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Swine flu is spreading faster and claiming new fatalities in Europe, health officials said Friday, as the global death toll from the virus rose to nearly 5,000 victims. Since the A(H1N1) virus was uncovered in April, there have been over 4,735 deaths reported to the World Health Organisation as of a week ago, the WHO said. Most of the fatal cases - 3,539 - have been recorded in North and South America,...
October 23, 2009
NEW YORK, Oct 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - New York's governor has announced the state is scrapping a mandate that all health workers be vaccinated for both the swine and seasonal flu by Nov. 30. Gov. David Paterson says the reason for the policy change is a shortage of H1N1 vaccine, CNN reported Friday. The federal government originally told states an estimated 120 million doses of the vaccine would...
October 22, 2009
Oct. 23 - TAMPA - Eight patrons of Walt Disney World theme parks complained of injuries or illnesses from July through September, according to the latest quarterly report from the state. Tampa's Busch Gardens and Orlando's SeaWorld, Wet 'n Wild and Universal Studios reported no patron injuries or illnesses. The major parks are required to file quarterly reports of injuries with the Florida Bureau of...
October 22, 2009
Oak Hill Hospital isn't discriminating any longer. Thursday's annual Celebration of Life for breast cancer survivors is not just open to the hospital's patients. All survivors are invited. The celebration will run from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. and will be a prelude to the open house of the new Women's Imaging Center. "Oh, it's going to be bigger than ever," said Deborah Harris, a patient advocate and lead...
October 22, 2009
Five years ago, Dr. Marcy Zwelling called a medical timeout. "I had had enough of what they call the traditional medical system. There's no time to do the job I need to do when I can only give five to eight minutes to a patient. "I couldn't do my job." So she quit. Quit in the sense that she ended her traditional medical practice serving some 3,000-plus patients at her Los Alamitos, Calif., office....
October 22, 2009
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, known for pointing out the caloric crimes of fast-food and chain restaurants, has turned its attention to the dangers of foods deemed healthy. The group released a list of the "10 riskiest foods regulated by the Food and Drug Administration." The rankings primarily use Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data (1990-2006) on food-borne illness outbreaks...
October 22, 2009
Pink is the new green. The pink umbrellas, T-shirts, key chains, hats, scarves, cosmetics, lemonade, M&Ms, dance-a-thons, marathon walks and cars being marketed throughout this month raise millions of dollars for breast cancer research. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, but it has also become a financial bonanza for American businesses. "It brings a lot of shoppers into the stores," said Michele...
October 22, 2009
Oct. 23 - If you're considering getting the H1N1 flu shot, forget it for now, unless you are pregnant or have a very young child. While you wait for the H1N1 shots to become more widely available later this fall, officials recommend you get the seasonal flu shot. But there's a hitch there, too: Supplies have nearly dried up. There's been a delay in getting both vaccines to the public. Manufactures...
October 22, 2009
I am a survivor. Not of cancer or a natural disaster, but of the dreaded H1N1 virus. I have swine flu. I am one of the swine flu seven - or eight - because I highly doubt my diagnosis from Massachusetts has travelled to Georgia yet, even though I strongly suspect I caught the illness in Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport because I started exhibiting flu-like symptoms while still in Georgia. But...
October 22, 2009
Oct. 23 - DuPage County residents are clamoring for a limited number of free H1N1 flu vaccines offered by the Health Department, officials said Thursday. "The phones have been ringing off the hook," said Jason Gerwig, communications manager for the county. "You definitely have a lot of interest." With 10,000 available doses of the vaccine, health officials on Monday began taking appointments for afternoon...
October 22, 2009
ARLINGTON, Va., Oct 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Two in five at-risk U.S. adults who would most benefit from a seasonal flu shot choose not to get vaccinated, or don't get around to it, researchers said. Dr. Katharine Harris of the Rand Corp. in Arlington, Va., and colleagues said at-risk American adults - those with heart disease, diabetes or asthma - who would benefit most from vaccination against...
October 22, 2009
WASHINGTON, Oct 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Top Democrats are leaning toward including a publicly funded health insurance option in a healthcare reform bill in the U.S. Senate, sources said Thursday. Following a meeting of Senate leaders and administration officials, two senior Democratic senators told CNN Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is leaning toward a government-run public option that...
