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MUNICH, Germany, Jul 28, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - German researchers say they may be able to predict future severe cardiac events in patients with known coronary disease using coronary calcium scoring. Coronary artery disease is a condition in which plaque - cholesterol, calcium, fat and other substances - builds up inside the arteries that supply blood to the heart. When plaque builds up in the coronary...
July 28, 2009
RUTLAND, Vt. Kirk Dufty doesn't have to rely on patients' hazy memories or take their word for what drugs they're taking when they show up at his emergency room. In minutes, the doctor can find out whether a man with chest pains has filled the prescription for the anti-clotting medication he's supposed to take or whether a woman complaining about a stomachache is really trying to get more narcotics...
July 27, 2009
Flu shots will be offered earlier than in previous years, but they won't protect people from the H1N1 influenza or swine flu, which has reached pandemic status this year. That's because flu vaccine manufacturers are working fervently to come up with the 160 million doses that the federal government has consented to buy. Jim McVay said the Alabama Department of Public Health is still encouraging people...
July 27, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A San Francisco police officer apparently brought swine flu back from a trip to Mexico and infected four other officers, a police spokesman said. The five officers are stationed at the department's Northern Station on Fillmore Street and work the same shift, Capt. Al Casciato, head of the station, said. Two days after one officer returned from Mexico,...
July 27, 2009
ATLANTA - Swine flu has been hitting pregnant women unusually hard, so they are likely to be among the first group advised to get a new swine flu shot this fall. Pregnant women account for 6 per cent of U.S. swine flu deaths since the pandemic began in April, even though they make up just 1 per cent of the U.S. population. On Wednesday a federal vaccine advisory panel is meeting to take up the question...
July 27, 2009
WASHINGTON, Jul 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Most mothers recognize the benefits of breastfeeding for themselves and their babies but many say formula is a safe alternative, a U.S. survey indicates. The survey of 876 mothers of children age 12 months and younger throughout the country, conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and Public Opinion Strategies, found 84 percent said they believe breastfeeding...
July 27, 2009
CINCINNATI, Jul 28, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Orthopedic experts at a U.S. hospital advise parents to make sure their child's backpack is a quality one. Eric Wall of the Orthopaedic Surgery Division of Ohio's Cincinnati Children's Hospital says a rolling backpack is a good option for children carrying heavy loads, but asks parents to remember school terrain is often more challenging to negotiate with...
July 27, 2009
Geneva (dpa) - The head of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, said Monday that the global economic crisis was causing people to ditch healthy foods that this would lead to health problems. "When money is tight, the first thing that drop out of the diets are the healthy foods," said Chan, adding that these are "almost always more expensive" than processed items. This was particularly true...
July 27, 2009
WASHINGTON - As Congress searches for ways to control health care costs, a new report provides a sizable target: obesity. Americans who are 30 or more pounds over a healthy weight cost the country an estimated $147 billion in weight-related medical bills in 2008, double the amount a decade ago, according to a study by government scientists and the non-profit research group RTI International. Obesity...
July 27, 2009
TORONTO - When it comes to choosing cigarettes, it seems the prettier the package, the safer the smokes appear to the buyer. A Canadian study says packages in lighter colours, bearing words like "smooth" and "filter," tend to make the purchaser believe the cigarettes inside are less dangerous to their health. More than 600 adults, including smokers and non-smokers, compared a variety of fictitious...
July 27, 2009
Shad Ireland was 10 years old in 1983 when his kidneys started failing. Back then, the dialysis procedure was so bad that Ireland - sick of the constant headache, the retching and the blood transfusions - tried to commit suicide when he was 11 years old. But things have changed since then, and Ireland, who is now 37, wants everyone to know it. Ireland, a resident of Minnesota, stopped Monday at Fayetteville's...
July 27, 2009
COLOGNE, Germany, Jul 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Developing a blood clot, or deep-vein thrombosis, is very unlikely in healthy travelers - especially for flights under six hours, German researchers say. However, when people wear a cast or splint after a sports accident many are not aware they have an increased risk of deep-vein thrombosis in their legs and pelvic area, says Peter Sawicki, director...
