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The number of Americans using antidepressants doubled in only a decade, while the number seeing psychiatrists continued to fall, a study shows. About 10% of Americans - or 27 million people - were taking antidepressants in 2005, the last year for which data were available at the time the study was written. That's about twice the number in 1996, according to the study of nearly 50,000 children and adults...
August 3, 2009
All this talk of fat is starting to get to me. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held a conference last week on the bulging waistlines of Americans. That meeting came amid some unsettling news about the growth of fatness in this country. Two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese, and one in five children ages 6-11 is overweight, the CDC reported. If you don't think that should concern...
August 3, 2009
NEW YORK, Aug 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - High TV and video game use are to blame for millions of U.S. children having alarmingly low vitamin D levels, U.S. researchers said in a study published Monday. The low vitamin D levels - affecting seven out of 10 children - may be raising kids' risks for bone problems, heart disease, diabetes and other ailments, a study published in the journal Pediatrics said....
August 3, 2009
WASHINGTON, Aug 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. healthcare debate will move from Washington to local venues as Congress heads home for the August recess. The Obama administration, Republicans, Democrats and special interest groups will use the time to explain their points of view to the public via town hall meetings, television advertising and grass-roots lobbying, The New York Times reported Monday....
August 3, 2009
Spending on direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs continues to rise, but a new study suggests it might not always be a wise investment. Drug companies spent an estimated $4.24 billion on direct-to-consumer, or DTC, ads in 2005 - more than triple what they spent in 1996, but still far less than what they spend on marketing to doctors, researchers report today in the journal BMJ. Critics...
August 3, 2009
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Parents and school staff will need to balance the need for being prepared with avoiding overreaction to influenza A H1N1, U.S. health experts say. Lloyd Kolbe and Dr. David Orentlicher, both of Indiana University Bloomington, citing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations, say if teachers, administrators and parents emphasize hand...
August 3, 2009
South African health authorities Monday announced the death of an otherwise healthy student who tested positive for swine flu, the first fatality due to the virus in sub-Saharan Africa. "He died on the 28th (of July), but there had to be some testing done to ensure the cause of death. It was the A (H1N1) influenza," said Fidel Hadebe, spokesman for the department of health. South Africa's swine flu...
August 3, 2009
Geneva (dpa) - A newly discovered strain of HIV, most likely having moved from a gorilla to a human, will probably be sensitive to existing medications on the market, a senior World Health Organization official said Monday. Speaking with the German Press Agency dpa, Teguest Guerma, the acting director of the health agency's HIV/AIDS Department, said the WHO was "closely monitoring" the developments...
August 3, 2009
Students are asked to haul sometimes heavy loads of notebooks, texts, paper and pencils in backpacks as they head back to school this year. But many of the backpacks they'll use don't measure up, Consumer Reports says. The magazine tested 14 brands of backpacks for durability, resistance to rain, accessibility of pockets, comfort and other factors. Gayle Williams, the magazine's deputy health editor,...
August 2, 2009
With their potted plants, retiree volunteers and gift shops fragrant with overpriced flowers, one hospital may seem much like any other. But look beneath the surface, at tell-tale measures of a hospital's performance, and a different picture comes into view. No two hospitals are alike, according to a trove of evidence showing that the quality and cost vary dramatically from one place to another. Experts...
August 2, 2009
Berlin (dpa) - Carrots, rich in beta-carotene, are not the only food beneficial to your eyes, points out Silke Restemeyer, spokesperson for the German Nutrition Society (DGE). Spinach, tomatoes, broccoli and mangoes also contain beta-carotene, which the body converts into vitamin A. As Restemeyer explains, vitamin A helps protect the eye's retina and lens from free radicals, which are unstable molecules...
August 2, 2009
Hamburg (dpa) - Summer is the season of lawn games and activities like indiaca, petanque, skittles, badminton, Frisbee or boomerang throwing. They all have two things in common: they are participant sports and they are very entertaining. They are also excellent at keeping the body fit. "Those sports are played outdoors, they all involve intensive movement and help your bodily coordination," says Theodor...
