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Effective immediately, the Food and Drug Administration has banned the sale of candy-, fruit- and clove-flavored cigarettes. The move was authorized by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which President Obama signed in June. Cigarette manufacturers make sweet-flavored cigarettes to attract teens to smoking, Lawrence Deyton, director of the FDA's newly established Center for Tobacco...
September 22, 2009
Tribune Washington Bureau (MCT) WASHINGTON - Testimony that long tarmac delays are not merely a frustrating inconvenience but a serious health risk, backed by a World Health Organization study, has helped propel toward passage a law requiring airlines to allow passengers to disembark if delays span more than three hours. The 2007 World Health Organization study cited Tuesday at an unofficial airline...
September 22, 2009
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers in both parties remained skeptical of a plan to change the nation's health care system despite a push by a key architect of the legislation Tuesday to boost benefits for middle-class families. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, offered the changes to build support for his bill, but the frosty response underscored the challenge he faces as the measure...
September 22, 2009
Sep. 23 - Doctors spend more than a decade studying health care, but someone employed by an insurance company will determine whether or not a person receives a medical procedure, state Rep. JoAnne Favors said. "The insurance companies have too much control," she said Tuesday. Rep. Favors, D-Chattanooga, a registered nurse, was one of more than two dozen local residents and doctors who faced noontime...
September 22, 2009
Come around for a Roundin' Up Cancer festival Friday in the hopes of eliminating the deadly disease. Organized by Relay For Life of Aiken, proceeds of the event will benefit the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life. Relay For Life events are held nationwide to raise funds for research by honoring those who battle cancer and those who have lost the fight. The event starts at 7 p.m. downtown on Bee...
September 22, 2009
Is it safer to have elective surgery first thing in the morning rather than in late afternoon, when doctors and nurses might be tired? For the same reason, is it smarter to schedule surgery earlier in the workweek than later? And is it better to avoid having elective surgery in July and August, when a new crop of residents has just started training? Also, is it foolish to have elective surgery when...
September 22, 2009
Bans on smoking in public places, by reducing passive smoking, can decrease the risk of heart attacks by an average of 17 percent, according to a new US and European study. The study, which examined the effects of smoking bans in regions across the United States and several countries in Europe, including Italy and Scotland, was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. It found...
September 22, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Sep 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. medical scientists say obesity is an important factor contributing to chemotherapy resistance and increasing relapse rates among children with leukemia. Researchers led by Dr. Steven Mittelman, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, found obesity is associated with increased incidence and mortality...
September 22, 2009
For Erin McGowan, who expects her sixth child around New Year's, volunteering for a trial of the H1N1 flu vaccine was a no-brainer. Not only did she volunteer, but she enrolled all but her youngest child in a pediatric trial of the swine flu vaccine. In the H1N1 flu pandemic, she says, a pregnant mother and five "itty-bitty kids" - her oldest is 6 - are "a recipe for disaster." McGowan, 33, a stay-at-home...
September 21, 2009
One swine flu shot will protect most children 10 and older, and younger kids probably will need two shots three weeks apart, according to a study released Monday. The findings, from the first federally funded study in children of the new H1N1, or swine flu, vaccine show that one shot of the new vaccine provides older children with protection within 10 days, just as standard flu vaccines do. Younger...
September 21, 2009
"Well, dear, life is a casting off. It's always that way." - Linda Loman, early in the first act of Death of Salesman, as she tries to comfort her husband, Willy, who is upset that his sons have left home. In many homes across the country, this is the time of year for a casting off of sorts, with the end of summer and the kids back in school. For some parents, the start of the school year has been...
September 21, 2009
WASHINGTON - Federal agencies that supply food for 31 million schoolchildren fail to ensure that tainted products are pulled quickly from cafeterias, a federal audit obtained by USA TODAY finds. The delays raise the risk of children being sickened by contaminated food, according to the audit by Congress' Government Accountability Office. In recent recalls, including one this year in which salmonella-infected...
September 21, 2009
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sep 21, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The high number of bars in rural America has been linked to higher suicide rates and higher attempted suicide rates, U.S. researchers say. Fred W. Johnson of the Prevention Research Center at Texas A&M University said there is a strong relationship between drinking and suicide. In any given year, people with alcohol dependence commit more than...
