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Aerobics exercise videos took off in the 1980s, followed by strength-training workouts, kickboxing, yoga and other trends. In recent years, Pilates DVDs have become increasingly popular. The workouts are based on the teachings of the late Joseph Pilates, whose fitness method focuses attention on strengthening core posture muscles and deep breathing. Pilates can include the use of special machines,...
October 3, 2009
LONDON, Oct 2, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - British researchers say streptococcal infection does not seem to trigger Tourette's or obsessive-compulsive disorder. Tourette syndrome is a neurologic disorder characterized by repetitive, involuntary sounds and movements called tics. OCD is an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted thoughts or obsessions and repetitive behaviors "These results do not confirm...
October 2, 2009
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct 2, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers say they were surprised to find life expectancy increased by 6.2 years during the Great Depression. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds life expectancy rose from age 57.1 in 1929 to 63.3 years in 1932. The increase occurred for both men and women and whites and non-whites. "The finding is...
October 2, 2009
TORINO, Italy, Oct 2, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - At-home care may be an alternative for aged patients with suddenly worsening heart failure, Italian medical researchers say. The study, published in Archives of Internal Medicine, found a physician-led geriatric home care for elderly patients compared favorable with with traditional hospital inpatient care for those experiencing heart failure. Study leader...
October 2, 2009
Oct. 2 - Families receiving grocery money through the Women, Infants and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program now can buy fresh fruit and vegetables, whole grains and soy products. The federally funded WIC program serves low-income mothers and their young children statewide. Families receive special WIC checks, which are then used to purchase WIC-authorized foods at grocery stores. The new foods...
October 1, 2009
ATLANTA, Oct 1, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - H1N1 flu has killed 28 pregnant women and sent 100 to intensive-care units in the United States since late August, health officials said Thursday. Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, urged pregnant women to get the seasonal flu vaccine and the H1N1 vaccine,...
October 1, 2009
Even a relatively mild outbreak of swine flu this season could hit 35 percent of Connecticut's population and overtax the number of available hospital beds, according to a report issued Thursday. The Trust for America's Health, using data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that 15 states, including Connecticut, could run out of hospital beds in this fall's "second wave"...
October 1, 2009
Oct. 2 - The first shipments of swine flu vaccine should start arriving in Maryland by Tuesday, but the initial batch will be so limited that the doses will be offered mainly to health care workers in hospitals and clinics, state health officials say. The state is getting just 31,600 doses of vaccine to start, according to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - only about 1 percent of what's...
October 1, 2009
Oct. 2 - Terre Haute firefighters have gone pink in support of women's health, throwing out their standard blue shirts for seven days in October. The pink T-shirt campaign began Thursday to coincide with Breast Cancer Awareness Month in Vigo County. But campaign organizer Glen Hall said the firefighters are not just supporting breast cancer awareness. "It's about women's health in general," Hall said....
October 1, 2009
A nurse for 15 years, Maria Kratz has spent the last six helping people deal with and battle cancer on a daily basis. "You do lose some to the disease. Sometimes, you know them for years. You still have sadness even though you know they're in a better place. Some of us nurses do go to their funerals and wakes. And some of us have our own personal experience with cancer," Kratz said. And there are many...
October 1, 2009
Oct. 2 - TAMPA - Swine flu arrived at the Berger home a few weeks ago. David Berger's son came down with the classic symptoms, a fever and sore throat. Berger, a pediatrician, started treating the whole family right away with homeopathic remedies such as elderberry, vitamins A and C, and zinc. The boy started feeling better the next day, and no one else in the family has been sick yet. Instead of convincing...
October 1, 2009
The adage that "the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world" has not been manifest in discussions of health care reform. For all we say about caring for women and children, women get the short end of the stick where medical insurance is concerned. Women use the health care system more than men, partly because of their reproductive needs. Yet women are less able to afford care than...
