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BETHESDA, Md., Nov 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Healthy pregnant women need only one dose of H1N1 influenza vaccine to mount a robust immune response, U.S. health officials say. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said a trial began Sept. 9 and reached its target enrollment of 120 volunteers...
November 3, 2009
Nov. 3 - LORETTO - Janet Miller was concerned that her family doctor ran out of seasonal flu vaccine before she could bring in her 84-year-old father, Earl Miller of Lilly. So when she saw an announcement of Cambria County Emergency Management's free flu shot clinic in Saturday's edition of The Tribune-Democrat, she made plans to get her father to St. Francis University on Monday. Earl Miller was among...
November 2, 2009
WASHINGTON, Nov 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Employees who do not get paid for sick days are reporting to work ill, raising fears they could be spreading the H1N1 flu virus, U.S. health officials say. Workers who deal with the public, such as waiters and child care employees, often come in to their jobs sick because they can't afford to miss the pay - a workforce that includes tens of millions of American...
November 2, 2009
Pharmaceutical companies promote testosterone gel as an elixir for old men with low energy or low sex drive - but researchers at the University of Minnesota will put those claims to the test. The U announced Monday it is one of 12 sites for a $45 million federal trial of testosterone gel. The study of 800 men will be one of the largest to examine the gel and whether it can reverse the symptoms that...
November 2, 2009
BOSTON, Nov 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Hepatitis B does not increase the risk of pancreatic cancer but age does, U.S. researchers say. Researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit say their study of more than 74,000 patients contradicts a previous study suggesting a link between pancreatic cancer and previous hepatitis B infection. Hepatitis B is an inflammation of the liver caused by a viral infection....
November 2, 2009
Spain is anticipating that the swine flu epidemic will reach its peak in the country in late November before starting to decline, the government said Tuesday. Health authorities believe "the peak of contagion" will be "in the last days of November," Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez told reporters. But she admitted that it was "difficult to predict" how the epidemic would develop. Spain announced last...
November 2, 2009
Health experts and researchers met in the Kenyan capital Tuesday to find ways of eradicating malaria, the world's deadliest infectious disease that kills around 900,000 people every year. Key among the strategies for the fifth Multilateral Initiative on Malaria is the development of an effective anti-malaria vaccine, a project scientists have been researching since the late 80s. The experts were to...
November 2, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - The great H1N1 vaccine hunt has begun as Americans set their phones to speed-dial the local health department and pull children out of school at the hint shots might be available at a flu clinic. More is on the way. Thirty million doses of the vaccine were available for states to order as of Monday, says Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory...
November 2, 2009
HOUSTON, Nov 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The cause of priapism, spontaneous long-lasting erections lasting at least four hours, is unknown but U.S. researchers say there may be a treatment. Biochemists in the laboratory of Dr. Yang Xia, an associate professor at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, reports a Food and Drug Administration-approved drug called polyethylene glycol-linked adenosine...
November 2, 2009
ST. LOUIS, Nov 2, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Childhood is a time of economic turmoil and hardship for many U.S. children, with 49 percent living in households that use food stamps, researchers say. "Food stamp use is a clear sign of poverty and food insecurity, two of the most detrimental economic conditions affecting a child's health," Mark R. Rank, a poverty expert at the George Warren Brown School...
November 2, 2009
A German man weighing 230 kilogrammes (507 pounds) has died after refusing to go to the zoo for an x-ray because he was too heavy for machines designed for humans, daily Bild reported Tuesday. "It sounded like they were trying to wind us up," Thomas Lessmann's widow Petra told the paper. Complaining he was feeling ill and frequently losing consciousness, the 51-year-old Lessmann went to a clinic in...
November 2, 2009
DALLAS, Nov 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Twenty percent of sudden infant death syndrome deaths occur among infants who are in child care, U.S. researchers warn. Dr. George Lister, chairman of pediatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas advises parents to be sure caregivers do not place infants on their tummies for sleeping. "It is impossible to predict which babies will...
November 2, 2009
SEATTLE, Nov 2, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. medical researcher says he has determined two commonly used statins have different drug and cell dependent effects in the brain. Professor John Albers and colleagues at the University of Washington's Northwest Lipid Metabolism and Diabetes Research Laboratories at the University of Washington compared the effects of two statins - simvastatin (Zocor) and...
