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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 28, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Before children apply face paint for Halloween, parents should know that some face paints contain lead and other heavy metals, a U.S. advocacy group says. Lisa Archer, national coordinator of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics at the Breast Cancer Fund, says the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics sent 10 children's face paints to an independent lab to test for heavy...
October 28, 2009
The federal government's preparedness for the H1N1, or swine flu, pandemic that's claimed for more than 1,000 lives nationwide was inadequate and incomplete, a congressional subcommittee said Tuesday. Both Democratic and Republican members of the subcommittee stopped short of blaming President Barack Obama's administration, but they made it clear that they expect improved handling of the pandemic in...
October 28, 2009
DENVER, Oct 28, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ - Helping animals enjoy longer, healthier lives requires ongoing scientific animal health research to give veterinarians the tools they need to better diagnose and treat animals. Morris Animal Foundation, a world leader in supporting research to prevent, treat and even cure disease in companion animals, horses and wildlife, has committed to funding more...
October 28, 2009
St. Bernard School in Montville was missing about one-quarter of its 450 middle and high school students Tuesday as swine flu continued to infiltrate the region. The Catholic regional school saw its first cases last week, and had higher absentee rates Monday than Tuesday, according to Headmaster William McKenna, giving school officials hope that the outbreak of swine flu, also called H1N1, had peaked....
October 28, 2009
WASHINGTON, Oct 28, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the nationwide recall of all Accusure insulin syringes because the needles might detach from the syringe. AL-Qualitest Pharmaceuticals of Huntsville, Ala., said all of its Accusure insulin syringes regardless of lot number are subject to the recall. The syringes were distributed between January 2002 and October...
October 27, 2009
Oct. 26 - As with many a great notion, the idea came to nutritionist Bronwyn Schweigerdt while she was doing something totally unrelated to her work. "I was rock climbing," Schweigerdt says, "and I was doing one where you're basically horizontal. I'm hanging there upside down thinking, 'There needs to be a female superhero. There needs to be Fiber Girl. That's it!' "I saw myself wearing a cape and...
October 27, 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 27, 2009
Rural areas stand to gain from health care reform by getting more choices for coverage at better prices, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday. Sebelius, formerly the governor of Kansas, said rural areas are currently the most underinsured in the United States. "The system we have really isn't working for the nearly 50 million people" living in rural areas, she said. Sebelius...
October 27, 2009
A new ad campaign aims to demystify cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by focusing on pushing fast and hard on a patient's chest rather than worrying about mouth-to-mouth recuscitation. The campaign, by the non-profit Ad Council and New York ad agency Gotham Inc., encourages Americans to perform hands-only CPR on victims of cardiac arrest and follows CPR guidelines from the American Heart Assocation's...
October 27, 2009
BOSTON, Oct 28, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - More than 7 percent of childhood cancer survivors say they had suicidal thoughts, U.S. researchers found. The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, found brain and central nervous system cancer survivors were the most likely to experience suicidal thoughts - 10.6 percent - while survivors of non-Hodgkin lymphoma were the least likely - 6.7 percent....
October 27, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Oct 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - For young children in the United States, TV watching is almost a full-time job, with the 2-5 set spending 32 hours a week glued to the tube, a study finds. The findings released Monday by the Nielsen Co. showed TV watching drops slightly when children enter elementary school. Those ages 6 to 11 spend an average of 28 hours a week in front of the set, the...
October 27, 2009
A new report calls for dramatic changes in the meals served to schoolchildren, including offering students a greater variety of fruits and vegetables and limiting sodium and calories. The changes could cost more, but the investment could help improve children's eating habits and overall health, says Virginia Stallings, chairman of the panel that prepared the Institute of Medicine report. She's a professor...
October 27, 2009
A new report calls for dramatic changes in the meals served to schoolchildren, including offering students a greater variety of fruits and vegetables and limiting sodium and calories. The changes could cost more, but the investment could help improve children's eating habits and overall health, says Virginia Stallings, chairman of the panel that prepared the Institute of Medicine report. She's a professor...
