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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
ATLANTA, Jul 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. influenza A H1N1 activity decreased during the week of June 28-July 4, but there were local or regional outbreaks, health officials said Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta's weekly influenza report said 1,505, or 26 percent, of specimens tested by the World Health Organization and National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance...
July 10, 2009
DURHAM, N.C., Jul 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Children often reach the age of 3 before being diagnosed with fragile X syndrome, an inherited form of intellectual disability, U.S. scientists said. No significant changes in the age of diagnosis have occurred in the last seven years, despite increased patient advocacy, prompt referrals for genetic testing and increased exposure to information about fragile...
July 10, 2009
OXFORD, England, Jul 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Over-the-counter sport creams and heat gels are unproven and may do no more than rubbing your skin with saliva, a British biochemist said. "The point is, you go to any pharmacy and find tons of these things, but they don't work," Andrew Moore, a biochemist at the University of Oxford, said. "I wouldn't waste the money. You might as well rub your skin...
July 10, 2009
The obesity epidemic isn't just taking a toll on health - it's also weighing down resources throughout the state, a new report shows. Obesity and physical inactivity cost California $41 billion in 2006, including $11.9 billion in Los Angeles County, due to medical costs, prescription drugs, absence from work and disability, according to the California Center for Public Health Advocacy. Dr. Jonathan...
July 10, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has completed its inspection of Danville's Nestle USA plant without finding a link between the cookie dough and the strain of E. coli that has affected dozens of people in 30 states. Nestle voluntarily recalled more than 3.6 million packages of the cookie dough June 19 when the FDA investigation began. On June 29, the FDA confirmed evidence of E. coli 0157 in a...
July 9, 2009
Kaylah Gunst recently met President Barack Obama, pop star Nick Jonas and retired boxing great Sugar Ray Leonard as part of a youthful delegation lobbying for research money to find a cure for diabetes. Kaylah, 6, of Palmetto, who next fall will be in the first grade at Braden River Elementary, was among more than 150 youngsters from across the nation who met the president and a roster of celebrities...
July 9, 2009
The Eastern Kentucky Naturals, a traveling 10 and 11-year-old baseball team made up of area players, will be showing its support for breast cancer research this weekend. During the AABC State Tournament at Fannin Park, the Naturals will be putting away their regular jerseys and wear pink t-shirts with numbers on it as uniforms. "They liked the idea," said Mark O'Bryan, one of the Naturals' coaches....
July 9, 2009
CHICAGO - A 20-year study shows a reduced-calorie diet decreases diseases and extends life in monkeys - and researchers see it working on humans. Rhesus monkeys on the strict diet were three times less likely to die from such age-related diseases as heart disease, cancer and diabetes than monkeys allowed to eat whatever they liked. The findings, in the journal Science, reinforce studies of yeast, worms,...
July 9, 2009
WASHINGTON - Pentagon health experts are urging Defense Secretary Robert Gates to ban the use of tobacco by troops and end its sale on military property, a change that could dramatically alter a culture intertwined with smoking. Jack Smith, head of the Pentagon's office of clinical and program policy, says he will recommend that Gates adopt proposals by a federal study that cites rising tobacco use...
July 9, 2009
HOUSTON, Jul 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Adults who supervise children or inexperienced swimmers need to know how to swim, a U.S. doctor says. Dr. Brent King of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston says basic water safety and lifesaving classes are available and everyone should learn basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation procedures for cardiac or respiratory arrest emergencies. "Young children...
July 9, 2009
HOUSTON, Jul 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Children riding all-terrain vehicles need to be carefully supervised, a U.S. emergency medicine doctor cautioned. Dr. James McCarthy of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston said ATVs should be operated keeping basic rules of safety in mind. McCarthy, medical director of the Emergency Center at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston, said...
July 9, 2009
BOSTON, Jul 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Pregnant women who consumed seven servings per day of fruits and vegetables moderately reduced risk of upper respiratory infection, U.S. researchers say. Upper respiratory tract infections include the common cold and sinus infections, which can lead to lower respiratory problems, such as asthma or pneumonia. Senior author Martha M. Werler of the Slone Epidemiology...