July 27, 2009
Geneva (dpa) - At least 134,503 people have been infected by swine flu across the globe, with 816 confirmed deaths, the World Health Organization reported Monday. An official said at least 160 countries were hit by the new virus, technically known as influenza A(H1N1), but the tally was not broken down into countries. The WHO had previously said it would not issue any further statistics on infections....
July 27, 2009
NEWARK, N.J., Jul 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. expert in emergency nursing advises those coaching young athletes that "no pain, no gain" is a myth. Mary Kamienski of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey says sports should not be painful. Youngsters engaging in sports activities should be taught they reduce the risk of injury by warming up before playing and cooling down when...
July 27, 2009
Americans need to change the way they live if they want to beat the obesity epidemic that is robbing the United States of millions of dollars every year and threatening a generation with shorter lives, experts said Monday. Two-thirds of US adults and around one fifth of American children are now overweight or obese, and the rising rate of obesity in the United States has had a debilitating effect on...
July 27, 2009
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday she is confident Congress will advance an overhaul of the nation's health care system despite divisions within her own party and mounting opposition from outside groups over its cost. As House and Senate lawmakers wrestle with how to pay the price of covering the nation's 46 million uninsured - more than $1 trillion in the first decade - the California Democrat...
July 27, 2009
If whitening your teeth seems like a hassle now, consider the perils of doing so in Jackie Kennedy's era. Dr. Jeff Golub-Evans, a cosmetic dentist on Manhattan's Upper East Side, says an elderly patient of his who worked on the design of the Kennedy White House told him that he once stumbled on a prominent member of the household coming out of the bathroom holding a bottle of Clorox. "He said to her,...
July 26, 2009
A 53-year-old man has died of swine flu in Spain, the health ministry said Monday, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths from the disease in the country to six. The man died at an unspecified date "from complications related to the influenza A(H1N1)" virus after being admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital in the eastern town of Alzira, the ministry said in a statement. There are...
July 26, 2009
Unilever, which sells more tubs of soft margarine spread than anyone, will unveil today plans to remove all partially hydrogenated oils - artificial trans fats - from its soft-spread brands, including I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and Shedd's Spread Country Crock. The change, to begin next month and be done by the second quarter of 2010, signals how serious the marketing and technology battle about...
July 26, 2009
WASHINGTON - "It's full of yellow pus. It's fluorescent yellow," says Kristin Thomas, who has been my primary care physician for nearly 10 years. She's peering up my nose and sees an infection teeming with bacteria. "For you, it's time," she says. Time for sinus surgery. I, along with about 14% of the U.S. population, or 37 million Americans, had chronic sinusitis, inflammation of the linings of the...
July 26, 2009
BALTIMORE, Jul 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Children on a high fat diet to stem seizures may ward off kidney stones with a supplement, U.S. doctors said. The study, published in Pediatrics, looked at 301 children being treated for seizures with the ketogenic diet at Baltimore's John Hopkins Children's Center. It found children receiving the supplement potassium citrate were seven times less likely than...
July 26, 2009
A new study paints a heartbreaking portrait of babies who die from child abuse - and suggests new ways to protect children. More than half of the babies and toddlers showed signs of previous abuse, according to a study of 72 deaths of children under age 2, published online this week in Pediatrics. The study included data from five states and seven cities. Babies this age, who are vulnerable in so many...
July 26, 2009
PHILADELPHIA, Jul 25, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Teenagers who Web surf, text message and consume caffeine at night are more likely to fall asleep during the day, researchers in Pennsylvania said. Philadelphia's Drexel College of Nursing studied adolescents who used multiple forms of technology late into the night while drinking caffeinated beverages, lead author Dr. Christina Calamaro said in a release...
July 26, 2009
NEW YORK, Jul 20, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Elbow or forearm pain from tennis or other activities - tennis elbow - may be eased with a specific exercise, U.S. doctors say. Lead author Timothy Tyler of the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma in New York City says tennis elbow, or lateral epicondylitis pain, was alleviated by a simple bar and strengthening exercise. "Compared to other...
July 26, 2009
DENVER, Jul 24, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A federal grand jury indicted a surgical technician in Denver for allegedly spreading hepatitis C to 19 patients, authorities say. Jeffrey Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Colorado, said Kristen Diane Parker allegedly confessed to police she would inject herself with syringes of painkillers from Rose Medical Center's surgery rooms and then...
July 25, 2009
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