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The number of patients who have lowered their "bad" cholesterol to the advised level has nearly doubled in nine countries over the last decade, according to a study released Monday. The research, published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation, said patients in the United States, Brazil, France and South Korea had improved their cholesterol through a combination of medical treatment...
June 22, 2009
The World Health Organisation on Monday reported a huge leap in the swine flu pandemic toll to more than 52,000 people infected and 231 dead. The toll has risen by more than 7,873 cases and 51 deaths since Friday, highlighting the steady spread of the A(H1N1) virus. Swine flu has now been reported in 100 countries and territories. And figures yet to be incorporated into the UN health agency's official...
June 22, 2009
The World Health Organisation on Monday reported a huge leap in the swine flu pandemic toll to more than 52,000 people infected and 231 dead. The toll has risen by more than 7,873 cases and 51 deaths since Friday, highlighting the steady spread of the A(H1N1) virus. Swine flu has now been reported in 100 countries and territories. And figures yet to be incorporated into the UN health agency's official...
June 22, 2009
Fun-in-the-sun season is troubling dermatologists again. "Our (skin cancer) patients are getting younger," said Dr. Mary Noel George, a dermatologist with DePaul Health Center in Bridgeton, Mo. The American Society of Dermatologic Surgeons reports that melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, is the second most common cancer in women ages 20 to 29 and is increasing among all people younger than...
June 22, 2009
Note: Always speak to your doctor about any medications. This information is not intended to replace your primary physician's recommendation. You may find yourself between a rock and a hard place if the last doctor appointment revealed a high blood pressure problem that requires medicine you can't afford. While you know that the diagnosis won't go away if you deny it, ignorance seems to be the easiest...
June 21, 2009
Jun. 21 - HIGH POINT - Volunteer work is one thing, but it takes a special calling to do what Ed Spivey is called upon to do sometimes. The 73-year-old High Point man, who says he is "semi-retired" from Beeson Hardware, volunteers at Hospice Home at High Point - the 14-bed facility operated by Hospice of the Piedmont - and serves on the agency's board of directors. Ask Spivey what he does at Hospice...
June 21, 2009
SANTA ROSA, Calif., Jun 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The operators of a California summer camp say they decided to cancel their season after more than two dozen staff members came down with the H1N1 virus. Camp Newman-Swig in Santa Rosa never had a chance to open after 25 of 170 staff members called in sick, the San Francisco Chronicle said Sunday. Rabbi Elliott Kleinman of the Union for Reform Judaism,...
June 21, 2009
Shortly after Fayette County qualified in 2004 for one of 40 Centers for Disease Control fitness and wellness nationwide grants, Kelly Loomis attended a PTA meeting to encourage support for the program. The topic was healthy eating. When Loomis recommended substituting whole-grain bread for white bread at family meals, a parent protested. "I was startled," said Loomis, the coordinator of HealthierPA-Fayette....
June 21, 2009
CERRO CAMARON, Mexico - Saturnino Allende crouches beside a mountain path and gently puts his fingers around the stem of a plant with rough, tongue-shaped leaves. "This is it," he says about the powerful hallucinogen Salvia divinorum, known as "magic mint." In just a few years, it has emerged from Mexico's Indian villages into one of the hottest drugs in the USA and a crucial cash crop for poor farmers...
June 21, 2009
There's a growing debate about the safety of the recycled rubber chips used to cushion falls on many children's playgrounds. The Environmental Protection Agency has endorsed rubber play surfaces since 1991, both to protect children from head injuries and prevent tires from ending up in landfills, where they can catch fire or become breeding grounds for mosquitoes. Yet EPA officials say they can't vouch...
June 21, 2009
Driving his mother to chemotherapy treatments, making dinner when she was too tired and applying medical cream to her inflamed skin - these are activities that don't show up on Kevin Luo's monstrous list of largely academic achievements. But doing them, and learning from them, has molded his York High School career every bit as much. So when it came time to write essays for college and award applications,...
June 20, 2009
Riyadh (dpa) - The Saudi Ministry of Health said Saturday that four new new cases of the A/H1N1, or swine flu virus had been confirmed, boosting the total to 34 in the country. Two young girls and an eight-month-old baby had contracted the virus after coming in contact with "a previously confirmed case," the ministry said in a statement released to reporters. The fourth case was that of a 27-year-old...
