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PRINCETON, N.J., Sep 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Researchers at Princeton University in New Jersey said their study suggests tall people lead happier lives than those of lower stature. The researchers analyzed data from 450,000 people over the age of 18, collected between January 2008 and April 2009 for the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, Britain's The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday. They said...
September 9, 2009
COLOGNE, Germany, Sep 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - People who can quit smoking before surgery can halve their risk of poor wound healing, researchers in Germany found. Peter Sawicki of the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care analyzed current research showing that nicotine replacement therapy can help people quit smoking and avoid complications after surgery. Nicotine replacement...
September 9, 2009
Nurses ready to tackle possible cases with education and vaccines By Robert Nott The New Mexican Don't panic, parents. Assuming the state receives enough H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine by mid-October, and you sign those flu-shot consent forms, Santa Fe's school nurses are prepared to keep your kids healthy. With anxiety rising over a possible swine flu epidemic, the nurses are already gearing up to vaccinate...
September 9, 2009
TORONTO - Ready to have a baby? It's time to pencil in a checkup - with your dentist. Oral care is probably not first on the priority list when it comes to planning a pregnancy. But ask a doctor who has helped about 6,500 women bring their new bundles of joy into the world - including his fair share on camera - and he'll tell you that taking care of teeth is key in helping ensure overall health. High-risk...
September 9, 2009
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Raymond Harris is only 54, but he already has gone through three kidneys. Like most people, Harris was born with two working kidneys. He lost one at age 8 because of a fall. He lost the second to high blood pressure at 42. He lost the third - donated by his wife - at age 48, because of a rare reaction to a dye that doctors used to view the blockages in his arteries. And while Harris...
September 8, 2009
NEW YORK, Sep 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Many teens heading back to school are sleep deprived as they drive to and from school, increasing their accident risk, U.S. researchers say. David Reich, spokesman for the National Road Safety Foundation, says drowsy driving is a risky behavior common among young drivers. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates more than 100,000 crashes...
September 8, 2009
Jan. 30 - Dr. Javeed Siddiqui, an infectious-disease physician, was on the job at UC Davis Medical Center when his iPhone rang with an urgent call. A colleague's niece was in distress, her right eye swollen from a dog bite. Siddiqui asked the girl's father to send a digital photo of the 8-year-old's wounded eye - directly to the doctor's iPhone. He quickly viewed the injury and issued a soothing diagnosis:...
September 8, 2009
Sep. 8 - John Boggess and John Soper, two cancer surgeons at UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, have created a medical record of a different sort. The gynecological oncologists and their doctor bandmates are releasing a rock CD today that culminates a lightning journey from one-night wonders to an original artist group signed by a small New York label. Their album, eponymously titled "N.E.D. No Evidence...
September 7, 2009
BALTIMORE, Sep 8, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Communication between doctors and patients with high blood pressure is worse for blacks than for whites, researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore say. "This is an important finding because poorer communication is associated with worse patient satisfaction, adherence to therapy and blood pressure control, which in turn may lead to worse disease outcomes...
September 7, 2009
For more than four hours, Robert Bowers, 22, sat in the waiting room with his wife, April. A tree climber who trims and repairs trees, the Culpeper resident has no insurance. "I have swelling in my jaw that started two days ago. It's pretty painful," he says. This emergency room is the second he has visited in two days. On Sunday, he went to the ER at a Culpeper hospital, where a doctor said he may...
September 7, 2009
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. A smile flashes across Raymond Clark's face as the 8-year-old watches ZooTV, a welcome distraction from needle pokes and other tests during his treatment for a heart defect here at Sanford Children's Hospital. The Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls launched ZooTV in March, using 14 weather-proof cameras to shoot live video in several exhibits. The idea behind the project is to comfort...
September 7, 2009
Seven out of 10 children and young adults don't get enough vitamin D, which could increase their risk for bone and heart problems, a study suggests today. A study of more than 6,000 children and young adults published online in the journal Pediatrics had striking results, says lead author Michal Melamed, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology and population health. The study was led by scientists...
September 7, 2009
BALTIMORE, Sep 7, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Bathing hospital patients with a weak solution of chlorhexidine may help protect them against superbugs, U.S. researchers say. Chlorhexidine is the same anti-bacterial agent used by surgeons to "scrub in" before an operation. The study, published in Critical Care Medicine, found giving critically ill hospital patients a daily sponge bath with a 4 percent solution...
