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Mexico's weight problem is pervasive. According to figures provided by the Public Health Secretariat (SSP), as of 2006, when the last national study on weight issues was undertaken, nearly 70 percent of all adult Mexicans were considered to be severely overweight, and a full 30 percent fell into the category of obese. What's more, the problem is on the rise. In fact, according to the SSP, obesity rates...
September 24, 2009
Organizers of the 28th annual Cancer Walk-a-Thon hope to see close to 1,000 participants Saturday. The fundraiser collected nearly $190,000 for the Connelly Hospitality House and the San Juan Medical Foundation last year, annual giving coordinator Brenda Medley said. "Our goal is $200,000," she said. Participants solicit donations from family, friends and co-workers for their efforts in the roughly...
September 24, 2009
Two studies coming out in the journal Pediatric today show that parents have a big impact on the safety of teen drivers. Parents who are actively involved in setting rules and boundaries, and following up on those rules, lead to safer drivers. Teens who say their parents are actively involved cut their risk of drinking and driving by 70%, are half as likely to speed and 30% less likely to use a cellphone....
September 24, 2009
When 17-year-old Rashaun Hann of Fort Loudon started her shopping spree this month as Franklin County's latest Make-a-Wish child, she didn't realize that the highlight of her day would not be picking out a Halloween costume for her dog or special things for herself, but meeting a cancer survivor and former Make-a-Wish child. Rashaun, daughter of Bonnie and Scott Hann and an animal lover, had wished...
September 24, 2009
KISARAN, Indonesia - Spectators flocked to an Indonesian hospital Friday for a glimpse of the country's largest ever recorded baby - a 19.2-pound (8.7 kilogram) boy born by cesarian section to a diabetic mother. The delivery of Akbar Risuddin, or Risuddin the Great in Arabic, took 40 minutes and the operation was complicated because of his unusual weight and size. The mother and child were both in...
September 24, 2009
AMES, Iowa, Sep 25, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The Switch program, "Switch what You Do, View and Chew," increases healthier eating and reduces TV and computer screen time in children, U.S. researchers say. Douglas Gentile, a psychology professor at Iowa State University, worked with a team of researchers to evaluate the intervention in a group of 1,323 children and their parents from 10 schools. The community...
September 24, 2009
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sep 24, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Researchers in Denmark suggest the fear of getting back pain from nursing or caring for the elderly is predictive of actually developing back pain. Jette Nygaard Jensen and colleagues at the National Research Centre for the Working Environment in Copenhagen, Denmark, say fear-avoidance beliefs involve avoiding physical activities that are expected...
September 24, 2009
Sep. 24 - Suffering from influenza last year, Eric Getten of Eau Claire isn't taking any chances this season. "What a miserable experience that was," recalled Getten, who recently got his first flu shot. Others - hoping to avoid a similar experience - have been flocking into Walgreens for seasonal flu shots. Getten, who manages the store at 1819 S. Hastings Way, credits the increase in interest to...
September 23, 2009
WASHINGTON, Sep 24, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - McNeil Consumer Healthcare - the maker of Tylenol - is recalling certain lots of children's and infants' Tylenol liquid products. The company said it's recalling children's and infants' Tylenol liquid manufactured between April and June. An examination of one of the inactive ingredients showed it did not meet internal testing requirements. Officials said...
September 23, 2009
One in three homes in U.S. metropolitan areas have at least one problem such as water leaks, peeling paint, holes or rodents that could harm residents' health or safety, according to a first-of-its-kind study to be released today. "The sheer numbers of homes impacted are alarming," says Rebecca Morley, executive director of the National Center for Healthy Housing, a non-profit research group that used...
September 23, 2009
Mix celebs and a catchy contest, and the Alzheimer's Association is hoping to grab attention for a rapidly growing disease. The non-profit group's Who Wears Purple Best? campaign launched this week as the "2009 World Alzheimer's Report" was published, estimating 35 million people worldwide have Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia - up 10% since 2005. Actors Bradley Cooper (The Hangover) and Seth...
