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WASHINGTON, Oct 6, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Greens, eggs, tuna, oysters, potatoes, cheese, ice cream, tomatoes and berries are the riskiest foods the U.S. government regulates, a non-profit says. Sarah Klein, staff attorney for the Center for Science in the Public Interest and lead author of the report on food regulation said more than 1,500 separate, definable outbreaks were associated with the top...
October 6, 2009
The debate in Washington over health care changes is generating a lot of heat and strong language, dividing families and turning neighborhood barbecues into backyard brawls. But on one point, there's little debate: Workers will pay more for health insurance next year. During this year's enrollment season, you probably won't see any major changes in your company's coverage, says Karen Frost, health...
October 6, 2009
The first doses of swine flu vaccine arrived Monday as more than half the USA reported widespread flu cases. "The level of activity we're seeing for this time of year is really unusual," said Tom Skinner, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "We just really don't see the level of activity we're seeing." The high number of cases, however, is not a predictor of how severe...
October 6, 2009
A new study adds to the growing concern that prenatal exposure to the chemical bisphenol A could harm children's development. In the study of 249 pregnant women, the first to examine the effects of BPA on children's behavior, researchers found that girls whose mothers had the highest levels of BPA during pregnancy were more aggressive and hyperactive at age 2 than other girls. Findings appear today...
October 5, 2009
BOSTON, Oct 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Forty percent of U.S. adults sat they are "absolutely certain" they will get the H1N1 vaccine for themselves, a survey indicates. The survey by the Harvard School of Public Health also found 51 percent of parents are "absolutely certain" they will get the vaccine for their children. The poll, conducted Sept. 14-20, found about six in 10 adults are not "absolutely...
October 5, 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 5, 2009
MADISON, Wis., Oct 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Processes related to heart disease can begin in childhood but 65 percent of U.S. adults say the processes do not begin until adulthood, a survey found. The Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association in Madison, Wis., released findings of a national consumer survey that says 38 percent correctly surmise people should be concerned about living a heart-healthy...
October 5, 2009
SAN DIEGO, Oct 6, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers say Tai Chi, a form of Chinese martial arts, may help treat patients with balance issues - vestibular symptoms. Dr. Paul Lee of the New York Eye and Ear Institute evaluated the utility of Tai Chi in managing patients with vestibular symptoms, who have failed conventional vestibular therapy. Lee and colleagues used the activities-specific balance...
October 5, 2009
SAN DIEGO, Oct 6, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers say 66 percent of patients in an inner city pediatric voice clinic complained of hoarseness. Seventy-seven percent of those with hoarseness had vocal nodules. Twenty-three percent of patients with vocal nodules complained of other subjective complaints, but not hoarseness, researchers said. Seven percent of patients with no pathology on exam...
October 5, 2009
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain, Oct 6, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Spanish pharmacists found levels of vitamin C in fruit juice were far higher than the labels indicated, researchers said. Ana Rodriguez Bernaldo de Quiros and colleagues at the University of Santiago de Compostela established the levels of vitamin C in 15 of 17 fruit juices and other soft drinks. The finding was made possible through the...
October 5, 2009
ATLANTA, Oct 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - It's harder to find candy and salty snacks in U.S. high schools now than in 2006, a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The report, using data collected in 34 states from 2006 to 2008 and published in the Center's for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, said the median percentage of secondary schools in the 34 states...
October 5, 2009
Ellen Mintz understands now what her daughter, Cathy, meant. Before her daughter's death in 2005, Cathy - sick and debilitated from cancer - turned to her mother one day and said, "You know, Momma, I think I'm one of the luckiest people in the world." Ellen, having witnessed how the disease had ravaged her daughter's body, couldn't relate. Ellen, a mother of three herself, was furious that the cancer...
October 5, 2009
ATLANTA, Oct 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - It's harder to find candy and salty snacks in U.S. high school, than in 2006, a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The report using data collected in 34 states from 2006 to 2008 published in the Center's for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, said the median percentage of secondary schools in the 34 states that...
