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Isaac Small, Gavin Riggall, and Margaret Kwak struggle in their own ways with the current health-care system. The three area residents have different views on whether the overhaul President Obama proposed Wednesday would solve their problems or make them worse. But they have this much in common: They are desperate for a solution, and, like much of the country, they are eager for details about what...
September 13, 2009
KINGSTON, England, Sep 13, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Four of the 12 children ailing as a result of an E. coli outbreak in the English county of Surrey are seriously ill, health officials say. The Health Protection Agency said since children likely came into contact with the bacteria during a recent visit to the Godstone Farm, which has since been closed to the public, The Sunday Telegraph reported. To...
September 13, 2009
On a sweltering summer Saturday at the Grandin Village Community Market in Roanoke, farmer Tenley Weaver weighed tomatoes and fingerling potatoes while her assistant misted water on a bouquet of fresh cilantro. At the other end of the market, a customer asked for a dozen eggs. "That's been a popular question this morning," the vendor said. "I'm sold out." Farm-fresh eggs weren't the only sellout at...
September 12, 2009
WASHINGTON - Fighting the swine flu may have gotten more manageable. Australian and U.S. researchers said Thursday that one dose of the new swine flu vaccine looks strong enough to protect adults - and can begin protection within 10 days of the shot. Australian shot maker CSL Ltd. published results of a study that found 75 per cent to 96 per cent of vaccinated people should be protected with one dose...
September 12, 2009
BRISBANE, Australia, Sep 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Addressing employee mental health can increase productivity in the workplace, researchers in Australia said. The study of more than 60,000 employees, published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, found employees without symptoms of mental health problems - having low scores on a psychological distress scale - were the most...
September 11, 2009
CLEVELAND, Sep 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The runny nose and post-nasal drip of allergic rhinitis, or hay fever, puts a damper on sex and sleep, U.S. researchers found. Dr. Michael Benninger, chairman of the Head and Neck Institute at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio who was the study author, said the study assessed the impact of allergic rhinitis on sexual function, sleep and fatigue. The researchers...
September 11, 2009
RIVERSIDE, Calif., Sep 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers say they have linked second-hand smoke to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in mice. The study, published in the Journal of Hepatology, not only finds fat accumulating in the liver cells of mice exposed in the laboratory to second-hand smoke, but describes how smoke affects two key regulators of fat synthesis on the molecular level....
September 11, 2009
BRISBANE, Australia, Sep 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Addressing employee mental health can increase productivity in the workplace, researchers in Australia said. The study of more than 60,000 employees, published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, found employees without symptoms of mental health problems - having low scores on a psychological distress scale - were the most...
September 11, 2009
LONDON, Sep 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Children with emotional difficulties are more likely to become obese adults, researchers in Britain found. Andrew Ternouth, David Collier and Barbara Maughan of King's College London studied data from of about 6,500 members of the 1970 British Birth Cohort Study who, as 10-year-olds, had been assessed for emotional problems, self-perceptions and body mass index....
September 11, 2009
SEATTLE, Sep 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - TV shows like "Sex and the City" may have glamorized drinking, but excessive alcohol is tied to overeating and depression in young women, U.S. researchers say. Lead author Carolyn McCarty, a research associate professor at the University of Washington and Seattle Children's Research Institute, and colleagues surveyed 393 men and 383 women at ages 24, 27 and...
September 11, 2009
LOS ANGELES - Saying they were entering into uncharted territory, local physicians are urging the public to roll up their sleeves for the vaccine that protects against the seasonal flu. At many local hospitals, health care workers will start getting their vaccines on Sept. 21. Patients can also start making appointments with their physicians to get vaccinated. "We advise people to get their flu shots...
September 10, 2009
WASHINGTON - Fewer people abused prescription drugs last year than in 2007, reversing an upward trend in abuse of potent painkillers such as OxyContin, a federal drug survey found. People who once saw little risk in abusing prescription drugs are responding to health reports underscoring dangers of misuse, says Eric Broderick, acting administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,...
September 10, 2009
The Census Bureau added some clarity Thursday to the fierce debate over government's role in health care: Without government intervention, the number of uninsured would have soared last year. Although the 46.3 million people without health insurance in 2008 was slightly more than in 2007, private and employer-based insurance declined significantly. What made up the difference: Medicare, Medicaid and...
