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WASHINGTON - The new H1N1 swine flu infected about 800,000 New Yorkers - or one in 10 - last spring, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed yesterday. Dr. Thomas Frieden, who until June was New York City's health commissioner, said a study due to be released this week suggested that the virus spread wide around all five boroughs. "That's a lot of people," he told C-SPAN,...
August 30, 2009
BARCELONA, Spain - Working up a sweat may be even better than angioplasty for some heart patients, experts say. Some studies have shown heart patients benefit more from exercise than surgery. At a meeting of the European Society of Cardiology yesterday, several experts said doctors should focus on persuading patients to exercise rather than on performing angioplasties. Angioplasty is the top treatment...
August 30, 2009
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug 31, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Persistent job insecurity - not necessarily job loss - poses a major threat to worker health, U.S. researchers found. Sociologist Sarah Burgard and James House of the University of Michigan and Jennie Brand at the University of California, Los Angeles, analyzed data on more than 1,700 adults collected over periods from 3-10 years. By interviewing the...
August 30, 2009
TRONDHEIM, Norway, Aug 31, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Abstaining from alcohol consumption is associated with an increased risk of depression, researchers in Norway found. Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Bergen said it has long been recognized that excessive alcohol consumption can lead to poor physical and mental health. The researchers - using data...
August 30, 2009
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Aug 28, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A 15-minute test that measures blood flow through the ankle can help identify people with peripheral artery disease, researchers in North Carolina said. The test, called an ankle brachial index, could be helpful in screening people who have already had a stroke or transient ischmic attack, the study by researchers at the University of North Carolina,...
August 28, 2009
Time Magazine's intriguing cover piece "Why exercise won't make you thin" by John Cloud is still one of the top 10 most read stories on its Web site, in part because we're desperate for a magic bullet. For years, food manufacturers have been telling us not to blame cheap and processed food for the obesity crisis. Instead, we all just need to move more and to get recess back into the schools. Now here...
August 28, 2009
The World Health Organisation said Friday that the swine flu virus has supplanted other viruses to become the most prevalent strain of flu. "Evidence from multiple outbreak sites demonstrates that the H1N1 pandemic virus has rapidly established itself and is now the dominant influenza strain in most parts of the world," said the WHO in a statement. hmn/har Health-flu-WHO AFP 281600 GMT 08 09 COPYRIGHT...
August 28, 2009
Grandma was wrong: wheat bran and other fibrous foods that do not dissolve easily in water not only fail to soothe irritable bowels, but may actually make things worse, a study reported Friday. While soluble types of bran, such as psyllium, appear to ease inflamed bowels, the insoluble varieties that have long been a staple for people in search of regularity don't work as advertised, the study found....
August 27, 2009
OTTAWA, Aug 28, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Canadian health officials are asking parents of children heading back to school to be allergy aware when packing school lunches. Parents need to understand severe allergic reactions can occur quickly and contact with a food can become life threatening for some allergic children, said officials at Health Canada and Canadian Food Inspection Agency, both based in...
August 27, 2009
Americans are taking swine flu more seriously now than they did last spring, when the emerging pandemic began causing widespread illness and shuttering schools in several states, the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows. The poll of 1,007 adults Wednesday found that one in three people believe they or a family member probably will contract H1NI flu, up from one in five in May. Seventeen percent say they...
August 27, 2009
ATLANTA, Aug 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - H1N1 flu in Chicago from April through July was 14 times higher in children and young adults than in those age 60 and older, Chicago health officials said. The report by the Chicago Department of Public Health, published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report, summarized the 1,557 cases of H1N1 cases that occurred...
August 27, 2009
ATLANTA, Aug 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. child immunization rates remain stable at 76.1 percent, not a statistically significant difference from the 2007 estimate of 77.4 percent, officials said. The National Immunization Survey published Thursday in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report said the survey for 2008 included children age 19-35...
August 27, 2009
ATLANTA, Aug 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Researchers say most U.S. cases of typhoid fever are related to travel - especially the Indian subcontinent. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, finds more and more typhoid cases are being identified as drug-resistant strains, including nalidixic acid-resistant S Typhi as well as ciprofloxacin-resistant. The researchers raise...
