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VALENCIA, Venezuela, Oct 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Data do not support the suggestion that taking B-vitamin supplements prevents heart disease, researchers in Venezuela say. Lead researcher Arturo Marti-Carvajal of the Iberoamerican Cochrane Network in Valencia, Venezuela, says it has been suggested that giving B-vitamin supplements could help regulate levels of homocysteine, thereby reducing the...
October 8, 2009
Roy Harris usually was able to fly straight home to Nashville. But on a chilly day in late January, Harris, 57, found himself waiting for a connecting flight at Chicago's Midway Airport. He took off his coat. He reached for his BlackBerry. The next thing Harris remembers, he was lying in a hospital, recovering from a massive heart attack. Sitting beside him was Rachael Jacobs, a flight attendant for...
October 8, 2009
Released in time for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the new documentary Rethinking Cancer presents a compelling look into the therapeutic and psychological journeys of five men and women who chose to use non-toxic, biological therapies to overcome serious illness. Four of the patients featured had been diagnosed with cancers, including breast, lymphatic and bone; and two of these were designated...
October 8, 2009
Women who have had a kidney transplant and have good kidney function can get pregnant and give birth without jeopardizing their health or the health of their transplant. Having children does not affect patients' kidney function or their life-span compared with transplanted women who do not have children, according to a matching cohort study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American...
October 8, 2009
Oct. 8 - Lots of people want to get vaccinated against swine flu. But most will have to wait, according to Dr. Beverly Loudin, director of safety and quality for the North Shore Physicians Group in Salem. "We've gotten quite a few calls in my office," she says. The difficulty, however, is that in a country of more than 300 million people only 2.8 million doses of the H1N1 vaccine have been manufactured...
October 8, 2009
Oct. 8 - Circumcision has long been a personal decision left up to parents. Doctors say the risks and benefits are negligible. The American Academy of Pediatrics does not take a stance. But now a health agency is preparing recommendations on circumcision based on new findings regarding HIV transmission. The proposal from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected this year. The...
October 8, 2009
A National Institutes of Health network study provided the first conclusive evidence that treating pregnant women who have even the mildest form of gestational diabetes can reduce the risk of common birth complications among infants, as well as blood pressure disorders among mothers (see also NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development). Treatment of severe gestational diabetes is...
October 8, 2009
A new "scorecard" lists "shockingly wide variations" among the states when it comes to the health of their residents, says the president of the Commonwealth Fund, which compared such factors as access to care, insurance coverage and avoidable hospital admissions. "The differences we see among the states translate to real lives and real dollars," Karen Davis said Wednesday at a news conference. "Where...
October 8, 2009
Every day, says hospital ethicist Dawn Seery, someone tells her: "I don't know what to do. I'm afraid everyone will be angry." When it comes to discussing end-of-life decisions, most people are unprepared, confused and frightened. Most of all, Seery says, "they want to know how they can recognize and decide when 'enough is enough.' " Seery, chairman of the ethics committee that provides consultation...
October 7, 2009
CHICAGO, Oct 8, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Employee contributions to healthcare coverage will rise in 2010 no matter what happens with healthcare reform in Washington, a survey indicates. The 2009 Benefits & Talent Survey by Aon Consulting surveyed 1,313 employers nationwide and found 70 percent of businesses indicate they plan to increase employee contributions - and 67 percent expect to raise deductibles,...
October 7, 2009
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Oct 8, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Gasoline-powered generators may need to be as far away as 25 feet from a house during a power outage, a U.S. federal technology agency researcher says. Steven Emmerich of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md., says the operating distance to make residents "safe" from carbon monoxide emissions depends on the house, the...
October 7, 2009
Oct. 7 - Up to 95 percent of Americans have not caught the swine flu and could benefit from a vaccine, federal health officials said Tuesday. The estimate comes as the first shipments of H1N1 vaccine arrive at health departments nationwide. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius promoted the vaccine Tuesday at a news conference at St. Louis University. "Without jeopardizing any...
October 7, 2009
Oct. 7 - There are sportsmen and women who report to sports physicians with health conditions they think are as a result of participation in sports but are, in real sense, not related to sports. In most cases athletes complain of shortness of breath, sore muscles and painful joints as symptoms that are a result of "running hard" only to discover that a problem that was ignored has turned out to be...
