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TIGER MOUTH, China - Li Xiufen, whose family tills rice fields high in the terraced-carved hills of southwest China, had to borrow $730 from other villagers when she needed stomach surgery two years ago - a debt that remains unpaid. When her husband, Zhang Wenkai, 54, contracted meningitis last year, she begged him to go to the hospital, but he refused. "We didn't have enough money for the hospital...
June 13, 2009
TIGER MOUTH, China - Li Xiufen, whose family tills rice fields high in the terraced-carved hills of southwest China, had to borrow $730 from other villagers when she needed stomach surgery two years ago - a debt that remains unpaid. When her husband, Zhang Wenkai, 54, contracted meningitis last year, she begged him to go to the hospital, but he refused. "We didn't have enough money for the hospital...
June 13, 2009
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Jun 12, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Children whose parents didn't permit them to drink underage were significantly less likely to drink heavily in college, U.S. researchers found. Caitlin Abar, a graduate student at Pennsylvania State University's Prevention Research and Methodology Centers, suggested parents practice a zero-tolerance alcohol policy at home and said there is no scientific...
June 12, 2009
Having a dog reduces the risk that young children will develop allergies, German researchers reported yesterday. The finding, based on a study of 9,000 children, lends weight to the theory that growing up with a pet trains the immune system to be less sensitive. Just why this should be is unclear, but scientists believe youngsters may get beneficial early exposure to germs carried into the house on...
June 12, 2009
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jun 12, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Computer-related injuries needing emergency room attention in the United States rose more than seven-fold in 12 years, researchers in Ohio said. Between 1994 and 2006, 78,703 people were treated for acute injuries, many of them caused by tripping over computer cables or lifting monitors, the Ohio State University researchers said. Children age 5 and under...
June 12, 2009
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Jun 12, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Cohabitation increases your chance of getting fat, a study conducted by a U.S. nutritionist indicates. Penny Gordon-Larsen of the University of North Carolina says there are positive health benefits to living together but remaining slim apparently isn't one of them, The Daily Telegraph (Britain) reported Friday. Gordon-Larsen found the risk of obesity...
June 12, 2009
Sedalia native Nancy Fields and her husband, Eric, share a problem: heart disease. After he was diagnosed with several blocked arteries in 2004, the two worked together to help each other. Their journey helped push Fields, now of Cordova, Tenn., into advocacy work. The two are the subject of a profile in this week's American Profile, where they tell their story. Fields, who has had heart problems since...
June 11, 2009
State health officials say they have ruled out a virus as the cause of an illness that sickened a group of people at a recent political event at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center, and they are refocusing on a bacteria as the possible cause, said agency spokesman Thom Berry. "We believe it may be some sort of bacteria, we just don't know which one," Berry said. "We will continue to test until we can...
June 11, 2009
Bill Hoffman knew Julian Blanks was hot stuff on the basketball court. Hoffman coached the seventh- and eighth-grade boys at St. John the Baptist Catholic School in the early 1990s. He watched Blanks put his prized left-handed shooting touch to effective use. And when that wasn't enough to warm up the team, Hoffman had a spicy incentive. "I had a nickname for Julian," Hoffman, 58, said. "I called him...
June 11, 2009
NEW YORK, Jun 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Some people in New York may have contracted swine flu, or the H1N1 influenza, before the outbreak in mid-May, health officials said. Almost 7 percent of New Yorkers said they had experienced flu-like illness between May 1-May 20, a city-wide survey, conducted by telephone from May 21 through May 27, indicated. The overall prevalence of reported flu-like illness...
June 11, 2009
PHOENIX, Jun 12, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - There is wide variation in smoking practices across the United States and a clear relationship between smoking and mortality rate, researchers said. Principal investigator Gary G. Giovino of the University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions said the report points out that even after four decades of tobacco control efforts, one-fifth of...
June 11, 2009
The sluggish economy might make sweethearts a little stingier when buying Valentine's Day gifts, but it hasn't slowed down their sex lives. About 50% of people with partners say they'll spend less money on Valentine's Day, but 78% say the economy hasn't affected the amount of time they have for sex or the frequency this past year, a national Consumer Reports poll shows. "People are certainly cutting...