September 7, 2009
Put this one in your "good to know" file: Regular yoga practice may help stave off that dreaded middle-age spread, U.S. researchers report in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. They found that normal weight people who did yoga regularly gained less weight over 10 years, regardless of their diet and other physical activity. And overweight yoginis (and yogis) even dropped a few pounds....
September 7, 2009
Sep. 7 - PLAISTOW - A runner in search of a cause has teamed up with parents fighting a deadly childhood disease. Richard Anthony, 40, will run the 26.2-mile course in the New York City Marathon on Nov. 1. He expects to raise $3,000 for Duchenne muscular dystrophy research as part of the Run for Our Sons team organized by Planned Project Muscular Dystrophy. This will be his second big marathon, he...
September 7, 2009
Kaiser Health News (MCT) WASHINGTON - In an episode of "House" that aired in 2006, master diagnostician Gregory House orders a chest X-ray, an EKG, a bone marrow biopsy, a colonoscopy, an especially brutal skin biopsy, two stress tests, an MRI of the head and a series of blood, urine and sputum tests. Pushing medical practice to the extreme may be the cost of keeping viewers hooked on Fox's hit show,...
September 7, 2009
Sep. 7 - CHARLESTON, W.Va. West Virginians could start getting vaccinated against the H1N1 virus by mid-October, the state's health officer says. "It's going to be a flow," Dr. Cathy Slemp said last week. "I think you will see a gradual increase in the availability of the vaccine, and we project that by late October, early November you're seeing more large scale clinics as more vaccine becomes available."...
September 7, 2009
Seven out of 10 children and young adults don't get enough vitamin D, which could increase their risk for bone and heart problems, a study suggests today. A study of more than 6,000 children and young adults published online in the journal Pediatrics had striking results, says lead author Michal Melamed, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology and population health. The study was led by scientists...
September 7, 2009
LOS ANGELES - Maria Ramos started dying on her own front porch. After a week of fatigue, vomiting and shortness of breath, the 39-year-old from Reseda decided to go to the doctor. But on her way out the door, she slumped to the pavement in a faint. EMTs rushed her to Providence Tarzana Medical Center, where she went into cardiac arrest in the waiting room. Ramos said doctors shocked her unresponsive...
September 7, 2009
Sep. 7 - The interest in flu shots appears higher than previous years as medical professionals prepare for the upcoming winter inoculations. The H1N1 flu vaccine will not be released until the second or third week of October, so there will have to be a lot of those shots issued in a short period of time. Marcy Cox, director of the flu vaccinations program for the Visiting Nurses Association that serves...
September 6, 2009
Sep. 6 - Since the first cases were reported in the spring, the H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu, has created tragedy for some families in the Northern San Joaquin Valley and anxiety for many other residents. Dr. John Walker is the public health director for Stanislaus County, where five people have died from complications of H1N1. He leads the county's public health response and planning for...
September 6, 2009
Sep. 6 - Seasonal flu is on the way, and local medical officials are urging individuals to be vaccinated. Though H1N1 (swine flu) has been attracting a lot of headlines worldwide, seasonal flu accounts for an estimated 36,000 deaths in the United States each year. "Do not forget seasonal flu just because H1N1 is getting all of the attention and publicity," Caldwell County Health Department Medical...
September 6, 2009
Sep. 6 - Preparing food using conventional cooking methods destroys more than 80 percent of that food's nutrition, said Sandra Hubbs. A certified raw foods chef and teacher, Hubbs recently founded Eat Raw, Live Long, a new business that offers cooking classes for raw foods, a raw food chef certification course and raw food meal delivery and catering services. "The problem with the American diet is...
September 6, 2009
Sep. 6 - Among the litter of modern American society - all the candy wrappers, fast food bags, suburban sprawl, TV addictions - lies a harsh truth about childhood obesity. This might be the first generation of American children to be less healthy than their parents. In the course of a few ravenous decades, children have come to dwarf the size of their parents at the same age. The numbers are staggering,...
September 6, 2009
I am a survivor. Not of cancer or a natural disaster, but of the dreaded H1N1 virus. I have swine flu. I am one of the swine flu seven - or eight - because I highly doubt my diagnosis from Massachusetts has travelled to Georgia yet, even though I strongly suspect I caught the illness in Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport because I started exhibiting flu-like symptoms while still in Georgia. But...
September 6, 2009
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