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NEW YORK - Health experts are sounding the alarm over the possible effects on young athletes of popular energy drinks such as Red Bull, the leading brand in a growing market. High school and college athletes are increasingly consuming large quantities of these caffeine-loaded drinks to boost athletic performance or lose weight, said a dozen health experts at the SUNY Youth Sports Institute's first...
July 1, 2009
WASHINGTON, Jul 1, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Mississippi, for the fifth straight year, had the highest U.S. rate of adult obesity at 32.5 percent, officials of two non-profit groups said. "F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America 2009," a report released by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, said that following Mississippi, West Virginia had 31.2 percent...
July 1, 2009
Three teams of scientists said on Wednesday they had identified hundreds of tiny genetic variants that together account for more than a third of the inherited risk for schizophrenia. The flaws were netted in a trawl through the DNA of thousands of individuals, in the biggest study yet into the genetic origins of this enigmatic but crippling disease. Schizophrenia is characterised by hallucinations...
July 1, 2009
A gusty crosswind greeted 23 cyclists as they pedaled their way into Worthington Tuesday morning. Considering they'd been riding since May 30 - when they left New York City to start a cross-country trip - a little breeze was merely a small inconvenience. The Illini 4000 for Cancer Research, which wraps up Aug. 2 in Portland, Ore., has taken its participants - most of whom are students at the University...
July 1, 2009
ADELPHI, Md. Government experts say prescription drugs like Vicodin and Percocet, which combine a popular painkiller with stronger narcotics, should be eliminated because of their role in deadly overdoses. A Food and Drug Administration panel yesterday voted 20-17 that prescription drugs that combine acetaminophen with other painkilling ingredients should be pulled off the market. The FDA has assembled...
July 1, 2009
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. I just watched two episodes of a television show called "Intervention," and if I was not sitting in front of this computer right now I would be watching the program that comes on after "Intervention," called "Obsessed," about people with obsessive-compulsive and anxiety disorders. I am trying to figure out how I feel about these programs and why I am drawn to them. Is A&E, the...
June 30, 2009
Sergio Macias credits a robot with helping to save his life. Arriving at work in October 2007, he felt pressure on his chest, followed by blurry vision, dry heaves and tingling in his face, arm and feet. Then "it felt like someone hit me in the back of the head with a bat," he recalled. A coworker took him to St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia. Staff checked his symptoms. But the diagnosis that he...
June 30, 2009
Jul. 1 - NEW HAVEN - When kids sit in front of the TV watching snack food commercials along with their cartoons, they eat more junk than those who don't watch such ads, according to a Yale University study. The research shows that children watching television with food commercials can increase snacking by 45 percent, potentially contributing to the nationwide increase in child obesity and diseases...
June 30, 2009
Jul. 1 - Erie County plans to improve the health care for prisoners by taking those duties out of the sheriff's hands. Dr. Anthony Billittier IV, county health commissioner, now can assume daily oversight of the 34 health care employees at the county Holding Center in downtown Buffalo and the county Correctional Facility in Alden. Billittier and County Attorney Cheryl A. Green, with a sheriff's official...
June 30, 2009
The recent warning from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that a widely used homeopathic cold remedy, Zicam, can destroy one's sense of smell has alarmed many consumers who have used the product. At least 130 Zicam users, according to the FDA, have reported a loss of smell after using the zinc-based nasal gel or swabs produced by Matrixx Initiatives Inc. The company, which has defended the safety...
June 30, 2009
Keishawn Williams is already talking to her baby, although her child isn't due until November. "What are you doing?" asks Williams, 22. "Are you awake? Are you asleep? Why are you sitting on my bladder?" Although Williams may not realize it, her body and baby are also conducting a separate, even more important conversation that may influence her child's health for the rest of its life. Although neither...
June 30, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 1, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Medical marijuana has become so much a part of life in California that some suppliers make home deliveries. Kevin Reed told the San Jose Mercury News he decided to operate a delivery service after two attempts at storefront clinics fizzled because nearby residents or business owners did not like the idea. He operates Green Cross out of his San Francisco...
June 30, 2009
BOSTON, Jun 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A Boston doctor says eating peanut butter can be a healthy choice. Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston says the presence of some saturated fat doesn't automatically kick peanut butter into the camp of "unhealthy foods." "Olive oil, wheat germ, and even tofu - all considered to be 'healthy' foods - have some saturated fat," Willett...