September 10, 2009
Traffic accidents, suicide and violence, as well as AIDS and tuberculosis are among the leading causes of early death among the world's under-24s, according to a paper published on Friday in The Lancet. Epidemiologists pored over data from the 2.6 million deaths that occurred among the world's population of 1.8 billion aged between 10 and 24 in 2004. Road accidents accounted for 10 percent of the deaths;...
September 10, 2009
ATLANTA, Sep 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - There is a need to educate pregnant women and their healthcare providers on the need of a seasonal influenza vaccine, U.S. health officials said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report released Thursday said pregnant women are at increased risk for complications from influenza. The Advisory Committee on Immunization...
September 10, 2009
DALLAS, Sep 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers say one in five patients with chronic kidney disease may be depressed. The study, published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, also found kidney patients with diabetes are twice as likely to be depressed as those without diabetes. When structured clinical interviews were conducted for 272 chronic kidney disease patients - all veterans...
September 10, 2009
ATLANTA, Sep 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - There is a need to educate pregnant women and their healthcare providers for the need of a seasonal influenza vaccine, U.S. health officials said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report released Thursday said pregnant women are at increased risk for complications from influenza. The Advisory Committee on Immunization...
September 10, 2009
BOSTON, Sep 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Only one-third of U.S. businesses say they could sustain their business if half of their workers were absent for two weeks due to H1N1 flu, a survey indicates. The survey is part of an ongoing series on the country's response to the H1N1 flu outbreak undertaken by the Harvard Opinion Research Program at the Harvard School of Public Health. "Businesses need to...
September 9, 2009
J.J. Watt was napping on his couch Tuesday afternoon when he got a text message on his cell phone: "I'm outside." The message was from Connie Watt, the mother of the University of Wisconsin sophomore defensive end. J.J. Watt, like many of the UW players, was battling through the flu that was spreading on the campus and hit the football team late Saturday. Connie Watt was armed with cleaning materials...
September 9, 2009
A 6-year-old southeast Kansas child has died from the H1N1 virus, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced Wednesday. The virus was confirmed Aug. 25, and the child's death was reported to the state health department on Sept. 3. The department said the child was the second person to die from H1N1 in Kansas. On Aug. 6, the state reported the first death from H1N1, a middle-aged man...
September 9, 2009
As part of a national campaign to raise $500,000, Massage Envy's five Connecticut franchises will participate in the fifth annual Massage for the Cure. On Sept. 15, the franchises in Fairfield, Milford, South Windsor, Glastonbury and Brookfield, will offer $35, one-hour therapeutic massage sessions, with $10 from each massage donated to the Connecticut affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure,...
September 9, 2009
In the last three months, Miami-Dade prosecutor Christine Zahralban lost both her breasts and 13 inches of her long black hair, which, beside minor trims, hadn't been cut since the first grade. But she'll soon gain a new title: breast cancer survivor. Zahralban, 39, starts chemotherapy Thursday. It likely will cause the rest of her mane to fall out, but it also will help ensure she remains cancer-free,...
September 9, 2009
Almost three-quarters (73%) of American colleges and universities are reporting cases of influenza-like illnesses among students, with the highest rates in the Southeast and Midwest, the American College Health Association says. There were 4,045 new flu-like illness cases between Aug. 29 and Sept. 4 among 204 schools taking part in voluntary reporting, the new data show. Most schools are not testing...
September 9, 2009
URBANA, Ill., Sep 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Family mealtimes are a way to improve nutrition and reduce stress in families, and parents should set time for regular family meals, a U.S. researcher advises. "There are few things parents can do that are as effective in protecting their families as taking 18 to 20 minutes to eat together and talk with each other three to five times a week," Barbara H....
September 9, 2009
CARDIFF, Wales, Sep 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Manuka honey may kill bacteria by destroying key bacterial proteins, researchers in Wales suggest. Dr. Rowena Jenkins and colleagues at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff broke down the cells of laboratory grown Meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus that had been treated with and without manuka honey for four hours as well as with sugar...
September 9, 2009
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