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MINNEAPOLIS, Oct 1, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Parents in low-income environments, especially in rural regions, are more prone to depression if they lack social support, U.S. researchers say. Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Kansas State University and University of Wisconsin in Madison examined the relationships among family income, social support, parental depression and parenting...
September 30, 2009
TORONTO, Sep 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Canadian researchers have linked a common treatment for dementia with a higher risk of hospitalization related to the heart. Laura Park-Wyllie and colleagues at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto looked at the health records of more than 1.4 million older adults in Ontario. The study, published in PLoS Medicine, showed initiation of cholinesterase inhibitor therapy...
September 30, 2009
Oct. 1 - Destinee Alicia Parker was an aspiring artist who loved animals, Lil Wayne and scary movies. She and her two sisters were known as the "Parker Posse" at Montebello Elementary/Middle School. And although she was healthy, she died of swine flu Tuesday night. She became the state's first youth with no apparent underlying medical condition to succumb to the virus. The death comes a week before...
September 30, 2009
Debra Jones didn't begin taking painkillers to get high. Jones, 50, was trying to relieve chronic pain caused by rheumatoid arthritis. Yet after taking the painkiller Percocet safely for 10 years, the stay-at-home mother of three became addicted after a friend suggested that crushing her pills could bring faster relief. It worked. The rush of medication also gave her more energy. Over time, she began...
September 30, 2009
Oct. 1 - EL PASO - Elsa Cristina Morales was in her kitchen making a meal for her family last year when she felt it. On the upper right side of her right breast, she felt a lump about the size of a lime. She was only 33 and thought there was no way it could be what she feared - cancer. "It came out from one day to another and I was so worried," she said, her voice trembling as she remembered the day....
September 30, 2009
Coca-Cola is about to put something on the front of its cans and bottles that few folks expect to find there: the calorie count. The beverage behemoth said Wednesday that - beginning later this year - it will start placing calories-per-serving and servings-per-container on the front of nearly all of its bottles sold in the USA and Mexico. That will be extended to all of its beverages sold worldwide...
September 30, 2009
COLUMBIA, Mo., Sep 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Half of young patients may "outgrow" bipolar disorder by age 30, U.S. researchers suggest. The Missouri University study, published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, was based on two large national surveys. Study co-author Kenneth Sher and colleagues say 5.5 percent to 6.2 percent of people between the ages of 18-24 suffer from bipolar disorder, but...
September 30, 2009
ATLANTA, Sep 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Many people who have died of H1N1 influenza in the United States had other bacterial infections that likely contributed to their deaths, health officials say. A report published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report says those who died of H1N1 influenza had co-infections with a common bacteria such as Streptococcus...
September 30, 2009
People who were exposed in the womb to the swine flu virus that caused the deadly pandemic of 1918 were more likely to develop heart disease later in life, said a US study to be released Thursday. US researchers found that men born in the first few months of 1919 - whose mothers would have been in the second or third trimester of pregnancy at the height of the 1918 flu epidemic - had a 23.1 percent...
September 30, 2009
Dawne Vetzel sees survival every day. An oncology nurse who regularly deals with cancer patients, she puts a special emphasis on her supportive role. She's lived it herself. She was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer 17 years ago. "It was devastating," Vetzel, 57, said when doctors told her of her diagnosis. "When you work with it every day, you don't expect it to happen to you." Vetzel, who lives...
September 29, 2009
Q: I am having to tweeze more and more gray from my dark eyebrows. Darkening the brows with mascara hasn't worked, and it seems all hair-coloring products should not be used so close to the eyes. Is there anything I can use to cover the gray in my brows? A: There are a few products specially formulated for dyeing the eyebrows. But applying the dye is tricky because the brows are so close to the eyes....
September 29, 2009
WASHINGTON - As Congress debates the government's role in health care, a report out today finds that state and federal officials failed to detect millions of dollars in Medicaid prescription-drug abuse. An audit of the government program in five large states found about 65,000 instances of beneficiaries improperly obtaining potentially addictive drugs at a cost of about $65 million during 2006 and...
