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VIENNA, Jul 13, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers say moderate intake of alcohol may lower the risk of dementia by about 40 percent. The study, led by Dr. Kaycee Sink of Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., was based on 3,069 community-living adults - age 75 years and older - enrolled in the Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory Study. At the beginning of the study, 2,587...
July 13, 2009
DETROIT, Jul 14, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Drivers are six times more likely to become distracted and cause an accident if they are text messaging, show Michigan State Medical Society statistics. Dr. Richard E. Smith, a Detroit obstetrician/gynecologist and president of the Michigan State Medical Society, said the study by the Students Against Destructive Decisions and Liberty Mutual Insurance Group...
July 13, 2009
NASHVILLE, Jul 13, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Nearly one-third of music listeners may be in danger of hearing loss, a survey conducted in conjunction with MTV.com indicated. The study, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, says nearly half of 2,500 MTV.com respondents experienced symptoms such as tinnitus - "ringing" in the ear - or hearing loss after loud music exposure. Hearing loss was considered...
July 13, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jul 13, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Where a person is treated for a heart attack or heart failure can affect the outcome, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Harlan M. Krumholz of the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., said researchers reviewed three years of experience - July 2005-June 2008 - of Medicare fee-for-service patients involving 600,000 heart attack admissions and...
July 13, 2009
The swine flu pandemic has grown "unstoppable" and all nations will need access to vaccines, a WHO official said Monday, as seven new deaths were reported and a study raised fresh concerns. Britain, Thailand and the Philippines all reported deaths on Monday, while Saudi Arabia shut an international school after 20 students were diagnosed with the A(H1N1) virus. As the death toll increased, the World...
July 13, 2009
Moderate consumption of wine could reduce the risk of contracting Alzheimer's disease among those over 75, according to a study revealed at a conference in Vienna. Excessive consumption, on the other hand, can increase the risk, researchers at Wake Forest University in North Carolina found. Kaycee Sink, one of the authors of the report, said they monitored 3,069 people of 75 and upwards over six years,...
July 12, 2009
At his Doctors Express center in Towson, Md., Dr. Scott Burger has spent the last three years tending to the community's night-time fevers and weekend hurts. Now, the former emergency room physician wants to take the center's model nationwide, doing for urgent health care what, say, Papa John's did for pizza - making sure the public can find it anywhere and always knows what it's going to get. "In...
July 12, 2009
WASHINGTON, Jul 13, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A leading U.S. Senate Democrat said Sunday Congress can reach a compromise on healthcare reform before its August recess. Appearing on ABC's "This Week," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said most Americans want the government to fix aspects of the healthcare system that are broken. He said opposition to proposals for a government-run healthcare option is coming...
July 12, 2009
Douglas Wagner bought a home in the Rochester, N.Y., suburb of Webster last year, contingent on the well water being judged safe. Standard testing showed the water was fine and the Wagner family moved in. Then, he learned that nearby wells had arsenic problems. Wagner's well hadn't been checked for the toxic metal because state and local regulations do not dictate how private wells should be tested....
July 12, 2009
CHICAGO, Jul 13, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Twenty-one percent of AARP members surveyed in Illinois report not filling or delaying filling prescriptions due to cost, a survey indicated. Nearly one in five said they had to cut back on food and utilities to afford needed medications, the AARP survey of Illinois residents 50 and over indicated. The survey found 63 percent are concerned about affordability...
July 12, 2009
KEYSTONE, Colo., Jul 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Knee surgery doesn't necessarily cut short a professional football career, a researcher reported at an orthopedic conference in Keystone, Colo., Saturday. Robert H. Brophy, an assistant professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine and assistant team physician for the St. Louis Rams, delivered a paper...
July 12, 2009
LONDON, Jul 12, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Britain plans to vaccinate its entire population against the H1N1 virus, with as many as 20 million people being inoculated this year, health officials said. Details of the plan emerged Saturday after health officials in Essex reported the virus had killed a middle-age man - the first healthy British patient to die from the disease. The other 14 who have died...
July 12, 2009
Thailand's swine flu death toll rose to 18 Sunday as the government confirmed three more fatalities and opened a vaccine plant to prevent tens of thousands of infections across the country. The latest confirmed deaths from the A(H1N1) virus were of a 45-year-old man in the central province of Ayutthaya, a 19-year-old man in southern Krabi province and a 24-year-old woman in Bangkok. The woman was described...