October 22, 2009
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Prevention programs may be the best way to fight child obesity, U.S. researchers said. A study examining regional changes in child obesity between 2000-2005, published in the journal Obesity, found a local obesity prevention program combining state and local community nutrition and exercise programs with media attention, and an evidence-based school health...
October 22, 2009
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - University of Michigan scientists say they have determined microdermabrasion using a coarse diamond-studded instrument can induce wound healing. The researchers, led by Dr. Darius Karimipour, said the procedure appears to induce molecular changes in the skin of older adults that mimic the way skin is remodeled during the wound healing process. Microdermabrasion...
October 22, 2009
CHICAGO, Oct 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. scientists say anti-epileptic drug treatments administered when the brain is developing appear to trigger schizophrenia-like behavior in animal models. Georgetown University Medical Center researchers noted that in humans, having a history of seizures in infancy is a significant risk factor for development of schizophrenia later in life, but it is not known...
October 22, 2009
Men who voted for Republican John McCain in last year's US presidential election saw their testosterone levels fall significantly when they learned he had lost to Barack Obama, a study showed Thursday. Saliva samples collected from 163 men on the evening of the election showed that voters for both McCain and Obama had similar testosterone levels when polling stations closed on the east coast, but the...
October 22, 2009
Efforts in the region's battle against the bulge are taking shape in a push to get community and government leaders on the same page with health officials. Wednesday's Central Georgia Regional Health Summit at Macon State College encouraged cooperation among a range of local entities to find ways to counter an obesity epidemic - and the medical woes that stem from it - that costs Georgians an estimated...
October 21, 2009
At least three new prescription diet drugs are in the final stages of development as pharmaceutical companies race to see which one will have the next big diet medication to hit the market. Some hopeful news from the research: Obese patients who took one of the medications along with cutting calories and exercising lost about 15% of their starting weight in a year. The companies still have to submit...
October 21, 2009
Swine flu struck quickly this week at Hartland South Elementary School, where last Friday only about 4% of students called in sick. By Tuesday, the school had crossed the magic 40% mark - and officials with the Hartland-Lakeside School District in Hartland, Wis., closed the school down. It won't reopen until Monday. "It just brewed over the weekend," says school nurse Colleen Beilfuss. What happened...
October 21, 2009
TORONTO - Ontario residents in high-risk groups can start rolling up their sleeves Monday to get the swine flu vaccine - about a week ahead of schedule - now that Ottawa has given its stamp of approval, provincial health officials said Wednesday. "It is our most effective weapon in fighting H1N1," said Health Minister Deb Matthews, who added she plans to get the vaccine. "We are ready, we are prepared,...
October 21, 2009
BOSTON, Oct 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. orthodontist says she and some of her colleagues see more emergency visits at Halloween than at any other holiday. Dr. Jacqueline Fulop-Goodling, a professor at Boston University School of Dental Medicine, says Halloween can be scary for mom and dad too when a child wearing metal braces costing between $4,500 and $7,000 reports a wire is broken or a bracket...
October 21, 2009
SEATTLE, Oct 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Depression is common in older cancer patients and could be treated in primary care, U.S. researchers said. The study, published in a supplement of the Journal of General Internal Medicine on cancer survivorship care, found 55 percent of the patients who received collaborative treatment, compared with 34 percent receiving the usual care, showed a 50 percent or...
October 21, 2009
PHILADELPHIA, Oct 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers suggest migraine sufferers may be more prone to hangover headaches after drinking. Experiments looked at a special rat model that suffered migraines when stimulating the brain with an inflammatory mixture vs, rats that did not suffer headaches. "Our results suggest that dehydration or impurities in alcohol are not responsible for hangover...
October 21, 2009
NEW YORK, Oct 21, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S., Canadian and British researchers found a high-protein diet may shrink the brain, a phenomenon linked to Alzheimer's disease. Lead author Sam Gandy, a professor at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a neurologist at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center in New York, and colleagues tested four differing menus on mice bred to develop Alzheimer's...
October 21, 2009
Geneva/Washington (dpa) - Some 20 per cent of children born each year, mostly in the poorest parts of the globe, remain without life- saving inoculations, a new international study released Wednesday showed. Still, a record 106 million infants were immunized in 2008, and with campaigns constantly being rolled out by governments and charities, the industry has received a massive boost. The main reason...
October 21, 2009
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