June 11, 2009
Far more people in China suffer from mental disease than previously suspected, with most going untreated, according to a major study unveiled Friday. The largest health survey of its kind ever conducted in China estimates that 173 million adults have some type of mental disorder, and that 158 million of them - 91 percent - have never received professional help. In many middle-income countries, including...
June 11, 2009
GENEVA - Cigarette packages should include images of sickness and suffering caused by tobacco, along with written warnings, the World Health Organization said Friday. The UN agency urged governments to make people more aware of the health consequences of smoking. It said most countries still do not warn consumers of the risks on packages of cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco. "Health warnings on...
June 11, 2009
GENEVA - Cigarette packages should include images of sickness and suffering caused by tobacco, along with written warnings, the World Health Organization said Friday. The UN agency urged governments to make people more aware of the health consequences of smoking. It said most countries still do not warn consumers of the risks on packages of cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco. "Health warnings on...
June 11, 2009
Beyond providing cancer patients with the best medical care today's world allows, oncologist Dr. Mark Fesen wants more. Along with the clinical challenge they face, he knows firsthand that cancer patients need an advocate -someone willing to lead them through the maze of an unknown system, and also willing to provide a shared comfort zone. "Bonding with patients to change the system, that's what I'm...
June 11, 2009
ATLANTA, Jun 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - State and local governments should consider taking precautions to prevent waterborne illness associated with splash parks, U.S. health officials advise. A report in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report said that splash parks are increasingly popular recreational water venues where waterborne illness outbreaks...
June 11, 2009
Geneva (dpa) - World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan raised the pandemic influenza alert to its highest level, Phase 6, Thursday evening in Geneva in light of developments in regards to the swine flu outbreak. Phase 6, the WHO said, means the virus, A(H1N1) influenza, has spread globally. Copyright 2009 dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH
June 11, 2009
Jun. 11 - President Barack Obama visits Green Bay on Thursday, as his administration begins a final push toward the most sweeping changes in the nation's health care system since Medicare was introduced in 1965. With Congress working to pass legislation by early August, the once-improbable goal of significant health care reform stands a chance of becoming a reality. "The big story here is how far and...
June 11, 2009
WASHINGTON, Apr 28, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Key U.S. federal health and emergency response jobs remain vacant as the Obama administration addresses its response to the global spread of swine flu. At the Health and Human Services Department, 15 top positions - including the secretary's slot and the full-time directorship at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta - remain unfilled, while 20 senior-level...
June 11, 2009
WASHINGTON, Jun 11, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration would have the authority to regulate tobacco products under legislation before both houses of Congress, officials say. Both bills would give the FDA authority over manufacture, marketing and sale of tobacco products. They are aimed at curbing overall smoking in the United States, with emphasis on teenage smokers. Senate...
June 10, 2009
Georgia has repeatedly cut spending on public health emergencies this decade, despite heightened anxieties over bioterrorism and, more recently, the swine flu virus. The cuts cast doubt on the state's ability to detect and contain virulent outbreaks such as pandemic influenza, experts inside and outside state government say. A severe pandemic, a 2008 study found, could kill 57,000 Georgians, or about...
June 10, 2009
A small courtyard leads to the entrance of Planned Parenthood's clinic on Madison Street, the cheeriness belying its true purpose of blocking anybody who would try to crash a car through the door. A lot of low-income women go there for birth control and basic health services and, yes, abortions are performed one or two days a week. "We already have a robust security," said Michael Romo, the chief operating...
June 10, 2009
Jun. 11 - A provision being considered as part of sweeping federal health care reform targets a portion of the population one expert said Wednesday is sorely in need of insurance - young adults. Marc Nuwer, a neurologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center, said young adults tend to avoid getting health insurance because they believe they are "immortal and invulnerable," a...
June 10, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jun 10, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Combining vitamin C with insulin therapy may help prevent complications as a result of diabetes, U.S and British scientists say. The University of Oklahoma and the University of Warwick scientists said their findings suggest anti-oxidant therapy may help diabetic patients whose sugar levels are under control. The vitamin C in this study was administered...
June 10, 2009
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