for any of their possible side effects. "We know that the companies offering H1N1 vaccines don't want to take responsibility for (the) side effects," Tusk told reporters Friday in Warsaw. Poland has not yet signed a contract for delivery of the vaccine...
November 5, 2009
Nov. 6 - The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's transplant chief said Thursday he intends to dramatically increase the use of organs from living donors, a move that counters industry trend. About two-thirds of UPMC's kidney transplants and more than a quarter of its liver surgeries could be done using organs from healthy donors, said Dr. Abhinav Humar, chief of transplant surgery. Half of UPMC's...
November 5, 2009
More than 15,000 children are diagnosed with type I diabetes in the U.S. each year, which is more than 40 kids a day. A total of 1.6 million new cases of diabetes were diagnosed in people ages 20 years or older in 2007. These figures come from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), whose mission is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. Type I...
November 5, 2009
WASHINGTON, Nov 6, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. health officials say they are working with vaccine producers to step up production speed and bring the H1N1 vaccine more quickly to targeted groups. Public health officials who briefed Congress Wednesday said they believe there will not enough H1N1 vaccine to meet the needs of high-priority population groups until at least December, The Washington Post...
November 5, 2009
Efforts to require flu shots for health care workers in order to protect vulnerable patients are being abandoned by some major health systems because of legal challenges and vaccine shortages. Requiring flu shots is an exception in the health care industry, where 48% of workers were vaccinated against flu last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The University of Iowa...
November 5, 2009
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