August 2, 2009
MINNEAPOLIS - Teresa Maruna is on her feet all day in her job as a kidney dialysis technician, so her legs would feel tired in any case. But as someone predisposed to varicose veins, the pain could become excruciating and her ankles would swell to the point that they "seemed not to be ankles anymore." Maruna, of Lakeville, Minn., is among nearly 40 million Americans with vein disease, most of them...
August 2, 2009
We have heard about toxic toys, poisonous purses and now get ready for dangerous duds - skinny jeans. Apparently donning too-tight jeans may pinch a thigh nerve, causing pain and irritation. Some women describe a sensation similar to your foot falling asleep. The skin tight jeans are apparently causing bouts of a condition called meralgia paresthetica, or "tingling thigh syndrome." I think the pants...
August 2, 2009
BALTIMORE, Aug 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. doctors say hand washing is the number one step students and teachers can take to prevent sickness. Experts from Baltimore's LifeBridge Health, which operates Sinai and Northwest Hospitals, say each of the nation's 82 million students and teachers - more than one-quarter of the population - need to do their part to keep themselves and others healthy this...
August 2, 2009
Many college-bound freshmen have the same questions about their new roommate: Will she be messy, drink a lot, have a weird boyfriend? Caroline McEnery, who heads to Boston College this month, has a few extra concerns, such as: Will her roommate mind bunking with someone with diabetes? "Some people are uncomfortable with seeing someone stick their finger," McEnery says. She has type 1 diabetes - a condition...
July 31, 2009
Jul. 30 - On a recent Wednesday morning, Tess Richardson placed tiny black seeds on and in Tracy Froyland's ear. It may sound unusual, but it's all in a day's work for licensed acupuncturist Richardson, who owns a new clinic in Oro Valley. Come Alive Health LLC., is located on North Oracle Road in a business complex about a quarter-mile north of West Magee Road. Richardson, 59, opened the clinic in...
July 31, 2009
ROCHESTER, Minn., Jul 31, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A rare tumor called primary central nervous system lymphoma was two times more likely to be found in blacks ages 20 to 49 than whites, U.S. researchers said. In patients older than 49, however, the results were reversed with white people twice as likely to have the deadly tumor, researchers at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., said in a release Friday....
July 31, 2009
WASHINGTON - The number of Army medical centers and clinics that provide timely access to routine medical care has hit a five-year low, Army records show, often forcing soldiers and their families to seek treatment off base. About 16% of Army patients, particularly family members, can't get appointments with their primary physicians and are sent to doctors off the installation, according to the results...
July 31, 2009
ZURICH, Switzerland, Jul 31, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - People who live in the Swiss Alps have fewer heart problems than those living in valleys, researchers at Zurich University said. Even being born at high altitudes decreased the risk of a heart attack or stroke, researchers from the university's Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine said this week in Circulation, the journal of the American...
July 31, 2009
LONDON, Jul 31, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Slightly more than half of the children involved in a flu study suffered side effects from taking the drug Tamiflu, researchers in Britain said. Fifty-one percent of the 351 children given Tamiflu at three elementary schools in London and one in south west England experienced nausea, nightmares and insomnia, The Guardian reported Friday. The children were given...
July 31, 2009
WASHINGTON - An increasingly intense battle over health care legislation in Congress will now shift to states across the country as lawmakers begin returning home for a month-long recess and outside groups prepare to flood the airwaves. With polls suggesting that public support is sagging for President Obama's push to overhaul health care, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said the party will use the...
July 31, 2009
WASHINGTON, Jul 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. House approved legislation Thursday intended to give the Food and Drug Administration more muscle to prevent food-borne illnesses. A string of recent outbreaks of food-borne illnesses involved peanuts, spinach, hot peppers and other foods, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Journal said the 283-142 vote in favor of the Food Safety Enhancement...
July 30, 2009
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Jul 31, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Sunlight may be associated with the development of certain autoimmune diseases, particularly in women, U.S. researchers said. Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, said women are more likely than men to develop many autoimmune diseases, but the reasons for this...
July 30, 2009
Although Americans may complain about the high cost of health care, they're willing to shell out roughly $34 billion a year on alternative therapies that aren't covered by insurance, according to a survey released Thursday. That's a growth of more than 25% in the past decade, says a survey of 23,000 American adults by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes...
July 30, 2009
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