September 29, 2009
WASHINGTON - A Senate committee drafting health care legislation soundly rejected two versions of a proposed government-run program Tuesday. Supporters of the "public option" vowed to resurrect the provision later this fall. Moderate Democrats twice voted with a unanimous bloc of 10 Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee to beat back attempts by more liberal Democrats to insert the public option...
September 29, 2009
PORTLAND, Ore., Sep 29, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Black and American-Indian children are more likely to be placed in foster care and to remain wards of the state longer than whites, an Oregon study finds. Researchers at Portland State University tracked 54,105 child-abuse reports from 2008 and 11,219 children who were in foster care for some period between Oct. 1, 2008, and March 31, 2009, The (Portland,...
September 29, 2009
When 7-year-old Kristen Lusk of Visalia, Calif., was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer in March 2006, her family was told the best treatment was in San Francisco - about 230 miles away. In addition to their concerns for their daughter, the family was worried about where they were going to stay during the treatment. "The cancer needed extensive chemotherapy and caused her to lose her left leg. ... You're...
September 29, 2009
Swine flu vaccinations are set to begin in October, and public health officials are mobilizing to ensure that the nation's roughly 12 million illegal immigrants are vaccinated to protect themselves and the public. Unlike the debate over health care for illegal immigrants, there is little dispute they should be included in the nation's voluntary vaccination program. "We believe it's important that all...
September 29, 2009
Only 14% of adults eat the recommended number of servings of fruit and vegetables a day, says a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 33% of adults meet the recommendation of two or more servings of fruits a day; 27% eat the recommended three or more servings of vegetables. Washington, D.C., leads the nation in eating fruits and vegetables: 20.1% of adults report they meet...
September 29, 2009
NOTTINGHAM, England, Sep 29, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - British and Vietnamese scientists say they've discovered parasitic gut worms, such as hookworms, might help prevent and treat asthma and other allergies. Researchers led by Dr. Carsten Flohr of the University of Nottingham, and Dr. Luc Nguyen Tuyen of the Khanh Hoa Provincial Health Service in central Vietnam said their study is the largest double-blind,...
September 29, 2009
BETHESDA, Md., Sep 29, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases says incidents of non-tuberculosis mycobacteria lung disease are increasing across the nation. Researchers said non-tuberculous mycobacteria are environmental organisms found in both water and soil that can cause severe pulmonary disease in humans - and a large study indicates the disease is...
September 29, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 29, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers say privately banking cord blood is not cost-effective for most families. The analysis, published in Obstetrics & Gynecology, determined private banking costs an additional $1,374,246 per life-year gained. The researchers conclude paying fees to store the blood collected from the umbilical cord after the baby's birth was advisable only...
September 29, 2009
MANILA, Philippines, Sep 16, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Some flip-flops and plastic shoes sold in the Philippines contain toxic chemicals that are dangerous to humans and the earth, an environmental group says. EcoWaste Coalition says a recent study found 17 of the 27 pairs of flip-flops, sandals, clogs and other plastic shoes tested contained phthalates, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported Wednesday....
September 29, 2009
October is Breast Health Awareness Month, and St. Elizabeth Health Services is again planning special events to raise awareness, and also to raise money for the Billie Ruth Bootsma Fund, which provides financial assistance for women of all ages who need diagnostic mammogram services. The first event is "A Day In Her Boots," featuring photographs of local women touched by breast cancer by Amy Martin-Friedman....
September 29, 2009
Sep. 29 - LONG BEACH - The height of flu season is months away but the introduction of the swine flu into the mix has heightened interest and confusion as the onset of the flu season approaches. To deal with two-pronged flu season this year, the Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services will be holding two rotations of flu shot clinics, one for the traditional or seasonal flu and a later set...
September 28, 2009
INDIANAPOLIS, Sep 29, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Women who feel comfortable and positive about female genitals find it easier to orgasm, U.S. researchers suggest. "These are important findings about body image," Debby Herbenick, associate director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion in the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Indiana University, says in a statement. "Our culture...
September 28, 2009
Obese people with sleep apnea who lose 10% of their weight have a good chance of improving their condition, a study shows. "This is good news because it shows that a little bit of weight loss can go a long way when it comes to improving sleep apnea," says the study's lead author, Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University in Philadelphia. Foster found...
September 28, 2009
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