September 23, 2009
At 15, Melissa Frye isn't old enough to give blood, but she came to Tulsa with 16 classmates to learn how to set up a blood drive at her high school in South Coffeyville, just south of the Kansas-Oklahoma state line. "I want to be able to teach why it's so important," the Oklahoma Union High School sophomore said. She is the secretary of the school's chapter of Family, Career and Community Leaders...
September 23, 2009
An 11-year-old Sumter girl who had flu-like symptoms early this week died Wednesday in an ambulance en route to Columbia, authorities said. Ashlie Pipkin was a fifth-grade student at Laurence Manning Academy in Manning. Family members said Pipkin began to feel bad Monday with flu-like symptoms. She took a codeine-based cough medicine and began having trouble breathing Tuesday. Doctors at Tuomey Regional...
September 23, 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...
September 23, 2009
LONDON - Being fat could become the leading cause of cancer in women in Western countries in the coming years, European researchers said Thursday. Being overweight or obese accounts for up to 8 per cent of cancers in Europe. Experts said that figure is poised to increase substantially as the obesity epidemic continues, and as major causes of cancer, such as smoking and hormone replacement therapy for...
September 23, 2009
Just 21 months into my mother's cancer treatment, she had reached her medical insurance policy's cap for chemotherapy - $100,000. As if dealing with cancer were not enough, she now had to deal with the reality that our health care system had left her financially exposed. Lost in our daily debates on health care reform is the devastating impact our current system has on people like my mom. She, like...
September 23, 2009
CHICAGO, Sep 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers are studying whether taking the supplement co-enzyme Q10 may help slow Parkinson's disease. The Phase III clinical randomized trail builds on previous work associating the progression of Parkinson's disease and a lack of co-enzyme Q10 - a substance naturally produced in the body and key to its metabolic processes, such as cell energy production,...
September 23, 2009
STANFORD, Calif., Sep 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - At least in laboratory mice, bouts of relatively short-term stress can boost the immune system and protect against skin cancer, U.S. researchers say. Firdaus Dhabhar, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University's School of Medicine, says the finding is surprising because chronic stress has the opposite effect - taxing...
September 23, 2009
VANCOUVER, Quebec, Sep 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Other people's weight, food choices and portions can influence how much people eat, Canadian and U.S. researchers have found. Brent McFerran and Darren W. Dahl, both of the University of British Columbia, Gavan J. Fitzsimons of Duke University and Andrea C. Morales of Arizona State University recruited 210 college students to participate in a study...
September 23, 2009
LAS VEGAS, Sep 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A new cluster of hepatitis C cases has been found at a Nevada medical facility already under investigation by state authorities, lawyers suing the facility say. The plaintiffs' attorneys say they have uncovered evidence that the virus was transmitted to at least three additional patients who underwent colonoscopies on March 15, 2007 at the Endoscopy Center...
September 23, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A meta-analysis found banning smoking in public places can reduce heart attack hospitalizations by up to 36 percent over time, U.S. researchers say. James Lightwood of the University of California in San Francisco and Stanton Glantz, director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the university's School of Medicine, pooled 13 studies...
September 23, 2009
NEW YORK, Sep 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The health of employed U.S. workers is trending downward and one in three experiences one or more symptoms of clinical depression, researchers say. A report by the Families and Work Institute also says 28 percent of employees report that their overall health is "excellent," down from 34 percent six years ago. The report also reveals: - 41 percent of employees...
September 23, 2009
When Nancy McCullough heard about the Daviess County Extension Homemakers' Association project to make pillows for women who have had breast cancer surgery, the Daviess County Middle School teacher knew where she could get a capable work force of 50. The eighth-graders in her Family and Consumer Science class. The nine-week course includes a community service project, and this one fit the skill level...
September 23, 2009
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sep 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - African-Americans have a 12 percent less chance of surviving cardiac arrest while in the hospital, compared with white patients, U.S. researchers say. The study, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, found more than half of black patients were successfully revived after an in-hospital cardiac arrest, compared with 67.5 percent...
September 22, 2009
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sep 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - African-Americans have a 12 percent less chance of surviving cardiac arrest while in the hospital, compared with white patients, U.S. researchers say. The study, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, found more than half of black patients were successfully revived after an in-hospital cardiac arrest, compared with 67.5 percent...
September 22, 2009
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