August 26, 2009
If an insomnia demon rears its ugly head from your pillow, seek help sooner rather than later, sleep experts say. Though 30% of the nation complains of disturbed sleep patterns, according to a survey by the National Sleep Foundation, most people can cope with a few sleepless nights. But stretches of chronic insomnia for months or years - as news reports have said Michael Jackson had - are preventable....
August 26, 2009
WASHINGTON, Aug 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Tobacco use kills an estimated 6 million people annually and more than one-third of those people die from cancer, British and U.S. researchers say. Hana Ross of the American Cancer Society, Dr. Judith Mackay of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Edinburgh and London, Omar Shafey of Emory University and Michael Eriksen of the Institute of Public Health at...
August 26, 2009
BOSTON, Aug 26, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Hormone therapy for prostate cancer patients with congestive heart failure or heart attack is linked to increased death risk, U.S. researchers said. Hormonal therapy is used as a means for prostate gland cytoreduction - prostate shrinkage. Dr. Akash Nanda of Brigham & Women's Hospital Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and colleagues assessed 5,077 men with...
August 26, 2009
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Aug 26, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A major decline in the proportion of Canadians suffering hip fractures may be partly due to people weighing more and having bigger buttocks, researchers say. The additional weight provides more cushioning during falls, the researchers say in a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "It's one of the interesting...
August 26, 2009
BOSTON, Aug 26, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Hormone therapy for prostate cancer patients with congestive heart failure or heart attack is linked to increased death risk, U.S. researchers said. Hormonal therapy is used as a means for prostate gland cytoreduction - prostate shrinkage. Dr. Akash Nanda of Brigham & Women's Hospital Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and colleagues assessed 5,077 men with...
August 26, 2009
EDMONTON, Alberta, Aug 26, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Canadian researchers say visiting grandma may help keep toddlers from forming negative age stereotypes about the elderly. The study, published in Educational Gerontology, suggests toddlers lacking contact with older people may attach negative cultural images - such as being absent-minded or hard-of-hearing - to the elderly. "We've been able to show...
August 25, 2009
MANHATTAN, Kan., Aug 26, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Employees who are invigorated and dedicated at work carry over their positive work experiences for a happier home life, U.S. researchers say. Clive Fullagar, a professor of psychology, Satoris Culbertson, assistant professor of psychology, and Maura Mills, a graduate student in psychology - all of Kansas State University in Manhattan - tracked 67 extension...
August 25, 2009
Extremely obese people - those who are 80 or more pounds over a normal weight - live three to 12 fewer years than their normal-weight peers, a new study shows. Just being overweight or moderately obese, however, has little or no effect on life span, the research found. The finding adds to the growing body of evidence that being slightly overweight may have no influence on life expectancy, but being...
August 25, 2009
The global flu pandemic expected to return to the USA this fall may infect as much as half the U.S. population, flooding hospitals with nearly 2 million patients and causing 30,000 to 90,000 deaths, according to the first official forecast of the scope of the flu season now beginning. The report, released Monday by the White House, was prepared by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and...
August 25, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Aug 25, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Being overweight or obese can result in brain shrinkage and an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said. Study senior author Paul Thompson of the University of California, Los Angeles and Cyrus A. Raji, a medical student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and colleagues compared the brains of people who were...
August 25, 2009
BOSTON, Aug 25, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers say low-carbohydrate, high protein diets increased atherosclerosis in mice. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found mice fed the 12 percent carbohydrate, 43 percent fat, 45 percent protein diets were more likely to show vascular damage then mice fed standard diets with 65 percent carbohydrate, 15 percent...
August 24, 2009
The nation is headed for strong heat waves in coming decades that will hit cities and farmers and threaten wildlife with extinction, a new global warming report warns. The report, "More Extreme Heat Waves: Global Warming's Wake Up Call," sponsored by medical, environmental and civil rights organizations, comes as a legislative fight over a climate change bill gets ready to resume next month in Congress....
August 24, 2009
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