June 20, 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jun 19, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - For a child with obsessive-compulsive disorder, soothing anxiety or helping with OCD behaviors could lead to more severe symptoms, U.S. researchers said. University of Florida researchers said often parents of children with OCD will help their children complete rituals related to their obsessions and compulsions, or reassuring a child that his or her...
June 19, 2009
Nearly twice as many US army soldiers today are either alcoholic or engage in damaging behavior such as binge drinking than six years ago, and experts blame the rise on repeated tours in war zones. A report in the USA Today daily on Friday said US army statistics showed more than 11 soldiers per 1,000 were diagnosed in the first six months of this year as suffering from alcoholism or alcohol abuse...
June 19, 2009
CHICAGO, Jun 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Young adults ages 18-30 with low aerobic fitness are two to three times more likely than fit adults to develop diabetes in 20 years, U.S. researchers say. Lead author Mercedes Carnethon of Northwestern's Feinberg School in Chicago says the study also shows young women and young African-Americans are less aerobically fit than men and white adults in the same...
June 19, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Jun 19, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Internet-connected U.S. homes report erosion of face-to-face family time and increased feelings of family members feeling ignored, U.S. researchers said. Researchers at the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication report the percentage of people who say they spend less time with household...
June 19, 2009
WASHINGTON, Jun 19, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. advocacy group notified Bayer Healthcare it will sue if the company continues to claim the selenium in its vitamins may reduce prostate cancer risk. David Schardt, senior nutritionist at The Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, said advertisements and labels for One A Day Men's 50-plus Advantage and One A Day Men's Health Formula...
June 19, 2009
Want to lose weight? Well, you could try exercising. Or, according to a new study, you could try consuming curcumin, a compound found in the spice turmeric, a staple of some Asian diets. Take our quiz about curcumin. 1. According to a study in the May issue of the Journal of Nutrition, curcumin could stall the spread of fat tissue in what way: a) inhibiting new blood vessel growth b) increasing adrenalin...
June 18, 2009
The rate of Army soldiers enrolled in treatment programs for alcohol dependency or abuse has nearly doubled since 2003 - a sign of the growing stress of repeated deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Army statistics and interviews. Soldiers diagnosed by Army substance abuse counselors with alcoholism or alcohol abuse, such as binge drinking, increased from 6.1 per 1,000 soldiers in 2003...
June 18, 2009
STONY BROOK, N.Y., Jun 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A review of studies led U.S. and Spanish researchers to conclude that healthcare delays put patients at risk. For example, Atul Kumar of the Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Stony Brook University in New York and Bhawna Halwan of Downstate Medical Center in New York said patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding admitted during the...
June 18, 2009
TORONTO, Jun 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Pregnant women are at high risk of serious complications from the H1N1 A influenza virus, Japanese and Canadian researchers said. Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and the Japan Drug Information Institute in Pregnancy in Tokyo said that pregnant women, especially those in the third trimester, are especially at risk of swine flu. For treatment...
June 18, 2009
BIRMINGHAM, England, Jun 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - British medical scientists say they used an animal study to demonstrate a method of making an early diagnosis of muscular dystrophy, before symptoms develop. University of Birmingham researchers said they used mice to study the key proteins involved in two types of muscular dystrophy - Duchenne muscular dystrophy and a milder form, Limb Girdle MD....
June 18, 2009
ATLANTA, Jun 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Half of U.S. healthcare personnel infected with influenza A H1N1 acquired it in a healthcare setting, health officials said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report said those infected by ill patients did not consistently use all recommended forms of personal protective equipment while caring for those patients....
June 18, 2009
TORONTO, Jun 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Pregnant women are at high risk of serious complications from the H1N1 A influenza virus, Japanese and Canadian researchers said. Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and the Japan Drug Information Institute in Pregnancy in Tokyo said that pregnant women, especially those in the third trimester, are especially at risk of swine flu. For treatment...
June 18, 2009
JERUSALEM, Jun 18, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A senior Israeli doctor claims towns in northern Israel have one of the largest concentrations of people in the world suffering from a rare form of cancer. Speaking at a conference Wednesday, Dr. Micha Bar-Hana, director of the Ministry of Health's cancer registry, said the number of people suffering from mesothelioma, caused by asbestos, is expected to rise...
June 18, 2009
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