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LEICESTER, England, Jul 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Primary care physicians in Britain were able to recognize about half of people who had clinical depression, researchers said. Dr. Alex Mitchell of University of Leicester and Dr. Amol Vaze and Dr. Sanajay Rao, both of Leicester Partnership Trust, examined 41 trials from nine countries that involved 50,000 patients. The analysis, published in The Lancet,...
July 30, 2009
COLOGNE, Germany, Jul 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Reducing salt can result in lower blood pressure, but it's unclear if this helps those with sustained high blood pressure long-term, German researchers say. The findings are published in a form of a rapid report in Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care. The study involved an assessment of seven reviews from a total of 62 randomized controlled...
July 30, 2009
PHILADELPHIA, Jul 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Exposure to nicotine via smoking has been linked to a greater risk of aggressive pancreatic cancer, U.S. researchers say. The study, published in the journal Surgery, suggests pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma will more likely become metastatic when there is a history of smoking because a variant of the protein osteopontin linked to cancer growth - called...
July 30, 2009
FARMINGTON, Conn., Jul 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Garlic provides cardioprotection, but freshly crushed garlic has more potent heart-healthy effects, U.S. researchers found. Researchers at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington also challenge the widespread belief that most of garlic's benefits are due to its rich array of antioxidants. Dipak K. Das and colleagues point out...
July 30, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Jul 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Rates of severe U.S. childhood obesity have tripled in the last 25 years, increasing the risk for diabetes and heart disease, an obesity expert says. Lead author Dr. Joseph Skelton at Brenner Children's Hospital, part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., and colleagues compared data from the National Health and...
July 30, 2009
Playgrounds have come a long way from the asphalt jungle gyms of the 1960s and 1970s. Monkey bars and hot metal slides have virtually disappeared. They've been replaced by colorful plastic castles with guardrails and ramps and rounded edges. And instead of blacktop and concrete, many new playgrounds are covered with soft wood mulch or springy rubber chips made from recycled tires. Yet in spite of these...
July 29, 2009
FLEMINGTON, N.J., Jul 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - American doctors' level of concern over H1N1 flu has steadily increased in the past month, a survey of 670 physicians indicates. The survey was conducted by HCD Research July 26 to gauge physicians' perceptions of the swine flu virus, and the potential risk and impact it will have on their lives. Physicians indicate their level of concern weekly regarding...
July 29, 2009
Jul. 30 - Sharon Rapoport's pink T-shirt read "I am a survivor," and surrounding her, a sea of about 3,500 women wore the same top. They walked under an arch of pink balloons on the lawn of the National Mall, and that's when Rapoport thought: "I am with my sisters." "When you go through breast cancer, you're literally fighting for your life," said Rapoport, an advertising executive from South Roanoke....
July 29, 2009
West Nile virus is here to stay unless mosquitoes, around since the dinosaur-laden Jurassic Age, disappear. Two more Mississippi cases were reported by the Mississippi State Department of Health, bringing the total of known 2009 cases to four. Two are in Harrison County. WNV occurs statewide and throughout the year, but the peak is during the mosquito reproduction months of July, August and September....
July 29, 2009
Jul. 30 - Debra Craig and Eric Morken knew they needed to lose some weight. It took a wellness challenge, with their employers working with Gundersen Lutheran, to get both of them started on the right path to a healthier lifestyle. "I just felt I wanted to get back into shape, and this was a way to do it," said Craig, a teacher's aide for the Bangor School District. "We had teams, it was competitive...
July 29, 2009
Elise Scott is the happy, smiling 3-year-old girl who rode her pony, Keyoni, in the Feather Fiesta Days Parade this year. Within two weeks, she and her pony were both diagnosed with cancer. The pony was a present for her third birthday on Dec. 14, 2008. During the parade, Elise threw candy to children as she rode Keyoni beside her dad, Ronny Scott, and her mother, Tanya Owens, who also rode in the...
July 29, 2009
Three of the eight people recently diagnosed with the H1N1 ("swine flu") virus were staying at the Buddy Eller Center, a Ukiah homeless shelter, according to Mendocino County Public Health Officer Dr. Marvin Trotter. The residents are all being given flu medication as a precaution, according to Executive Director Mark Rohloff of the Ford Street Project, which runs the shelter. Treatment started last...