June 30, 2009
BUFFALO, N.Y., Jun 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The stress of working the so-called Thin Blue Line might explain why police officers have a higher risk of developing heart disease, U.S. researchers suggest. University at Buffalo (N.Y.) researchers determined that underlying the higher incidence of sub-clinical atherosclerosis - arterial thickening that precedes a heart attack or stroke - may be the...
June 30, 2009
In April 2008, New Jersey health officials issued an alert after finding elevated levels of lead dust coming from the pigment in two aging artificial-turf fields. Inspectors discovered the lead emissions in the Newark and Hoboken fields while checking air quality in those areas. Officials across the country abruptly closed dozens of nylon-turf fields to test for lead. Some posted warnings and discussed...
June 30, 2009
A protein known as a key indicator of inflammation in the body and thought to cause heart disease is not linked to development of the fatal ailment, according to a British study published Tuesday. C-reactive protein (CRP), a target for studies of treatment for coronary heart disease, is not in fact directly involved in causing it, as once thought, said the research published in the Journal of the American...
June 30, 2009
We couldn't do without the sun. It keeps us warm, fuels photosynthesis so we have spinach to eat and helps our bodies make vitamin D. We couldn't see across the street without the sun. But it also has a dark side. If we fly too close to Old Sol, for too long, on a beach, pool or tennis court, its UVB rays penetrate the top layers of our skin, causing sunburn. Its longer UVA rays penetrate the dermis,...
June 30, 2009
WASHINGTON, Jun 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A non-profit senior health organization says the use of statins might significantly reduce the impact of cardiovascular disease in the United States. The Senior Center for Health and Security has released a white paper saying the adverse health and financial impact of cardiovascular disease - the number one killer of men and women in the United States - can...
June 30, 2009
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Jun 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Daily sex - or ejaculating daily - for seven days improves men's sperm quality by reducing the amount of DNA damage, an Australian researcher found. Dr. David Greening, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Sydney IVF in Wollongong, Australia, studied 118 men who had higher than normal sperm DNA damage as indicated by a DNA Fragmentation Index....
June 30, 2009
Golden Arches met pink ribbons on Monday when a local McDonald's owner presented Susan G. Komen for the Cure with a check for $2,427. Susan G. Komen for the Cure is a network of breast cancer survivors and activists that raises money for fighting breast cancer through events such as the Race for a Cure. The McDonald's Tri-State co-op donated $1 for every McCafe beverage bought during the weekend of...
June 29, 2009
Jun. 30 - OZARK - Belinda Hughes could handle dealing with her 10-year-old daughter Miranda when she fell and hurt her back during school this spring. The more difficult struggle came when the family found out Miranda's fall was no small injury. Hughes went from telling her daughter everything would be OK to trying to answer Miranda when she asked why someone was punishing her. She had been diagnosed...
June 29, 2009
CHICAGO, Jun 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Unhealthy snacks lingering around the company office are derailing employees' efforts to stay healthy, a U.S. study finds. A study investigating workplace eating habits sponsored by Peapod Business Delivery, shows that 63 percent of workers find it a challenge to eat healthy in the workplace. Seven percent of respondents report they eat healthier in the office...
June 29, 2009
Imagine every time you started to speak, you were overcome with a fit of coughing. That's what John Merricle, 55, of Lima, has been feeling for the past two months. He has the latest confirmed case of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough. Pertussis is a respiratory disease caused by bacteria that can often be confused with the common cold. Symptoms include a runny nose, sneezing, fever and severe...
June 29, 2009
BOSTON, Jun 29, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Most nutrients don't fly solo - they can interact, join forces or even cancel each other out - a U.S. health newsletter reports. Two of the key nutrient pairs the Harvard Health Letter writers mention are: - Vitamin D and calcium. Calcium is easily absorbed, primarily in the small intestine, if large quantities are present but in smaller amounts the mineral gets...
June 29, 2009
Socialized medicine. Government-run health care. Rationing. Bureaucrats in charge. "Cookbook" medicine. Waiting lines. It'll break the bank. Welcome to the health care debate 2009. Sound familiar? These notions aim to instill fear. And once again, they bear no more relation to the reality of what is being debated in Washington than was the case when the Clintons had a go at health reform in the 1990s....
June 29, 2009
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