October 1, 2009
ATLANTA, Oct 2, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The number of U.S. poisoning deaths nearly doubled between 1999 and 2006, from almost 20,000 to more than 37,000, U.S. health officials say. A report by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that in 2006, more than 90 percent of poisoning deaths involved drugs. Opioid analgesics were involved in...
October 1, 2009
TORONTO, Oct 2, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Less than half of men and women in the Canadian province of Ontario suffering from depression see a doctor, researchers said. Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences also found many hospitalized for severe depression fail to see a doctor for follow-up care within 30 days of being discharged, and many head to hospital...
October 1, 2009
The obesity epidemic that is hammering the nation may be creating the first generation in which children may die before their parents, a leading doctor said Wednesday at UTEP. Dr. Elena Rios, president of the National Hispanic Medical Association, said obe sity, which is hitting minority groups particularly hard, stems from changes in lifestyle, a food pyramid that pushed the wrong foods and the nation's...
October 1, 2009
CHARLESTON, W.Va. For Pamela Hines Blue, losing her husband to prostate cancer was devastating - and frustrating. Her husband, former Kanawha County Manager Dan Blue, 60, died in May after battling the disease for nearly 8 years. He worked 11 years for the county, as deputy county manager, county manager and then as a consultant after his retirement in 2003. He was also an accountant. Now, his wife...
October 1, 2009
CHARLESTON, W.Va. For Pamela Hines Blue, losing her husband to prostate cancer was devastating - and frustrating. Her husband, former Kanawha County Manager Dan Blue, 60, died in May after battling the disease for nearly 8 years. He worked 11 years for the county, as deputy county manager, county manager and then as a consultant after his retirement in 2003. He was also an accountant. Now, his wife...
October 1, 2009
More than half of the babies born today in rich countries will live to 100 years if current trends of life expectancy continue, a study appearing in the medical journal The Lancet said on Friday. In the 20th century, most developed countries saw an increase of around 30 years in life expectancy, according to the paper led by Kaare Christensen, a professor at the Danish Ageing Research Centre at the...
October 1, 2009
Outside 15 schools in eight states, government regulators have found elevated levels of a substance that - in a more potent form - was also used as a chemical weapon during World War I. Those findings, based on samples collected for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), mark the first time the agency has expressed concern about the chemicals it detected as part of an ongoing effort to check for...
October 1, 2009
The millions of students now back in school aren't just learning about reading, writing and arithmetic. They are being educated about the dangers of a possible swine flu epidemic. Here in Texas, as well as across the USA, the flu warnings have parents reminding their children to wash their hands often, use sanitizers and cover their mouths when coughing. The concern is understandable. Forty deaths...
September 30, 2009
Oct. 1 - If your kids are not sick, send them to school. The schools are clean. They're safe. That was the message Michael Zalar, superintendent of the Oregon City School District, had for parents last night at an informational meeting on swine flu held at Clay High School. His position was endorsed by Lucas County Health Commissioner Dr. David Grossman, who complimented Oregon school officials' planning...
September 30, 2009
LUND, Sweden, Oct 1, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Swedish researchers studying suicide among the aged with severe depression found gender was a factor. The study, published in BMC Psychiatry, found from middle age onward, repeated suicide attempts are a risk factor for suicide in women and so are severe attempts for men. Louise Bradvik and Mats Berglund of Lund University in Sweden looked at suicide attempts...
September 30, 2009
Jill Bruce tried dealing with her cancer diagnosis alone, talking with her doctors and sifting through the Internet's coldest corners. One Web site even tried to predict how long she might live: Just fill in the blanks with vital statistics and the diagnosis. Then someone called her from the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing. "For me, it was out of my comfort zone to even come in," said...
September 30, 2009
DALLAS, Oct 1, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Former National Football League football players don't appear to have the same heart disease risk factors as non-athletic counterparts, U.S. researchers say. Drs. Alice Chang and Benjamin Levine, both of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, say when body mass index standards are applied, more than half of all professional football players...
September 30, 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...
September 30, 2009
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