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WASHINGTON - The Obama administration vowed Tuesday to attack complacency about the nation's HIV/AIDS epidemic with the first media barrage aimed at the public in two decades. The campaign, unveiled during a White House ceremony, will hammer home the theme that every 9 1/2 minutes, someone in the USA is infected with HIV, for an estimated total of 56,300 new cases each year. The Centers for Disease...
October 31, 2009
NEW YORK, Oct 31, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Pregnant women, children 10 or older and other adults should be given single doses of vaccine against H1N1, the World Health Organization said Friday. An expert panel on immunization recommends additional study of the effect of the vaccine on children between the ages of 6 months and 10, WHO said. The expert group advised that studies in animals have shown...
October 31, 2009
Sydney (dpa) - An Australian polio victim confined to an iron lung respirator for the past 60 years has died, a spokeswoman for Melbourne's Thornbury nursing home said Saturday. June Middleton, who was 83, entered the Guinness Book of Records three years ago for spending the longest time in an iron lung. She celebrated the milestone in April in the company of friends and her dog, Angel. "It's hard...
October 31, 2009
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Oct 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Saudi Arabian authorities say they are taking special steps to prevent next month's annual pilgrimage to Mecca from becoming a hub for spreading swine flu. About 2.5 million people from 160 countries usually pack into Saudi Arabia's holy city for the five-day hajj (pilgrimage) scheduled for the final week of November. This year some will be bringing...
October 30, 2009
Oct. 30 - For the last week, as many as 10 students, some with fever, aches and runny noses - telltale signs of the flu - have been lining up at the nurse's office at Easton Area High School by 7:10 a.m. "As soon as they're off the bus, they're in the nurse's office and they're already being sent home by 8 a.m.," said Deirdre Darragh, a district nurse. The next morning some of the same sick students...
October 29, 2009
An experimental and unapproved flufighting drug is being made available to hospitals for use by severely ill H1N1 influenza patients. In an unusual step last week, the antiviral drug Peramivir was authorized for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. "They basically fasttracked it for emergency use," said Minnesota Department of Health regional epidemiologist Brad Krier of Mankato. Krier said...
October 29, 2009
Oct. 30 - As more H1N1 flu vaccine arrives in the Chicago area, questions linger about the dangers of the virus and the effectiveness of inoculations. Here are edited queries from Tribune readers, with answers: Q What is the comparison between the fatality rates for H1N1 flu and seasonal flu, and is H1N1 considered more of a danger than seasonal flu? A Since the pandemic began in April, more than 1,000...
October 29, 2009
Oct. 30 - The line of people began forming six hours before the doors opened, requiring traffic cops, extra security and a lot of patience. No, it wasn't a Pearl Jam concert or even the grand opening of a Super Wal-Mart. It was the latest H1N1 swine flu clinic held Thursday afternoon at Stockdale High School. At the front of the line, Lucy Padilla waited with three of her children to receive the much-coveted...
October 29, 2009
Michigan offensive lineman David Moosman dealt with a lot growing up. Born in the Netherlands, his family moved a few times before settling in Libertyville, Ill., when he was in third grade. So he was able to adapt. But nothing prepares you for cancer. His mother, Lynn Moosman, was diagnosed with breast cancer nine years ago. Then it went into remission. Then it came back. Then it was gone again. The...
October 29, 2009
The number of swine flu deaths jumped by 700 in a week, reaching more than 5,700 worldwide since the virus was first uncovered in April, World Health Organisation data indicated Friday. The biggest rise was recorded in the Americas region, where 4,175 deaths have now been reported to the WHO, up 636 from 3,539 deaths recorded in data published last week. hmn/db Health-flu-WHO-case-toll AFP 301222 GMT...
October 29, 2009
Some time-honored traditions - working sick, flying sick, going to school sick - are in question as the nation seeks to fend off the spread of swine flu. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in its most specific calculation to date, estimated Thursday that the number of Americans who came down with the H1N1 virus in the first wave of the disease (April to July) could have been as...
October 29, 2009
Kiev (dpa) - Ukraine suffered its first death from swine flu, as the government declared a massive quarantine and control effort to head off a possible epidemic, the Interfax news agency reported. The victim was a man living in Ukraine's western Lviv region, said Health Ministry spokesman Roman Pavliv. The government announcement one week after reports surfaced of as many as 30 deaths potentially caused...