July 12, 2009
Thailand's swine flu death toll rose to 18 Sunday as the government confirmed three more fatalities and opened a vaccine plant to prevent tens of thousands of infections across the country. The latest confirmed deaths from the A(H1N1) virus were of a 45-year-old man in the central province of Ayutthaya, a 19-year-old man in southern Krabi province and a 24-year-old woman in Bangkok. The woman was described...
July 12, 2009
LONDON, Jul 12, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Britain plans to vaccinate its entire population against the H1N1 virus, with as many as 20 million people being inoculated this year, health officials said. Details of the plan emerged Saturday after health officials in Essex reported the virus had killed a middle-age man - the first healthy British patient to die from the disease. The other 14 who have died...
July 12, 2009
KEYSTONE, Colo., Jul 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Knee surgery doesn't necessarily cut short a professional football career, a researcher reported at an orthopedic conference in Keystone, Colo., Saturday. Robert H. Brophy, an assistant professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine and assistant team physician for the St. Louis Rams, delivered a paper...
July 12, 2009
PLAINVIEW, Minn., Jul 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Possible salmonella contamination has prompted a recall of some products containing non-fat dry milk, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said. Plainview Milk Products Cooperative of Plainview, Minn., manufactured the non-fat dry milk in the past two years, the FDA said. It has been used in products made by Diamond Crystal Brands Inc. of Savannah,...
July 12, 2009
Did Steve Jobs' wealth buy him a faster liver transplant? It certainly helped - and the Apple CEO's odyssey showcases some of the problems with organ donations in America. The 54-year-old Jobs lives in California, where precious livers are hard to come by. To improve the odds of getting a transplant, he relocated to Tennessee, where the competition for vital organs is much lower. Last year, only 45...
July 12, 2009
KEYSTONE, Colo., Jul 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A simple exercise may alleviate pain from tennis elbow, researchers said at an orthopedic symposium in Keystone, Colo., Saturday. An inexpensive rubber bar is the tool used in a novel exercise that strengthens the muscles in the elbow and forearm, Timothy F. Tyler, a clinical research associate of the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic...
July 12, 2009
PALM BEACH, Fla., Jul 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. health experts say pregnant women should be at the top of the priority list for a swine flu vaccine projected to be ready by October. Obstetricians are urging any pregnant woman who contracts the H1N1 influenza to immediately contact her doctor, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Saturday. "They are at higher risk than almost everybody else,"...
July 12, 2009
ATLANTA, Jun 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta have a Web Site LEANWorks!, designed to help businesses address obesity, officials said. "CDC LEANWorks! - LEAN stands for Leading Employees to Activity and Nutrition - was developed in direct response to organizations asking CDC for help in addressing the obesity epidemic," Dr. William Dietz, director...
July 11, 2009
Swine flu struck a summer camp for children in the French Alps, affecting 24 youngsters and three adult supervisors, authorities said Saturday. They said none of the cases was serious in the largest single outbreak in the country since the pandemic began. The patients, among 35 children from the Paris region, had been put in quarantine in separate rooms and being treated, while the camp was sealed...
July 11, 2009
PALM BEACH, Fla., Jul 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. health experts say pregnant women should be at the top of the priority list for a swine flu vaccine projected to be ready by October. Obstetricians are urging any pregnant woman who contracts the H1N1 influenza to immediately contact her doctor, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Saturday. "They are at higher risk than almost everybody else,"...
July 11, 2009
ATLANTA, Jun 25, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Some 40 percent of people are diagnosed with AIDS within one year of receiving an initial human immunodeficiency virus diagnosis, U.S. researchers said. The late AIDS diagnosis could make treatment more difficult. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Weekly Report said that an analysis of those diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus from 1996-2005...
July 11, 2009
SEATTLE, Jul 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Dental pain may portend future medical problems because a diet bad for teeth may be also bad for the body, a U.S. researcher said. Dr. Philippe P. Hujoel of the University of Washington School of Dentistry in Seattle said dental disease may be a wake-up call that your diet is harming your body. Hujoel reviewed the relationships between diet, dental disease,...
July 10, 2009
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