July 9, 2009
BOSTON, Jul 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Pregnant women who consumed seven servings per day of fruits and vegetables moderately reduced risk of upper respiratory infection, U.S. researchers say. Upper respiratory tract infections include the common cold and sinus infections, which can lead to lower respiratory problems, such as asthma or pneumonia. Senior author Martha M. Werler of the Slone Epidemiology...
July 9, 2009
BOSTON, Jul 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Pregnant women who consumed seven servings per day of fruits and vegetables moderately reduced risk of upper respiratory infection, U.S. researchers say. Upper respiratory tract infections include the common cold and sinus infections, which can lead to lower respiratory problems, such as asthma or pneumonia. Senior author Martha M. Werler of the Slone Epidemiology...
July 9, 2009
A nutritious but calorie-restricted diet can increase life expectancy and reduce the risk of age-related diseases, including cancer, according to research published in the journal Science Thursday. The study, conducted over 20 years on dozens of rhesus macaque monkeys, provides new insight into the way the phenomenon works and its potential implications for humans, according to the research authors....
July 9, 2009
Most people without young children believe lice are something that afflict the great unwashed. Parents with kids in elementary school know they're a fact of everyday life. An estimated 6 million to 12 million children a year have infestations, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. The tiny insects, some no bigger than the head of a pin, feed on blood from the scalp. And they don't disappear...
July 9, 2009
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Jul 9, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Findings of a Danish study suggest the use of proton pump inhibitors can produce acid-related symptoms in healthy adults. Proton pump inhibitors are a group of drugs used to cause a pronounced and long-lasting reduction of gastric acid production and are among the most widely selling drugs in the world, Wikipedia said. But results of an eight-week,...
July 9, 2009
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jul 8, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. and Mexican researchers suggest phthalates - used in plastics, personal care products, carpets and paint - may play a role in pre-term births. The study, to be published in Environmental Health Perspectives, finds mothers of prematurely delivered babies having up to three times the level of phthalates metabolites in their urine as mothers of normal...
July 8, 2009
WASHINGTON - The nation's hospitals agreed Wednesday to forgo $155 billion in government health care reimbursements over the next 10 years, savings the White House says will go toward paying for an overhaul of the nation's ailing health care system. The savings, added to $80 billion promised by drug companies last month, are aimed at helping to keep the cost of a new health care plan under $1 trillion....
July 8, 2009
WASHINGTON - Americans are getting heavier than ever, with more than 26 percent of the population now fully obese, the federal government reported yesterday. Despite warnings that the population must stop layering on the fat and frightening statistics that show two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, the weight trend continues, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. "The...
July 8, 2009
MINNEAPOLIS, Jul 8, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Minnesota health officials confirmed Wednesday afternoon two deaths in the Twin Cities area were attributed to swine flu. The health officials told the Minneapolis Star Tribune one was an elderly person who had "underlying medical problems" and had been hospitalized. The second was a child with "an extensive bacterial infection" in addition to the H1N1 virus....
July 8, 2009
ROCHESTER, Minn., Jul 8, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - People with poor eyesight caused by diseases often can be helped with various vision aids, a U.S. newsletter says. Experts at the Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource say such low vision isn't just the normal trouble people have reading small print as they get older. It's limited vision caused by macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts, diabetic retinopathy,...
July 8, 2009
LONDON, Jul 8, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A British study finds those who live in southern England have significantly longer life expectancies than those in the north and Wales. Life expectancy at birth on average is the highest it has ever been, at 77.2 years for boys and 81.5 years for girls, The Times of London reports. But the Office of National Statistics says there are marked regional and class...
July 8, 2009
A local bar and grill will turn into something of a barber shop Saturday - all in the name of charity. Local Joe's Tap and Grill on Steele Street in downtown Sanford will host its second annual St. Baldrick's event, which has participants take pledges to shave their heads. The money raised funds research aimed at defeating childhood cancer. Event organizer Tony Chilton, who organized his first such...
July 8, 2009
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