July 29, 2009
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) MINNEAPOLIS - Sue Pederson knows that the teenage boys in her treatment program have trouble making conversation. They may not know what to talk about; or once they get started, when to shut up. That's one of the striking features of people with Asperger's syndrome: They struggle with the social skills that come so naturally to others. But about a year ago, Pederson,...
July 29, 2009
BOSTON, Jul 29, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. biologists made a kind of energy-burning fat cell called "brown fat" out of mouse and human cells that may help people lose weight, the researchers said. The brown fat cell may also fight type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes, the researchers said in the journal Nature. Brown fat is "good" fat because it burns energy, helping to regulate body temperature by generating...
July 29, 2009
Everybody dreams. But why? And what do the dreams mean? Answering those questions has consumed the waking hours of scientists, psychologists and garden-variety dreamers. Psychologist Marcia Emery, a professor at Holos University in Springfield, Mo., helps others learn how to use their dreams to make their lives better. "Dreams offer insight to things that are going on in our daily life," she says....
July 29, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, Jul 29, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A lack of doctor trust, access and continuity are to blame for black U.S. men having a 55 percent higher rate of prostate cancer than white men, a study found. These factors - plus possible doctor bias, erroneous stereotypes or lack of understanding of minorities - result in more advanced prostate cancer among African-American men at the time of diagnosis...
July 29, 2009
WASHINGTON, Jul 29, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Silver dental fillings containing mercury are safe for adults and children over age 6, except for people with mercury allergies, a U.S. regulatory agency said. Still, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the first time classified the fillings as a Class II, or "moderate risk," medical device. The move lets the agency impose tighter safety controls, the...
July 29, 2009
Scientists can't yet explain why green M&Ms seem to hold seductive powers or why the brown-hued chocolates appear to bring bad luck. But new research shows that an artificial dye that is chemically similar to the one used in blue M&Ms may hold promise in treating spinal cord injuries, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The compound, called Brilliant Blue G...
July 29, 2009
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Jul 28, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Breast, cervical and other cancers in U.S. Hispanic women will soar in the next 40 years, a health professor says, calling for improved cancer screenings. "It's just going to explode," University of Illinois professor Lydia Buki said. "It's really a train wreck waiting to happen, and we're not doing enough to anticipate women's needs. Even right now,...
July 29, 2009
Kaiser Health News (MCT) WASHINGTON - Employers and health insurers could give larger discounts to employees who lose weight or lower their cholesterol under one health care overhaul proposal that's moving through Congress. However, the AARP, the American Heart Association and other groups think it's unfair and fear it could result in higher premiums for people who don't achieve those fitness goals....
July 28, 2009
The link between tanning beds and the deadliest form of skin cancer is now as definitive as the one between tobacco and lung cancer, an international cancer research group said Tuesday. Tanning beds, which many Michiganders use to keep a summer glow during winter, have a heavy cost - a 2006 analysis found a person who uses tanning beds before age 30 runs a 75% greater risk of eventually getting melanoma...
July 28, 2009
CHICAGO In a state that ranks high in childhood obesity, North Carolina health officials and educators gathered Tuesday to talk about the problem. North Carolina ranks No. 14 for overweight 10- to 17-year-olds. One in 10 high school students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is obese. And 57 percent of CMS high school students don't meet recommended levels of physical activity. Obesity can lead to heart...
July 28, 2009
Americans have slipped into a "nutrition recession," said registered dietitian Mary Martin Nordness of Huntsville, and she recommends a Nutrition Stimulus Plan to repair the dietary damage. "We are eating foods that are high in fat and calories and costing more, but providing limited nutritional value," she said. Save your government economic stimulus money for another use, because moving to a healthier...
July 28, 2009
LEXINGTON, Va., Jul 29, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. health professional says college students need to take steps to protect themselves from the H1N1 virus. Dr. Jane Horton of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., advises students to make plans to get their flu shots in the fall - both the normal seasonal shot and the swine flu vaccine when it becomes available. "We expect the H1N1 to...
July 28, 2009
Pregnant women who contract swine flu are four times more likely to develop severe illness that requires hospitalization than other people infected with the virus, a US study showed Wednesday. They are also more likely to die of swine flu or even seasonal flu, and yet only 15 percent of pregnant women in the United States follow the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and...
July 28, 2009
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