November 2, 2009
WASHINGTON, Nov 2, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has warned the Procter & Gamble Co. two of its products are being marketed illegally. The FDA said the Cincinnati company's Vicks DayQuil Plus Vitamin C and Vicks Nyquil Plus Vitamin C are illegally marketed combinations of drug ingredients and a dietary ingredient. Both of the over-the-counter medicines, which...
November 1, 2009
How to pull it off: The Faker knows how you feel. Exercise is so time-consuming. And not fun. And so ... sweaty. But that doesn't mean you can't reap the benefits of working out while in reality clinging to your couch potato ways. Celebrity trainer and reality-TV vixen Jackie Warner is here to help. The star of Bravo's "Work Out" and author of the forthcoming book "This Is Why You're Fat" still advocates...
November 1, 2009
Nov. 2 - Caitlyn Martino rushed into the Solantic Urgent Care Clinic on South Orange Avenue with her 18-month-old son, David, in her arms, and peppered the front-office staff with questions about the swine-flu vaccine. "What if the virus mutates? Is it really safe for pregnant women?" asked Martino, who was 18 weeks pregnant. "Do I have to get more than one shot? What type of vaccine should I get?...
November 1, 2009
Nov. 2 - The Internet's power to make something "go viral" has surpassed the phrase's original meaning. Sneeze once, you might pass a virus to the person next to you. Post something online, the entire world might get infected. Take the H1N1 vaccine: Last Thursday morning, the search term "H1N1 vaccine dangers" hit Google's top 10 searches. A video of a cheerleader supposedly crippled after getting...
November 1, 2009
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov 1, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Kidney donors may face huge medical bills because having one kidney may constitute a pre-existing condition under which coverage is denied, officials confirm. A Texas hospital official said organ donors are told, but only orally, that having one kidney may be a pre-existing condition affecting insurance. Philip Knisely, 53, of Austin, Texas, who donated...
November 1, 2009
Joanne Cantor's son was 5 years old when he passed an elaborate Halloween exhibit with a scarecrow oozing "bloody" macaroni-and-ketchup intestines. Her son's eyes got very big. "Aren't they going to help that man?" he said. Halloween is a tricky time for the 5 and under set. On one hand, they get orange M&M's, school parades and face paint. On the other, they have to contend with slithering snakes,...
November 1, 2009
Kellogg, the nation's largest cereal maker, is being called to task by critics who object to the swine flu-conscious claim now bannered in bold lettering on the front of Cocoa Krispies cereal boxes: "Now helps support your child's IMMUNITY." Of all claims on cereal boxes, "this one belongs in the hall of fame," says Kelly Brownell, director of Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity....
November 1, 2009
Christopher Rodriguez should have started kindergarten last year at PS 28 in the Bronx, but he's starting a year late. When his mother, Marileida Rojas, tried to enroll him in 2008, she was told Mount Hope Elementary School did not have the resources to care for Christopher, who has type 1 diabetes and was too young to recognize when his blood sugar was slipping dangerously low. Though Rojas said she'd...
November 1, 2009
WASHINGTON - Many people say they eat more when they are under stress. Others eat less. But people under chronic stress are more likely than others to say they eat fattening foods and feel that their eating is out of control, according to a study presented at a recent meeting of the Obesity Society. In one of the largest surveys ever to examine the relationship between chronic stress and eating behaviors,...
November 1, 2009
John Stevenson hasn't stopped patronizing the local gym, but after his workout, he is wiping down his machines with spray disinfectant and paper towels. Sales associate Janet Lininger is having customers swipe their own credit cards (she's relieved to have recently shifted from the intimate-apparel section to the far-less-cozy handbag department). In ways both discreet and direct, serious and silly,...
November 1, 2009
Widespread cases of swine flu in children across the country are increasing pressure on pharmacies to keep up with demand for a liquid form of Tamiflu, which many pharmacies have been making on their own because the manufacturer's version is in short supply. Shortages of liquid Tamiflu, which can reduce the severity of illness, have persisted despite the fact that the Centers for Disease Control and...
November 1, 2009
ATLANTA, Oct 29, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Methadone is prominent in prescription opioid deaths and Medicaid enrollees may be a high-risk group, U.S. health officials said. From 1999-2006, the number of U.S. poisoning deaths nearly doubled, largely as a result of deaths involving prescription opioid painkillers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report released...
November 1, 2009
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