October 5, 2009
WASHINGTON, Oct 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration say it has approved Mirena to treat heavy menstrual bleeding in women who use intrauterine contraception. The approval of Mirena (levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system) marks the first intrauterine device approved by the FDA for the additional indication. Mirena was approved as a contraceptive by the FDA in 2000....
October 5, 2009
This is one in a series of QandAs about swine flu. You can send us questions at www.sunsentinel.com/swineflu. We cannot reply to all but will answer as many as possible. How do I protect my new baby from swine flu? Newborns have incomplete immune systems, putting them at higher risk for H1N1 flu virus. Babies under age 6 months cannot get flu vaccine, so the federal Centers for Disease Control and...
October 4, 2009
CHARLESTON, W.Va. Walk-in urgent care centers are seeing an increased number of patients with flu-like illnesses due to an earlier active seasonal flu season and the second wave of H1N1. And health officials say people still should go to these centers, or their primary care physicians, if they suspect they have the flu, rather than clogging up hospital emergency rooms. "We are certainly seeing swine...
October 4, 2009
WASHINGTON - Women's health groups, legal organizations and some female senators are fighting for a host of little-known provisions in the health care legislation being debated in Congress that they say will dramatically improve health care and insurance coverage for women. From a ban on insurance companies charging women more for the same policies as men to a requirement that companies provide maternity...
October 4, 2009
WASHINGTON, Oct 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Cash-strapped U.S. governors are moving to curtail a vast expansion of state Medicaid programs included in several healthcare reform measures, analysts say. They have already succeeded in altering the Senate Finance healthcare bill, which now includes billions of dollars in additional funding after governors objected to the original, smaller proposal, The...
October 4, 2009
More than 1 million babies die each year because they're born too soon, according to the first report to estimate the global burden of premature births. About 13 million babies a year - nearly 10% of all newborns - are born prematurely, after less than 37 weeks of the normal 40-week pregnancy, according to a report released Sunday by the March of Dimes. The preterm birth rate in the USA is especially...
October 4, 2009
WASHINGTON, Oct 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. President Barack Obama Monday meets with doctors from around the country to push for healthcare reform, the White House said. Even as his focus shifted to the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and trying to win the 2016 Summer Olympics for Chicago last week, Obama campaigned behind the scenes to shore up Senate support for a public, government-run health insurance...
October 4, 2009
WASHINGTON, Oct 4, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A virulent strain of E. coli bacteria known as O157:H7 still sickens thousands of Americans each year despite regulations, The New York Times reported Sunday. The newspaper said that through interviews and government and corporate records it traced the path of a batch of hamburger that sickened a 22-year-old Minnesota woman in 2007 and found that regulatory...
October 4, 2009
DALLAS, Oct 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Patients with diabetes in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington all benefited from blood sugar self-monitoring, researchers said. The study, published in The Diabetes Educator, found self-testing before and after specific events helped patients who had diabetes but were not being treated with insulin make better health and food choices as they...
October 4, 2009
Sean and Ryan Moise played "rock-paper-scissors" to see who would get their flu shot first. Faith bravely stepped up after her older brothers. Unlikely pioneers though they may seem, Sean, who turns 13 today, Ryan, 11, and Faith, 4 "and a half," are among just 600 children in the USA in government-sponsored pediatric trials of the vaccine for H1N1, or swine flu. The children are more motivated than...
October 4, 2009
TAMPA, Fla., Oct 4, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - An 85-year-old cancer survivor says the heavy metal group Metallica met with her before a show in Tampa, Fla. Margaret Priebe of Largo, Fla., told The St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times that Metallica singer James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, bassist Robert Trujillo and guitarist Kirk Hammett all visited with her before taking the stage Saturday at Tampa's St....
October 4, 2009
Sep. 18 - ANDERSON - Teresa Carter and her husband, Jeff, never thought they'd stop eating meat. They certainly never thought they'd become vegans, swearing off milk, eggs and other animal byproducts. But when the couple enrolled in the coronary health improvement program, or CHIP, their diets, and their lives, were thrown a curve ball. Premised on the idea that cholesterol, which is only derived through...
October 3, 2009
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