October 7, 2009
The Cayman Islands Cancer Society, in its continued efforts to help tobacco users break their habit, will be offering a stop smoking "Train the Facilitator" course. The training seminar will be taught by Dr Elbert Glover, the developer of the StartSmarta"c Stop Smoking program. The course is suitable for medical practitioners and those in allied professions as well as other individuals who have an...
October 7, 2009
Local emergency rooms are seeing a big spike in patients without health insurance, increasing waiting times and costs for everyone, according to a Bee analysis of state and national health data. Among those patients is Shannon Zeitler, who lost her medical insurance when she lost her marriage. She recently went to UC Davis Medical Center for help controlling her seizures. There was no urgency for her...
October 7, 2009
HARTFORD, Conn., Oct 7, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Two Connecticut doctors said Wednesday they are suing the state to determine if there is a way for them to legally help terminally ill patients end their lives. The Stamford (Conn.) Advocate reported Dr. Gary Blick and Dr. Ron Levine said they filed suit in state Superior Court to have the legal right to offer "aid in dying" to terminally ill patients...
October 7, 2009
WASHINGTON - Hospitals, coal miners and clinical labs are among the special interests that have won exemptions from taxes and other cost-cutting measures in a health care plan crafted by the Senate Finance Committee. The landmark legislation, which could face a committee vote this week, comes after months of negotiations over how to provide coverage to millions of uninsured Americans. It also has faced...
October 6, 2009
Despite the growing obesity epidemic, some physicians find it difficult to talk to heavy patients about their weight - and even harder to help them lose weight. A patient's weight is often the elephant in the examining room. Both patient and doctor know it's a problem, but often neither party wants to talk about it, says internist William Bestermann Jr., 62, medical director of a cardiovascular treatment...
October 6, 2009
LEIDEN, Netherlands, Oct 7, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Exercise programs designed to improve strength and stamina are safe and effective treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, a review by Dutch researchers found. Lead researcher Emalie Hurkmans of the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands and colleagues reviewed dynamic exercise program trials in rheumatoid arthritis patients and found moderate...
October 6, 2009
NEW YORK, Oct 7, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. pediatrician warns against making Halloween even scarier by overwhelming children with precautions, although precautions must be taken. Dr. Luz Adriana Matiz of the NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital in New York advises limiting trick-or-treating to familiar neighborhoods and neighbors. "It's important not to create too much fear...
October 6, 2009
NEW YORK, Oct 7, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - About 25 percent of consumers indicated that calorie information at fast-food restaurants influenced their food choices, U.S. researchers said. Brian Elbel of New York University's Langone Medical Center compared New York fast-food eating - which has implemented calorie labeling in fast-food restaurants - to Newark, N.J., which has no calorie labeling requirement....
October 6, 2009
TORONTO, Oct 6, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Annual flu shots have been delayed in much of Canada because of an unpublished study suggesting the shots increase one's likelihood of contracting swine flu. Twelve of Canada's 13 provinces and territories have put off the flu shots for most people until after H1N1 inoculations are done, probably by year's end, The Wall Street Journal reported in Wednesday's...
October 6, 2009
The numbers are troubling: An estimated 17.6 million adults in the USA are either alcoholics or have alcohol problems, according to the National Institutes of Health. By some estimates, one-third of alcoholics are women. Yet if you were to ask a woman's friends and family if she has a drinking problem, they might very well say no. When Paula Tokar, 26, told her friends she was getting sober and wouldn't...
October 6, 2009
It's not news that obesity is a major health problem in the United States. According to the latest statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics, more than two-thirds of U.S. adults 20 and over are overweight or obese. Obesity can lead to health problems including heart disease and diabetes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers tips for parents to keep children active and...
October 6, 2009
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct 6, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - An ordinance to restrict fast-food chain restaurants in South Los Angeles is unlikely to cut obesity, officials of a non-profit research organization said. Researchers at Rand Health, part of the Rand Corp., found that the South Los Angeles region has no more fast-food chain establishments on a per capita basis than other parts of the city, but rather...
October 6, 2009
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