October 27, 2009
President Obama set the soft-drink industry fizzing recently when he mentioned the possibility of a "soda tax" on sweetened beverages as a way of combating America's obesity crisis. "I actually think it's an idea that we should be exploring," he told Men's Health magazine. "There's no doubt that our kids drink way too much soda." The notion of a soda tax got a lot of people riled up, and in the hullabaloo,...
October 27, 2009
WASHINGTON - Malia and Sasha Obama were given the H1N1 flu vaccine last week, the White House disclosed Tuesday as a case of H1N1 was confirmed at the private school campus 11-year-old Malia attends. The girls received the vaccine after it became available to Washington, D.C., school children, a spokeswoman for first lady Michelle Obama said Tuesday. Both girls are reported to be healthy. There is...
October 27, 2009
Migraines accompanied by a blurring of vision known as "aura" double the risk of stroke, according to a study released Wednesday. That risk becomes even higher for woman, persons under 45, and smokers, said the study, published in the British Medical Journal. Women who use contraceptives that contain oestrogen boost the odds of suffering a stroke even further. Up to 20 percent of adults - three-quarters...
October 27, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 27, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ - Ghosts and goblins aren't the only spooky things lurking around this Halloween. A new report by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics reveals that popular children's face paints contain lead, a potent neurotoxin, as well as nickel, cobalt and chromium, which can cause lifelong skin sensitization and contact dermatitis. Creepier yet, these metals...
October 27, 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....
October 27, 2009
WASHINGTON - The best way to cut calories in restaurant dishes would be to trim the portions, not to tinker with the recipes, chefs say in a new survey. Still, they say they could slash the calorie content in their meals by 10% to 25% before diners would notice. In fact, they would be willing to trim the fat in dishes such as apple pie a la mode and beef stew. Nutrition researchers at Pennsylvania...
October 26, 2009
BOSTON, Oct 26, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Millions of U.S. children under age 11 - particularly African-American and Hispanic children - may get too little vitamin D, researchers found. Study leader Dr. Jonathan Mansbach of Children's Hospital Boston, and colleagues of the University of Colorado Denver and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination...
October 26, 2009
AARP is trying to shave a couple of decades off its traditional target market with today's launch of a personal finance website for folks in their 20s and 30s. The organization, which mainly offers resources for those 50 and older, wants to expand its brand to younger consumers (and potential future members) as well as give advice to children and grandchildren who rely on their AARP-member relatives...
October 26, 2009
WASHINGTON - Elisse Walter landed the job of her dreams last year when President George W. Bush appointed her to the Securities and Exchange Commission, capping a career devoted to securities law and investor protection. Weeks later, she got a nightmare diagnosis: ovarian cancer. What followed was months of juggling the demands of surgery, chemotherapy and a new post that put her at the center of the...
October 26, 2009
WASHINGTON - Good news for parents who are trying to get their children to eat their vegetables: If you offer kids more fruits and vegetables before and during meals, they'll eat more of them, even if some turn up their noses at specific varieties they don't like. These are among the findings of several studies on children's eating habits presented at the annual meeting of the Obesity Society, a group...
October 26, 2009
When they want to tone up, Marisa Tomei, Liv Tyler and Beyonce Knowles go for a spin. They pick up a hula hoop, that '50s and '60s staple that's twirled around the waist, limbs or neck. And courtesy of the fitness-extolling efforts of first lady Michelle Obama, plus the endorsements of various A-listers, this basic, no-frills childhood toy is making a comeback in the ever-changing world of fitness....
October 26, 2009
Oct. 23 - According to Dr. Alan Greene, two-thirds of high school students have either high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes, predisposing them to a lifetime of chronic conditions. And a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control shows an eye-popping 265 percent increase in the rates of hospitalizations related to food allergic reactions. According to Dr. Kenneth Bock, genetics...
October 26, 2009
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