September 21, 2009
Sep. 21 - EL PASO - After listening to the advice of her health-care providers, Northeast resident Jaclyn Castro has made a big decision about how she will care for her first baby. "I'm going to breast-feed 100 percent," she said after a recent class about breast-feeding presented by the Women, Infants, Children Program, or WIC. "It's better for the baby. Every time I come, they tell me it's better...
September 21, 2009
OAKLAND, Calif., Sep 21, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers suggest ensuring optimal dietary intakes of vitamin K can help prevent age-related conditions such as bone fragility and heart disease. Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute scientists said vitamin K is concentrated in dark green plants such as spinach or Swiss chard, and is either not present or present in only small amounts...
September 21, 2009
Cases of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia are expected to soar in the next few decades, due largely to a spike in cases in developing countries, a report said Monday. Usually, dementia affects the elderly, and as improved healthcare helps more people live longer, the world population has a greater proportion of older people and the challenges that come with that. Just under 36 million...
September 21, 2009
Breast and cervical cancers are likely to kill millions of women in developing countries in the coming years, thriving on ignorance of the disease and a lack of means to diagnose and treat it, experts said on Tuesday. Worldwide, incidence of all types of cancer will double over the next two decades, with roughly 26.4 million new cases and 17 million deaths annually by 2030, a coalition of cancer specialists...
September 21, 2009
Three years after she made medical history and was freed from painful insulin injections, 9-year-old Lilly Jaffe is just beginning to understand how much her story changed the course of diabetes research and treatment. Since her breakthrough, 70 other children and several adults in the U.S. also have been able to switch from insulin shots to oral medication. And last month, her story inspired Illinois'...
September 21, 2009
CHARLESTON, W.Va. People interested in getting the swine flu vaccine when it comes out in mid-October may only have to get one shot, not two, after studies have shown that one 15-microgram dose of the vaccine may protect adults from the virus. "One shot for adults 18 to 54 may be adequate to mount enough of an immune response to protect against the H1N1," said Dr. Rahul Gupta, chief health officer...
September 20, 2009
Sep. 21 - Mosquito control officials are not ready to declare victory over West Nile virus after two California men died from the mosquito-borne disease, despite the low number of human infections this year. On Sunday, Yolo County officials confirmed the first two human cases of West Nile virus this year - a senior and a youth, 10 to 18 years old, both from Davis. Both are recovering. The California...
September 20, 2009
LONDON - People with a genetic susceptibility to colon cancer could cut their chances of developing the disease in half by taking a daily dose of aspirin, researchers said Monday. The finding might lead to other treatments by helping researchers understand how aspirin combats colon cancer, one of the top three cancers in rich countries. European researchers followed more than 1,000 people with Lynch...
September 20, 2009
Area residents turning on the tap can expect their water to meet federal and state regulations, but that might not mean the water is free from contaminants, water experts say. Federal and state inspectors test water purity by using regulations mostly set in the 1970s. Numerous chemicals have come on the scene since then, but regulators are not required to test for many of them. Opinions vary on whether...
September 20, 2009
With the open enrollment period for benefits coming up soon at many companies, this is a good time to start thinking about your options. Open enrollment is usually a four-week time when companies let their employees sign up for various health and retirement savings benefits, as well as smaller benefit options that may be unique to a business. "Employee benefits are a very important component of an...
September 20, 2009
LAE, Papua New Guinea, Sep 19, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Cholera, influenza and diarrhea outbreaks have killed more than 100 people and infected more than 6,000 in three provinces of Papua New Guinea, officials say. Victor Golpak, coordinator for the national Department of Health, told the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs that health workers have been trying to stop the spread...
September 20, 2009
Sep. 21 - Warren Palmer has had to deal with his share of pain. There were the lower-back problems from walking around all day on the cement floor of his feed-supply business. Then colon cancer struck in 2004. Two years later, he injured his neck after falling from his bicycle. And then, the stock market tumbled, decimating his investment. "I was trying to outsmart the market and bought heavily into...
September 20, 2009
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