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LONDON, Nov 6, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The British government plans to make sex education compulsory for students in all schools, beginning at age 5, officials said Thursday. Parents would no longer be able to withdraw their children from sex education classes once they turn 15, The Times of London reported. Currently, the opt outs are available until age 19. The new rules would take effect in 2011...
November 5, 2009
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Nov 6, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The bacterium that causes leprosy is genetically stable, which makes curing the disease easier, a Swiss-led research team says. The project, headed by Stewart Cole of the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, found samples of mycobacterium leprae from around the world, Swissinfo reported. The oldest was found in an Egyptian mummy buried about...
November 5, 2009
RICHMOND, Calif., Nov 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Health officials say H1N1 primarily affects the young, but a study of California cases found H1N1 fatalities were highest in those 50 and older. Dr. Janice K. Louie of the California department of public health and colleagues examined the clinical and epidemiologic features of the first 1,088 hospitalized and fatal cases due to pandemic influenza H1N1...
November 5, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. scientists say they are starting a trial of a medication designed to treat the neurochemical defect underlying Fragile X syndrome. Researchers at Seaside Therapeutics in Cambridge, Mass., said Fragile X syndrome - the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability - causes a range of developmental problems, including learning disabilities,...
November 5, 2009
WASHINGTON, Nov 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The United States is facing a shortage of seasonal flu vaccine even before the regular flu season gets into full swing, federal and independent flu experts say. Officials said the vaccine shortage was unavoidable because the H1N1 flu pandemic raised demand for all flu shots beyond what manufacturers can produce in a year, The New York Times reported Thursday....
November 5, 2009
Nov. 5 - An overhaul of the U.S. health-care system has gained the floor of national debate, speakers at a conference on health disparities said yesterday. What is done to spur and inspire changes in culture, lifestyle and infrastructure will determine whether changes happen in meaningful and measurable ways within local communities. The town-hall meeting, featuring national health-care experts, served...
November 4, 2009
TORONTO, Nov 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Most women smokers know smoking can lead to cancer, heart disease and premature death but they are unaware of other health effects, a Canadian survey indicates. The survey, conducted by Angus Reid on behalf of nicotine replacement therapy brands Nicoderm and Nicoette, reveals the majority of Canadian women who smoke are not necessarily aware of the host of other...
November 4, 2009
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov 4, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A Rhode Island hospital must install operating room video cameras after five "wrong-site" operations carried out there since 2007, officials say. The Rhode Island Department of Health has ordered cameras for Rhode Island Hospital in Providence after the latest instance of doctors operating on the wrong parts of patients' bodies, ABC News reported Wednesday....
November 4, 2009
WASHINGTON, Nov 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The politically powerful AARP will endorse the U.S. House of Representatives' healthcare reform legislation, ABC News reported. The 40 million-member seniors lobbying group is expected to announce its support publicly Thursday or Friday, ABC said. "Big victory," one Democratic source told the U.S. network, in what many would call an understatement. ABC quoted...
November 4, 2009
About 100,500 new cases of cancer are caused by obesity every year, according to the most comprehensive attempt ever to estimate the cancers attributed to extra weight. The analysis, released today by the American Institute for Cancer Research, is based on updated cancer data and a report released earlier this year by a panel of experts. Among the types of cancer most strongly linked to excess body...
November 4, 2009
Former U.S. senators Bob Graham and Jim Talent aren't afraid to break a few eggs to make a point: Why, they ask, if we're not flying propeller-powered planes, pounding manual typewriters or watching Elvis gyrate on black-and-white TVs, are we still using eggs to make flu vaccine? All of the above - the senators fumbling eggs, the prop planes, the typewriters and Elvis - appear in a video made to dramatize...
November 4, 2009
Kellogg is scrapping controversial immune-system claims from its Cocoa Krispies and Rice Krispies cereal boxes even as some critics are turning their attention to another food giant, Nestle, which is making similar claims on some cartons of its kid-targeted Juicy Juice. The move by Kellogg comes just two days after a USA TODAY story revealed that a growing number of critics - including San Francisco's...
November 4, 2009
From the front lines of swine flu, I'd like to report that the most shocking trait of this illness is its speed: How fast children decline from good health to high fever, how fast the flu spreads from child to child - and how fast I converted from "mother who pooh-poohed the vaccine" to "mother desperate to find it." Back in mid-October, my view of the H1N1 vaccine put me comfortably among the 39%...