October 29, 2009
OTTAWA, Oct 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Unprecedented demand in Canada's largest-ever mass inoculation program has led to a shortage of the H1N1 flu vaccine, federal officials said. Various provincial health ministries said the federal health department had notified them "there will be significantly less vaccine delivered than had been anticipated in the weeks ahead," the Canwest News Service reported...
October 29, 2009
SAN ANTONIO, Oct 28, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers say teachers are 32 times more likely than others to experience voice problems. The study equipped teachers with a voice dosimeter - a device which captures voicing characteristics such as pitch and loudness rather than actual speech. The dosimeter sampled the teachers' voices 33 times per second. The researchers analyzed 20 million of these...
October 29, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Former first lady Laura Bush spoke to a 1,700-woman audience in Salt Lake City during the 25th annual Women's Conference, event officials said. Bush began her remarks Monday with light banter about the presidential family, but turned to more serious issues, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Bush spoke of the urgency of teaching women around the world about...
October 29, 2009
Oct. 29 - Central Floridians looking to get a swine- flu shot were still waiting Wednesday, with only the nasal-mist vaccine available at most area clinics. The injectable vaccine, recommended for pregnant women and those with long-term health problems or weakened immune systems - among the so-called priority groups because of their high risk for flu-related complications - is not available at many...
October 29, 2009
If you stretch before or after exercising because it feels good, go for it, health experts say. But if you try to loosen up that way because you think you might prevent an injury, you should reconsider. Stretching can cause injuries and reduce muscle effectiveness, studies show. "For the average person, stretching doesn't represent the panacea it's being billed as," says Jordan Metzl, a physician and...
October 28, 2009
Zoey Sayles is going to be Cleopatra for Halloween. And she plans to collect lots of candy. But, unlike her friends and siblings, she won't eat much of it. Zoey, 10, of Berwyn, Pa., has type 1 diabetes, so her body does not produce insulin, a hormone needed to convert sugar (glucose), starches and other food into energy. Most diabetes experts say children with type 1 can eat some treats - unlike a...
October 28, 2009
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Oct 29, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Elderly patients feel insecure, apprehensive and passive when they meet with doctors, researchers in Sweden said. Thesis study author Sandra Pennbrant of Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg in Sweden, said hierarchical structures, time pressure and traditions in the healthcare sector make elderly patients and their relatives passive when...
October 28, 2009
BALTIMORE, Oct 29, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. doctor says the whole idea of bed rest as something beneficial to recuperation is being turned on its head. Dr. Robert Stevens of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore says it is now recognized that being immobilized in the intensive care unit significantly worsens muscle weakness. "Patients who develop muscle weakness while they're...
October 28, 2009
Lack of adequate health care may have contributed to the deaths of some 17,000 US children over the past two decades, according to a study released by the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. The research, to be published Friday in the Journal of Public Health, was compiled from more than 23 million hospital records from 37 states between 1988 and 2005. The study concluded that children without health...
October 28, 2009
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct 28, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A 43-year-old Indiana man has died of rabies after being bitten by a rabid bat, authorities say. His death marked the state's first from rabies since 2006. The victim - authorities did not identify him - died Oct. 20 at Norton Health Care Hospital in Louisville, WLKY-TV, Louisville, reported. Tests confirmed the infection came from a bat bite, though...
October 28, 2009
WASHINGTON - Dieters can boost their weight loss if they clean up their act at home and get a partner to lose weight with them, a new study shows. If you want to trim down, you should set up your home to make the healthy choice the easy choice, says Amy Gorin, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut. She presented her research Wednesday at the annual meeting of the Obesity...
October 28, 2009
It had to come down to this eventually: designer hand sanitizers. It didn't take long for marketers to figure out that if swine-flu phobia made sanitizers a hot product, fancy versions could be even more profitable. Retailers are latching on to the notion of hand sanitizers as fashion accessories, such as on cute key chains designed to dangle from student backpacks. Bath & Body Works and Victoria's...
October 28, 2009
Hungry appetites looking for more gluten-free food products, wondering about the next wave in anti-oxidant super fruit or craving tasty snacks that just happen to be healthy are in for a bumper crop of satisfying solutions. Scoping out what's new at an annual confab some call "Fashion Week for Food and Nutrition" (the American Dietetic Association's 2009 Food and Nutrition Conference held in Denver...
October 28, 2009
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