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ATLANTA, Sep 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. health officials said Friday 3.4 million doses of H1N1 flu vaccine are expected to be available the first week of October. Jay Butler, a medical epidemiologist and chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's H1N1 vaccine task force, said most of these initial doses of H1N1 vaccine will be the nasal spray form, which is not recommended for...
September 20, 2009
GENEVA - Global production of swine flu vaccines will be "substantially less" than the previous maximum forecast of 94 million doses a week, the World Health Organization said Friday. The number of doses produced in a year will therefore fall short of the 4.9 billion doses the global health body previously hoped could be available for the pandemic, WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told reporters in Geneva....
September 20, 2009
Top of the agenda for the World Health Organization's Western Pacific meeting this week will be how to combat the swine flu pandemic in developing nations. There are growing fears that poorer countries will not get enough vaccines, despite a pledge last week by the United States and eight other nations to make 10 percent of their swine flu vaccine supply available to others in need. "The developing...
September 20, 2009
MILWAUKEE - Kids with a broken arm do better on a simple over-the-counter painkiller than on a more powerful prescription combination that includes a narcotic, a surprising study finds. It tested ibuprofen, sold as Advil, Motrin and other brands, against acetaminophen plus codeine - a combo called Tylenol No. 3 that is also sold in generic form. The children on ibuprofen did better, said the study...
September 19, 2009
BETHESDA, Md. H1N1 swine flu likely will be the dominate flu strain this year, out-competing seasonal flu and infecting as many as one-third of Americans, according to Anthony Fauci, the federal government's top infectious disease expert. "This is a virus that spreads absolutely as efficiently as a virus can spread," Fauci said in a meeting Thursday with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other reporters....
September 19, 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 18, 2009
ATLANTA, Sep 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. health officials said Friday 3.4 million doses of H1N1 flu vaccine are expected to be available the first week of October. Jay Butler, a medical epidemiologist and chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's H1N1 vaccine task force, said most of these initial doses of H1N1 vaccine will be the nasal spray form, which is not recommended for...
September 18, 2009
BOSTON, Md., Sep 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Nearly 45,000 people each year - or one nearly every 12 minutes - die for lack of health insurance in the United States, researchers estimate. Study lead author Dr. Andrew Wilper, who worked at Harvard Medical School when the study was done and who now teaches at the University of Washington Medical School, and colleagues analyzed data from national surveys...
September 18, 2009
Grady Memorial Hospital's plan to send kidney dialysis patients to several other states, where the hospital said they would qualify for care, could leave some patients stranded without adequate treatment. At least three states on the list - Virginia, North Carolina and New Jersey - have requirements that could shut out these new residents from routine dialysis care, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
September 18, 2009
Officials have identified an increase in the population of mosquitoes carrying a rare, but serious, virus in the state and are warning residents that despite cooler temperatures, "skeeter" season isn't over. More than 30 human-biting mosquitoes carrying the Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus were found in 12 towns this summer, including Guilford, North Branford, Madison and Killingworth, said Donna...
September 17, 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...
September 17, 2009
Sep. 17 - Two California men have died after getting the West Nile virus - the first deaths this year attributed to the mosquito-borne disease, state health officials said Thursday. Despite the low number of human infections this year, state officials urged people to take precautions. The virus is most commonly transmitted by mosquito bites. "The greatest reason for the decreased activity in 2009 is...
September 17, 2009
Laurens Street boutique Women's Echoes is scheduled to close its doors for good on Oct. 1, but the shop's owners and staff plan to take the business out on a high note. Women's Echoes will host a "Celebrating the Journey" champagne reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the store, 137 Laurens St. S.W., on the corner of Laurens and Hayne Avenue. The shop's staff has partnered with Just Breathe Studio,...
September 17, 2009
Sep. 18 - A study released Thursday cites evidence confirming a long-suspected link between soft drink consumption and expanding waistlines. And it suggests that residents of the Northern San Joaquin Valley are tipping the scales by drinking large volumes of soda pop. The report, titled "Bubbling Over: Soda Consumption and Its Link to Obesity in California," was produced by the UCLA Center for Health...
September 17, 2009
OSLO, Norway, Sep 17, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Patients with chronic shoulder pain treated with exercises returned to work sooner than those treated with shockwaves, researchers in Norway said. The study involved 104 men and women ages 18-70 attending the outpatient clinic at Ullevaal University Hospital in Oslo with shoulder pain lasting at least three months. The single-blind randomized study, published...
September 17, 2009
The H1N1 flu already has pushed influenzalike illness to widespread levels in Minnesota, state health officials said Wednesday. More than 30 schools have reached the threshold for reporting influenza outbreaks - when 5 percent of students are out with flulike illnesses, or when three or more elementary school children from the same classroom are out with flu symptoms. While the illness that is officially...
September 17, 2009
BERKELEY, Calif., Sep 15, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Using sophisticated modeling, U.S. researchers showed H1N1 flu infection rates vary via pathways of exposure - touching, coughing, inhaling air. Dr. Mark Nicas of the University of California Berkeley's School of Public Health and Dr. Rachael M. Jones of the University of Illinois Chicago's School of Public Health say while healthcare workers and caregivers...
September 17, 2009
Anthony Montana already had watched a great-nephew's fight with bone cancer before doctors discovered cancerous cells in his own lung, lymph nodes and liver. "He felt that he had lived 72 great years, and he felt like the folks who get cheated the most with this disease and pain are the children," his son Richard Montana said. Tony Montana died nine months after the diagnosis, wishing more could be...
September 17, 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 16, 2009
Healthy people taking a daily dose of aspirin to prevent heart attacks may be doing themselves more harm than good, according to a new study by British scientists. Researchers found that the risks of bleeding from taking aspirin were such that its routine use in healthy people "cannot be supported" - although they did not dispute its use in patients with a history of vascular problems. The results...
September 16, 2009
MIAM, Fla., Sep 16, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A 60-year-old woman says she can see again after a tooth was implanted into her eye in a Miami surgery. Though the process has long been used in Asia and Europe, the procedure had never been performed in the United States before, CNN reported Wednesday. Kay Thornton of Smithdale, Miss., became blind in 2000 after getting Stevens-Johnson syndrome, apparently...
September 16, 2009
LOS ANGELES - A first-of-its-kind study released today definitively links soda consumption and an obesity epidemic, which costs California taxpayers an estimated $41 billion annually. Using interviews with 43,000 adults and 4,000 adolescents statewide, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research analyzed the correlation between soft drink consumption and weight. It found that adults who drink at least...
September 16, 2009
Sue Caldwell and Tori Rock each took a week of vacation and eagerly packed their bags for Antigua, Guatemala, in late August. But they had no need for beachwear and sunscreen. The two nurses from Plum took a week off work to volunteer for a group that traveled to the Central American country to perform hip and knee replacements on people who could not afford the procedures otherwise. Operation Walk...
September 16, 2009
For cancer patients starting radiation treatment, there can be a lot to take in. Many have questions, but time doesn't always allow for detailed answers, said Audrey Doyle, the chief radiation therapist for the Georgia Radiation Therapy Center at the Medical College of Georgia. "We have so little time to educate them because we treat patients, one every 15 minutes," she said. "We spend the majority...
September 16, 2009
OSLO, Norway, Sep 16, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Researchers in Norway have made associations between acne, high intake of chocolate and chips and low intake of vegetables. Jon Anders Halvorsen of the University of Oslo and colleagues in Tibet and the United States studied 3,775 adolescents to explore the possible causes of acne. The 18- and 19-year olds were given questionnaires to monitor their diets,...
September 16, 2009
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