November 4, 2009
Army Spc. Brett Wolf is one of those sportsmen who says hunting is about relaxing and hanging with other hunters, not just bagging a prize. Still, he gleefully describes the spoils of his Halloween weekend hunt in Texas Hill Country: a wild hog - the first he'd ever seen - and a 200-pound whitetail buck. No matter that the terrain was rough on his wheelchair, or that his shooting arm has been operated...
November 4, 2009
By the time you're done reading this column, combustible tobacco smoking will claim four more American lives - and a total of 440,000 lives this year. Electronic cigarettes - battery-operated products that deliver an inhalable nicotine vapor - offer a much needed alternative. Since 2007, nearly 1 million committed smokers have tried electronic cigarettes, known widely as e-cigarettes, to make the transition...
November 4, 2009
Howard Hirsch, an insurance executive from Lomita, Calif., was laid off two years ago, and it took him a few months to find work. Now the family is very cost-conscious - and he knows that can't help but affect his sons, ages 9 and 11. "They see that my wife and I are stressed. They see we are financially stressed. They see they can't do some of the things we used to do. We don't go out to eat as much....
November 4, 2009
The death toll from swine flu climbed to 15 in Turkey on Wednesday amid simmering controversy over the country's vaccination campaign following the prime minister's refusal to have an injection. The latest victims of the A(H1N1) virus were a five-year-old boy, two women, aged 24 and 31, and a 55-year-old man, a health ministry statement said. Fatalities have sharply increased this week after the first...
November 4, 2009
Nov. 4 - Virginia deaths from H1N1 swine flu have risen to 17, according to the state Health Department, as the demand for flu vaccine continues to outpace supply in many places. The most recent deaths include a female child from the Central Shenandoah Health District; two adult females, one from the Loudoun Health District in Northern Virginia and one from the Charlottesville-area Thomas Jefferson...
November 4, 2009
The theory of food addiction is getting tons of press lately. I think it's partly because of popular new books like David Kessler's The End of Overeating, on top of a whole slew of earlier books about sugar addiction. There has also been a lot of hyped-up media reporting on the latest research, with headlines suggesting that "Junk food is as addictive as heroin" or "Hormones turn hungry people into...
November 3, 2009
Women who take folic acid supplements during the later months of pregnancy may be increasing their baby's risk of developing asthma, according to an Australian study released Wednesday. Found in its natural form in leafy green vegetables, legumes and some nuts, folic acid is commonly recommended to women trying to conceive to prevent neural defects in the first weeks of pregnancy. But the Australian...
November 3, 2009
WASHINGTON, Nov 4, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of 65 products sold online by Bodybuilding.com that might contain steroids. The FDA said the voluntary nationwide and international recalls were initiated by Bodybuilding.com LLC of Boise, Idaho, of all lots and expiration dates of the dietary supplements that might contain ingredients that are or...
November 3, 2009
OTTAWA, Nov 4, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The sole pharmaceutical supplier of H1N1 flu vaccine for Canada that's behind in deliveries is exporting source material, the Globe and Mail reported Wednesday. GlaxoSmithKline, which so far has shipped seven million of the 50 million vials of the vaccine ordered by the Canadian government, told the newspaper it had a surplus of the raw antigen and was exporting...
November 3, 2009
SAN DIEGO, Nov 4, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Responders to the World Trade Center terrorist attacks in New York have double the rate of asthma compared to the general population, U.S. researchers say. Eight percent of the workers and volunteers who engaged in rescue and recovery, essential service restoration and cleanup efforts in the wake of the attacks suffer from asthma compared with 4 percent of...
November 3, 2009
WASHINGTON, Nov 4, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - More than one-third of Americans ages 17-24 are unqualified for military service because of physical and medical issues, U.S. military officials said. Curt Gilroy, the Pentagon's director of accessions, said the United States has "an obesity crisis." "There's no question about it," Gilroy told the Navy Times. "Kids are just not able to do push-ups, and they...
November 3, 2009
Nov. 3 - The fate of a law that would require physicians in Illinois to notify a parent or guardian when a girl 17 or younger seeks an abortion remained in limbo Monday afternoon. State regulators said enforcement of the 1995 law, set to go into effect Tuesday, would be delayed at least until Wednesday morning, when the medical disciplinary board for the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional...
November 3, 2009
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